Adv Science

Image: en.wikipedia.org  Hurricane! Summary: Finding out about our new project started the studying of natural disasters. Natural disasters are huge disasters such as wildfires, thunderstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes, winter storms (blizzards), earthquakes and tsunamis. Natural disasters cause tons of damage to the area it occurs. Each natural disaster has certain "ingredients" which makes the disaster form. As well as that, the geographical occurrence differs based of the natural disaster. Wildfires- Caused by heat waves and droughts, as well as climate changes                Can occur anywhere, but usually in grasslands or scrub lands Thunderstorms- Caused by warm air, moisture, and a breeze                         Can occur anywhere, but usually towards the southeast Hurricanes- Caused by warm ocean water and wind in the same direction as the hurricane ...

Image Mistaken Identity Project Summary In this project my group and I were asked to prove or disprove if we were going to have an 10.0 earthquake November 17, 2016. I learned more about the Richter Scale, for example, each size of magnitude is ten times larger than the previous one. A 10.0 earthquake can cause very severe damage to many communities and cities. While doing research I discovered that the Great San Francisco 8.0 earthquake was felt all the way to southern Oregon. During this project I found out that the largest earthquake ever recorded was a 9.5 earthquake in Valdivia, Chile. The size of the fault line that an earthquake occurs on has a big impact on the magnitude of the earthquake. Along with all this information I learned that we have small earthquakes that are 2.0 lower everyday. This project has given me a lot more knowledge about earthquakes. Backward-Looking: I knew quite a bit about earthquakes before the project considering all the...

Image:              www.flickr.com Summary: Starting the week with learning about seafloor spreading and subduction brought back some information from "Snack Tectonics." Seafloor spreading is when the mid-ocean ridge produces magma and it flows to both sides creating new ocean floor. The farther you travel from from the mid-ocean ridge the older the rock gets. With seafloor spreading wouldn't you think that the world would get bigger and bigger? Well, that isn't how it works. As the magma cools it gets heavier and moves farther out. Not only does it move out it it moves down because the rock gets heavier as it cools. It moves down into a subduction zone where it gets heated up and flows out of the mid-ocean ridge again. Subduction zones are like canyons where the heavy, cool rock falls. The cycle repeats over and over. After learning about that, we started onto our Tectonically Speaking Project. My group and I chose the Mistaken I...

Image:  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_plate_tectonics_world.gif Summary: The week started of with learning more about shield volcanoes, especially how they are formed; the layers of magma cool on the surface forming a shield over the volcano. While Hawaii volcanoes are shield volcanoes in Japan are composite. That means that composite volcanoes are explosive, but shield volcanoes lava flows down slowly. Making a composite volcano erupt replicated a volcano in Japan. Looking at a map showing plate boundaries, earthquakes, and volcanoes allowed me to see how all of three are in vaguely in the same place. The volcanoes occurred on the plate boundaries because when the plates shifted the may have created a crack that allowed magma to flow upward. The earthquakes occurred because when the plates shift the cause different movements created an earthquake.I showed how different geologic forms are created by movement in the crust when I made my food model. It showed the...

Image:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawai%CA%BBi_Volcanoes_National_Park 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 dir...