Igneous Rock Table

Despite a family history of geophysicists and rock enthusiasts, I’ve never found the subject of rocks particularly fascinating. However, an exploration of Earth Science has lead me to the discovery that rocks are actually hidden gems (often literally), and that there’s more to the topic than one would think.

of the effects of plate tectonics acting over geologic time. The story begins with the

To begin, a volcano is a mountain with an opening in the top or side that sometimes sends out rocks, ash, lava, in a sudden eruption (Merriam-Webster, n.d.). A volcano erupts when pressure builds inside the mountain. Magma, lava while it is inside the volcanoe, pushes through the weakened crust. When this built up pressure is released, Earth’s plates move causing a volcanic eruption. Also, dangerous flows of steaming lava can reach up to 2,000

Most people see the famous soda and Mentos eruption and think it has something to do with chemistry or that it is a chemical reaction. Well, this is completely wrong because the reaction is actually a physical reaction. Unlike a physical reaction, a chemical reaction is a process that rearranges the molecular or ionic structure of a substance. That is different from a change in physical form or a nuclear reaction, which is a physical reaction. The reason the soda and Mentos reaction is a physical reaction instead of a chemical reaction is because the physical form of a carbon dioxide molecule is being changed to a bubble.

A Volcano is a mountain or hill that has a crater running through it filled with lava, rocks, gas and hot vapour that will erupt. There are three types of volcanoes, there is the Cinder Cone volcano which is the smallest, the Shield volcano which is in most cases the biggest and the Composite volcano which can be the most deadly.

4. But why cola plus mentos will erupt? 5. As we know, inside the coke, there are carbon dioxide existing. Moreover, we know that the carbon dioxide will release when they meet the solid.

Assign students into groups of six, this will be their team for the next two weeks.

What is a volcano: A volcano is a mountain created by the earth. It also creates a hole where molten rock (lava) erupts. A volcano is filled of magma but when the magma erupts and is out of the volcano it is now called lava. When a volcano erupts it fills the air with lava fragments. A volcano can cause a lot of destruction like tsunamis, flash floods, mudflows, rockfalls, and earthquakes. Most volcanoes are located where the tectonic plates meet. Most

Grouping seems like it should be an easy task. One could simply ask students to get into groups and then start on the group project. However, in the ESL

When it comes to science it isn't as simple as it looks. There is so much more behind all the effects and cool explosions. In my project, you'll have the chance to see how rocket engines work using just baking soda and vinegar and how the 2 are combined. Baking soda and vinegar only react with each other because of an certain acid-base reaction. Baking soda is a bicarbonate and vinegar is an acetic acid. When the baking soda is dissolved in water, the compound separates into sodium and bicarbonate ions. Vinegar, which is a weak 5% solution of acetic acid in water, partially dissolves into 2 different elements, hydrogen and acetate ions. When combined, the new mixture becomes Carbon Dioxide. Carbon Dioxide plays a huge part in making

After everyone has completed exploring the different types of materials we will have a class discussion about the materials. We will distinguish between the materials that floated and sank. This will be written on the white board. We can then discuss what characteristics each pile had.

Although convection current in the earth layer are closely associated with the movements of the tectonic plates they also play a role in the formation of rocks, such as the igneous and metamorphic rocks. Igneous rocks form through the solidification of magma or lava. This can occur in two different places, on earth surface and under earth surface. Rocks that form on earth surface are called extrusive, rocks that form under earth's surface are intrusive plutonic rocks. A Metamorphic rock is formed when the protolithic rock is exposed to heat and pressure.There are also two different type of metamorphic rocks contact and regional metamorphic rocks.

We actually had a good small group of four people. The group was perfect size; not to many people, but not too small of a group that it was over whelming with the work for the rest of the people in the group. We were all assigned individual that were in our group which was good, and met that we had purpose to complete this task. If we would have picked our own group then I am not fully positive if anything would have gotten done, because people would probably pick the people that they mostly talk to. In our group we had a leader of the group (Jessica) and we also had diversity with our different back grounds, and their being more than one gender. Knowing this leads us to that this was a positive situation.

Frictional melting has caused scientist to be puzzled in how they formed considering that the rock was somewhat molten and exhibits characteristics of formations that are under low heat and high pressure. In the upper crust, frictional melting can be seen along in different environments. In some scenarios, it can be visible in areas that prehistoric glaciers were present, and its aftermath of being around higher

Shield volcanoes form from the solidification of lava flows of basalt (Abbott 2014). These large volume, low viscosity, low volatiles magma flows travel great distances. As thousands of layers of lava flows cool on top of one another other, volcanoes are formed over a long period of time. The width of these volcanoes is greater than their height, for example Mauna Loa in Hawaii.