Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Why not limit the number of people?

Hello again! I have a couple questions to ask, they're listed below.

1) Why doesn't the government of Ecuador limit the amount of people living on the Galapagos Islands?
2) Why doesn't Ecuador limit the places people can live on the islands? Maybe have new laws/ zoning laws set aside for the Galapagos Islands.
3) How many countries and organizations support(help fund) the Galapagos Islands?

Thanks!

-Om pd.1

Sula nebouxii

The answer to Alex pd. 5's question about what the scientific name for the Blue-Footed Booby is Sula nebouxii. The blue-footed booby is in the family of Sulidae which includes gannets and boobies. Both these kinds of birds swim in the water to catch fish. The genus is Sula which include any kind of booby: blue-footed, red-footed, or masked boobies. I hoped that answered Alex's question and more.

Seven centimeters per year

Ms. Barrett,
I have found some information on the webpage of http://www.galapagos-islands-tourguide.com/galapagos-islands-volcanos.html. Some of it answers Daniel's questions.

Apparently, all of the islands have different ages. The oldest ones, such as Espanola, Florena, and Santa Fe are in the four to five million year range. There are also multiple islands that are two or three million years old, such as Santiago or Bartolome. The youngest ones were created about one million years ago. On this same website, I also discovered that the plate under the Galapagos helps the archipelago move seven centimeters a year.

Sincerely,
Cara (whom hails from period 1)

Good, Cara. Did you get the name of the plate and the direction in which it is moving? And if the islands are moving east at seven cm/year, when will they hit South America?!