My notes for class

These are my note i took in class:

·         Under the ocean there is magma

·         They drill into lava to find some fossils

·         Volcanoes erupt when trapped gases that are trapped underneath expand and explode.

·         Lava is over the 1000 degrees Celsius

·         Stone wind is when a volcano blow and the snow wind go on with the ash in it killing trees.

·         Extinct volcanoes once erupt and don’t erupt again.

·         Volcanoes form land, can change a how surface of land.

·         All active volcanoes ooze or explode.

·         Magma is in constant motion

·         Dormant volcanoes are the ones that didn’t erupt in 200 years

·         The 3 types of volcanoes are shield, cone and caldera.

·         Shield volcanoes is a volcano that looks like a volcano

·         Cone volcanoes are the ones that are like cones

·         Caldera volcanoes are the mix of shield and cone.

·         Ash sometimes gives the nutrients for plants

Dynamic Earth

Today in science class we learned about the earth and its structure. We focused on the 3 sections dealing with gems and minerals, Rocks and mining, plate tectonics and volcanoes. It was inserting since everything was in a visual format. In the first section we learned how diamonds and minerals are formed and how they can become a gem. In the second section we covered the history of mining and excavation. In the last section we looked into tectonic plates and how they affect earth's surface for example if tectonic plates crash into each other they form mountains or islands. This was very amusing and I hope we will do something like this again.

Miniral Unit.

This week i have learned about the earths structure and about caves and how they formed and where they can form like in a volcano or on the antarctic. Also i learned what creatures live in the caves and how their group is called. I learned what stalagmites are they rock that push up from the ground and that stalactite are the rocks that hang from walls. I want to learn about crystals and how they are formed. I also want to learn about the rock cycle.

cooling race lab reflection

I think i did good on this one. i just needed more details. i liked doing every lab

Making water wetter lab reflection

I think that i did well on my making water wetter lab.I really liked doing the lab. And my data analysis was good and i made sure it was correct. I think i basically i did well but i could improve and i will.

Gas

Today in class we learned about the properties of gas and played a game were we add gas and take it away, I really liked it. The measures used for gas are pressure, temperature, force and volume. Volume, temperature and pressure are related to gas because volume is how much pressure the gas will have, temperate affects at what speed the gas partials move, and pressure effects how much space the gas has to move and if the space is little it can explode. This was really fun to learn about but the games was the funnest.

Chess Champion vs. Terminator Robot Round One!

Chess playing computer aren’t a new idea. Holy Grail of programs was kipping track of the entire thing about chess ever since computers were invented. Well none of the chess players were able to sit across the robot and start playing chess, until now introducing the chess terminator. The chess terminator plays and acts like a real human, well almost. Chess terminator is a robotic arm with enough dexterity not only the chess pieces but also to press the chess timer when it goes on. It was recently tested against the world champion chess player Vladimir Karmnik which lasted 3 hours. It appears to be seeing all the players moves but the chess pieces are equipped with sensors so the terminator know where the player move it and plan a counter move. The terminator is so energy efficient that it can play up to 3 hours. At 2:45 hours in to the games karmnik called it a draw but the robot didn’t realize that so he snatched karmniks arm. The company plans to make updated version, luckily the new version will know when the game ended.I think this is really interesting, this can improve the making of robots but for now its not really useful.

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By Meera Dolasia on 11/28/2010