Riccardo's Science Blog

en.wikipedia.org Summary For this unit of volcanoes,plate tectonics,etc. we ended with a project this project involved us making a ignite presentation on a volcano/mountain of our choosing. Not only did we have to make/present an ignite presentation but we had to build a model of the mountain/volcano of our choosing. For my choice I did mt. Shasta. (the picture is a picture of mt. Shasta). Backward-Looking: To produce this piece of work I needed a bit of things. For the ignite presentation obliviously I needed to do internet research. For the model on the other hand it needed a bit more work than using just the internet. First what we did is we took a miniature plastic cup and placed it in the middle. Then we added some sort of paper to make it a cone shape. After that we covered it in wet newspaper. As soon as it dried we covered it in clay and the painted over it. Inward-Looking: Throughout this project I had my fair share of frustrating moments. I shall ...

www.blastr.com Summary :  In this science unit, we (the class) are learning about volcanoes. Volcanoes are usually formed from "hot spots" in the Earth's continental or oceanic crust(s). Those spots begin to grow and form. The magma inside the volcano has actually come from mostly parts of the Earth's mantle. There are four main types of volcanoes. There is Cinder cone volcanoes,Shield volcanoes,composite volcanoes and Dome volcanoes. As they are all volcanoes they all look different and erupt differently. Like a Dome volcano is one of the interesting ones (in my opinion) because  Dome volcanoes function in which their magma is pushing out of the volcano. That is because hardened magma is staying above the magma. Once the magma and other gases push hard enough, that pressure destroys most of the rock bits and flings them into the air. With the magma traveling upward, the volcano will seem to have erupted. Science And Engineering Pra...

                                                                                        Summary Viscosity, different types of boundaries, shield volcanoes and models made from sugar are just some of things that I did. I had the opportunity to make a model of tectonic plates that range from continental plates to oceanic plates. I know that viscosity means how thick something is and that the thing that makes something more viscous are the composition and the heat. Shield volcanoes are volcanoes that are usually made of magma that is not explosive and then looks like a dome, which gives the name shield volcano. Shield volcanoes are effusive volcanoes and they are one of the things that I learned this week.  S...