manitou and colorado springs water

Colorado Springs water and Manitou springs water come from very different places.

Manitou springs water comes from a reservoir located near Pikes Peak. The location is critical because the water flows here from natural springs and snow melts that are located on Pikes Peak. Also, it comes from a creek called North French Creek. This takes over 30 acres of forest. The reservoir holds 720 water acres of water the is transferred through a water cleaning plant then directly to Manitou citizens. After it goes through the distribution tanks above the city near Crystal hills. Manitou water is clearly much more locally supplied.

Colorado springs water on the other hand comes from an area much farther away but it is still semi-local coming from a snow melt near the continental divide. Most of the water comes from the divide well about 75% of it does. The water travels through about 25 reservoirs and or dams and 200 miles of pipes to be distributed through out Colorado Springs. Obviously Colorado springs gets water from a place much farther away but it follows the same process to be cleaned as Manitou water.

Water Cycle

The water cycle is a continuous process in which water moves through the environment. It has no beginning or end. If water were to start out in a puddle it would evaporate in to the clouds which then starts condensation and results in perspiration then the puddle water would turn into rain, hail, or snow.

Hybrid Cars

Fuel-Effiecent Cars Annotated Bibliography

1) Ten great fuel-efficient cars.

http://cars.about.com/od/helpforcarbuyers/tp/top10_fuel.htm,

This website as some useful information. It is about ten favorite fuel-efficient cars. It is useful because it explains a lot about the different fuel-efficient cars. What is explains is how the car is good for the environment and how much money you can save and just useful information in general. The website mentions these top ten fuel-efficient cars; the ford Focus, Honda fit, Honda Civic, Mercedes-Benz E320 blutec, Mini cooper, Nissan Altima, Nissan Sentra, Toyota Camry Hybrid, Toyota Corolla, and Toyota Prius.



2) Cost for fuel-efficient cars.

http://www.automotive.com/fuel-efficient-cars/index.html

This website discuses the prices of the top 5 most fuel-efficient cars. They all range from 19,000-22,000 dollars. I noticed for some of the cars the prices are lower for the newer cars. An example is that the 2010 modle cost 19,800 but the 2008 model cost 22,600 dollars. That is manly what this websites talks about.



3) Fuel-Efficient Cars
http://greenhome.huddler.com/products/category/automobiles

This websites talk about the different kinds of Fuel-Efficient cars. There are 7 kinds. The 1st kind is the electric car. Then there is the hybrid car, diesel and biodiesel car, gas cars, hydrogen cars, Air cars, then last there is natural gas cars. That is what this website talks about.

4) 8 Fuel-Efficient Cars
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/autos/0803/gallery.most_fuel_efficient/2.html

This website talks about alot of the same stuff. This one talks alot about prices of these cars. The prices that they talk about is the Ect. annual fuel cost. They also talk about the lowest base price. For all of the cars they talk about the same thing.

Fuel-Efficient cars

1) What, specifically about your topic, are you going to research? What is a hybrid car?

2) What conclusions did you come to? What do you recommend average citizens do to make a difference? A vehicle that uses two or more distinct power sources to propel the vehicle. The Hybrid Vehicle uses at least two power sources such as gas and electric. The combustion engine and electric motor powered by batteries are connected to the transmission both propelling the vehicle together.
The currently produced hybrid vehicle has a gasoline or diesel combustion engine which turns a generator. Then the generator charges batteries or ultra capacitors that power an electric motor. The electric motor then propels the vehicle. The pros of owning a hybrid are the gas savings and the benefit to the environment. The big concern is that they generally cost around $3,000 to $6,000 more than standard vehicles. In the amount of five years you will save at least $3,000 dollars. and not only do you save money but you do not put as much pollution in the air. source
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3) What would happen if, worst-case scenario, nobody listened to your recommendations? The worst that would happen is people would not save as much money and more pollution would be put into the air

4) What would happen if, best-case scenario, everybody listened to your recommendations? The best things that could happen if people were to buy hybrids is people would save much more money and be able to spend it on more important things. Also there would be less pollution on the air.

Water Propertys

During this experiment we had to see how many drops of water we could get on one penny. My guess was 24. I tried it at least 4 times. The first time it came out to be 5. Then 10 then 16, then last 22. I could tell that more drops stayed on the closer you kept the water dropper to the penny. More drops also stayed on when you put smaller drops on the penny. That is what happened during this experiment.