Similarities & differences (Canada/USA

1. Clothing:  styles of clothing are virtually the same in the USA and Canada.  Many of the brands and stores are also the same.  There are some different brands that you'll only find in US or Canada, but most are similar.

2. War.  Canadians and Americans are different on their view of wars (mostly).  Canada is more cautious, and used to only do peacekeeping up until the gulf war.  America likes to jump into wars believing they are great leaders.  Canada goes into wars when they believe it's the right thing to do.  

3. Democracy.  Both are democracies but Canada is a parliamentary democracy and the US is a representative democracy.
In the USA states are more independent then provinces and territories in Canada.
4: socialism: while Canada and the US both have social assistance, welfare and EI; Canadians believe its a human right to survive, have health care, look after the vulnerable. Canada is a socialist - capitalist country.  Many Americans have a more survival of the fittist attitude. They are a capitalist country.
5. Geography: The northern part of the USA has very similar geography to Canada but not the Canadian shield or BC rainforest. Alaskan geography is similar to the Yukon.  The southern USA has the grand canyon, deserts, and swampy gulf coast geography.  Also the USA has the smokey mountains.  The West coast of the USA has lots of volcanoes and more fault lines
6. Standard of living: is the same.  The majority of both countries is a first world country.  But many reserves and reservations are 2nd and 3rd world standards of living.
7: origins:  Both are colonial states that took land by force through war and colonialism.
8: guns: Americans believe it is a right and freedom to carry guns.  Because of this there are a lot of murders.  Canadians believe guns are a privilege.  There are a lot less murders and it is mostly with knives.
9:  Canadians believe in Nationalism and Americans are patriotic.
10: language: Americans have a higher number of accents.  Some words are different such as pop and soda, couch and sofa.  But we both understand the other.

CTRC

I think the CTRC and Canadian content is a good thing.  The United States has so much influence over what we watch and listen too and  they spend much more money on the entertainment industry. When Canadian content was introduced, Americans dominated the entertainment industry even though Canadian artists were just as big as American artists.  Most Canadian artists had to make it as Americans to become big.  And even though we are the same in many ways we are also different.  Canadian content helps small town Canadian singers like Avril Lavign (once was) get airtime in an American dominated entertainment industry.  It also brings shows like the Rick Mercier Report.  When it comes to comedy's Canada has. Different sense of humour.  One qe might lose without Canadian content.

Limiting factors

1.  Limiting factors like the ability to grow or hunt food in a desert /arctic ecosystem or the amount of water in a warm desert ecosystem are limiting factors that can effect humans

2.  An algal bloom covers the ponds surface blocking sunlight.  This prevents oxygen from being created in the water and becomes a limiting factor.

3.  Abiotic limiting factors:

• Water - everything needs water.  When water is limited it reduces the carrying capacity of plants & animals.
• Living space - an ecosystem with limited living space won't have enough room to sustain large populations
• Nutrients - limited nutrients effect plant growth which will reduce the carrying capacity for plants and then everything else (or risk starvation).
• Shelter - lack of shelter puts humans and most animals in danger from elements or predators. 
• Sunlight. - Nothing would grow and it would be cold leading to starvation, and exposure.
• Weather - bad weather can destroy habitat, food and shelter.  
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Stars

1.  A prominent group of stars, but smaller then a constellation .

2.  Vega is seen as a white star

3.  Stars range in size from red giants to blue super giants to smaller white, yellow and orange stars

4.  A constellation is a region of a few stars, within a galaxy.  A galaxy is a huge rotating collection of gas, dust, (millions) of stars as well as planets, and other celestial objects.

5.  The universe was created by a big bang which occurred about 13 billion years ago.  After the big bang, all matter was scattered into what can be thought if as fine dust or a cloud of mist which was sub atomic particles.  After the bug bang the universe expanded rapidly.  As the universe free older the objects got increasingly further apart.  Eventually, electons, proteins and neutrons were created.  These then came together to form the smallest atom (the hydrogen atom).  When enough hydrogen atoms came together, stars were formed.  These giant stars became nuclear reactors in which smaller hydrogen atoms were cooked and fused together under enormous pressure to become heavier elements.

Space

1/  stars are luminous because they create light, suns are giant balls of fire and fire makes light.

2/ mercury, Venus, earth, mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.  Pluto - dwarf planet.

3.  A sun is a giant ball of dust and gas which ignited and produces heat, light and more.  A planet is made up of smaller left over clumps of dust and gas and are not ignited.  Planets rotate around a sun.  Planets are the leftovers.  Suns impact planets but planets don't impact suns.

4/ a space probe is a spacecraft without people.  It is run by computer.  They are sent out into our solar system to take pictures and collect data and transmit it back to earth so we can learn more about parts of our solar system that ate too far sway to go to.

5/ I think space exploration is important because it's interesting and makes us imagine and realize how small we are and how unique earth is so we shouldn't destroy it.  Also it teaches us science and helps us understand the universe better.  Plus it is a liyt better to spend money on something like space (I really like space) that will educate people and teach us to dream.  That's a lot better then spending money on tarsands and war.

Teenagers

Teens in the 1960's are best known for being hippies (although not all were).  Hippies looked really different then teens had before.  They wore long hair, beads, old jeans and other things.  People thought they looked strange.  They believed in free love and were very open about sex.  They openly smoked weed and did other drugs.  They listened to rock music their parents didn't like.  They were seen as very rebellious even though every generation felt this way about teens.  The thing that was very different from other generations was they were very concerned about the politics (especially wars) going on and they protested against them.  These wars weren't like the one their parents experienced (ww2), these ones weren't about saving people.  They were just about governments.  

In many ways todays teens are similar in their pastimes and in some ways our clothes.  This is mostly because hippies changed these things in society to become the norm.  Teens today (mostly) aren't political and (mostly) don't protest.  The only teens I know who do, are like me & protest with their parents who were political teens in the 1990's.  Because of this I don't think today's teens are very rebellious at all.  I think many are disrespectful but that isn't the same thing.

New flag for Ontario

I drew the earth showing Canada and highlighted Ontario.  I looked at lots of symbols for Ontario but all of them really didn't describe all of Ontario, just part of it or some of the people.  Ontario is very multicultural.  People cone from all over Canada and all over the world and make Ontario their home.  Some of us have always been from here.  So I think this is the best way to represent everyone and remind people that Ontario is our home but so is the whole world so we have to look after all of it.