Mining

Part A: 

Open pit mining is a mining technique where you are extracting ore or minerals from the earth from an open pit. Such as this to extract the ore. 

Pros: not as expensive as shaft mining, safer environment for workers and (easy access)- this was a guess. Con: pollution on the environment, harmful to the environment. 

So shaft mining is where you dig a vertical or near vertical tunnel to get access to the ore. Also the use explosive to extract the ore from the surrounding rock. 

Pros: less pollution on the environment, safer for the ecosystem and less harmful for surrounding areas. Cons: expensive, dangerous for workers.  

Part B:

Spouse of a miner: I would chose the open pit mine because I would know that my spouse would have less of a chance to die on the job. 

Owner of a mining company:  if I was the owner of a mining company I would chose shaft mining even though it is expensive, I would know that I am not greatly effecting the environment. 

Environmentalist: again I would chose shift mining because it causes less pollution and doesn't hurt the environment. 

Owner of a nearby ski resorts: a shaft mine because it wouldn't cause acid rain do to the things that may be exposed in a open pit mine. 

Politician: I would want a open pit mine do to that fact that it is a cheaper method of mining. 

Part C:

There are mines that exist in Nicaragua. They topically mine for gold there. They use the open pit mine is common in nicaragu. 

Waste Management

1) In Nicaragua they use landfills to manage their waste. The largest landfill is located in Managua, Nicaragua on the south shore of lake Managua and it is the largest land fill in Central America. 

2) Some of the challenges that the city faces with the disposal of the waste is that the landfill is growing over 7km long and coming to the point where is might be hard to containing it in one place so it doesn't over flow into the lake. Considering it's an open air landfill and it is next to a lake. 

3) They could improve their waste management by doing what we do and control what is happening with there waste. Also having a place where there recycling goes and have a recycling system instead of putting it with the waste  and having families sort through it. Also to cover it up as the landfill begins to overfill.  

Impact of Climate Change

The country is going through a drought do to the rising temperature. They are also a tropical climate do to there location, which is by the equator. They do have a wet season, but again do to the rising temperature they are not receiving a lot of rain that they need. Another climate change is that they also face very strong hurricanes.

Lithosphere: 

• The ground is being broken up from it being so dry.
• Or ripped up from the storms.

Biosphere:

• Plants are not being able to grow do to the drought.
• Losing vital vegetation which is needed for animals on farm and the for the people.
• Its becoming hard to grow crops
• Plants die of do to the lake of water
• The fish in the lakes and in the surrounding bodies of water are being affected because the water is heating to higher temperatures, which the fish aren't use to.
• Do to the hurricanes humans and animals are being greatly effected. Trees and other plants are being ruined.

Atmosphere: 

• Since that atmosphere is collecting a bunch of CO2 it trapping the heat from the sun which heats up the earth which cause the temperature to rise. 
• Temperature rises to about 40-45°c from the normal being between 25-36°c.

Hydrosphere: 

• Some lakes are shrinking in size do to the intense heat.
• Strong rain storms, which tie in with the hurricanes.

Climate

1) Nicaragua has a tropical climate meaning that the capital Managua also has a tropical climate. Their climate is like this because of how close the country is to the equator so it's warmer all year around. 

2) The climate is tropical.  Temperature is always high they range from  25° C to 27° C in the day time and then 10° C at night and is the same temperature up in the mountains (10° C). Precipitation can range from 300 mm to almost 800mm depending on which part of the country you are in.  Around the coast precipitation is high and towards the middle it is low. 

3)

Nicaragua Hurricane

The hurricane happened on October 29,2005. It was a category 3 hurricane with wind speed of 115mph or 185km/h. It formed on October 26,2005 in the Caribbean Sea and as I said before made land fall on October 29,2005. But on October 30,2005 the hurricane went down to a category 2 hurricane. 

Impact:

There was a total of 9 fatalities, with many homes damaged 150,000 people were evacuated form the coastline. There was a total cost of 15.5 million in US dollars of damages that occurred form the hurricane. Also that 1,000 structures were damaged in which hundreds were destroyed. Also meaning that other wildlife was greatly affected such as trees and animals.