Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Why is nature playing april fools?
Nature is playing April fools by it is making us think that it is going to be warm but there is a cold front coming in and its going to snow. Its kind of fooling us with making us think its going to be warm when really by the end of the day its going to be cold and snowy. The cold is coming in because of the cold front from the northwest winds. The La Nina conditions have a part in this by it having cold ocean temps. that come in to the coast causing snow and other cold conditions. the ploar circulation circulates the air. The North Amerian Jet Stream causes the cold weather by bringing in the cold with the jet stream. The stream is strong causing it to pull in cold weather.
activity 2.
In this activity we learned about how and why we get percipitation. We made predictions on what we thought then we did an activity that showed us what was true about it. This activity has to do with my subject the greenhouse effect because the greenhouse effect causes precipitaion and this activity showed how it is caused.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Activity 1.
From activity one i learned different materials heat up at different rates. We placed water, soil, and snow under a heat lamp and we measured the rate at which the temp. went up. The water was the slowest to go up, it only went up .1 every two min. The soil was the fastest to go up, it went up about .4 every two min. The snow stayed the same throughout the whole thing. We also measured the temp. of each material as we let it cool. The water was the fastest to cool, the soil heated up a little and the snow stayed the same.
This activity relates to my topic by they both have to do with warming a surface. In the activity we warmed the materials and the greenhouse effect, it warms the earths surface.
This activity relates to my topic by they both have to do with warming a surface. In the activity we warmed the materials and the greenhouse effect, it warms the earths surface.
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