Monday, October 17, 2011

Planet Mars

 Planet order 6 from the sun
 Distance from the sun  249,209,300km 
 Mass is 6.4185x10km diameter 6800 km
Rotation 24 hour 37minute revolution 687 days
Number of Moons two terrestrial.


Planet Description:

  •      Mars is kind of a beautiful planet. It's red and it's location is between Earth and Jupiter. It's the fourth closest to the sun it is very cold planet.


it reddish surface created by the iron in martian rocks.
  • Mars has two moons.

2Interesting Facts:
  • Mars is also called the red planet.
  • The tallest mountain in the solar system called olympus mons.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Hurricane Irene Project

Critical Thinking

1.What is a hurricane?
 A Hurricane is swirling a storm that produce strong winds and a lot of rains. And have many flooding during Hurricane which effects the population a lot on damaging houses, trees and it can also cause less economics by damaging the houses and sometimes car when the trees fall over to a car the car will break which people will need money to fit it. 


2. What is a high tide and what cause it ?
High tide is when the water rise up from the ocean. The causes of high is changing  of the moon earth water level and also hurricane causes high tides.


3.What is a saturation(zone) mean?
Saturation zone is the area that is filled with a lot of water.

4.What is flooding and why is it dangerous?
Flooding is when the water over flow usually places like on the streets.And it dangrous because it can damage the environment like houses trees and bring up diseases into humans lives.


Reflection
5.What is something that you like about this mini project?
Something that i like about this is how everybody work and share they ideas about the topics and i also learned about the some topics.


6.What was difficult about for you on this project?
The difficult part for me was to learn the vocabulary words and how to use them in sentence.


7.What would you change about your work on this project?
Somethings  i would change about my project  is to add more vocabulary and explain more about the topics.


8.How did this project help you learn about Hurricane Irene?
This project help me learn a lot about hurricane irene because i never study hurricane before and this is the first i'm study and i learn a lot about hurricane like how hurricane happened and what causes hurricane which is strong winds and a lot of rains.hurricane-diagram.gif (450×397)