Adv Science

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