Thursday, January 27, 2011

Crystal Garden...

Day 1
Today we finished off putting the crystal solution on to our gardens and we are gonna wait until tomorrow to see the process and how everything goes.
Day 2
The second day of since the crystals are growing. I checked on my garden and realized that the solution on my trees is already turning into crystals i touched the trees and they even feel like them let's see what happens tomorrow!
Day 3
My crystals are growing awesomely i am noticing a lot of improvement the manoamonium solution are turning in to needle looking crystals all over the ground took and. My bushes are going great they hardened and are starting to take a temporary shape. I think.
Day 5
My crystals made very little improvement but the ground is doing well, although it doesn't look like what imagined but it is good enough because some didn't even grow as well. And i think this what i have might be it.


Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Dynamic Eart...

?@~  In science class we were asked to go to a special website called "The Dynamic Earth" and here is a link http://www.mnh.si.edu/earth/main_frames.html. We were also asked to make a blog poste after we were done visiting the website.And i learned that the earth is actually made of 4 layers. The crust were we live on, the mantel, the outer core and the inner core. The core is HOT, hotter than the surface of the sun! The mantle is actually rocky and the core is iron. If you look at earth as an apple the crust is as thin as the skin of the apple. The inner core is under such pressure that it is solid metal unlike the outer core is fluid liquid that is extremely hot. 
   Diamonds grow at the level of 150km underground.By comparing different types of carbon atoms in diamonds, scientist can track the carbon's source. Most of the diamonds originate in the mantel. Now, you may wonder " How do diamonds get to the surface of the earth well, they actually hitch a ride in rare magmas called kimberlite and lamproite, which from by partial melting of the upper mantel. They drive their diamond passengers up so fast that in 4-15 hours they are up on the crust. You can find diamonds beneath cartons the oldest parts of continents. Why there? Well, it is way too hot for them to form inmost of mother earths upper mantel, but the upper mantel below the cartons is quite cold that is why diamonds are stable there.


Friday, January 14, 2011

This Week We Learned...

 This week we learned about the earth's crust and caves from the 2 Bill Nye videos we watched in class. The earth's crust is actually very thin comparing to the other layers Everything we see or even is too small to see is on the earth's crust. Scientists predict that the core is made of iron and is roughly 1500°c.Then comes the outer core and the mantel. The mantel is 1200°c. No one has ever drilled to the center of the earth so no results that are found are really accurate. 
 Then we learned about the caves they have a lot of  stalagmites which very slowly drip drop on to the ground and slowly become stalactites. Both are full of minerals.  Many different animals and insects live in caves there are 3 types: Tragloxenes- cave visitors, Troglyphines- Cave lovers, Troglodytes- cove dwellers. 
 I would really like to learn all of those things, because it would be interesting to learn how rocks get their look, how people find rocks, how they mine is it dangerous, What happens to caves after they are done mining, are there people living in side the earth, what to do when a volcano erupts, how far did humans go underground?

 

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Lab Reflections...

We did 2 labs one was cooling race lab and the other one was called making water wetter. Each is very much related to water. The making water wetter lab took quite a long time because there were 5 steps. We all had partners it was a bit of a messy project, but it was fun and cool. The cooling races lab was fun we had a different partners and we had a lot of laughs. We had to put crushed ice into 1st cup and the ice cubes into the 2nd one. Then we put thermometers into each of the cups. After, we had to start timing how much was the temperature after 3,6,9,12,15 minutes. I think in the first lab (making water wetter) we should of dripped more accurately, we should of managed our time better. And I should of done a better job putting down data.