Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Weather and Climate Day 1

What is the difference between weather and climate? 
When I think of weather I think of the day to day temperature and precipitation. Climate I think of as what the average conditions are in a given area. How much rain and what the average temperature is in a given region.


Egg Fire!
Prediction: I think that the  fire will be put out and the egg will stay on top of the glass.

Actual: The flame heated up the air inside very quickly, when the flame went out the temp. dropped quickly and a low pressure zone was created. This sucking the egg into the jar.
*To get it out you need to blow into the jar to created high pressure inside. This will push the egg out.


Hygrometer
With two thermometer (one with wet goze on it) spin them around on a stick for one minute and record the temp. Use the chart to find humidity.
Inside- Dry: 21
           Wet: 12
  Humidity: 36%
Outside- Dry: 15
              Wet: 15
  Humidity: 90%

Cloud Chart


Wind speed: Anemometer (Cup on sticks)
Precipitation: Rain Gage (Liquid) and Snow board (Solid).

Friday, February 21, 2014

Friday, February 14, 2014

Life, the Universe, and Everything

1. Ex nihilo- A example of this would be the christian creation story where God created everything from nothing. That is what the word ex nihilo means in literal translation "From nothing".

2. The second creation myth can be seen in the Native American background. In this story a the muscat was the only animal that could dive to the bottom of the lake and return with soil in his hand. He gave his life to do so though.

3. In Greek mythology, a being would have to pass through 3 different worlds to finally arrive at the final place.

4. Irish myths explains how a mans leg was chopped off and life was sported from that.

5. Indian creation story told how a egg was cracked and that lead to the formation of the universe.

I think a very reasonable explanation of how our galaxy was formed would be the rotation and spinning. A "Big Bang" could have started the elements and particles in space spinning. As things started spinning faster and faster, particles would then collect in a central location. Over time that central location would form into a sun, and different solar systems.

Friday, February 7, 2014

If I had $100

If I had $100 where would the money go to by percentage in our solar system, given according to mass.

My Thoughts 
Sun= $50
Asteroid belt and comets= $1
Other 8 Planets split= $49 not evenly though

Actual Answers
Sun= $99.85
Jupiter= $.106
Saturn= $.032
Neptune=$.006
Uranus=$.005
4 inner planets together= $.00066

So I was way off!