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Earth can be impacted when any kind of storm happens. For example Tornado, Earthquake, Blizzard, Lightning, Tsunami, or a Flood.

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The harmony and balance on Earth is impacted when nature interacts by an oil spill. An example would be the penguin article and the oil spill that happened in the article. Maybe when a storm happens like an earthquake, tornado , or a hurricane.

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The balance and harmony can be effected by nature if like in our case, it rains and water runoff creates ditches. Or if wind knocks over trees or more. Possibly it could get as bad as tornado's or hurricanes and more.

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Humans can affect the balance on Earth by littering, letting toxic fumes into our air (which pollutes it), and using the ocean as a place to dump all of our trash. Another example would be the oil spill in the penguin article. That was our fault as humans because we were the ones that caused the oil to spill.

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We can affect the balance on earth in a negative way by littering, emptying sewage into bays, lakes, or even oceans, and by letting smoke or other toxic chemicals into our atmosphere. We can also affect the earth in positive ways like planting trees to stop erosion, build more pervious surfaces to decrease the amount of runoff, and by donating money to a good cause that want to help the environment or restore natural habitats for animals.

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The balance and harmony can be effected by nature if a natural disaster destroys a habitat or an environment. Storms, hurricanes, floods, or twisters could possibly impact the earth and give harm to people and animals.

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The harmony and balance on Earth can be impacted when nature causes a natural disaster like a flood, hurricane, tornado, earthquake, fire, or landslide This effects the harmony and balance because it can destroy habitats, buildings, and it can cause harm to animals and people.

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Humans can affect the balance on earth both positively and negatively. One way that we can positively affect the balance is that we can use pervious surfaces to absorb any water runoff from the tops of buildings. This would positively affect the balance because it would prevent flooding and erosion. A way that we could negatively affect the balance is throwing trash into bodies of water. This would negatively affect the balance because  the trash would pollute the water and all the living animals and plants underwater would die.

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Humans can do many things to help the balance of the earth, but we do many bad things too. One example is when people litter and also people cut down trees and clear out areas and dig holes to throw waste on our planet.

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Humans can affect the balance on Earth like in the Penguin rescue story the penguins lived in a balanced ecosystem but when then Ship sank carrying tons of oil the Humans effected the balance of the island by dropping the oil that effected the Penguins in terrible ways they then invaded the island and took the Penguins away. Humans do that on much larger scales...

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Us humans can affect the environment positively and negatively, for example the penguin rescue, there was an oil spill so humans helped to save the African Penguins. Although we caused the oil spill which negatively affected the environment we helped the animals that were affected by the oil spill and cleaned their habitat from the oil which positively affected them and the environment. We can affect the environment in many different ways, in positive ways and sometimes negative ways. We are affecting the Earth everyday and maybe we don't know it it can be in good or bad ways but our actions make a huge difference and we need to think before we do something. We can also affect the environment by littering or picking up liter. We can make compost bins and decrease the methane going into the air. We can affect the environment in many ways, it can be as small as picking up trash or as big as getting a community to help save penguins.

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Humans can effect the balance on Earth in good and bad ways this is how,humans can plant trees, stop erosion from happening and save animals but they also can make nature worse by hunting animals cutting down trees to make car washes,litter, cause erosion, pollute the air and water and affect the food chain by being at the top and being able to conquer land animals water really everything other things rely on. so over all humans are bad for the planet that is how humans affect the balance on earth.

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The harmony and balance can be affected when a storm or natural disaster happens. Like a tornado can knock down a bunch of trees. When all the trees get knocked down then animals might not have a home. Or when rain water runoff creates a ditch and erodes. All of that effects the balance and harmony.

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Humans can  negatively  affect the balance on earth  by littering which  animals can eat by accident  and die, by cutting down trees which destroys animals habitats, wasting food,  and by  throwing things in the trash  which goes to a landfill and  gets compacted and causes harmful gases to escape. Humans can also positively affect the earth  by helping hurt animals like how they saved the penguins in The Amazing Penguin Rescue after a oil spill, picking up trash, recycling, carpooling, reusing, planting things,  and making a compost pile. That is how I belive  humans can positively and negatively and positively affect the earth.

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Humans can affect the balance on Earth in positive and negative ways. Some negative effects we may cause on Earth could be littering and causing pollution, cutting down trees, destroying animal habitats, and killing or endangering animals. Some positive effects we may cause on earth can be recycling and composting to reduce pollution, restoring animal habitats, and helping to save a species after a disaster has happened.

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Humans can affect the balance of the earth in good way  in the penguin article the humans help the penguins by cleaning the  and helping them  because they were in the oil spill.

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Humans can negatively affect the balance on Earth by polluting, cutting trees, using oceans as a dump, and destroying animal habitats. For example, in the penguin article humans caused the oil spill that affected the penguins lives and nearly killed them. When you cut down a tree, you lose oxygen and an animals habitat. Humans can also affect the Earth in a positive way. We can do the 3 r's (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle), compost, install green roofs, rain gardens, and plant plants. When you compost you can reduce the amount of trash in landfills. Also, you can plant plants for habitats for animals and reduce pollution.

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We can affect in a good way by planting rain gardens, making green roofs, and using pervious surfaces. We can also effect it in a bad way by littering, causing erosion like how we made the Wakefield parking lot bigger, and putting toxic fumes in the air.

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Individuals can influence the environment in many ways. They can affect it good by recycling or bad by polluting. This is a pretty intense example but in the movie Wall-E, they polluted so much that their society fell apart and they had to evacuate to another planet. Polluting can really harshly affect the environment, maybe not like that but it can still be harsh.

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Characters in a story can impact the environment in many ways like cleaning up trash at the park or making sure to clean up food scraps and compost them,but usually in a book it is something bigger and more important like what Salva did, after he left Africa he went back to make wells which can change someones life.Maybe a character could create a group of friends or a business where you help the environment or help people/elders do what they can't do themselves or help them become better at something. A character could plant, plants to help the environment become a better place or more environmentally friendly.Those are some of the ways I think characters /individuals can impact or influence their community to become a better, more environmentally friendly place.

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The Harmony an balance on Earth is impacted when Nature interacts for example the story of Mount Vesuvius the citizens of Pompeii lived in peace and a normal everyday order but when the Volcano erupted in wiped out the entire order and balance in witch the City sat;... See the balance of things can be interrupted when Nature interacts with itself

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Humans effect the balance on earth in good and bad ways. A good way is to add a rain garden, making a green roof, and  making pervious surfaces. Negative ways are littering, causing pollution, and not being responsible for your property.

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Individuals/characters influence the environment in which they live in many ways. Some of which include the following...
First, we can positively impact the environment by planting trees, plants, shrubs, and other vegetation to help get rid of pollution.
Second, we can negatively impact the environment by polluting and wasting food, which we worked on starting to eliminate at Harford Glen. Third, we can positively impact the environment by helping other people as well as animals, just like how the volunteers, a.k.a. "Strange Creatures" helped the penguins, in the Amazing Penguin Rescue when the "1,300 gallons of toxic crude oil gushed into the sea".
Fourth, we can negatively impact the environment by bringing invasive species to places where they can hurt the ecosystem.

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Humans can affect the balance on earth by getting rid of animals habitats. I think this because every time someone cuts down a tree an animal loses it's home and dies. When this happens it messes up the food chain and other animals and plants that eat that animal/plant and depend on it for food will start to die because there food has been killed because of humans. When the animal that used to eat that animal die off the animal that eats that will start to die until there are none left and then we can eat and we will die. All of this wouldn't have happened if HUMANS wouldn't have affected the food chain. This is how humans can dramatically affect the balance on earth.

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The harmony and balance on is impacted during natural disasters. For example, when Mount Vesuvius erupted, the citizens and city of Pompeii was wiped out and very few people survived. Houses, animal habitats, buildings, and many other things including people and animals were wiped out.

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The harmony and balance on earth is impacted by nature when the is a natural disaster like when Mt. Vesuvius erupted the it impacted the balance because it destroed a whole landscape.

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The harmony and balance can be affected like when it is fall the leaves fall off the trees. In spring The flowers grow and bloom. The rain effects the flowers and make them grow.

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Individuals can influence the environment in which they live in many ways. They can influence others in big ways like saving many lives such as how the people in The Great Penguin Rescue saved the many penguins lives that were endangered by the oil spill or how Salva went back to Sudan to put wells in the villages of people who needed clean water. Individuals can also impact the environment they live in little ways to such as composting and recycling.

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Individuals/characters influence the environment in which they live in many ways, good and bad. A positive way is when humans plant shrubs and other plants to prevent erosion. A bad way is when people litter and don't clean up after their land, and cause pollution by using cars when they could walk or bike.

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In my opinion, the rain garden is the best solution because it is attractive and even though someone will have to take care of it, we can always have one of the PTA members come and water it whenever need be. Also, students may be able to participate and be a part of the solution. It is also the less expensive option.

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I believe the best solution is the rain garden because it does not take as much money or work as the other possible solutions. Some of the ways I know that are that the pervious surface is heavy and it would need the other parking lot to be pulled up then it would need to be stuck down. Also, you cannot put salt on it in the winter, so it could be a safety hazard for children and adults. Then, the green roof would not work because it is to heavy for HWES's roof, but even if it did, it would take a long time to produce the grass, plants and trees.

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I think a rain garden would be the best because if you make a green roof it will collapse and crush the people inside and if you make pervious surfaces it will be really expensive. A rain garden would solve the erosion problem and be less money.

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In my opinion, a rain garden would be the best solution for the erosion issue. A rain garden would be the best solution because it would cost the least money out of the three possible solutions. Another reason that I think that a rain garden would be the best solution is a rain garden allows 30% more water to soak into the ground. Also, a rain garden will be attractive so people will help out in taking care of it.

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I think that the rain garden is the best solution. I think this because it naturally filters polluted runoff. Also it protects streams from flooding. Finally they can be pretty plants so it would look nice.

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Individuals and characters can influence the environment in which they live in by starting a community garden you could plant shrubs and trees and you could plant vegtables and fruits for everyone in your community to enjoy and at the end you've really helped because the more plants you plant the more erosion you can stop.

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I believe that the best solution is the rain garden. The rain garden will help prevent erosion by draining the rain from wakefield into a pond. Not only does a rain garden help with erosion but its healthy for the environment too.

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Humans can affect the balance on Earth by littering, polluting, having wars, clearing forests to build, and killing animals.

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In my opinion, the rain garden would be the best solution for the erosion issue. First, rain gardens don't cost as much as the other options. For green roofs you have to get a lot of materials, but rain gardens have less materials to buy. Also, rain gardens are attractive and can provide habitats for animals. Insects could live in the plants and eat the plants. That's why I think the rain garden is the best option out of the three choices.

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In my opinion, the rain garden would be the best solution for erosion. I think so because the rain garden soaks in rainwater and allows 30% more water to soak into the ground. Another reason I believe the rain garden is the best solution is because it is good for the environment and costs the least money our of the rain garden, green roof, and pervious surfaces. Those are the reasons I believe the rain garden is the best solution for erosion.

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I believe that the rain garden is the best option because it costs less it is less maitmense then the green roof. The roof could collapse from the weight of the plants also.

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Characters can influence the environment in good ways or bad ways. For example, the "Ditch Problem" was caused by the runoff from Wakefeild, thus, making a ditch on the fifth grade playground, causing people to fall in, ect, ect, which is bad.

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I believe a rain garden is the best option. A green roof would collapse the current roof, and it requires lots of maintenance. Pervious surfaces are expensive.

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Humans can effect the environment in good ways... and bad. There can be oil spills, global warming, food waste and the littering all around the world. Most humans are aware of these problems and can help solve these by using BMPs. If we serve ourselves smaller portions, and eat all the food we get we can reduce so much already. If we reduce, reuse, and recycle, we can shorten reduce global warming and littering. As for oil spills, there is not as much we can do besides being more careful. Those are some ways we, as humans, can effect the environment.

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I think the rain garden would be the best solution for the erosion issue because it is the least expensive and the students in Homestead can all help to prepare the garden. Also, it filters and prevents runoff. The rain garden will also attract beneficial species and it will not require too much maintenance.

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Humans can affect the balance on earth by littering which goes into our roads oil spills go into our ocean and from factory's the smoke that goes into our air.

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I think the rain garden is the best solution to the erosion happening to the school. The rain garden will absorb the runoff, and it will hold together the ground around the garden, and it will look good, also giving us some "Green School Points"

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In my opinion, the rain garden is the best option for the solution. It is the best solution because number one, it looks pretty, number 2, it doesn't take a whole lot of maintenance, and number 3, it is a great way to reduce the erosion. It will make a great impact to the school and the basketball court.