I-Search+by+Danill

by Daniil V. My topic is how global warming affects Antarctica. I really don't know much about this, but I do know some key facts. I know that global warming raises the temperature of the world. I have also heard that Antarctica's icebergs are melting quickly. I also know that because of global warming many animals are dying. Thanks to the constantly increasing temperature of Antarctica the continent's animals' habitats are being destroyed. A few weeks ago in a newspaper I read that penguins and bears are the main animals whose lives are at stake. Antarctica is affected by global warming the most out of all other continents because it is made up of ice and ice melts quickly. If something doesn't change soon Antarctica will completely melt and be wiped out of the face of the earth. No one wants to see this happen because no one wants innocent animals to lose their homes and because if Antarctica melts there will be too much water in the oceans and many countries will therefore sink. This is everything I know about my topic.
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 * Part I--What I already know about my topic **

Since I don't know much about my topic, which is how Antarctica is influenced by global warming, I have lot of questions about it. One question that I have been dying to find out is which other Antarctic animals besides penguins and bears are affected by global warming? I also wonder sometimes, how does global warming work and how did it begin? Many nights I have laid in bed wondering, why does global warming increase the temperature of some parts of the world? As a little boy I had always asked my dad the question, if global warming doesn't stop by what year will Antarctica melt? And now I want to know the answer to that question as well. I also want to know, are things being done to help Antarctic survive global warming and if so, what? Is it possible to save Antarctica now and stop global warming? These are all the questions I want to find out about my topic and I will try as hard as I can to find the answer to them.
 * Part II--What I Want to Find Out **

The book I chose to use to help me write my I-Search is __An Inconvenient Truth__, by Al Gore. I have been reading it for the past few weeks and I must say that it is quite good. Some of what the book talks about is very complex for me and that's where its pictures come into action. They are incredible and really help me understand the difficult parts of the writing. This book is also very useful because it talks mostly about Antarctica's situation with global warming and how it is affected by it, which is exactly my topic. So far the book has also been very helpful by giving me bar and line graphs showing specific information. I am able to interpret them easily and they really help me understand how global warming is affecting the world. Another interesting thing about __An Inconvenient Truth__ is that it talks about how animals are affected as well. This will surely help me in my I-Search. Overall, the book is a really helpful one that talks about a wide range of important topics and supports its writing with pictures. I will definitely finish this book soon. I just can't stop reading it.
 * Part III--The Search **

The site "The Impact of Global Warming in Antarctica" is very much worth while and helpful because it gives specific information about how global warming is affecting Antarctica. These facts will be very useful to me when I am writing my I-Search paper. Thanks to this website I will be able to give precise examples of how global warming is causing Antarctica to melt. You see this article tells very accurately, different examples of what global warming is leaving behind in Antarctica. The site also gives exact percentages, years and other numbers supporting my topic. The website is a very helpful one because it also only talks about how global warming is affecting Antarctica and its animals and nothing else like most other websites do. Another interesting thing about the site is that it tells you how global warming has affected the temperatures of different regions of Antarctica. It tells you exactly how much the temperatures went up or down. All of the information from this article will come together in my I-Search and will make it complete. I am looking forward to writing it.

I haven't had the interview yet but I am planning to soon. I will interview the biology teacher at my school. I will ask him what his opinion on Global Warming is and what he would look for in a game concerning the issue.

//**I'm sorry. I completely forgot about this I-Search until Himanshu called me and told me about my new table. I did do it on a piece of paper on Thursday, but I just forgot. I have been sick for the past couple of days, so other things have been on my mind. Again, I am sorry.**// I have learned a lot throughout this I-Search process. I have read a book and have looked at a couple of websites to find information about my topic which is how Antarctica is being affected by global warming. All of these sources helped me learn a lot about it. I learned that global warming not only effects Antarctica, but that it also effects its animals. I have also found out that the weather in Antarctica is constantly increasing and that if it isn't stopped, then the whole continent will surely melt and will no longer be on the face of the earth. If this happens then all of the land on the earth will flood thanks to the huge increase in water made by Antarctica. Overall, the researching process was pretty hard and took a lot out of me because it was wasn't easy to find an appropriate website that concerned my topic. In the end I did find a couple of excellent sites, but it was no easy accomplishment and taught me that I do have a lot of patience. I will try to turn the information I discovered about my topic into a game called "The Maze of Global Warming" by creating pawns in the form of polar bears and making global warming the obstacle standing in the player's way. I will also try to make the game's players want to do something to stop global warming. This is how the information I found about my topic will be put into the game I am creating.
 * Part IV--What I Learned **

Works Sited
Gore, Al. //An Inconvenient Truth:The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming And What We Can Do About It//. 7th ed. 10 vols. New York,NY: Rodale, 2006. 321-12. Print.

Popeney, Doug. "Global Warming in Antarctica." //Global Warming: Early Warning Signs//. UCS and WRI, 1999. Web. 22 Apr 2010. .