Forces and Motion

I know a little about forces and motion. I know that gravity is the force that keeps our feet on the ground. I also know that motion is what we do when we walk we are in motion.


I want to learn everything about forces and motion. For example if we are hanging is gravity a force that makes us feel so heavy? I want to learn all the technical stuff the interesting and extreme things.

The way i want to learn is by learning in a fun way, in a way that i know mrs. will do. I want to learn by doing field trips, by doing experiments, by doing projects. No reflections, i am positive that if the unit is fun people will tell others and obviously reflect out loud to other people.

 

                                                                     Minerals reflection
Rock are valuable because they contain minerals. Every rock has a different type of mineral, so they have different values. Rocks are not only valuable because they have minerals, but because they are used for things that we need. Such as our buildings and the asphalt that we drive on.

I think it fits because Minerals are part of the environment and Minerals are mined which effects the environment.  We are surrounded with minerals, in our cars, in our cereal, in our computers, you get it.

I think that i understood almost everything about minerals, of course there is a lot more to learn. Some of the activities that we had to do that i remember was Making a ad about a mineral(i chose dolomite) and conversing in groups about oceans minerals. In these activities i was co-opperative and i made what i had to say clear.

I didn't learn any new skills, but i definitely know more about minerals than i ever did. I had no idea that you had togo through steps to be able to identify minerals and i was clue less about minerals properties and many more. For skills i guess i learn't better research sills and animating skills.

I found the fact that rocks include 2 minerals inside very interesting. Finding this fact i came up with a question. "Do all rocks have minerals" if they do will i be able to crack a rock in half and find a minerals? Out of all the properties a mineral need to have to be a mineral i think the luster was the coolest property.

My favorite part was doing the animation. Because i love making cool animations and it reminded me of 5th grade. My least favorite part was................nothing really i loved all of this unit.

For this unit to tell you the gods honest truth i wouldn't change anything about this unit.

          SCIENCE

• Magnesium, salt, copper, nickel, titanium, tin and iron ore.
• They are used to make crude oil and very rare.
• The countries closest to the oceans and the countries that have the biggest needs. The countries closest to the minerals should export them to countries in need if those countries are far away from the ocean.
• That in mining in the ocean they use oil and so they pollute the ocean and kill marine life. Also when fish get diseases they might be caught by people and then eaten, so the diseases might get on land.
• Mostly the neighbouring countries of the ocean
• They have the rights to mine in the ocean but only with permission of the leaders.
• Elena does because we need them for a daily life. Stefan does because we need them and are beautiful. Sofia does not agree because we are polluting the ocean and can get some of the minerals not out of the ocean. `Sofia believes that just because there are places in the world that are not polluted doesn't mean we have to pollute them.

We think that people should use less pollutable materials when extracting minerals from the ocean. Try to cover up the holes they dug and be a lot more careful when extracting the minerals.

In this discussion our group asked questions and tried to answer them, in our own opinion. I think that our group worked great! we had assigned our position within seconds got right down to work. I have nothing to complain about this time. I think doing individually wouldn't be a problem at all with finishing the work but we wouldn't be able to discuss. So we wouldn't have different opinions.

Minerals in My Country

Petroleum is Argentina's most valued mineral resource. Oil fields that are found in Patagonia and the Piedmont, produce a fare amount of  the country's oil needs.  These fields also hold natural gas.  Petroleum also contributes to providing electric power.  (www.wikipedia.com)
A network of pipelines send new product to Bahia Blanca, center of the petrochemical industry, and to the La Planta-Buenos Aires-Rosario industrial belt. The exports of petroleum are about 10% of the exports. One of the most well known companies in argentina in charge of extracting petroleum is YPF(Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales).  This company was founded in 1922. Argentina in many ways depends on their minerals that are found. Many minerals such as petroleum do bring in lots of money for he economy.




All Information found in www. wikipedia. com

Oceans minerals

Many countries are landlocked and may not have the oceans right on their beaches. This can cause many problems for land locked countries.  Many times countries fight for minerals for resources to become more developed. The land locked get into fights with the neighboring countries that have oceans.Because oceans contain minerals so those countries that are land locked want a piece of that, which cant always turn out in a very positive way.

Occasionally countries that are rich in one resource, compromise in with a other country that has a resource that they want and don't have the resource that they are rich in. This process is called trading! Sometimes countries that are rich from their resources give money to neighboring un-developed countries.

One example of a ocean that has many country surrounding it is the Atlantic ocean. The Atlantic Ocean is located between Africa, Europe, the southern Ocean, and the Western Area. The total length of the Atlantic Ocean is 76.762 million sq km.  Many Minerals are found in the atlantic such as titanium, Zircon, Monazite, Tin, Iron Ore, salt. Occasionally manganese, copper, nickel, iron, and cobalt deep in the ocean. A few of these are used to make crude oil.

Another example is the Pacific ocean located between the Southern Ocean, Asia, Australia and the Western Hemisphere. Minerals that are found in the Pacific are Sodium Chloride, Bromine, and Mangnesium. Sodium Chloride (salt) is used for salt. Bromine is used for  food, dye, pharmaceutical, and photo industries. Magnesium is used for  industrial metal alloys, especially with aluminum; China has become the main site for its production. Magnesium is extracted by electrolytic process,

Input-output notes

When doing these Input - Output notes i learnt about rocks and minerals. Im going to share with you a few cool things that I learnt.  First you need to know how rocks are made, rocks are made of 2 minerals, and a special cycle called the Rock Cycle. The Rock Cycle is a model that describes the formation breakdown and reformation of a rock. There are also 3 different types of rocks, such as Igneous, sedimentary and metaphoric. Igneous rocks that are made of heat or fire. Sedimentary rocks are rocks that usually are layers of sand or mud at the bottom of oceans that have turned to rock. Lastly Metaphoric rocks are rocks that originally were sedimentary or igneous. To identify a mineral you can observe the color, luster, streak, cleavage, hardness or the specific gravity. Minerals are ofter made of molten rock that cools.

Thank you for reading my post i hope you guys learned as much as i did and understood. Read my next post!!!! 

Volcano reflection

Guiding question:
               Is there a pattern in the locations of earthquakes and volcanoes?
Hypothesis:  
             Yes, because earthquakes and volcanoes are both found in subduction zones.


Analysis and conclusion: 
    1. How are earthquakes distributed on the map?  Are they scattered evenly or concentrated in zones? 
Volcanoes an earthquakes are found in zones like in the Pacific Ring of Fire, which is an area where large numbers of earthquakes and Volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific. The Ring of Fire has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes.^[1]  About 90% of the world's earthquakes and 80% of the world's largest earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire. ( wikipedia, ring of fire)
                                                  
2. From your data, what can you infer about the relationship between earthquakes and volcanoes?
        I can infer that if there is a volcano and it erupts, the eruption moves the plates which can cause a earthquake or vic-versa. 


4. Suppose you added the locations of additional earthquakes and volcanoes to your map. Would the overall pattern of earthquakes and volcanoes change? Explain in writing why you think the pattern would or would not change. No, the pattern generally would not change because earthquakes follow tectonic plates, and volcanoes are usually in the same area.

                                              Reflection

I think i did alright not great though. I had great pictures on my power point good information great words, but i didn't have all the information to understand some of the words in my project. Also i was missing a game i had a game but sadly my server was not working at the time so i pretty much didn't have one. Out of 6 i think my grade should be 4 because i didn't know 2 words on presentation and my game and my computer wasn't working as it should have so technically i wasn't prepared. But i did have good eye  contact with the class and i had a creative power point and pics.

 During volcanoes i obviously learned about volcanoes, but i also learnt how people are affected by them. Like the Evacuation and their homes what happens to the land and about the peoples animals. Many of the people lose loved ones or their crops and homes are burned to nothin'. People are almost manipulated by these landforms that are created by another disaster. Volcanic ash can break a whole forest down. Learning about volcanoes created a question and the question for me was "can the ash from the volcano create holes in the ozone layer"?  So it caused me to researched and the answer was no it does not because the patterns do not match when testing.