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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.                    

      Scientific Method Project Reflection Blog: 1. Look at the blog rubric on the board. How well did you meet the expectations? I think that I did pretty good. If I would rate my Scientific Method Project, I would rate it a six. (1 <-> 10.) I looked at the rubric and saw that for frames, I have nine frames in all. For "Art" I drew my dog, my squirrel, and my tree pretty well. I also put dialogue bubbles so you could see what was going on. Another thing I did, was put the steps of the scientific method in the trunk of the tree.  2.What did you do well? What I think that I did well was, I drew well, so you could tell what everything was, I listed the steps for the Scientific Method in the captioning, and I have nine frames, two more than needed. 3. What could you have done better? I do NOT think that anything could have been done better. I believe that my work fits the rubric. I like how my project looks because it is creative, and clear. (Meaning that w

Weekly Blog:           Summary: One thing we did this week was work on our Do Now's. A Do Now is something that we do in the beginning of Science Class. It helps us prepare for experimental processing or other scientific projects. Example: What is wrong with this experimental process? "Joe wanted to see if food coloring travels faster in hotter water. So he got two cups of hot water and put food coloring in them. Then he timed the food coloring." My answer: The thing that Joe did wrong in this experimental process was that he didn't test the food coloring in cold water , so he wouldn't be able to compare the times. SP8: Obtain, evaluate and communicate information: This week our class worked on our "Scientific Method Cartoon." It is the first project we have in Science. We had to put captions about what was going on in the scenes. Some other things we had to do are...: #1: Put dialogue bubbles so our characters can talk. #2: Dr

Summary: What we did this week was swap tables and talk to people at the other table about our experiment for 3 minutes. Then after 3 minutes, we switched roles and then the other person - the person who was across from us, the person who SAT at that table - would tell us about their experiment. Example: I was switched to Table 7, and one person who I got to talk to was Gabriella Zaccheo, and her experiment was about which would fall faster - toilet paper, or tissue paper - . It was interesting because the Tissue paper fell faster than the toilet paper. SP8: Obtain, evaluate and communicate information:   I communicated findings clearly and persuasively when I presented my experiment to Table 7. What I presented was that I said what my experiment was about. Another thing I said was what my results were for my project. I also shared my conclusion.   Here is the link to this picture:  Science Stopwatch Picture