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Scoala Bogdan Voda (2024 CyberFair Project ID 8757)
Romania, Radauti
Official Status: Incomplete: under Development
Teacher:
Category: 7. Environmental Awareness

We estimate 10 student(s) from 12 to 13 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: Our local communty is located in Romania , a Central European Country. Situated in the center of the depression with the same name, at an altitude of 360-380 m, Radauti has established its hearth in the confluence angle of Suceava with Sucevita. The oblong form of the dumps (NV-SE) favors the conduct of the wind blowing in this way, and the numerous water surfaces introduce some changes in the normal way of meteorological elements. The average annual temperature is 6.9°C; the average annual temperature of July is 18.2°C and of January -5.3°C. The average annual rainfall is 643.6mm. The clime is temperate. At first sight, an opened territory, the area of the town called Radauti is well hidden in a natural way, by the swampy land that surrounds it. This natural protection, associated with the vast possibilities of practicing the agriculture and cattle rising, have made Radauti, from the ancient times, an adequated place for living (the oldest signs found are from 7000 years ago). The first document that certifies the town dates from 1392, where Radauti was mentioned as the village of Radomir, making part of his properties, from which, as some versions say, it is supposed to have derived the name of the town. Other opinions say that the settlement has its origins in old times and the name “Radauti” comes from the latin word Rottacenum, given by the soldiers to name the roman garrison in Siret. Under slave influences we assist at a distortion of the original name Rottacenum and its conversion to Radauti, as it appears in later documents. The name of the town proceeds from the name “Radu”, probably a ruler of the local community before the foundation of Moldavia. The oldest certification documentary of Radauti dates from 1413, in a document of Alexander The Kind. At the middle of XIV century, there was already a flourishing settlement here, so that Bogdan I (1359-1365) decided to build at Radauti the main church of the country, which became the center of a bishopry. The archeological researches have found, around the St. Nicolas church (Bogdana Monastery) some proofs of human habitance previous to Bogdan’s age, which would plead for the existance, in Radauti, of an anterior center to the formation of the state.

Project Description: Density is a physical size that represents the mass of a unit of volume. Density tells us how much a cubic meter of substance weighs. In the International System of Units, density is measured in kg/m3. Usually g/cm³ is also used quite often. Water is one of the few bodies that increases its volume by solidification and so it decrease its density. Normally, the density of a substance decreases with increasing temperature (the body expands, increases its volume, decreases density). Water feels differently between 0 – 4 degrees Celsius (called the water anomaly). In this interval, its volume decreases, the density increases (at + 4 degrees Celsius having the maximum density). So, at the bottom of the lakes there is water at + 4 degrees Celsius, which makes underwater life possible. The fact that the density of ice is less than the density of water is of great importance in biology.During the winter, the ice that forms in standing or running waters remains on the surface, while under the ice crust, the water has higher temperatures, a fact that allows the continuous development of the activity of aquatic life.

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