Grace Stutting

  The big question addressed in lab, and a description of what you did. What makes a rock.  During lab we did a pre assessment over what makes a rock a rock.  We learned that anything that comes from the earth in rock form is a rock.  We then did a lab with starbursts. We used heat and compactness to form rocks.  A description of what you learned in Thursday's lecture. We went over our pre assessment, it is when it is made naturally by earths minerals.  The earths core is solid and we know this from earthquakes because the waves are broken up when it hits the core.  There is an "innermost inner core" scientists believe are in the core of earth.  Convection cells happen in the mantle and affect the crust.  There are two kinds of plates: oceanic and continental.  Pangea:  Created mountains and plains, the material from the mountain range into the midwest and made it so Iowa is not underwater anymore.  CARBONATION : process by which dissolved carbon dioxide in rainwater or

  The big question addressed in lab, and a description of what you did. When and how did the evolution of earth happen?  A description of what you learned in Thursday's lecture. We took an exam.  Answer questions about the weekly textbook reading: What did you learn? We learned about the history of earth and the timeline of when different things happened including snowball earth, sun exploding, first flower, first animal, first plant, etc.  What was most helpful? The different graphs and pictures helped to make a visual connection to my learning. I also thought that it is so important to learn about how in my mind, the earth should still be covered in ice but it is because there was volcanos under the ice that eventually kep erupting and warmed our planet.  What do you need more information on? I know we will learn more about it soon, but I need more information on the continental drift, plate tectonics and Pangea. These concepts were just not taught to me growing up so I am excite

The big question addressed in lab, and a description of what you did. We taught each other about the different parts of space and the universe.  Origin of the Universe:  - The Big Bang Theory is what most astronomers believe is how the universe was created.  - In less than a second we saw the expansion and then from there there became light, organisms, and galaxy came.  - There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on every beach combined.  - Edwin Hubble discovered the Universe is constantly expanding.  Life Cycle of Stars: - A stars life depends on it's mass: the larger the mass, the shorter the life.  - Stars are formed by gas and dust --- hydrogen and helium. - Sun is a main sequence star.  - Earliest stars date back to 1534 BC. Galaxies: - Consists of stars, planets, and vast clouds of dust all bound together by gravity.  - There are many different mythologies that have their own theories as to why there is galaxies and how they became a thing.  - Even at the speed of

 Week 7 Blog Grace Stutting         1. What did you do in lab today? We went over the reading and private universe video which is crazy to realize how little math students know.  We made a replica sun and 4 inner planets to scale. This was interesting because we did not think when we made it to scale how small some planets like Mercury and earth would be.  During this activity we were able to use the entire TLC and we had no idea we would need that much room when our earth was only 2.7 mm.          2. What was the big question? How big is our galaxy/ solar system, sun, moon, planets, earth?         3. What did you learn in Thursday’s discussion? .  - We talked to Ellen from the school of the wild. - Went through phases and how the moon became itself.  - The moon came from Thea hitting earth and bursting into pieces where the moon got stuck in space in rotation.  2.  Read the online textbook        1. What did you learn? Pluto is not a planet The solar system is very far away and the pl