Science Students,
It's time for us to play a little 1st Trimester review game... Please provide one "Fun Fact" from our studies during the 1st Trimester of Earth Science. You may list one golden nugget from Chapters 1, 2, 6, or 13, but you may not provide the blog with a fun fact that a classmate has already posted (first come, first served).
You must also number your post. If you are the second student to log in, your entry might begin like this:
2) Alfred Wegener developed the Theory of Continental Drift.
Email or see me if you have any questions... Let the game begin!
Mid-Ocean ridges are spots on the sea floor where oceanic plates are constantly being renewed and formed.
ReplyDelete1) The Sea Cucumber eats dead organisms on the sea floor and clean sand comes out the other end. Also when a predator is chasing after it, the Sea Cucumber barfs out its insides so the predator will eat that instead of it. After awhile the Sea Cucumber will grow its insides again.
ReplyDeleteLindsey Uteda
3) Seafloor spreading causes magnetic reversal.
ReplyDeleteNoah Draney
4) The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is part of the longest mountain chain in the world.
ReplyDeleteThere where sea-floor spreading occurs, magma flows out to fill the gap and creates the Mid-Atlantic ridge.
Alina Giapis
5) The magma in the mantle is always moving.
ReplyDeleteKiefer Martin
6) The puzzle-like fit of the Earth's continents inspired the theory of continental drift.
ReplyDeleteBison on Catalina Island were introduced by movie producers, and they are not native.
ReplyDelete8) The earth consists of several layers. These are Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, and Crust. Crust is the one most known because it is the outermost layer and the one we live on.
ReplyDelete9) Alex Stalick
ReplyDeleteThe Earth is estimated to be 4.7 billion years old and orbits the Sun at 29.79 km/. The earth is not round; it is an oblate spheroid, flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator and is sometimes called “The Blue Planet”
10) The oldest crust is on the coast line of the Atlantic Ocean, at the edge of the continents, and the newest crust is in the middle of the ocean.
ReplyDeleteIn Greek Pangaea means, "All Earth" also translating to "One giant super continent".
11) Fossils of the same species were found on different continents. However, if you go by Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift and put the continents together to form Pangaea, the areas become connected and the fossil areas make sense. This was a part of the evidence that continental drift really did exist.
ReplyDelete12) The plates are always moving on the mantle .
ReplyDeleteTyler Rogers
13) The super continent Pangea broke into two smaller pieces, Gondwana and Laurasia.
ReplyDelete#13 was Olivia Wong
ReplyDeleteMore than 75% of all volcanoes in the world are in the countries within the Ring of Fire.
ReplyDeleteThe plates move the continents apart into separate continents.
ReplyDelete14) Pangaea's ocean is called Panthalassa. Panthalassa means "all sea" in greek!
ReplyDeletePangea was always still and never moved.
ReplyDelete15) The ocean surrounding the super continent Pangea was called Panthalasa.
ReplyDelete16) Rodinia was the super continent before Pangaea.
ReplyDelete17) In the Scientific method, you can start and go to any part in the process of it.
ReplyDeleteNicholad D.
18) There are 10 major tectonic plates- the Pacific, North American, Cocos, Nazca, South American, African, Eurasian, Indian, Australian, and Antarctic plates.
ReplyDeleteSophia L.
19) There are three types of sea animals. Plankton: little teeny floaty one celled organisms, Necton:which are most animals in the ocean ex. fish, dolphins, sharks and Benthos; crabs, sea stars and basically anything that clings to rocks.
ReplyDeleteThe four principles from Celp are:
ReplyDeleteEverything is connected
Everything runs on energy
There is no waste in nature
Biodiversity is good
21) When an abalone eats different kinds of kelp, their shell changes color.
ReplyDeleteTaryn
22) I learned that Jacques Cousteau was one of the founders of CELP, and that he helped invent Scuba Diving.
ReplyDelete23) I thought it was fascinating that the crust is less then 1% of Earth's land mass.
ReplyDeleteNichola G.
23a) A baby blue whale drinks 50 gallons (189 L) of milk every day and grows by as much as 10 pounds (4.54 kg) every hour.
ReplyDeleteNichola Glover
24) I learned that the crust of the Earth is 0-50 kilometers thick.
ReplyDelete25) When you touch a sea anemone it feels sticky but it is actually stinging you. We humans can't feel it because a sea anemone's sting can't penetrate our skin.
ReplyDeleteI learned that the molten rocks in mid-ocean ridges have magnetic materials in them that act like compasses.
ReplyDeleteFrom reading the chapter in my science book, I learned that Pangea means "all Earth" in Greek. Miles Ogden
ReplyDelete27) Convection currents in the mantle cause the tectonic plates to move and crash into each other.
ReplyDeleteConnor S.
29) The Pacific Ocean is getting smaller, while the Atlantic is growing.
ReplyDeleteCambria C
Students,
ReplyDeleteThank you. This blog post closed at 4 p.m. today. You have 1.5 weeks until you Science Final. Good luck! Rock on!