Tuesday, January 20, 2009

earthquakes

1. Where do most of the earthquakes tend to happen?north America and Europe Asia.

2. Why do you think that is?I think this happening because the plates are shifting very rapidly.

3. What is this area called?North America plate and Eurasian plate.

4. Where is the earthquake closest to Manitou Springs? What are the details of this earthquake? Would people be able to feel this earthquake? About how much more ground shaking would occur for this magnitude earthquake compared to a magnitude 1 earthquake?The closest earthquake to Manitou springs is in Denver and people in Manitou would not be able to feel it, it would have to shake more for it to be a magnitude.

5. Choose one earthquake that has happened in the last seven days. You will be researching that earthquake. Tell me all about it. Are earthquakes common in this area? Include at least one picture, preferably of the earthquake, but if you can’t find one include one of the area. Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 02:23:40 AM there was an earthquake Eastern Sichuan, China this earthquake was a 5.0 this earthquake traveled a distance of 940 miles. Also earthquakes are common in this area. the depth of this earthquake was 16.1 miles.

6.How can people protect themselves from the dangers of earthquakes?To protect your selfe from earthquakes you should get out of any thing that will claps and stay away from roads.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

The Atmosphere

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The Ozone

The ozone is very protective to us people on earth .It protects us buy stopping UV rays from getting to us. If the ozone keeps decreasing in size more people will get skin cancer so our population will decrease.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Acid rain

Acid rain is 1 type of pollution on earth in contains more acid than regular rain. The issue is that acid rain is damaging our forests and our lakes.Also acid rain makes it so plants, amphibians , fish ,and insects they cant live. A solution to the aid rain problem is to not burn coal as often also we could start doing out door things more than waching tv and burning coal

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The atmosphere

The earths atmosphere is very different from the moon which dose not have one.The atmosphere is very important to us on earth.It makes sure that craters don't hit us and so we don't end up looking like the moon. Now the moon does not have an atmosphere so every crater that hits it leaves a hole fore about 4 trillion years.there you go that is how our atmosphere is important to us .

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

blog post

NASA has used rockets to send probes into space. They consist of three stages atlas, centaur, and payload. The atlas stage uses fuel boosters the centaur stage uses liquid fuel engines and the payload releases from one another.NASA started in 1958 and immediately started with human flight. Project Mercury sent one astronaut into space.