Katarina’s Blog

Did you know tires, tennis rackets, trash bags, and toothpaste are made from oil? Oil is the most important trade in the world today. Some things we need to live are drugs ( prescribed), Detergents, and fertilizers. Saudi Arabia produces a lot of oil and just one barrel of oil is about 42 gallons. Another place to get oil is from the OPEC countries. The OPEC countries contain of the countries   Algeria, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. The OPEC countries control the Persian golf region. Did you know oil provides 40 percent of the worlds energy. Surprisingly the U.S is only 4 percent of the world’s population but takes up 25 percent of the world’s oil supply.

OPEC countries

OPEC Logo

At the beginning of the class Mr.Hetherington showed us how to use the blog google. After that he told us that we’d be doing some thinking. He taught us the lesson that he taught the class he went to teach at another school. Some questions were:Connect the 4 dots with 3 straight lines without crossing through the middle.

The next one was… Which worlds don’t belong.

1) Window, Glass Door, Wall

2) Roller Skates, Cars, Houses

3) Floppy Drive, Hard Drive, Driveway

4) Saturn, Venus, Frogs

5) Lead, Nickel, Oxygen

6) Sad, Happy, Mad

7) Trees, Grass, Cats

Ball, Sphere, Cube

9) Pencil, Tape, Glue

10) Dance, Present, Gift

11) Shop, Bear, Buy

12) Cake, Poison, Muffin

13) Energy, Lawn Mower, Scissors

14) Shower, Bath, Sewer

15) Chalk, Lemon, Orange

Some people had difficulty with 3, 6, and 8.

The third one was…A farmer has a fox, a goose, and a bag of grain, and one boat to cross a steam, Which is only big enough to take one at a time. If left alone together, the fox would eat the goose and the goose would eat the grain. How can the farmer get all 3 to the other side? The answer is to be continued…

Anoter was what is interesting about this statement…

A MAN A PLAN A CANAL PANAMA

The
Ottoman Empire began in 1299 and ended in 1922. In the 16th and 17th centuries it was in control of parts 3 cotenants. The
Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful empires in the world at that time. For six centuries the
Ottoman Empire was a major attraction. The city that’s name kept changing (
Constantinople,
Byzantium, and
Istanbul) was now
Istanbul. The area of the
Ottoman Empire was 4,633,226 sq mi. The government of the
Ottoman Empire was a monarchy. The ottomans thought of themselves as the universal empire. The
Ottoman Empire was the only Islamic country to challenge the rising power of
Western Europe between the 15th and 19th centuries. In 1638 the ottomans controlled
Turkey,
Syria,
Palestine,
Arabia, and
Egypt.  They controlled most of the
Balkan Peninsula. For almost 600 years the Turkish rulers made those countries pay heavy taxes and obey Muslim laws.

                         THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE…

 informatoin from social studies handout and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire