QUATERNARY

SUMMARY:
At the beginning of the Quaternary Period, the continents were formed. Just the way they are today. Asia and Australia get separated from North America. South America from Europe and Africa. Quaternary Period is more considered as '' The Age of Humans''. In Africa is where the first modern human evolved. There were many different lakes and bays.




 REFLECTION:
In this project I enjoyed creating my Glog because, I did it in my own style and I was working individual. The most challenging  in this project  was to find the Stratigraphy because my period is not the same as the other periods,so I decided to look for the places where the rocks are located. I think I wouldn't change anything, I liked the way how Ms Kara let us decided what we should eather a Glog or a Video. In this project I learned about Quaternary, this is the first time I heard about The Geologic Time Scale, and studied about Quaternary Period. I also learned that in this period is when the continents get formed as the way they are today.

THE STARS

THE STARS 

Stars are large balls of hot gas. Each star is classified by their temperature, color, size, luminosity and spectral class. Stars could look really small but thats because they are far away. But they could be more bigger than the sun and more bright. Stars also died.

There are different types of stars. Supergiant, Giants, White Dwarfs and Main Sequence Stars. All of these types are classified by their characteristics also. Main Sequence are star that they could be eather  small or big. Hot or cold, and bright or dim.
Characteristics such as size, color, temperature,luminosity, age, and spectral class defined what type of star is. whether Main Sequence, Supergiants,  White dwarfs or Giants.

Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram  is the graph that shows all the characteristics of a star and it is used by astronomers. As you can see, this graph shows that Supergiant stars has the must luminosity and they are the more hot. The White Dwarfs are the smallest stars. They also are the coolest and dim stars.

NUCLEAR FUSION

Stars born in a giant clouds called Stellar Nebula. This clouds are made of gas and dust. Sometimes part of the cloud gets smaller, because of gravity. When it smaller, it gets more hot and that causes nuclear reaction  at the middle. After that a new star is born.

As I said what causes nuclear reaction, there are other things inside the nuclear reaction. There is a a gigantic nuclear fire place. That's the process in which a star change into two gases. Hydrogen and Helium. Two  hydrogen and  one helium they create the energy of the star

THE LIFE CYCLE OF A STAR

As we know so far, all stars were born in a giant cloud which is called Stellar Nebula. There are different types of stars and the stars that I'll talk about now is about Sun-like stars, Huge stars and Giant stars.

Sun-like star are the stars that were born as red giants. Then change to a planetary nebula which is a cloud of dust and gases. After that it become a White Dwarf, and lastly become a Black Dwarf which is  an invisible and giant cloud. Huge stars and Giant Stars are kind of similar because first they were born as Red Super Giant, after that they  both become super nova. Super Nova is when a star explodes in a giant explosion. But Huge stars become a Neutron Star. Neutron Star is a small star, very dence and spins very fast. Giant Stars  become a black Hole.

MERCURY

Mercury is the second smallest planet in the solar system. The surface has many craters and high cliffs. Its temperature range from 425C during the day to 170C at night. Two interesting facts bout mercury is that is the only planet closes to the sun and there's no atmosphere.

The planet order is that mercury is the first one. The distance from the sun (km) is 57.9 millions.

The mas is 0.553, the diameter is 4,880 km. The rotation of mercury is of 59 days and the revolution is of 88 days. Mercury doesn't have moons and is terrestrial.

Hurricane Irene Project

CRITICAL THINKING RESPONSES

1-What time of the year do hurricanes occur? Why do they only happen during that time?

Hurricanes occur during the summer because, the water of the ocean is more warm and makes trade winds to meet. After they meet and rotated as in a spiral they made the eye of the hurricane. Which become more strong and formed the eye-wall.

2-How can the timing of the tides (high or low) effect the devastation of a hurricane?
If the tides get low, there wouldn't be any effect everything will be normal. But if the tide gets High there will be a big effect, there would be damage, destruction and eve flooding.
3-If an area is fully saturated, will a hurricane have more or less impact on an area?
There would be less impact because the water is saturated so it means the water is already under the ground. Deep inside the soil.
4-How does groundwater saturation affect rivers and streams?
  Groundwater saturation affect rivers and streams because it increase the level of the water, so rivers and streams overflows.
 REFLECTION
1- What is something that you liked about this Mini-Project?
I liked the way we can show our opinions and our knowledge about what we learned about this topic.
2-What was difficult for you on this project?
It was kind of difficult because we have to use every vocabulary words on every response.
3-What would change about your work on this project?
I would change that if everybody could choose their topic. That everybody could have their own project.
4- How did this project help you  learn about hurricane Irene?
It helps me to know about how a hurricane get formed and  and also when and where it could happen.