This Week in Science (five)

This week in science we talked a lot about plates and their movements.  We learned the terms Transform, when two plates slide along each other, Convergent, when a plate goes under another and melts, and Divergent, when two plates pull apart from each other and magma comes up to fill the gap.  we also learned a few other terms like Hotspot, where magma comes up to the earth's surface.  We learned these terms on a website with video representations of all of the different movements.

Pizza Box Fire

This week in Science (four)

This week in Science we took a quiz on Topographic Maps and some water Unit topics.  The maps on this need some serious improvements.  You couldn't see or read anything on them.  After the quiz Finley took us about some plate movements.  Some of these are: pushing together making folded mountains, sliding against each other causing an earthquake, pulling apart making a lake or have lava fill the gap, and various other actions.  He also taught the different rocks and how they are formed.  Igneous are formed when lava or magma cools.  An example of this is Pumice after a volcano erupts.  Sedimentary form with intense pressure on loose layers of sand and small rocks.  An example of this would be Shale.  Metamorphic Rocks form wit intense heat and pressure on Sedimentary rocks.  A good example of this would be Coal (a Sedimentary Rock) to Diamonds (a Metamorphic Rock).  He gave us some samples of rocks and sand collected from our town's tributary and we had to make guesses using prior information about what type of rocks they were.

This week in Science (three)

This week in science class we learned about some of the basics of topograghic maps.  These maps are really great to find which way the water is flowing  and where it is flowing.  Also they are very easy to use and under stand.

Rocket Plane

Rocket Malfuction

This week in Science

This week in Science we have finish our last tests on the Passaic River and finished up our Wikispaces.  Then we started on Google Earth and took some observations on our tributary to the Passaic River which was slightly on the boring side.  But I do feel  like we have learned some major ideas this week.  These include learning all about posting our scientific findings online for others to learn from and also from the Google Earth we learned how and why the Passiac river and its tributaries flow the way they do.