Thursday, January 27, 2011

New science project

During the week end for science we had to make a 3 dimensional miniature garden That we sprayed of different type of solution to grow some colored crystals on Tuesday.
day 2
I chose to add some more crystal  on the grasses with a green salt solution and on the trees with a pink gorax solution and finally poot some blue sugar solution in the river.
Day 3
Incredible!!The Salt Crystal climbed up some of the tooth pics and the borax crystals on the cotton tree began to grow with some litle sprakles !!!!!!!!
Day 5
Nothing had changed during the weekend
2 weeks later
 I realized sadly that my crystals had stopped growing


                                          This is my garden (didn't work very well)

 What did the chrystal grow the best on?
I think that it grows the best sponges. I think so because all the best gardens had a crystal in it. And I think sponges have this effect because they absorbe the solution.

What did the christal grow the worste on?
For me and oher people the crystal grow worste on coton .It did like coton sugar when we poot it in our mouth , it bicame small and hard and impossible to grow crystale on.

What solution was the hardest /easiest to grow crystal ?
Looking at all of our projects the easiest and fastest solution to grow srystals were borax ,salt and solfate . I also think that sugar and phosphate were the hardest and slowest solutions to grow cystals.


Conclusion
This experiment teach me a lot of things because some of my crystals succeed to grow but some didn't ,but I also watch others crystal garden and it's how I figured out the answer to the main question: How does crystal grow? I think that what happens is that first crystal need to be poot on an absorbing substance after slowly the liquide part of the solution will evaporate letting the solide part of the solution grow slowly finally forming crystal.







Monday, January 17, 2011

What we learned about Earth

HI every body I decided to share about what I learned this week in science classe:

The hope diamonde

The hope diamond necklace was cute from a stone of 240 carats.TH necklace was originally 75 carat but they changed it to 67.89 for better proportion. The necklace was design by Baumgold Brother. The total weight of the 106 diamonds is 45 carats It was worn during the movie Tarzan’s savage fury

Earths STRUCTURE

Earth’s crust is mainly compose of 2 type of rocks Basalt and Granite

The mantle: about 84 percent of Earth’s volume is mantle rock. IT flows like a glacier do

The outer core is molten and so hot it could be a fluid as water it is such a immense pressure that it is like a metal

1959, the Hawaiian volcano Kilauea produced rivers of red-hot lava that filled the adjacent crater, Kilauea Iki, to a depth of 135 m (440 ft) and created a lake of molten rock

GEMS
About 15 different minerals are commonly used for gemstones. The biggest gem producing countries are: Tanzania, Madagascar, South Africa , Australia…. A last thing to Know is that Gems are made of fluid, heat, and pressure.

Friday, January 14, 2011

This week on the crust of the world!!!

This week I discovered that I lived on the crust of a huge world (and that we always have to eat the crust of the bread or we will have an earth crack).Seriously ,I learned the 4 different layers of Earth and how warm it is under our feet : the core( center) is 1500 Celsius, the outer core (after), the mentall (just before the crust) is 120 Celsius and finally the crust ( the place were we live.)

 I also learned about the caves and that they have good TV shows. First their is different types of caves: under groud, under water, ice caves and in a normal mountain. Their is also 3different types of animals that we can find in a cave : the ones that use it the day and go out the night ,the ones that stay in it for a certain period of the year and the ones that lives their for ever. Some of the animals that lives in the caves  we rent here at the beginning and so they adapted it miens that there body turn white and they became blind. A last thing that you have to know is that the temperature is always the same in a cave.

Now I know only certain thing it science and I WOULD LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE  to learn about more  things like rocks, the Earth structure, minerals, mining , evolution of animals... The problem is that I LOOOOOOVE all subject in Science so I would like to learn about everything. NOW IT'S YOUR TURN SUPER TEACHER!!!!!!
                                                    Earths Structure
                                               This is one the animals that lives in caves

                                                               An example of cave