Adam’s Blog

Hello world this is mine, Miko’s and a tiny bit of ollie’s research about rocks and minerals.

• A geologist studies all rock.
• Rocks are not the same as minerals.
• There are three types of rocks
• The three types of rocks are sedimentary rocks, metamorphic rocks, and igneous rocks. 
• A sedimentary rock is formed from deposits of pre-existing rocks.
• Metamorphic rocks are formed when liquid magma or lava is cooled and is hardened.
• Igneous rocks are formed when hot, molten rock crystallizes and solidifies. 

Igneous rocks are “fire born”. They are made from the cooling and solidifying of molten. There are two main types of igneous rock.

• Intrusive (plutonic) rocks
• Extrusive (volcanic) rocks

Intrusive (plutonic) rocks

Plutonic rocks are rocks that are formed in the earth and rocks formed when magma cools and solidifies below the earth’s surface. They are most commonly found in tectonic settings.

Volcanic rock

Extrusive igneous rocks erupt onto the surface or into the atmosphere. Extrusive igneous rocks are also called volcanic rocks – named for Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. Volcanic rocks are crystal sized and have a very-fine-grained or glassy ground mass that formed because of fast cooling at the time of eruption.

Volcanic rocks are erupted as lava flows or domes during nonexplosive eruptions.  Pyroclastic rocks are made of volcanic ash and other volcanic rocks. The term  pyroclastic means fire broken in Greek  

The inside of the volcano looks like this!

The inside of a volcano has a magma chamber, a conduit, a sill, a vent, a side vent, lava flow, a crater, ash cloud and ash fall.

This is Ollie’s and Jakes volcano.

 

 

WWW,EBI

I think the research went well and was not fun, but for the EBI, I think it would be better if I had something to do and the volcano was better. The only thing I liked about this is that we had something to build which is better than regular work. The rest I did not like because it was school work.

Ms.M’s comment: – Thank you for this honest feedback Adam. It is your responsibility to have a role in group work. Were you not assigned to the research portion? If you wanted to build then you could have suggested this to your group.  In self directed study you have the control over what and how to study, you need to take accountability for this if you feel that you did not achieve what you wanted to achieve. Also think about the group you choose to be with next time and how you cam communicate better.

 

Reflection paragraph

Me and Miko made four and a half pyramids from Ancient Egypt, with sand and a slave pushing a rock. We made a research  about Ancient Egypt. We researched conflict and cooperation, the social structure, the timeline, education, recreation, the location, and a bunch of other stuff that will be to much to list. The half  half pyramid was being built. We build the pyramids by using a piece of cardboard for a platform and then we made the pyramids using cardboard and then we hot glued sand on the plat form and then we made a slave pushing a rock out of clay and then we made a sign and then we painted the pyramid. What went well was making the pyramids. What could  have went better was when glued on the sand.

My mythical creature.

 

Hello people, aliens and everyone else who will read this. In this blog post, I will be talking about sound. Continue reading properties of sound.

Hello people, I am going to talk about light.

Artificial sources of light vs Natural sources of light.

There are 2 sources of light. The first sources of light is called Natural sources of light.

Natural sources of light is light that is not manmade, for example: sun, sunlight, stars. The secound sources of light is Artificial sources of light. Artificial light is light that is manmade, for example: tv, light bolt, flashlight.

Natural light                                                    Artificial light

Objects that Emit light and objects that reflect light:

Emitting light is objects that makes there own light. For example: tv, lightbulb, sun, stars. Reflecting light is objects that light bounces of. For example: shoes, moon, water bottle, tree.

Something that I did not know is that Emitting light is called Emitting light.

 

 

 

Experiment 1-how does light travel. 

In my first experiment I looked at how light travels

In my first experiment, I looked at how light travels. My hypothesis was that the light will go through the holes in the paper.

I think this because if you shine a light through a hole, the the light will go through the hole.

 

My procedure was:

1. Got my materials (paper, torch, clay)
2. Poked a hole through the cards. The last one had a X target.
3. I lined up the cards and shined the light through to try and hit the target.

 

Here is an image of the experiment.

 

My hypothesis was right because the light shined through the hole.

 

Experiment 2 – What makes a good reflector?

 

Reflection is when something bonces of something. 

Good reflective material include mirror (clean mirror), tinfoil, and other stuff.

 

We did an experiment looking at what makes a good reflector. We used different materials such as collerd paper, mirror, black paper, wight paper, tinfoil, crumbled tinfoil.

 

Here is a picture of some of the material’s that I used

 

The best reflector was a mirror, Because it reflected the best.

The worst reflector was a  wight piece of paper, Because it reflected the worst.

Transparent, translucent and Opaque

Transparent is when

Refracation 

Hello people, today I will be talking about habitats.

Consumers: Animal’s are called consumers because they do not make their own food like plants. Instead animals must eat other animals to get their energy. The 3 types of consumers: There are 3 types of consumers, Herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore. Herbivores eat only plants. Carnivores eat only meat. Omnivore eat both meat and plants.

Goodbye people, have a good day.