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!
