transportation is the only sector where greenhouse gas emissions have increased in the past three decades, rising 33.5% between 1990 and 2019.

Made by: Iara Chacón and Zoe Zak.

Did you know that transportation can be great for humanity and horrible to the environment? Well, a study shows that transportation can negatively impact human health in two broad ways: accidents and environmental pollution. It can also facilitate the spread of infectious diseases. Transportation pollution is a problem and we can solve this by taking public transit and walking more and this will shrink our carbon footprint.

One of the problems is that any type of transportation vehicle expels CO2 which causes air pollution and damages the atmosphere. According to climatekids.NASA.gov, “Any particle that gets picked up into the air or is formed from chemical reactions in the air can be an aerosol. Many aerosols enter the atmosphere when we burn fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum, and wood. These particles can come from many sources, including car exhaust, factories and even wildfires. Some of the particles and gasses come directly from these sources, but others form through chemical reactions in the air.” Which is very bad for the environment because air/transportation pollution leads to strokes, heart problems such as heart attacks, kidney failure, respiratory issues and pneumonia.

Talking about problems, another problem is emissions. For example According to europarl.europa.eu, “Transport was responsible for about a quarter of the EU’s total CO2 emissions in 2019, of which 71.7% came from road transportation, according to a report from the European Environment Agency. The EU aims to achieve a 90% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from transport by 2050, compared with 1990.” That is a great piece of information to tell our family because we can start walking and no more cabbing. This is important to our family because everytime we go on a family vacation we are wasting gasoline and it burns into the air creating more C02.

With all these problems comes a lot of solutions which would be to stop using gasoline, electric and hybrid vehicles.

There is no doubt that humanity needs cars/planes or different types of vehicles to travel the whole globe. But we can walk or ride bikes to our destination whenever possible. You can use bike-share programs if they are available where you live. Take public transit when possible because that may help the world little by little. And it also saves electricity! You can carpool with friends instead of driving alone. Use ride-sharing services. Try to use transportation that does not need energy, gasoline or diesel to power.

This is a serious problem because it affects humans and most importantly any living things and we don't do many things about it. When we walk more and ride bikes more we can make our family's Carbon footprint smaller and smaller. Little by little it might take awhile but we will slowly fix this huge problem until it's

nothing.

What causes air pollution in the atmosphere?

Well, household combustion devices, motor vehicle, industrial facilities and forest fire (or deforestation).

Saving electricity: When you save electricity You are doing a favor for yourself. Why? Saving electricity you also spend less money, your energy can keep for more time. Most of this energy comes from Fossil fuels, they have a grand part of your Carbon footprint.

Don't waste water: When you waste water unesesary you are affecting the world,like waste water or throwing trash to the water, If you see this moment Bogota(colombia) is in crisis because they don't know how to use well the water or how treatment and that that a effect that they don't have many water now.

Characteristics: The Greenhouse effect, acidic rain, stronger storms, more CO2 and methane, pollution, recycling and global warming.

Examples: When we throw paper or when we smoke.

Non-examples: When we recycle and when we plant trees.

A frayer model is a paper or a poster that has four sections: definition, characteristics, examples and non examples.

Here is an example using a Carbon footprint:

Definition: The definition is quite simple. It's the amount of greenhouse gases (including CO2 and methane) that are generated by our actions doing normal things.

Characteristics: The major contributors to Carbon footprints are: processed food consumption, transportation and house hold energy.

Examples: Wasting water/electricity makes a larger Carbon footprint. Wasting paper is very bad because in order to get paper we must cut trees down. And lastly, everything you throw away.

Non-example: Using bicycles instead of cars, eating vegetables and fruits instead of processed foods, and meat, windmills and solar panels and finally recycling.

They are things that you can do with your family, your community and the World for example in this particular case we will use our Carbon footprint.

Your family: save water, food and electricity as much as you can because wasting too much is terrible for the Earth and environment. You can also recycle different things or give them away to charity or homeless shelters but whatever you do don't throw it away to the garbage. One other one is to keep things that seem broken like toys, clothes or shoes you can try to make it have a purpose.

Your community: Don't waste paper because paper is made from trees and it releases CO2, put correct items in garbage bins so then when they empty it, it won't go to to the wrong destination for example the green bin (the organic one) will go to ecosystems and the black bin will probably go to landfills. Don't use your own transportation so much use more public transportation. Compost and don't waste food.

World: We should stop using fossil fuels because that creates a lot of air pollution. Stop throwing trash into the ocean. That is bad because it endangers allegedly species.

A 321 bridge uncovers initial thoughts, ideas, questions and understandings about a topic before and after instructional learning has occurred. For example the topic I will talk about is Reducing your families Carbon footprint.

What are three words that come to mind when you think about this topic?: Reduce, Re-use and Recycle.

What are two questions you have about this topic?: What creates a carbon footprint? And how can people make the Earth greener?

What is one simile/metaphor you would use to describe this topic?: It's like when dinosaurs used to roam the planet.

They are things that you can do with your family, your community and the World for example in this particular case we will use our Carbon footprint.

The whole World: creating footprints in fun way to not be boring, doing a Google slides and put it how we can do footprint in a fun way.

In our community: Don't eat a candy and throw the wrapper on the ground and using water appropriately.

In your family: The food that you haven't eaten, you can give it to the homeless or people who need it the most, also donate clothes to family members, homeless shelters or to Charity.

I can help cause, I can talk with the manager to do a recycling plan for my community.

I can help world by creating a Google page or Instagram or TikTok that dedicated to help pollution oxygen ect.

Greenhouse gases (also known as GHGs) are gases in the earth's atmosphere that trap heat. During the day, the sun shines through the atmosphere, warming the earth's surface. At night the earth's surface cools, releasing heat back into the air. But some of the heat is trapped by the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Why are Greenhouse Gases important to our Earth?

Greenhouse Gases are important for Earth but, too many can be very dangerous.

Steps:

1. Solar radiation at most wavelengths passes through the Earth's atmosphere.

2. The Earth absorbs most of the radiation and causes global warming.

3. The Earth radiates heat energy and some of the heat escapes into space.

4. Some of the heat is absorbed by greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.

   CO2: ( AKA Carbon dioxide and Oxygen) it comes from decaying and living organisms. Carbon dioxide is released when you burn coal, oil, fossil fuels, gasoline, etc.

   H2O: (AKA Water vapor) this is water in the form of gas. High in the atmosphere, comes back to liquid water and it rains. Water vapor blocks heat from escaping the atmosphere.

   CFC'S: (AKA Chlorofluorocarbons) the gasses weren't created by nature and they damage the Ozone layer.

   N2O: ( AKA Nitrous oxide) it is a natural gas of the nitrogen cycle. It's released by some factories power plant and fertilizers.

   CH4: (AKA Methane) is formed by carbon and hydrogen. When released from wetlands, growing rice, raising cattle. And it traps a lot of heat.