Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Soltices/Equinoxes

Word                             Native Language                     Definition

Winter Soltisce               solsticio de invierno                 Shortes day of year(Dec 21/22)


Summer Soltisce             solsticio de verano                  Longest day of earth(June 21/22


Equinox                           Equinoccio                            Equal day&night


Seasons                           Temporadas                          Winter,Spring,Summer and Fall


Axis                                 Eje                             Imaginary line that goes trough the middle of the earh


Tilt                                  inclinacion                              Not straight(angle 23.5 degrees)


Polaris                            Estrella polar                          North Star where earth axis always pointed to


Revolution                      Revolucion                              The movement of earth around the sun(365 d)


Equator                           ecuador                                 Divide earth in 1/2


Hemispheres                   Hemisferios                            Half of earth


Aumtunal Equinox          Equinoccio de otoño                Days and nights are equal(september 22/23)


Spring Equinox              Equinoccio de primavera            Days and nights are equal(March 21/22)


Direct Sunlight               Luz directa del sol                      Sun Hits earth in a staright line


Indirect Sunlight             La luz solar indirecta                   Sun hit earth in a angle


Equinox                         Equinoccio                                 Equal days and nights(12h days and 12h nights)

Summary
equinox means equal day and equal night which is 12h days and 12 h nights.The axis is an imaginary like that goes through the middle of the earth.The earth is dividen by the equator which is the Northen Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.The earth tilt in 23.5 degrees and the tilt always pointed to the north star called Polaris.Revolution is when the earth moves around the sun(365 d/1y).Direct sunlight is when sun hits earth in a straing line and indirect sunlight is when sun hit earth in an angle.solstice is the four season,Summer Solstice which is the longest day of the eart and it happen on june 21/22,Winter Solstice the shortest day of earth and happen on december 21/22,Aumtunal Equinox is when days and night are equal and happen in september 22/23 and Spring Equinox is when days and nights are equal and happen in march 21/22.


Video


Critical thinking question-
How is earth affected by the movement(revolution)?
The Earth takes 365.25 days to revolve around the sun.  It is during this year or revolution that brings Earth it’s seasons.Also its affected by the axis which cause days and nights,and the moon movement which caused  tides which causes water level to be high or low or sometimes normal.


Reflection
1.What did you enjoy most about this project and why?
   What i enjoy the most about this project was working in group and learning new things about my topic.


2.What was most challenging for you during this project and why?
   The most challenging part for me was the time to record the video because we need to have the pictures in order to put them and also moving the pictures.


3.What new skills did you learn from doing this project?
  The new skills i learn from this project was to get in   mind to do the things on time and also to collaborate with others.


4.Is there anything that you could have done to improve any of your work?explain
   Something i could done to improve our project would be to be more creative with our pictures and also with our video and edit it with nice to make it creative.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Geologic Time Ordovician Period


Summary


The Ordovician period begin in 490 million years ago and end around 443 million years ago, which was the second period of the era. The name Ordovician came from Ordovician from the ancient British tribe. By the Ordovician period all the north was almost entirely ocean and most of the world’s lands were connected in the super-continent Gondwana.The geologic events during the ordovician period were that the land were connecte in super-continent gondwana,during fisrt part of the ordovician period the climare was fairly warm,the atlantic ocean closed as europe moved towards north america.The life on earth ere the trilobites,jawless fish,gastropods,echinoderms,and graptolites.


Reflection


1.What did you enjoy most about this project?
   What i enjoy the most about this project is to look for information      and pictures in the internet and also share my project with the group.


2.What was most challenging about this project?why?
   The most challenging about this project was to speak out in front of the group and answer the question they asked.


3.What you change about this project and why?
    What i change about this project was the name of some of the pictures.


4.What are three things that you learned from this project?
    Three thing that i learned from this project was the life on earth   during the ordovician period,the geologic events and stratigraphy.





Saturday, November 12, 2011

The STars

What is a star?


A star is a ball made up of hot air and gas.they all have different sizes and colors.There is many different types of stars  like the:super giants, the giants, the white dwarf, and the main sequence stars.In the center of the stars is where the heat is made, that is made by the nuclear fusion. Stars are classified by categories, like types of stars, colors, sizes, ages, luminosity, temperatures and spectral class. .Nuclear fusion help stars to make energy. It is the process of the nuclear reaction change two hydrogen molecules into a helium molecule and energy inside the stars.The lifecycle of a star it show the process of stars  before they were born, during their life, and after they died. Every stars are born with giant clouds with dust and gas, this is called stellar nebula. But there is a different cycle between sun-like stars, huge stars and giant stars.The Stellar Nebula is where a star is born then becomes a protostar (baby star). As the star gets older and older it becomes a Red Giant. The life of a star has 3 types in the stellar nebulaSun-like starshuge stars and giant stars. All these types shows how a stars is born and its lifestyle. The H-R Diagram of a star tells where to find the main sequence, white dwarf, giant and supergiant are located on the diagram.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Uranus


Planet Order: 7th from the sun
Distance from the sun:2,871 million km
Mass:8.68x1025-14.536
14.536 kg     Diameter:51,118 km
Rotation:17 hours 14 min     Revolution:84 years
# of moons:30

Terrestrial or Jovian


Uranus description:uranus was the first planet to be discovered in modern history. It was actually discovered by accident in 1781 by William Herschel.Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun,with a distance of 3 billion from the sun,with a mass of 14.536 kg and a rotation of 99 degrees.Uranus is a Jovian planet because is with a farther distance from the sun.


Interesting facts
1.Is the coldest planet in the solar system,Uranus actually gives off less heat than it absorbs from the Sun.
2.Uranus is turned over on its side,the tilt of Uranus is 99-degrees.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Hurricane Irene Project

Critical Thinking






1.What effect does water temperature have on the creation a hurricane?
    The water temperature effect on the creation of hurricane is that the water temperature      cause the hurricanes,the warm temperature of the ocean cause hurricanes.


2.Why would there be more damage to an area during high tide?
    There would be more damage to an area during a high tide because the high tide comes    strong and becuase it's high so it can destroy and damage an area fast.


3.If an area is fully saturated,how will this be more dangerous for an area?
   If an area is fully saturated it would be more dangerous for an area because the soil would be very wet and it would be easy fo the trees to broke down.


4.Why would there be more flooding if the ground was fully saturated?
    There would be more flooding if the ground was fully saturated because flooding covers the areas that are usually dry.


Reflection


1.What is something that you liked about this mini-project?
    Something that i liked about this mini-project is that i learn so many things and that we got to work in group.


2.What was difficult for you in this project?
    Answering some of the question was difficult for me because in some of them i dint know the answer.


3.What would you change about your work on this project?
   I would try to do it better and to answer questions better.


4.How did this project help you learn about Hurricane Irene?
   This project help me learn about Hurricane Irene more, like knowing the differents parts of it ,how it occurs and understand more about Hurricanes.