Ocean Pollution Group 8

Essentialquestions

Amanda's Essential Questions.


Whats, specifically about your topic, are you going to research? I am going to research how the pollution in the water is effecting creatures in the water and even on land.
What conclusion did you come to? Birds can mistaken trash as food. sea animals water get polluted with trash and lots of nasty stuff that gets put into the water which can be posionus to the fish and could kill them. What do you recommend average citizens to do to make a difference? I recommend that people start recycling more and maybe taking there trash somewhere else instead of the ocean. Also if people continued to clan up the garbage patch, it wont be so bad.
What would happen if no one listened to your recommendations? The ocean will continue to be filled with garbage and more animals will die, plus the garbage dump will just get bigger and bigger and spread to other oceans.
What would happen if people did listen to your recommendations? If people did clean the garbage patch, recycle and throw trash away in the trash cans, the garbage patch would probably slowly shirk, maybe not totally dissapear but it woulndt be as bad.

Penny lab

The lab i did was the penny lab, I was supose to predict how many drops of water could fit onto the penny befor it spilled over. in my prediction, i said it was going to be about 10. My partner and 1 use a medicine droper to squirt the droplets out onto the penny, our first try we got to 12, our secon 15 and our last 1 we got to 23. The reson why this happened was due to adhesion and cohesion. Adhesion made the water molecules sticky, which made them all stick onto the surface.Cohesion help the water molecules atrract eachother.

JAWS

Hawaii

Hello my name is Amanda and Evan, and this summer we went to Hawaii for our surfing trip and we came across Jaws. Jaws is a Hawaiian wave that happens only five times a year. Its made when a wave hits coral under the sea, which causes the bottom of the wave to slow down as the top continues its pace and it rises really high and arcs over the bottom. The lava from volcanoes has nutrients which helps the coral grow, therefore creates this massive wave. The main purpose of jaws and other waves is to attract surfers or tourist to come to the beautiful islands of Hawaii. Overall, earths water can create massive waves.

Earthquakes

Where do most earthquakes tend to happen?
1.generally most earthquakes happen, according to the map, on the north american map.
2.specifically, its on Alaska and California

Why do you think that is?
the plates change and cause stress and when there is to much stress it causes the plates to fault. and the movement causes the earth to tremble and an earthquake ocures.

What is this area called?
this is called a boundry

The closest earthquake to manitou springs would be the one in new mexico. its magnitude was a 2.8, it happened about 5 days ago at 1:02 am. its depth was about 3 miles,there was about 800 times more ground shaking then if it had been a magnitude 1 earthquake. There was about 32,768 more energy than if it was a magnitude 1 earthquake

A recent earthquake which o cured yesterday, happened in HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN at 2:26 A.M. Mountain time. It is not very common to have earthquakes in this region, but it has happened there before. the magnitude of this earthquake was 4.5 and its depth was 86.1 kilometers. i think if the earthquake would of a cured in manitou that we would be able to feel it and that the town wold of gotten damaged.

to stay safe during an earthquake, it is good to get low and to hold on to or get under something strong and sturdy. its also a good idea to stay away from windows or anything that can shatter and hurt you in any way.

weather fronts

Cold Front-when cold air comes into contact with warm air. it causes a storm to occur
Warm Front- when fast moving warm air, comes into contact with slow moving cold air. it pushes the cold air forward which causes faster moving cold air ad soon a cloud is formed
Stationary Front- when cold air and warm air meet each other and there going the exact same speed and have no power over the other, it causes a stationary front
Occluded Front-when cold air meets another cold air thing the cold air with more speed pushes the other cold air with less speed and then a cloud forms
Which type of front occurred this week to bring the cold weather and then snow? cold front

cloud formation