Weekly Blog-10/5

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Summary:
The week was started with a video about earth which taught me about earth's layers, rocks, and natural resources. It was a bit confusing in my opinion(it was confusing because of the way the information was said), but it was informative. Measuring the difference between our model of the earth's layers that were cut in half replicated a strike-slip fault. Plotting the coordinates of where quite a few earthquakes happened showed that most of the earthquakes happened in water. Not only did most of the earthquakes occur in the ocean, the earthquakes took place in The Ring of Fire. Looking at different rocks, seeing how they moved in liquids and more lead to the understanding of viscosity; semifluid state. Erupting our volcanoes was loads of fun, but showed the speed different liquids compared to how far it traveled; velocity. Velocity- how fast something travels in a certain direction, the "magma" down the volcano.

 SP2: Developing and using models
I used models to explain and predict behaviors of systems, or test a design as I erupted my volcano model. The eruption showed the velocity of the different liquids that were chosen to erupt. The velocities varied giving me opportunities to calculate the 
velocity.

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