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=Boricua Science Class Student Work Space=

Student Name:
Francisco Quintanilla

End of Term Reflection
Here are some of the activities we did in class this term: Harper's Magazine ("Boots on the Ice"), Hurricane Evacuation Plan, Designer Babies (GATACA), Genetic Diseases, Evolution Movies/Research, NYT Science Reviews, Punnett Squares, Chemical Bond Diagrams, The Periodic Table, The Birth and Death of Stars

[insert text here] [insert text here] Computer Class = [More/Less] Videos = [More/Less] Student Group Activities = [More/Less] Evaluations = [More/Less] [insert text here]
 * What 2-3 activities did you enjoy/learn the most?
 * What 2-3 activities topic did you find the most difficult to understand?
 * Describe how could we improve this course in the future
 * Explain why you enjoyed, or why you struggled through, this class, offering whatever insights you may feel are valuable:

Name of Disease
Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome

Symptoms

 * 1) Is a disease that affects the skin
 * 2) Is a disease that affects the lungs
 * 3) By having this disease you might get a tumor.

Genes

 * 1) Folliculin
 * 2) [Type here]
 * 3) [Type here]

Cytogenetic Location
17p 11.2

Base Pair Sites
17,056,250 to 17,081,220

Community
Queens

Evacuation Center

 * 1) Location – York College
 * 2) Implemented Plan – To held people until everything is over.

Your Evacuation Plan
My evacuation plan would be get water, flashlight, batteries, cookies, and to meet my family in the evacuation center.

#1

 * 1) Summary – [Type here]
 * 2) Book Citation – [Type here]
 * 3) Personal Interest – [Type here]

#2
The article that I chose is about Tornados what are Tornados many people might ask?

Tornado is a supertwister that produces an imaginable destruction. The tornadoes are rate

from f-0 to f-5, according to Dr. Fujita the worst are F-4, F-5 that can create a lot of

devastation. Only 1 percent of the 1,000 tornados that form in the United States each year

are F-2. The scientist don’t even know what measure they should take when it comes to

understand the Tornados behavior. Just to prove my point I will use this quote that is on

the book. “a potent tornado killed two people on Sunday in Happy, Tex. Meteorologist

had not yet finished analyzing its strength by Monday evening”. In other words not

with all the technology that scientists has they can be able to predict the impact of a

Tornado.

A Tornado can destroy up to 344 houses and even more which includes business. The

experts says that what survives after a tornado hit certain area is unpredictable. Also the

Tornados don’t hit all the areas of the United States it hit certain places, the Tornado

destruction mainly focused on the Midwest and the South. Across a zone called Tornado

Alley, and the reason for this is because the dry Canadian air often clashes with warm,

moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. But the destruction extends as far north as

Saskatchewan and now is even worse because now it can even reach Maryland.

In page 377 according to the book says that Tornadoes are much smaller scale than

hurricanes. Also in the book I found that Tornados descend from storm clouds to the

ground, causing intense damage along the path where the funnel touches the ground

causing the disaster and sweeping with everything that is its path. The other issue that the

book says is that the largest tornado has an air speed of 500 km ( about 300 miles) per

hour, and is the worst violent weather phenomenon known.

3. Personal interest-

What I learned form this article is that how fast and strong the tornados are. I also

learned the Tornado rate and how dangerous it is according to its rate. For instance, the

lowest would be F-0 that would be a tornado that won’t caused a lot of damage, but F-4,

and F-5 those tornados can cause a lot of damage. I also learned that Dr. Fujita was the

one who gave the rate to the Tornados.

The other reason why I chose this article is because I want to inform people of how

devastating Tornados are and also Tornados are so powerful that Scientifics don’t

understand their behavior. When a Tornado hit a specific city or town the damages are

devastating, so hat’s why is important for people to be prepare and to take the necessary

precautions.

#3
This article is about the solar power industry and its benefits, but also it is an experience that is growing pains over how power is financed and distributed. People are doing this because of the high prices of energy cost. This also has created that business owner has turn into this business as solar power installer. Glenn Barresi, an electrician in South Windsor, Connecticut got into solar connection business, and his business started with only two employees his father, and him and now its has grown to a half dozen employee. This solar Power Energy has increase because according to the Solar Center at North Carolina State University that maintains a database about these issue more than half States now have rebates or incentives for solar power. This Solar Power Industry has made a lot of people rich. For instance, Jeffery Wolfe and his wife founded a solar energy power in 1998, and in today days has 90 employees In the book on page 228 explains a little be more with more detail about Solar Energy Power, this Solar Energy Power has a Photovoltaic cell that is used also solar calculator used this kind of element, so in that way you will be saving a lot of money in batteries. Another use of Photovoltaic cell is in cameras, saving energy stuff such as as: refrigerators, TV, light bulb, etc. The reason why I chose this article is because when I read the title I though it would be interesting and it was, but I never though that it would have so much information, and it would be interesting. I really learned a lot about this document because it has a lot of information, and perhaps some of these days I open a business like this because it brings a lot of money. The other reason why I chose this article is to inform the people about the advantages of Solar Energy Power, and how they can save money. One way is to buy products with the logo of saving energy because those products have photovoltaic cell and you will save a lot of money buying products like those.

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