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  The big question addressed in lab, and a description of what you did. In lab this week we talked about the rock cycle. In order to understand the rock cycle, we had to do research on what the rock circle contains, as well as had to figure out how to make it. We used starbursts in class to make our models of the rocky cycle. The cycle begins with the formation of igneous rocks and then ends back on the reformation of igneous rocks. It is a continuous, natural process that demonstrates how rocks can change from one type to another over time.  A description of what you learned in Thursday's lecture. In the lecture, we discussed plate tectonics. We reviewed the different types of them. Divergent plates are moving away from each other, convergent plates come together, and then transform plates are sliding past one another. We also began to look at the rock cycle. When talking about the rock cycle we learned about extrusive and intrusive igneous rocks.  Answer questions about...

  The big question addressed in lab, and a description of what you did. This week in lab, we thought about the timeline of Earth. We had to think about when did the humans walk the earth? When did dinosaurs? When were the first land plants on Earth? We had to use our background knowledge to try and figure these ideas out. We all knew Earth was made 4.65 billion years ago, so when did everything else follow? After researching the interactive earth view, it was crazy how everything was spaced out. We learned that humans just started walking the earth compared to everything else. My group researched 2 billion years to 1 billion years. We learned that the chloroplasts evolved and Sudbury struck.  Answer questions about the weekly textbook reading: What did you learn? In the reading, I learned about the snowball Earth. This is when the Earth is covered almost entirely by ice. This also happened 3 times! This occurred because of something called a positive feedback loop. Earth was i...

  The big question addressed in lab, and a description of what you did. This week in lab we all shared presentations about space. My group researched the topic of galaxies. During lab, we listened, observed, and participated in our classmate's presentations all about the main topics of space. From lab, I learned that nothing can escape a black hole and that there used to be a star bigger than the sun. A description of what you learned in Thursday's lecture. This week in lecture I learned that there is evidence as to why there was a bigger sun before ours existed. One piece of evidence is that our sun was formed from a bigger star that underwent a supernova. Our sun is made from the stellar nebula (dust and debris). Answer questions about the weekly textbook reading: What did you learn? We are all made of stardust! Since elements like carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen make up the human body and Earth. These elements make up the cores of stars. When stars reach the end of their life c...

  The big question addressed in lab, and a description of what you did. How big is our solar system?  This week in lab we built a model of the solar system that was to scale. We only included the sun, the moon, and the four inner planets. Before this model, I knew the solar system was big, but not THIS big. We started out making the sun out of playdough which had to be 200 millimeters. As a group, we began to make our tiny planets out of playdough that would be to scale with our sun. Mercury was 0.067 mm, Venus was 1.74 mm, Earth was 1.83 mm, and Mars was 0.97. We did not realize how small Mercury was and could not believe it. After we made our tiny planets, we had to measure the planets from the sun. We used meters for the orbit radius of the planets. We were running out of room to place each one. Mercury was 8.3 m, Venus was 15.53, Earth was 21.49 m, and lastly Mars was 32.74 m. It is insane how massive our solar system is.  A description of what you learned in Thursday...