Day 1 of crystials

Toady i just set up my box and i made sure that i wouldnt fall apart. I did it with good timing.


Day 2



Today i finally got to put on the crystals on the things. I started out with making red lava for my volcano in the backround . Then i made my trees, I put green liquid on it so that it felt like i was in the forest. It was actually hard because the drops would just slip off the trees so i ended up dipping the trees in the liquid. I plan to make lava strings that are red and put more crystal trees.

Dynamic Earth

                                                            Mines
First i learned that all rocks contain water like serpentite. Water is a component of most rocks, water is stored in tiny pores in the rock. Roads are also made from crushed rock.

When sand and clay, start to make layer at the bottom of the sea it makes sandstone and shell. Pyramids in Egypt are made of lime stone, marble sand stone and granite that are cut shaped and polished.
                                            Inner Earth
                           
What i found really amazing about inner earth is that the core is hotter than the surface of the sun! Also when the hot heat meets with the cold outer space the plates start to move.  I also discovered from reading that we have 2 types of crusts, that make up the crust of earth the ocean crust which is made of basalt and the continental crust which is made of granite.  The outer core is made of molten which is also our dynamic magnetic field and the core is made of solid metal.  Our dynamic magnetic field attracts meteorites like yougedin which its inclusions are rich in carbon and sulfur, meteorites and asteroids actually formed earths and  reveal secrets of earths core. We learn about inner earth from periodites, Garnet periodite and spinal periodite give us clues to how deep the earth is. Basaltic magmas are made of melted periodite.  Now for the mantle ,a layer of earth, the mantle is made of solid rocks flowing like glaciers. Amazingly the mantle contains more water than all the oceans... but in minerals. P-waves are pressure waves of primary, they travel through liquids and solids, s-waves are shear waves or secondary, they only travel through solids.

                                                          Gems and Minerals
Diamonds name came from a Greek word that meant invincible. Labrodites, Moonstnes , sunstones all belong to the feldspar family that cover half of earths crust.  For a bit of history gems,Napoleon a french emperor lived from 1769-1821 gave his wife Marie Louise a diamond necklace and a
Diadem crown in the olden days gems were given to the royalty. To change a crystal to a gem you need to cut it then shape it with a abrasive wheel then grind its faces and lastly polish the gem with a rotating wheel!! Gems also tell you what gem you are for you month :

Jan: Garnet
Feb: Amythyst
Mar:Aquamarine
April: Diamond
May: Emerald
June: Alexandrite
July: Ruby
Aug: Periodite
Sep: Sapphire
Oct: Opal
Nov: Topaz
Dec: Turquoise

 Diffeent kinds of atoms (some trapped in impurities in chrystal atomic structures interact with light to tint minerals a virtual rainbow of colors and that is how minerals get their colors! what i found so amazing is that the electrons circling the atom capture light but the color that we see the gem as is not being touched by electrons so the gem is not really that color it is a different one!!!!!!!!!!!!!
                                                     

I want to learn about ............................

                                                                      Mining
I want to learn about mining because i would like to have knowledge of knowing all the minerals and rocks because then if i ever do become a miner i will know what is the most valuable and then i will be able to make a lot of money to support my life. I also would like to be a miner because my mother is a miner and i want to follow her path...... kinda. I also want to know about mining because then i will be able to see all the rocks before  they are cut.

What we have learned this week 1/14/2011

This week we learned about the Earths Crust and Caves from the Bill Nye videos. From the earths crust video I learned that the Earth has a core a mantle and a outer core and then the crust where we stand. The core has iron in it(this is what we predict)and then comes the outer core which is made of mixed metals and lastly comes the Mantle a hot and gooey layer. The crust is where we put our houses and where we stand. In the caves video I learned that caves can be under water, ground and even under ice! I also learned that the weather in caves never change which is what i found interesting because what if global warming happens the ice caves should melt. Stalagmite it the hardend minerals that starts to grow up to the ceiling and stalactite it the one that holds tight on to the ceiling. The animals that live in caves are Trogloxenes- cave visitors, Troglyphiles-cave lovers,  Troglodytes- cave dwellers. I learn't that limestone has calcium. 

Making Water Wetter reflection

The making water wetter lab was fun and but took sometime for Matteo and I. When we were doing the drops of water on a coin, we got some interesting results. I think its because me and Matteo are at different levels of dropping water on the coin. On the water i found it normal that the water would form a bubble and then the water would join the other water. But in putting soap on the coin i found it weird that the soap would form a bubble(normal) but then when the bubble grew up to about 1/2 a centimeter that after all the drops of soap would just slip off. The bubble was like it was un-penetrable.

Cooling race lab

This lab was very interesting especially doing it with Alex and being able to use a timer. It was really fascinating to see that the the crushed ice would change a little and then stay the same for 6 min. I found it fun to use the timer and the thermometer.  We co-operated well but we did have one difficulty, which is that the ice would melt and we wouldnt have anymore.