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Week 14- Climate Change

 For this blog post, I wanted to make it a review for our upcoming test. Here is everything I took notes on/from the textbook for this unit. Climate VS Weather Weather  is the short-term atmospheric conditions in an area like, “It’s raining” or “It’s sunny today”. As such, weather can change day to day. Climate  is the usual weather activity that can be expected for an area and time of year such as, “Minnesota is so snowy during the winter” or “Florida is sunny in the summer”.   Climate Change refers to the continual change of the climate over time from what is typically expected to happen. Weather:  what is happening NOW Climate : what happens USUALLY What factors determine whether a climate has a hot or cold climate? L.O.W.E.R Near Water L: Lattitude O: Ocean Current W: Wind and Air Masses E: Elevation R: Relief (aka Topography)  Near Water: In the summer, water acts like an air conditioner to keep the air temperatures cool. In the winter, water acts like a heater to keep the tempera
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Week 13- Climate Change

 During week 13, my group in the 8:30 lab researched rising sea levels. Here is the presentation we made: Sea Level Rising
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Week 12- Climate Change

 For this week, our homework was to watch "Before the Flood" which is a documentary starring Leonardo Dicaprio. It was way more interesting than I thought it would be. Some of the big things he focused on were: 1. Deforestation 2. Fossil Fuels 3. Pollution in Cities 4. Glaciers Melting 5. Oil Industry 6. Corruption in America's Lawmakers (protecting big companies instead of the environment and the citizens they are hired to represent) I thought something that was especially interesting was how he traveled around the world and saw how climate change is affecting so many places, not just the US.  In class, we discussed Climate VS Weather. Ted described it as personality vs mood which really made sense to me. Climate is your overall personality, how you generally are as a person. Weather is your mood that day. So you may be an awesome person who is just having a crappy day and is acting mean. Just like a beautiful tropical island may have an amazing climate but bad weather o
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Week 11- Archimedes Principle

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 For the lab this week, we played with water and pop cans. I really liked this lab because I got so many of my initial thoughts proven wrong. We found that diet pop would float when submerged in water but regular pop would sink. This is because of the real sugar versus fake sugar in pop. It had to do with buoyancy, which is what allows things to float. We then moved on to learn about Archimedes Principle in real life by using clay crowns. My group decided to fill up a bucket completely full of water. Then we put the clay crown in and measured the amount of water that was displaced out of the full bucket to find the density of the crown. 
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Week 10- Rock Cycle

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 For lab this week, we got to actually melt crayons to model the rock cycle. Looking back, I should have used bigger pieces of crayons because mine didn't quite turn out. It was still a super fun lab though!  While we learned about the rock cycle, I found it interesting that Ted said it's never beneficial for students to name or classify rocks. It actually says that in the standard. Here is the graphic that I found the most helpful as we learned about the rock cycle:  The most common changes rocks go through are due to erosion and deposition. This can be by wind, water, or glacier.  "Weathering and Erosion is the process by which rocks are attacked by the environment. There are two types of weathering, mechanical and chemical.       -  Mechanical weathering is simply breaking the rock down into smaller fragments. This process forms detrital sedimentary rocks.       - Chemical weathering occurs when chemical reactions alter the composition of a rock. The chemical sediment t
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Week 9- Geologic Time

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  For this week's lab, we tried to make a timeline of Geological Time. The above video is my first attempt before we talked about it as a class and I realized I was way off. The attached image of Geological Time shows Earth as a clock which really helped me understand. I had no idea that humans have been around for such a short period of time!
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Week 7- The Solar System

Milky Way- Our galaxy is called the Milky Way. It has this name because it appears in the sky like a long white strip, looking kind of like spilled milk. The Milky Way is a  large spiral-shaped galaxy that contains hundreds of billions of stars. Galaxy-  a collection of billions of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity in space. Our solar system is a small piece of our galaxy.  Comet : A frozen ball of gas, rock, and dust that orbit the Sun. When a comet gets close to the Sun, it heats up and the gas and dust form a tail. Meteoroid : A small rock in space that orbits around the Sun. Most meteors have broken off larger objects such as asteroids or comets. They can be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a pickup truck. Meteor : The streak of light that is caused when a meteoroid enters Earth’s atmosphere and burns up due to friction. Also known as a shooting star. Meteorite : A meteoroid that survives its trip through the atmosphere and lands somewhere on Earth. The impact
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