Adv Science

Summary: During this week, our group worked on our Carbon Footprint for the Charity Fair, on December 16. It is written as CO2. Carbon is the gas that we breathe out. We breathe in oxygen. We did the Carbon Footprint for our product - bread pudding.   Citation:  Carbon - CO2 SP8: Throughout the week, we just worked on our Carbon Footprint. We also worked on our trifold poster.

Citation:  Soil Erosion EasyBib Citation: N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Dec. 2015. Summary:   During this week, I learned that soil erosion is a naturally occurring process that affects all land forms. In agriculture, soil erosion refers to the wearing away of a field's topsoil by the natural physical forces of water and wind or through forces associated with farming activities such as tillage. Soil covers much of the land on Earth. It is made up of minerals, rock, sand, clay, silt, air, water, and organic material (matter from dead plants and animals). SP8: Another thing we did this week was fill out a resource sheet ( Research Sheet ,) and answered questions such as, "What is soil?" Or "How is soil formed?" I learned really interesting facts, for example, I never knew that the soil profile was so important. "The soil profile is one of the most important concepts in soil science. It is a key to understanding the processes that have taken in soil developmen

Citation: Lightning Summary: During this week, our team worked on our scrip t for the counter argument and our video. A lso, we decided on a city in West Virgi nia called Clarksburg. SP8 : Ano ther thing we did this week was finish our map of the USA on the natural disasters. TO w ere Thunderstorms, TS w ere Tsunamis, EQ were Earthquakes, and so on. Then we went on to our Google Presentation so when we presented our science project, which was " The Safest Place in America ", we put in reasons like wh y Clarksburg, West Vir ginia, USA was the safest place in America. Also, we chose this place because West Virginia had no natural disasters .

Citation: West Virginia Map Summary: Durin g this week my team and I decided on Fairmon t, West Virginia because there were practically no dangerous hazards, plus our first choice, C harleston , had way to many people. SP8: Also , West Virginia has a lot of universiti es and colleges and we thought that we should choose that.

Citation: Safest Place in America - Weather Project Blog Summary: This week my partner, Shayan, and I were working on a project called Safest Place in America. That is when we have to choose a city and explain why it would be safe to live in. We have to research wildfires, hurricanes, blizzards (winter storms), hailstorms, tornadoes, tsunamis, and thunder storms. Then we create an advertisement to show why it would be safe to live in the country we picked. We have finished wildfires, tornadoes, and hurricanes. We are now working on winter storms. SP8 : During this week, my partner, Shayan, and I were work ing on winter storms. Winter st orms are bliz zards. This is when snow and ice cover a lot of stuff.

Citation: https://www.jtbgenesis.com/pic/tour/141231Mt.fuji.Mitsutouge.jpg Summary: While our team was working on our project, I learned some really interesting facts.  Facts I learned: Mt. Fuji may look like one volcano, but instead is made of three! It formed over two one being Komitake the other being Ko-Fuji, or known as O lder Fuji Mt. Fuji is theorized to have formed as a parasitic mountain at the foot of a volcano named Komitake. These volcanoes were active around 100,00 to 10,00 Those volcanoes were active about 100,000 to 10,000 years ago.   Mt. Fuji is still known active by scientists. Mt. Fuji is known as a religious symbol to the people of Japan.   Backward Looking: I already knew about volcanoes, having studied it last year and reading about them in books. I also knew about earthquakes, tsunamis, rip-currents, and more. Some things I already knew about volcanoes were the three types: Cinder Cone, Shield, and Composite volcanoes. I also kn

Summary: This week, our class discussed sea floor spreading. The process of sea floor spreading is when cracks in the ground release lava, (magma that is open air or water.) and the lava cools and hardens, pushing away the old rock. The old rock will then melt into the magma, and will repeat the whole cycle again.  SP2: During this week we made a model of sea floor spreading. First, we colored some strips of paper, marking them with identical stripes so they would represent the rocks and minerals. Then, we cut slots in a colored strip of paper. Next, we put our paper strips in the slots, and answered some questions on a sheet. Citation: Sea floor Spreading

Summary:  During this week, we learned about different types of volcanoes. A shield volcano is built almost entirely of fluid magma flows. They are large in size and resemble a shield lying on the ground. When they erupt, ash and rocks don't spew into the air. C inder cones , are the smallest type of volcanoes, with heights generally less than 300 meters. They can occur as discrete volcanoes on basaltic lava fields, or as parasitic cones generated by flank eruptions on shield volcanoes.  A stratovolcano , (c omposite volcano) is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava, tephra, pumice, and volcanic ash. The lava that flows from them is highly viscous, and cools and hardens before spreading very far. (Viscous: having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid; having a high viscosity. Viscosity: the thickness of solids, liquids, and semifluids.) SP2: During this week our class talked about shield volcanoes and stratovolcanoes. We did an

Summary: This week we learned about earthquakes. Earthquakes: Earthquakes are a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action. What earthquakes can do are.... Cause fires Destroy buildings Kill people Cause tsunamis  And much, much more. There are three different types of faults. In the picture (above), you will see that these three types are a reverse fault, a normal fault, and a strike-slip fault. A reverse fault is.... A fault in which the hanging wall has moved upward relative to the footwall. Reverse faults occur where two blocks of rock are forced together by compression. Compare a normal fault. In other words, a reverse fault is when two pieces of rock grind against each other. A normal fault is.... A fault in which the hanging wall has moved downward relative to the footwall. Normal faults occur where two blocks of rocks are pulled apart, as by te

Summary: This week our class learned about the Layers of the Earth. These layers are... Crust, Mantle, and the Core. The Core is broken up into two layers. Here is some information about the Earth's layers. The crust is broken into many pieces   called plates that float on top of the mantle. It is about 3-5 miles thick under the ocean and the te mperature is 1,600 degrees F. It is made of mostly water,basalt, and granite. The mantle is part solid and part liquid. The mantle is 1,800 miles thick and is made of silicon,oxygen, magnesium, iron, aluminum, calcium, potassium, and sodium. It is 1,600-4,000 degrees F. The lithosphere/crust is the upper part of the mantle. The asthenosphere is the lower part of the mantle that flows and moves the plates of the Earth. The outer core is like the layer of very hot metals. It can get to 4,000-9,000 degrees F and is so hot that the metals in it are all in a liquid state. It is the only liquid layer of the Earth. It is 1,800 miles beneath t

                                                                                      Here is the citation of the picture:  The Volcano                                                                                                       Weekly Blog (9/14-9/21) Summary: One thing we did this week was make a paper mache volcano. A volcano is a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust.  SP8: This week our class discussed 'the rock cycle.' The rock cycle is a cycle where different types of rock turn into another type of rock. Metamorphic rock melts and becomes magma. Then it comes up a volcano and cools. This new rock is an igneous rock. The igneous rock weathers or erodes and becomes sedimentary rock. The sedimentary rock heats up and turns into metamorphic rock. Then the whole cycle starts all over again.