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| Week of September 24th |
(You are looking at the view from Mt. Everest above)
Our Week
Monday: 1. Plate Tectonics continues 2. Finish Friday's computer simulation from Friday 3. 2011 Japan Earthquake Video
Homework: p. 206-212 - questions 11-22 - due Tuesday
Tuesday: 1. Check p. 206-212 2. Finish Japan Video
3. Japan Earthquake "Moving Plates" checked Friday
Homework: p. 213; 1-10 due Wed.
Wednesday: 1. Check p. 213 2. Review for Unit 4 Sections 1 and 2 Evaluation (Thursday) 3. Finish Japan "Moving Plates" - checked Friday
Homework: STUDY!!! p. 193-213 and handouts
Thursday: Unit 4 Section 1 and 2 Evaluation
Friday:
1. Check Japan Article 2. Rock Cycle: p.158-162; 10, 12, 14, 16; Rock Cycle Lab; Rock Cycle Interactive Investigation - link below - answer questions in workbooks after p. 165. (Will finish all of this up on Monday).
Rocky Cycle Investigation
Questions of the Week
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| Pictured above is the Sakurajima Volcano in Japan erupting in 2010. What do you see inside the eruption? Why do you think it occurs? Japan is located right in the middle of the "Ring of Fire" - which 2 tectonic plates caused the 2011 earthquake and resulting tsunami? |
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| Take a look at this aurora borealis in Norway that occurred this month! What exactly causes this phenomena? |
The first question, the answer is lightning. This occurs because charged particles are rubbing together.
ReplyDeleteThe second question, these happen because in the North and South Pole sometimes have weak spots in the Magnetic Field, and when waves from the Sun react with the Ionosphere, it creates the Aurora Borealis.
The northern lights are caused by radiation that the sun spits at us. It is our magnetic field protecting us from the sun.
ReplyDeleteThe first question is that during the eruption, two particles had different polarities, so lightning formed btween them during the eruption.
ReplyDeleteThe second question is that some radiation seeps throught our magnetic feild, and collides with the ionosphere, which stops the radiation while creating the Aurora Borealis.
the first question is that during the volcano erupting is the lightning. they form when the different charged particles rub and bump into each other. they also have opposite polaritys, so they release the energy which forms the lightning.
ReplyDeletethe second question is that at the north and south poles, the magnetic field is weaker than other ares, so the sun spits the radiation and hits the ionosphere and mixes and stops it from going farther, and that chain reaction creates the Aurora Borealis