In my entire blogging experience, counting this one, I will have a total of ten out of ten blogs so far. If it was up to me, I would give myself an A- or a B+ on this because I do the blogs right and to the point, but I get sidetracked sometimes so my points might be a little muddled up.
Final Grade: I predict that my final grade, consisting of my 3 test grades and blog grades, that it will either be a B- or a B because my last test was a B.
Future studies; Storms: The three reasons that I might like to study storms are 1. because it interests me how they predict storms, 2.Why storms are so seasonal,and 3. why storms occur in groups.
Space: The three main reasons that space is interesting to me are 1. What methods we use to determine if another solar system has life, 2. How NASA gets every calculation exact, right down to the last tenth of an inch, and 3. what proprieties all of the planets have.
Oceans: the main reasons to study oceans are, 1. the bizarre ocean life provides me with many questions like: "Why are they here?" or "How did they come to be?"
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2. just looking at these creatures makes me excited! (but personally i think the hatchet fish are the most creepy, *shudder*,but the yeti crab looks cool and has a fitting name). 3. finally this subject is the last frontier for humans, that and space (sorry Star Trek).
The states of matter are the forms that matter can take at any given point of time, such as a:
Solid: a solid is a state of matter that is tightly packed and vibrating in place. Solids do not take the shape of their containers. Matter can only be broken from this state through heat that breaks the bonds called melting, the change from solid to a liquid, or a more advanced stage called sublimation, the change from a solid directly to a gas. A solids bonds are shaped like a box with the bonds forming rows inside.
Liquid: a liquid is a state of matter in which the molecules are loosely packed and slide past one another while vibrating. Liquids also take the shape of their containers. This form of matter can be broken by either heat, called vaporisation, or cold, called freezing.
Gas: a gas is a state of matter in which the molecules are very widely spaced (for molecules) and move past eachother at high speeds bouncing off the walls of their containers. Gas can change to a liquid through the process of condencing and going directly to a solid called deposition.
Yesterday, on November 8th 2011, an asteroid 400 m across flew by the Earth at an altitude of 201,700 miles. The tracking of the estimated aircraft carrier sized asteroid was done by the use of a 70 meter Deep Space Network Antenna. many other Deep Space Objects have passed close to earth, but the closest was an asteroid that passed at an altitude of 5480 kilometers though it was only a meter wide. The next estimated object to pass us is in April 13 2029 called Apophis the name of the serpent of death in Egyptian whitch will pass within 5 earth diameters of us. this is a computer generated video of what would happen if an asteroud 500 km in diameter would hit us:
I would like to put out that this video asteroid is 1000x bigger than the topic asteroid, I just would like to point out how lucky we are that this is a very low chance to happen.
I just put up this video because I thought it was cool. :)
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Geothermal energy
Q:How do other countries use geothermal energy?
A: Chinas geothermal energy use is the greatest in the world! Also, they use it for a great multitude of things: Geothermal space heating covers 12.7 million m2 and greenhouse heating cover about 1.33 million m2. There are about 1,600 public hot spring bathing houses and swimming pools, including about 430 where balneology and medical practices prevail in the country. The details of the specific uses are as follows: district heating; greenhouse heating; fish farming; agricultural drying; industrial process heat; bathing and swimming; other uses (monitoring); and heat pumps.
Hawaiian: Hawaiian eruptions are characterized by lava-effusion (an eruption of lava which causes lava flows) more frequently, they cause "fountains" of lava, and this causes cones of fragments to form.
Strombolian eruptions: when lava is viscous (sticky or thick), gas that is trapped will rise intermittently to the surface and cause blocks & bombs to fall on the local environment. Lava flows & cinder cones are produced by these volcanic eruptions.
Vulcanian eruptions: These volcanoes burst to life after a extremely long period of time, These eruptions give off a large amount of ash, rock & gas that it seems to blot out the sun. because these are docile the build up a large amount of gas that cause quite an explosion.
Pelean eruptions: these are very calm eruptions that span decades between each one. these eruptions create domed volcanoes and a volcanic rock called Pele's (the Hawaiian volcano goddess) hair. It is created by lava streaming through the air.
Plinian eruptions are probably the most explosive and powerful of all. They often start suddenly and unexpectedly after a long quiet period.
Plinian eruptions occur when utmost viscus magma containing a lot of gas explodes in the depth of the volcano by which the crater pipe functions as the barrel of a shotgun. An enormous gas escape shoots upwards with a very high speed whereby an enormous ash cloud comes into existence.
Submarine Eruptions:Submarine eruptions occur under the sea chiefly emerging from vents aligned along fissures of mid-ocean ridges.
Because the volcano lies far beneath sea level the eruption probably won't even be noticed from the surface. Because of the pressure of the sea, gases and steam remain in solution which stifles any potential explosions. The lava will roll down off the slopes quietly in blocks, called pillow-lava.
Hydrovolcanic Eruptions: Surtseyan eruptions: These eruptions take place in shallow waters like a lake. because of this, the lava has little resistance from lack of pressure, but the cold water causes the lava rocks to shatter.
Phreatomagmatic Eruptions: Phreatomagmatic eruptions are characterized by violent steam explosions. Surface water may flow through fissures in the Earth's crust and interact with the rising magma causing the explosions. Country rocks, steam and shattered pieces magma are ejected.
Probably the worst earthquake in history, the most recent Japanese earthquake on japans fault line. The focus in the fault line had a relatively short way to go to the surface. From the epicenter, the earthquake caused a major tsunami crashing into a nuclear waste plant, causing Japan's crop fields to be unharvestable.
Was i prepared for the test? Honestly...no, I wasn't, but i was surprised on how well i still did.
Why? Because i was caught up in practicing for marching band & all of my other homework that night. I just plainly forgot.
What will i do the same and different on the real test? Hopefully I will get the ones I did right this time again...but next time i will study so hard that I can read the book by heart...or my head will explode...ow.
