Climate Change

Have you noticed the overall temperature on Earth has been rising over the past few decades?  Well that is climate change and we humans are mostly to blame for it.  Climate change is the gradual change in the Earth’s average temperature and weather patterns.  This essay will describe how climate change is causing the rise in the Earth’s temperature, how climate change can cause some very wild weather, and how we can reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses that is released in the air.

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Biomimicry

Would you wear a jacket made out of mucus?   A sea creature could provide inspiration to scientists to invent new materials better than what we have today.   This is called biomimicry.  Biomimicry is taking inspiration from nature and taking what we learned and putting them in our own inventions.  This essay will describe how scientists took inspiration from Hagfish,  an elephant trunk, and the pitcher plant to make new inventions and materials. 

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