Last blog post on Crystal Garden

This is the last blog post on the crystal garden, after two weeks of observation the crystals .............(drum roll) haven't grow as i expected. The view the i had was that the cotton would absorb the sugar and the crystal on the tree would kinda blow up and the cotton would look be fluffy but filled with beautiful crystals. The cotton on the floor i put the sugar on as lava grew a tiny bit and i loved the color but then i put Epsom salt and the crystals grew so well but the color of the lava didn't look right because it was to light. But on the bright side i did get more crystals with the salt so i look a bit better. The sugar wasn't very easy because it does grow very slow, sometimes ive seen that making it with sugar to make it look cool it takes a year or so.

The general observation is that when the any liquid is put in a puddle of its solution it grows faster. So if you want to make a crystal garden to be a bit faster putting the whole solution in a huge puddle.
 For example if you look at matija draskovics he has a puddle and he has amazing crystals.

All in all i loved this project and it was tons of fun!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Theory of Plate Tectonics

This article of the theory of plate tectonics is very interesting and is a very good article that helped me with a lot of the things on my test. Plates are broken sections in the lithosphere, and the theory of plate tectonics is the theory that the earths are broken in to plates that move and slide every year which eventually create our mountains and valleys.  Geologists think that convection currents in the mantle are causing the plates to move! The thing that i found interesting is the the plates now have moved and created our continents but 225 million years ago the plates were together, a whole super continent this time was called Pangea.  Earth has three types of plate boundaries which are called Divergent boundaries, Convergent boundaries and Transform boundaries. What happens in divergent boundaries is when two plates move apart causing rift valleys on land but in water it causes the sea floor to move apart. In Convergent boundaries two plates come together causing mountain ranges. Lastly in Transform boundaries is where the crust is neither created or destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other.