ICELAND VOLCANO

Iceland Volcano

http://www.pdc.org/PDCNewsWebArticles/2010/Iceland/eruption.htm

1. The plate tectonics could have caused a small earthquake and shook the volcano causing it to erupt.

2. Because it is all ash and you can't fly a plane through the ash. It messes up the engine.

3. The air is all polluted and ashy.

4. Because of the distance between the effected area, and the united states is far.

Minerals in michigan

Mineral Information

Gypsum:

1. Gypsum, common mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulfate (CaSO₄·2H₂O)

2. Gypsum is used for wallboards and plaster products

Quartz:

1.SiO₂

2. Quartz can be used for an inexpensive but attractive gemstone!

Metamorphic rock

Metamorphic rocks

Slate: Slate is a foliated metamorphic rock that is formed through the metamorphism of shale. It is a low grade metamorphic rock that splits into thin and tiny pieces.

common use: roofing slate...for roofing.

Marble: Marble is a non-foliated metamorphic rock that is produced from the metamorphism of limestone. It is composed of calcium carbonate.

common use: counter tops or carvings and sculptures

Quartzite: Quartzite is a non-foliated metamorphic rock that is produced by the metamorphism of sandstone. It is composed of quartz.

common use: flooring or even in fire places or walling.

http://geology.com/

Igneous Rocks

Granite: This Igneous rock can be used to make counter tops it is a building stone. It is intrusive and is a felsic type of rock.

Basalt: Basalt is an extrusive igneous rock. Crushed basalt is used for railroad ballast.

Gypsum:Processed gypsum is used in industrial or building plaster, prefabricated wallboard, cement manufacture, and for agriculture.

Graphite:Graphite is the crystal form of carbon. It is used as a dry lubricant and steel hardener and for brake linings and the production of "lead" in pencils.

Copper:Copper is used in electric cables and wires, switches, plumbing; heating, electrical, and roofing materials; electronic components; industrial machinery and equipment; transportation; consumer and general products; coins; and jewelry.

Canadas Wind Farm

pros:

it will help our environment

we will have green energy. it will be better for our air.

cons:

its very expensive

it affects shoreline property values.

turbines aren't exactly a good view.

My opinion is that Canada should go through with this because it is helping us with the environment. It may cost a ton of money but there helping us too. The view and the fishing business is not really that big of a deal because we can import seafood and fish from other places or buy it at the grocery store. People can get used to the view too. We need clean air to live and to have nature as well.

We could protest against this. We can even talk to Canada about the cause and effects of installing turbines. We could convince them to wait a while and see what happens first as well.

Ring of Fire

Ring of Fire

earthquakes&volcanoes
Is there also a relationship between the plate boundaries of Earth and volcanoes? Yes there is. Were some volcanoes are on the map there are some earthquakes too. For example there are earthquakes and volcanoes all along the west coast on the whole North American continent.


boundries
Aleutian Islands: Ocean-continent convergent boundary
Cascades Volcanoes:Continent-continent convergent boundary
San Andreas Fault Zone:Ocean-continent convergent boundary

Plate Tectonics

Pangea:
When Pangea was last formed as one conitnent it was about 235 million years ago.

Continental Breakup by Mantle Plumes:
This rift occured about 1.1 billion years ago.
The lava turned into a rock called basalt.

Cambrian era:
The late Cambrian about 425 million years ago.

Future World:
The major mountain range which is now in North Africa is The Medditerranean Mountain Range.
The two continents that North America will join are South America and Africa!

Earthquakes

There have been 8 earthquakes that happened today February 2nd, 2010 that have happened around the world. The most recent earthquake was on the California Border. The older earthquakes have happened more on the west cost off of california and oregon.

All of the earthquakes that happen in South America usually happen all over the west coast. As you go more into South America the depth gets greater.

Tornadoes

http://tornadoeshurricanes.suite101.com/article.cfm/worst_tornado_in_us_history

The worst Tornado in US History was The Great Ti-State Tornado of 1925. This tornado destroyed everything! Bark was stripped of trees, houses were picked up and swept away, along with cars! The ground was torn up and trees were on the ground! There was 652 deaths and 2000 were injured. At that time the total damage that was done was about 16.5 million which in todays economy would have been about 2 million dollars.

Clouds

mammatus clouds: a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud. its nicknamed the breast cloud.

lenticular cloud: these are clouds that form around hills and mountains.

roll cloud: roll clouds form on near advancing cold fronts

noctilucent cloud: Noctilucent clouds can form only under very restricted conditions. Noctilucent clouds are made of tiny crystals of water ice, higher than any other clouds in Earth's atmosphere. Clouds in the Earth's lower atmosphere form when water collects on particles, but other clouds may form directly from water vapor.

my favorite was the lenticular cloud because it looks nice and peaceful around a hill or mountain

Snow Scavenger hunt

Thunder Snow (picture 1)

Thunder snow is really heavy and dry making driving difficult and dangerous.

Rime (picture 1)

Rime iscrunchy, rough snow that looks like popcorn or styrofoam that you notice on trees and on windy mountaintops. Rime forms on the surface of the snow when super cooled water in clouds freezes onto the snow surface.

Firn
Firn is that type of snow ontop of glaciers. It has been there for years and uts granular,it has not yet turned to ice.

Watermelon Snow

It is a pink snow that usually is on the top of mountains