Good Bye

This year has been great year. This was my first year bloging although I was really new to it and half the time I didn't know what I was doing I really had some fun with it.
The first book that we read and studied was astronomy. I loved this subject and learned many new things from astronomy. I learned that it is the study universe's matter beyond the earth's atmosphere. I also learned that suns are actuually massive stars with a gravitational pull. I found it most interesting that scientist believe that one of jupiter's moons is capible of suporting life because they have evidence supporting that under the thick ice covering the planet there is a large body of water and that is one of the requirements to supoort life.

The next book and subject we covered was weather and climate (Earth's Atmosphere). I didn't really enloy this session as much as some of the others but it wasn't that bad. In this session I learned a lot about why weather occures and why there is diffrent types of weather. I also learned that the climate and where it is effects the weather it's going to have. I found most interesting about this section was how precipitation is formed in the troposphere section of our atmosphere.

I found that the geology part of the year was probably the most boringist subject for me. I honestly don't fing the study of rocks interesting. But dispite my lack of intrest I learned a lot from it. I never knew anything about the earth having layers and over time that the earth produces new rock. I just thought it was jus that rocks can't be created and just been there forever. I found it most interesting that there are more than one type of rock and how rocks are created and formed diffrently causeing them to be diffrent from one another.

The next subject that we did was weathering and erosion. I was amazed with what big impact wethering and erosion has on earth. They work together to break down the earth causing it to change over time. It created some of the most amazing and most beautiful things in the world like the grand canyon. I found it really cool how that over time mountains even erode away. I would never think that something that big and sturdy would ever go away even if it took a million years.

The last thing that I learned in science was about the earths waters. I knew a lot about this subject already but I would of never thought that there was so much to learn about water. I learned a lot of interesting facts like 97% of earths water is salt or undinkable water. I didn't know anything about water underground exept that wells just got water some how. I thought that all water was on land and that it all got evaporated before it can sink into the groung. Also i learned about how people get there water. The faucet isn't magic and just produces water. That water has to come from some where and it is purified and cleaned so it's safe to drink. I found it most interesting that water is neither created or destroyed and everything that has life needs it. We use the same water that the dinosours have used hundred of thousends of years ago.

Well this year was a lot of fun!!! I have learned a lot this year and this might be my last blog well at least for awhile so bye everyone!

Manitou and Co. Springs water

Manitou drinking water is different from Colorado Springs water. Manitou gets some of its drinking water from the Rocky Mountains. The water comes from snow melt and natural springs. They also get there water from Manitou reservoir. The Rocky Mountains offer Manitou some of the freshest water. Manitou also gets it's water from the ground. All this water isn't very clean so Manitou send it back. It then enters the Mesa and Crystal Hill water storage tanks ready to be used.
While for Colorado they get over 75% of there water from the continental divide. Meaning that we get some of the cleanest and most purest water like Manitou. Colorado Springs also gets there other 25% of there water from other reservoirs and damns. Colorado has over 200 miles of pipes and four major pump stations which pump water to a water cleaning facility and pumps the water throughout all of Colorado Springs.
Although Manitou and Colorado Springs get there water in diffrent ways, they both get some of there water from snow. Also there water is some of the cleanest, purest, and less used water throughout the world.

Water cycle

What is the water cycle?
The water cycle is a pattern of precipitation throughout the environment.

Does the water cycle have a begging or end?
The water cycle is a cycle with no begging or end. Because first of all we don't know what part of the water cycle came first and it is a never ending cycle.

Starting with a puddle on a sunny day, describe how water might move through the water cycle and eventually fall back as rain?

On a sunny day with a puddle the suns energy will get hotter causing the water from the puddle to warm up and turn into a gas and evaporate. When the water evaporates it picks up dust and particles creating clouds and those clouds hold as much water as it can until it can't hold anymore. When the cloud can't hold anymore water the cloud releases all of its water causing precipitation. Depending on the weather, wind, and front it will determine what kind of precipitation it is. Then that water falls back down to the earth because of gravity causing a new puddle or water masses. Then the cycle starts all over again.

Worst case senario of Conserving of Energy

Annotated Bibliography

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen01/gen01673.htm
This web site was a important website for me to use. This website gave me a great deal on how important energy is and the fuels that we use can be scarce. We take these fuels for granit. Also if we keep continuing our way of life as it is the future would prob be a difficult place to live because of the lack of natural resources and the enviorment.

http://www.ecomall.com/greenshopping/20things.htm
This website really helped me a lot. This web site is one of the two websites that i used to find out ways to conserve energy. This didn't all give me the exact information i needed but I took the good stuff out of it. It gives you twenty ways a person could consirve energy. It gave examples for ways to conserve energy for home appliances, heating and cooling, products to help conserve energy, transportation,recycle, instilation, and the community.

http://www.squidoo.com/10waystoconserveenergy
This was the other great web site that i used to find ways to conserve energy. This web site lists ten diffrent ways that people could conserve energy. This web site taught me some great ways to conserve energy. I wish that this web site would have gave more facts and ways that common everyday people could conserve energy. But other than that this website was a great use to me.

http://energy.opp.psu.edu/awareness-conservation/why-conserve-energy
This web site was a good website to use for easy research. This site told me basic short facts why we should conserve energy. It was a short page of facts but these facts were simple and true. It also connects to the reader because it says "why should I care i don't pay the bills." So this was one of the most straight up and tells you the facts which i liked.

Conservation of Energy

Phill's essential question-ways a town or community could conserve energy.
Energy is very important and is an essential part of life and it's something we shouldn't wast or take for granite. To really and truly conserve energy more than one person needs to participate. One person could cut down the use of energy a lot if they really tried but imagine if a whole town or city did it. I know that people need energy these days for there everyday life. But even if we cut down energy for at least an hour it will make a big difference and save a lot of energy. There is a few ways that a town or people could cut down on energy. People could participate in events like earth hour, they could cut down on unnecessary use of power. People could use less of there heat by blocking drafts.They could also resort to new energy officiant ways of power even if it means just for a little while because our planet could use a little break. As a community it may seem hard to cut down on energy use because we became so dependent on it that it has even become a problem. So i say we need to at least try to cut down on energy.

Penny lab

The penny lab was an experiment that we did in science class to practice hypothisising and doing the experiment. For this experiment you need a eye dropper, a penny, and water. This experiment was simple all I had to do is make an educated guess on how many drops of water could fit on a penny before it over flows. I guessed that the penny could hold seven drops of water because water ussaly expands takeing up space and a penny isn't even a inch long and a centemeter thick. But to my supprise when i did try the experiment the most water dropplets I got on the penny was thirteen. I think this was because water bonds with other water molicules and it has a sticky substance that allows it to some what cling onto the penny. So all in all this was a fun learning experiment for me and I would have never guessed that a penny could hold more than seven drops of water.

Mekong River,Thailand The Mekong River runs through many countries like China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Many people rely on this river for multiple things. Their main food source comes from the river. Fish are caught, plants are grown, and transported to other locations to be sold. The river also is a way of travel. Around the river is a jungle like terrain. The soil is vary fertile because of the river so it is relatively easy for plant life to grow. This river shows how life is dependent on water. This is one of many ways that shows the symbiotic relationship between water and humans.

Earthquakes

Q.1 Where do most of the earthquakes tend to happen?
A.1 (A)Most earthquakes tend to happen mostly in the northern and western part of the world.
(B)There have been at least several dozen earthquakes that have happened in Alaska lately.
Q.2 Why do you think that is?
A.2 I think this is because the ice caps are melting and it causes cracking in the ground and plus the Alaska's plate is probably slowly drifting away from America. Also it could be that other continents are moving in different directions constantly causing plates to pull apart or to crash into each other.
Q.3 What is this area called?
A.3 The ring of fire
Q.4 (A)Where is the earthquake closest to Manitou Springs?(B)What are the details of this earthquake? (C)Would people be able to feel this earthquake? (D)About how much more ground shaking would occur for this magnitude earthquake compared to a magnitude 1 earthquake? (E)About how much greater is the energy released with this earthquake compared to the energy of a magnitude 1 earthquake?
A.4 (A)The latest and closest earth quake that was near Manitou Springs Middle School happened at Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 10:02 almost on the border of Colorado and Wyoming.(B) It's exact location was at 40.953°N, 106.930°W and it was
5km deep and it traveled 31km from Grand Encampment, WY. Then 32km from Riverside, WY
Then 52km from Dixon, WY. Also 162km from Fort Collins, CO. Finally 215km from Denver, CO. (C)People probably wouldn't mostly likely feel this earthquake because it was really small so small you probably would bearly and probably feel it even if you were right by it especialy because we are use to them happening all the time we get use to them. (D) This earthquake would probably almost 3 times worse of an magnitude 1 earthquake because it's magnitude marked the scale at 3.2 but that isn't to strong of a earthquake so the shakeing would be a little worse but not by much. (E)I would say the energy realeased from this earthquake would be 3 times greater than a earthquake of a magnitude 1 earthquake because it's rated a little higher than 3 times as much.
Q.5 Choose one earthquake that has happened in the last seven days. You will be researching that earthquake. Tell me all about it. Are earthquakes common in this area? Include at least one picture, preferably of the earthquake, but if you can’t find one include one of the area.
A.5 I chose an earthquake in Chiapas,Mexico that happened Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 02:57pm.(15.805°N, 92.482°W) It was a wopping 176.4 km deep.Earthqaukes are somewhat common in this area. This earthquake was a perty decent size of a earthquake. This earthquake was a shocker to some people especialy to tourist because this is a big tourist attraction because of it's natural beauty. Thankfuly no one was killed but it did some damage. This earthquake ruined some locals homes but the worst thing about it was the shock in the tourist because it ended their vacation a little early. (distances-60 km SW of Comitan, Chiapas, Mexico 100 km NNW of Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico250 km WNW of GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala 810 km ESE of MEXICO CITY, D.F., Mexico)


Q.6 How can people protect themselves from the dangers of earthquakes?
A.6 Their are alot of opinions of what you should do during a earthquake. But the best thing to do is to get outside if you get caught in the middle of one, but by chace if you can't make it outside stand under the most sturdiest place in your house which is ussaly under the door way. But the most important thing you can do to protect yourself from a earthquake is to be pre-paired for it. Stock up on non-parishable foods and drinks and to also have a first aid-kit handy.

Questions

Q.1 How have geologists learned about Earth’s inner structure?
A.1 Geologist learned about Earth's inner structure by the invention and use of electromagnetic waves and radiation waves.
Q.2 How is Earth’s interior like an apple?
A.2 It's like an apple because the outer part is soft and the closer you get to the core the tougher it gets.
Q.3 What are the layers of the Earth?
A.3 The layers of earth are the lithosphere, asthenosphere, and the lower mantle.
Q.4 What are the characteristics of Earth’s crust, mantle, and core?
A.4 The crust is soft dirt filled with rocks, the mantle is tougher than the crust ad has dirt and rocks just like the crust but it's warmer because it's closer to the core, and lastly you have the core that is just hot liquid metal, iron and nickle.
Q.5 How is heat transferred?
A.5 Heat can be transfered in three diffrent ways. It can be transfered in radiation which is of energy from empty space. Then their is conduction which transfers heat with in a material. Lastly their is convection which transfers heat through liquid.
Q.6 What causes convection currents?
A.6 Convection currents is caused by cooler dense air sinking and warm less densed air rising.
Q.7 What causes convection currents in Earth’s mantle?
A.7 Convection currents in earth's mantle is caused by the heat from the core an the mantle it's self.
Q.8 What was Alfred Wegener’s hypothesis about the continents?
A.8 Alfred Wegener’s hypothesis was that earth's continets slowly move.
Q.9 What evidence supported Wegener’s hypothesis?
A.9 The evidence that supported Wegener’s hypothesis was that all the continets looked like they all fit together at one time, also evidence of vegitation where they couldn't grow, and lastly the founding of fossils of the same animals all over the country where they couldn't migrate back then.
Q.10 Why was Wegener’s hypothesis rejected by most scientists of his day?
A.10 It was rejected because he didn't have any phisical proof to back up his hypothisis until we advanced in our tecnology to scan the ocean and prove his theriory.
Q.11 How does sea-floor spreading provide a way for continents to move?
A.11 It causes continents to move because it drifts with the ocean causing it be pushed and drags the plate tectonics.
Q.12 What is the evidence for sea-floor spreading?
A.12 The evidence for sea-floor spreading is it's eruptions of molten material, magnetic stripes in the ocean floor, and the age of the material.
Q.13 What happens at deep-ocean trenches and why?
A.13 Deep-ocean trenches expand it's size causing oceanic crust to bend downwards.
Q.14 What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
A.14 Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mountain under water that has been made over the years by the movement of plate tectonics.
Q.15 What is the theory of plate tectonics?
A.15 The theory of plate tectonics is that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in slow constant motion driven by convection currents in the mantle causing earth's structure to change over time.
Q.16 What are the three types of plate boundaries and what are their characteristics?
A.16 The three types of boundaries are the Divergent Boundaries which is where two plates move apart from each other. Then there is the Convergent Boundarys which is where two plates come together. Finally you got the Transform Boundaries which is a place where two plates slip past each other moving in opposite directions.