Earth Science

Weathering and erosion I have to say was my favorite subject to study all year. The main reason being that I thought that I had already leaned everything concerning Weathering and erosion. Weathering and erosion taught me a lot about how water or a simple stream could easily cut 50 feet in the ground until it would eventually form a small pond or lake. I got the chance to make a podcast with pictures of my surroundings on the Intemine trail.I also learned that water can cut through just about anything. Of course with a certain amount of time. Through erosion mountains of rocks are formed or if you road the cog railway.

Where does Colorado Springs water come from?

Where does our very own water supply come from. 75% of our water comes from the areas of Aspen, Leadville, and Breckenridge - Colorado. Pipes carry this water down from the mountains to be stored in reservoirs like Rampart and Catamount. The other 25% of our water comes from local surface water sources and local ground water sources.

Ocean Pollution

http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00116/carbondioxide.htm
This web site gave me most to all of the information that I needed to complete my carbon dioxide section.



http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00116/garbagedumping.htm
I used this web site for all of the information that I got concerning Garbage
dumping and and how it effected the ocean.

http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00116/toxicwaste.htm
This web site is the web site that I used to get the needed information on how to help fight against ocean pollution.This is specifically for toxic waste.

http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00116/oilpollution.htm
This is the web site I used to get all of my information concerning the effects caused by oil pollution.

Saving our corral reefs

First, how can we help our reefs survive. Scientists predicted that if we keep this up then at least 70% of our reefs will be destroyed by 2050. to help you can stop careless dumping into the ocean. Decrease natural differences, and Anthropogenic disturbances. We will loose 70% of our oceanic reefs by 2050. The ocean would how ever slowly heal. And then we ca some what go back to what we were doing before. Just very small amounts of it.

The Penny Lab

Using a medicine dropper my class dropped some water on the top of a penny. But before we did this we estimated how many our partner would be able to put onto his or her penny. So then drop by drop we put water on to the tops of the pennies to see if our estimations were close. Since the penny has edges on the outsides it helps to confine more water than an object without edges. The water comes out and bulges away from the penny once the penny is completely covered. But once the water over flows all of the water will go, unless it is stopped by the edge of the penny.

The Mariana trench

www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk
This fish above is called a Hatchet fish and since it is bioluminescent it is harder for other fish to detect this fish. The Mariana trench is the deepest spot on Earths surface, and is home to many marine animals. It is located just east of the 14 Marian islands. And was created by ocean-to-ocean subduction.The deepest part of the Mariana trench is called the challenger deep, named after the exploratory vessel HMS Challenger 2; a fishing boat converted into a sea lab by a Swiss scientist Jacques Piccard. The Challenger deep is five kilometers deep. Bioluminescence helps fish identify other fish, to scare away predators and to trick or attack prey. Some fish of the deep swim upward to catch food. These strang

Earth quake webqwest

1. Earth quakes tend to happen in Asia or the Easter borders.
2. It happens there, because of the convection currents in the mantle.
3. Near the boundaries of the tectonic plates.
4. It was a mild 3.2 Earthquake and yes people felt the shaking.