Weather Fronts

Cold Front
This occurs when cold air moving fast runs into slow moving warm air. The warm air then rises and creates cumulonimbus, or storm clouds.

Warm Front
This occurs when warm and cold air move in the same direction. The warm air again rises and brings with it more storms.

Stationary Front
This occurs when warm and cold air meet in the same place. The water vapor from both the fronts rise up and create many clouds.

Occluded Front
This occurs when two cool air masses intertwine with warm air masses. The warm air then rises and the cool air is pushed downward.

Atmospheric Factors Affecting Climate

The link to my paper is above.

Acid Rain

Acid rain is a form of air pollution. It is much more acidic than normal rain for a number of reasons. It is formed when sulfur oxides from coal burning and nitrogen oxides mix with water in the air. Those acidic materials are then evaporated and eventually rain down again. The acid rain that comes down can damage buildings and even statues. It also makes lakes and ponds acidic and kills of the lifeforms that thrive in that water. As you can see, acid rain is a very dangerous and deadly air pollutant.

Earth's Atmosphere

The Earth are different in many ways, like size, composition, and appearance. The reason the moon has co many craters and Earth doesn't, is because the moon has no atmosphere. Earth's atmosphere burns up meteorites before they can reach the surface, but the moon has no atmosphere, therefore there is nothing stopping the rogue meteorites that crash into the moon. Earth's atmosphere also traps heat from the sun in so that we can stay warm. The moon has nothing to regulate temperature, so the weather there is either very hot or very cold.

Space Exploration

Summaries

The Science of Rockets
A good example of the rocket is the Atlas rocket. Those types are used by NASA to launch probes into space and satellites into orbit. Atlas rockets have recently been used to launch satellites into space for commercial and governmental reasons.

The Space Program
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, began in 1958. Their job was simply to explore space. There have been many successful, yet some failed missions in NASA's history. Despite some of the tragic failures, we still landed on the moon and accomplished other great feats in the field of astronomy.

Exploring Space Today
A very new, technologically advanced robot was just recently created for the International Space Station. It floats next to an astronaut, and monitors temperature, pressure, and air quality. Obviously space travel and exploration has come a long way, and is becoming much more safe.

Using Space Science on Earth
NASA only receives 1% of the U.S. budget. The reason for this is that many people want their money to go to medicinal research or education. NASA says that learing more about space, in turn, will lead us to discover more about Earth. Maybe people will start to realize how important this knowledge is.

Moon, Eclipses, and Tides

Seasons

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Gizmo

The gizmo showed us how the seasons are caused.  They're caused by the Earth's tilt.  The way that works is that the Earth's axis is a 23.5  degree angle.  That means that as the Earth revolves around the sun, the Northern and Southern hemispheres get get different amounts of sunlight.  The hemisphere that gets the most direct sunlight is in the summer, but the hemisphere that gets the least amount of sun  light is in winter.  That's the way the seasons work.

Perspective

Mrs. Casey showed our class the book "Zoom."  There were no words in the book, so it was all pictures.  The first picture was of a rooster, and with the turn of each page came a new, further zoomed out picture.  It would jump from a billboard to a poster to a T.V.  It finally ended with a real life airplane and zoomed out after that until all we could see was the Earth.  This book deals with perspective because we all saw it a different way, and we all made inferences about what would come next.

I've seen something differently by using a new perspective.  That book was a great example because no one knew what would come next.  What helps me alter my perspective is broadening my thoughts.  I try to be less narrow-minded and see the big picture.  I don't ignore any of my gut feelings or ideas about the subject.

In Science, different data would interest different people.  For instance, zooming in would interest scientists who like to work wit small organisms or molecules.  Zooming out would interest astronomers and creative thinkers.  They think about how long the universe could go on for and don't just wonder about our planet.  When studying astronomy, one would need to think big and think bold, and use our perspectives.

Enigma Box

     Mrs. Casey poured the water into the enigma box first.  450 milliliters were poured in when finally the water started to drizzle out.  It came out slowly and filled the container at the bottom.  There were two holes on top, but one on the bottom.  When the water came out, it was a steady stream.  All the water that was poured in eventually poured out.

     I think that inside the enigma box is a maze of tubes.  It sounds far-fetched, but it would explain why the water came out in a stream.  It would also explain why it took so long for the water to pour out of the bottom.  Yeah, it's definitely a maze.

     Scientists usually use five important skills.  The first is observing, which is using one or more of your senses to gather information.  The second is inferring, which deals with explaining or interpreting things you observe.  Predicting is third and that is making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence.  Classifying is fourth and it's the process of grouping together items that are alike in some way.  The last is making models, which involves creating representations of complex objects or processes.

     I guessed that there was a maze of tubes in the enigma box.  I'd like to say I was close because there was only one tube.  It kind of looped through the box.  The way it worked was that when the water got to the top of the loop, it overflowed into the other side and poured out gradually.  That is how the inside of the enigma box actually worked.