What is climate change?

Climate change is a long term change in climate. The has always been changing, with things as the  amount of engery that comes from the sun and or the amout of gasses in the atmosphere. But the problem is that all of these changes have been slow, and how their speeding up, it’s moving faster than it has at any time in human history.

What is causing climate change/global warming?

There are alot of causes of climate change though one of the main and most biggest are greenhouse gasses. Gasses that are produced by humans make their way up to the earth’s atmosphere. When the gasses get all the way up to the atmosphere they superchange the earth’s already natural greenhouse effect by trapping it in the way type of way the roof of a greenhouse would, this results in an enchanced greenhouse effect.

Why do ākonga (students) throughout Aotearoa and globally want to go on strike from school and protest?

They want to go on strike for so people become aware of what’s happening to the world, and so people will look at them and actually try and take a stand, specially higher ups such as the goverment, prime minister, etc. Costal areas in New Zealand will start to face greater erosion and flooding. Climate Change will increase the likeihood of tropical diseases, ones like dengue fever and malaria. Each year the sea levels in New Zealand will rise to about 3.5mm and gobally Climate Change will affect things in New Zealand like immigration, food shortages, and political instabiliy.

In Social Studies qwe have been learning about Global Climate Zones, here is the work I did to show the different Climate Zones.

That’s all, goodbye.

Just what is Walking Corpse Syndrome?

Walking Corpse Syndrome also known as Cotard’s Syndrome, makes the person with the syndrome well, dead. They believe that parts of their body are missing, or that they are dying, dead or just don’t exist. It’s a series of deulsions that range from many beliefs, like as said before. Cotard’s syndrome is very rare with only 200 cases known wordwide. Though luckly, Cotard’s Syndrome can be treated with electroconvulsive therapy or things like antipsychotic medications to treat schizophrenia or other psychiatric disorders.

How does a person with Walking Corpse Syndrome function?

Not all people that are diagnosed with Cotard’s Syndrome live in some Zombie-like state. Most people believe that are already dead, they might also believe that are close to dying. They might amamatly say that they do not posses a body or have lost their organs. A study in 2018 with 12 people said that 8 out of the 12 believed they were already dead, while three out of the four remaining people said they were dying to things like worms, virsuses or bugs eating their internal organs.

(Study: https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.17010018)

What is it like living with Walking Corpse Syndrome?

While patient’s believe that they are dying and or already dead, this syndrome can also come with other delusions. A 44-year-old man diagnosed with Cotard’s also hallucinated spiders in the walls, rats running along the baseboards and people’s faces melting. 74-year-old reported that he had been stabbed while in his nursing home and referred to his hospital bed as his casket. He also believed that his wife was replaced with imposter though that’s a whole another syndrome known as Capgras syndrome. 35-year-old woman with Cotard’s believed that her brain was rotting and reported that she could feel worms crawling around in her brain. A 50-year-old male who believed he was dying insisted that his arm had been cut off and his fingers were being ground up. Even when showed proof that none of this of was truth, they were still amamated about all of it and could not be conviced otherwise.

4 key points

4 key points to the clip are, teaching you how to take medicine properly, making you sure always remember to take it on time, follow the instructions because you might have special instructions that you have to follow. Another is how to store your medicine right this includes never taking the label off your containder and not storing your medince in the bathroom. The third key point is keeping your medicine out of reach of children, make sure you always have it in a place they can’t reach and always make sure to have the number to poision control just in case. Lastly, is what to do with expired medicine with expired medicine you can just simply throw it out, flush them down the toilet, or take to a pharmacy if they take expired medicine.

What do I currently do to be safe with medicine? 

What I do to be safe with medicine is to not to take it unless I need it. All the medicine is away in a higher up cabinet so no animals or anything to get into it and that’s about it.

1.  What were the different experiments you completed?

The different experiments we completed are the Hydrogen pop test and Burning magnesium.

2.  What observations did you make in each experiment?

Burning magnesium – magnesium reacts with oxygen to make bright white light. 

Hydrogen pop test – Put acid and magnesium in a small test tube, use a popsicle stick thing, react and make a pop sound. 

3. How can reactants from your experiment be used to predict products?

Burning magnesium predicts that the product will be magnesium oxide and for the hydrogen pop test it predicts that the product will be hydrogen gas making the popping sounds once it ignites. 

Burning magnesium equation = 2Mg + O2 —> 2MgO.

Hydrogen pop test equation = 2H2 + O2 —> 2H2O

Aim: To make acid-base indicators using everyday substances.

Equipment: 

• Red cabbage
• Tea
• Beetroot
• Beaker
• Water
• Tripod
• Bunsen Burner
• Water
• 1.0 mol L-1 HCI (Acid)
• 1.0 mol L-1 NaOH (Base)

Method: (I did tea, so I’ll be writing down the method for doing tea, though most of them do have the same method.)

1. Put 100 ml of water into a beaker and boil with the bunser burner.
2.  Turn off bunser burner and put the tea bag in the beaker.
3. Remove tea bags when the tea is boiled enough/strong.
4. Place in small beaker and leave to side.

Results:

Discussion: 

• What colour did each indicator change in an acid vs. a base? 

First of all, the indicator the tea turned light brown when an acid was put in it and then with the put in it base it turned dark brown. When the cabbage got acid into it turned bright red and with base it turned green. With Turmic it turned the acid yellow type of color, and base turned it Deep red/black color. And finally with Beetroot the acid turned it red and the base turned it dark red.

• Were some indicators better than others.

Some Indicators were definitely better than others, example the cabbage, once you put the HCI or the NaOH the color would complety change. Changing into much more bright colors, then the lightish purple it starts out as. One’s like the cabbage changed the color fully instead of leaving it as a somewhat lighter or darker shade of the original color.

Conclusion:

• did all your experiments work.

Yes, my experiment worked perfectly fine and how it was supposed even if the slight color change from the tea was a little anticlimactic.

• What could you do to improve next time?

Next time to improve, instead of just doing the tea I could of went out to try the other ones too. To see the changes myself.

Aim: To test and learn with different pH levels

Equipment: 

• Different household chemicals
• Spotting title
• red litmus paper
• blue litmus paper
• Universal indicator solution
• Safety glasses
• Pipet

Method: 

1. Put a few drops of what ever base/acid you have into one spot of your spotting title.
2. Test the chemical with your litmus paper.
3. Then put the universal indicator into that same exact title spotting title.

Results: I didn’t notice but I did the whole litmus paper bit wrong, so that’s why it just says red/didn’t change.

Discussion: 

Why did different household chemicals change different colours?:

Household chemicals change different color as per the acids and bases, they make the indicators turn different colors depending on whenever they were more acidc or basic or of a netural substance.

How did you know if these chemicals were acidic or basic?:

They way you know that the chemicals were an acid or a base, is through the color. If the color turns red/yellow/orange when putting the in the universal indicator that means its an acid, purple/blue means its a base and if it turns green that the chemical is either acid or a base, its kind of just in middle of both of them and that’s called netural.

Conclusion:

My experiement worked perfectly fine and how it was supposed too. Though next time if I got a chance to do this again I would wash the pipet before trying another chemical just to see if we got more vairy in color, because as my results turned out all red/orange/yellow, they were all acids. Maybe if I had of washed the pipet before moving onto the next one I could of got some bases and nerutals.

– Cocaine

Cocaine is one of the most additive drugs in the world, used and brought by all ages. Cocaine is a very severe long term drug. There are many different affects that the drug can have on you, but here are five.

Cocaine can lead to death, from things like having a stroke, respiratory failure, heart attacks, cerebral homorrage. Which of course, are all negative, along with the affects of dying taking cocaine can greaty affect your wellbeing, from physical to social

Physical, cocaine will take a great toll on how your body changes and reacts to things, you’ll start taking less care of yourself, you’ll start not functioning like how a normal person would. Socially you’ll start to block off your friends and family, you’ll become alone and defendless.

– LSD.

LSD is a very potant and mooding changing chemical. It’s odorless, colorless and has a slightly bitter taste. Along with cocaine, LSD is also a very addictive drug, LSD is both a short-term or long- term it just depends if you keep taking it or not.

LSD can last about 8 to 12 hours, some affects in include audoitry hallucinations, vomiting, irregular heart beat, breathing quickly. Though long-term affects are bit more severe, like increased risk of bloodborne infections from injection and flashback halluction when not using LSD. LSD like all the drugs can really affect your wellbeing, most notely your physical wellbeing.

When taking LSD your physical wellbeing can be largely affected especially when it comes to perceptual changes, things like more rapid mood changes, changes relating to touch: shaking, pressure, lightheadedness, Visual effects; bright lights, blurred vision, distored shapes and an impact on thinking: distored perception on time and accelerated thoughts.

Kia ora, in social studies we are now focusing on challenges and Responses in NZ.

Here is the work i’ve done, about naturals disasters.

That’s all day, I hope you enjoyed and learned a little bit about how naturals disasters are started.