Ways to detect extrasolar planets

Scientist can detect extra solar planets by direct evidence such as images of the planet and the planets spectrum, and by indirect evidence such as Doppler techniques and transits.

What did the universe look like before the Big Bang?

Before the big bang, i think the universe was probably a vast wasteland of nothing but large quantities of cosmic dust and other materials that would later come to serve as fuel/materials for the creation of the universe. I also think that there were forces or laws of the universe that contributed to the motion or attraction of objects in space billions of years ago.



The big bang formed because all of the matter, dust, foreign objects and elements collected into a single mass; which probably gave way to the extreme amount of weight/gravity of the huge mass; then a sudden, catastrophic explosion and sharing or splitting of matter and anti matter or nuclear reactions from atoms sent cosmic debris all over space; which later formed, cooled and created the cycles, stars, galaxies and objects that we view today.

My Favorite Science topic is...

My favorite topic, that we've went over this year was Astronomy; which is the study of the universe or space. Astronomy covers a lot of things in space, such as Black holes, Red giants, galaxies, constellations and theory's of how the universe formed or how it will end.

Astronomy is so interesting and cool to me because its vast size and gorgeous views. Astronmy is like watching still pictures or sometimes videos of 1080p HD pics on the best tv brand, flatscreens. It is truly a sight to admire.

5 things about/in the universe

1. The first thing I want to talk about is Saturn's moon Titan, which scientist have already sent the Cassini probe to investigate the moons surface, atmosphere, and composition. The data they received back was phenomenal and unbelievable. They discovered geographic regions very similar to earth such as streams, rivers, mountains and lakes. The surprising thing about these features is that they are not made up of water but liquid nitrogen. Titan's atmosphere also rains liquid nitrogen.





2. The Andromeda Galaxy is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, it has about 1 trillion stars in it. It is not the closest galaxy though and is apart of our galaxy cluster. It has a couple of red giants in it.





3. Binary star systems, are solar systems that have two stars that affect the planets and other celestrial body's in the solar systems. The larger star is called the primary star and the smaller of the two or more is called the companion.



4.The Asteroid belt is located between Mars and Jupiter, where the majority of our solar system's asteroids are found. There 's more than one asteroid belt in our solar system: the Kuiper belt holds some of the largest asteroids including Quaoar and Ixion being about half the size of Pluto. Many Scientist believe that the asteroid belt is a remnant of a large collision of two planets.

5. The Hubble space telescope was carried into orbit by the space shuttle Discovery. Hubble was the first space telescope ever. It was put into space to provide better, more accurate pictures and measurements. It was successful at this because of the many factors that would've presented an obstacle on Earth are not in space, such as Earth's atmosphere, space dust

IR radiation

1. IR radiation means infrared radiation, which is the heat or thermal radiation from the Sun, that heats the Earth.

2. The three main greenhouse gases are Carbon dioxide, Argon and Water vapor.

3. I kind of think its both a good and a bad, but I'm going to favor bad a little more because with the increase of greenhouse gases; the temperature will also increase globally. This is bad because it causes the ice in the Arctic and Antarctic to melt at fast rates, which will endanger animal species that live in polar regions. Alot of places will receive either less snow or no snow as we're experiencing now.Greenhouse gases also destroy the ozone layer which is very important in blocking out the Sun's UV rays. Thats why i think greenhouse gases are bad.

Condensation and Condensation nuclei

1. one example of condensation is dew on the grass.
The nuclei would be the grass.

2. Blowing your breath on a desk at school, would be condensation because he desk is cooler than your breath.
The desk would be the nuclei.

3. Your car being wet in the morning is an example of condensation.
The car is the nuclei.

4. The mirror, when you take a shower is an example of condensation.
The mirror is the nuclei.

5. The kitchen windows in the morning are an example of condensation.
The windows are the nuclei.

Monsoons

1. A Monsoon is a Seasonal wind that blow steadily from the northeast in the Northern winter and southwest in the Northern summer



2. The two main causes of monsoons are, the movement northward from winter to summer, of the huge upper level subtropical high pressure system known as the Bermuda high and the intense heating of the Mohave desert creates rising air and surface low pressure, called a thermal low.

3. Monsoons can be considered a good thing, because they bring rain to areas, that experience droughts. Monsoons can relieve areas with cool weather, that have been experiencing hot weather.

4.Monsoons are also considered bad, because they can bring droughts, floods and destroy coastal villages or communities.

5. Heavy rains from a Monsoon followed after a drought, which killed 240 people, thousands of cattle and left thousands of people homeless.

6. I personally think that depending on the situation and the lasting affects of a Monsoon, they can be either good or bad. If a Monsoon caused significant flooding or drought than it is bad. If it brings enough rain or give a region some relief from constant rain than it can be good.

Global Warming

1. Global Warming is the worldly gradual increase in temperature over consecutive years.

2.-3.Yes, I do believe in Global warming because of the yearly lack of snow, my state has received in recent years compared to earlier years, Also because of the increase in the meltage of ice in Antarctica and the Arctic. I've also observed on the Discovery Channel, that Polar Bears are losing their habitat due to global warming because of the ice that is melting. Jocelyn, says that the local bay areas will be flooded due to rising sea levels.

4.As a person with an opposing view may say, that these are natural causes, and are not associated with the carbon monoxide or dioxide emissions. They may also so say that these occurrences like the ice melting and the increase in temperature are all just coincidence.

MY HURRICANEEEEE..................................HURRICANEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

1. I chose Hurricane Charley, to talk about which occurred in 2004.

2. Hurricane Charley at maximum wind speed was a category 4 Hurricane or F4 on the Sappire-Simpson scale.

3. Hurricane Charley, originated from a tropical wave which then developed into a tropical depression 115 miles southeast of Barbados. Later on, Charley turned into a Tropical storm in then a Hurricane on the 11th near Jamaica. Charley than entered Florida passing by Orlando, Charley than entered back into the Atlantic; only to come back ashore in Cape Romain South Carolina on the 14th as a category 1 Hurricane, Charley soon weakened to a tropical storm over southeastern North Carolina and died out over the Atlantic near Virginia Beach.

4. Hurricane Charley, caused 10 deaths in the U.S. 4 in Cuba and 1 in Jamaica, Charley also caused $15 billion dollars worth of damage, becoming the second costliest Hurricane in U.S. history.

Air Masses

1. The four main types of Air Masses are Maritime Tropical (mT), which is wet or moist warm air, Then there is Maritime Polar(mP), which is wet or moist cold air, Then there is Continental Tropical(cT) which is Dry Warm air, Then there is Continental Polar(cP) which is Dry Cold air.



2. A Maritime Tropical Air Mass is more likely to bring Hurricanes because Hurricanes form over Large WARM bodies of WATER which the air above Oceans is moist because over the continuous evaporation of Ocean Water.



3. A Continental Tropical Air Mass is more likely to bring a Drought because of the Dry air due to a lack of Water Vapor and the Warmness of the Mass will also have Affects on the Surrounding Air's Humidity. Also Continental Polar in a Kind of wierd COLD Drought, with a lack of rain.



4. Continental Polar Air Masses bring Lake-effect Snowstroms to the Great Lakes in the Upper Northern part of the United States.



5. Well there's the Highland air mass, which forms in regions where there is great elevation change in short distances. there is also the Arctic air mass, which occurs when a high pressure area becomes nearly stationary over eastern Alaska and the Yukon.

Gre Gre Gre Greenhouse gases!

1. IR radiation, is Infrared Radiation

2. The three main gases greenhouse gases, are Carbon Dioxide, Methane and Water Vapor.

3.In some Scientific cases i consider it good but other than that, I think its bad because it increases the rate of Global warming, the melting of Glaciers, which would result in loss of Habitat (Tundra) for Polar bears, Penguins, Arctic seals, Arctic foxes, some species of whales and other numerous species of animals. I think it would be bad to see all of these phenomenal animals go because, when they're on Discovery Channel and National Geographics they are very interesting and spectacular; it would be ashame and upsetting thing for this animals to disappear SLOWLY for something like this.

I think recycling is better for us

1. I think specifically we should, recycle glass because people would have a place to put their used glass bottles rather than throw them on the ground and shatter it.

2. I think recycling is better than reusing things because, when you recycle you can make knew things with whatever you recycle, and when you reuse things you can only use them for a limited purpose.

3. We can put all of our glass bottles with the numbers 1-7 in a recycling containers along with any cardboard boxes and brown paper bags.

4. Ann St. Landfill698 Ann St. Fayetteville, NC

5.Plastic can be made into milk jugs,plastic siding on houses, plastic bottles, transparent sheets,containers,pens, keys on a computer, video game controllers, and wheels on a chair.

6. Metals can be recycled into new metals, screws,metal bins, car parts, building materials, and soda cans.

7.Give a powerpoint presentation showing, what the earth can look like in the future if we continue not to recyle alot.

What I think my grade should be

What I think my grade should be for this quarter, is at least an 88B because i completed all of my blogs the day they were assigned, i made sure my grammar was correct, i gave detailed information about my blogs, i conducted research to make sure my information was correct

I choose the Atlantic Ocean

I chose the Atlantic Ocean out of the four Oceans to talk about, what important resources, that we use today, come from it. The five resources are Oil and Gas which we use for our cars as fuel, Sand and Gravel aggregates which are used in concrete/cement, another resource is fish which can be sold in markets in commerce, and there are polymetallic nodules, which are like considerably rock sized and form due to the result of precipitate, which is when a solid forms from a chemical reaction. Then there is precious stones like pearls, that can be sold as jewelery.

mnemonic ummmmm, how about i just give you the Time Periods in order

In order from oldest to youngest on the Geologic Time Scale, First is the Cambrian, the Ordovician, the Silurian, the Devonian, the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian (Carboniterous), the Permian, the Triassic, the Jurassic, the Cretaceous, the Tertiary, the Quaternary and that is the youngest/most recent of the periods.

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Why do you want to know about a tree? hmmmm?

Scientists can determine the age of a tree by examining its ring's, because a tree grows a new ring every year. It would be useful because not only does a tree grow a ring every year but the rings width will differ. The reason for this, is that a trees ring will be thick if there was alot of water that year and thin if it was very little. Scientists can use this to distinguish a weather pattern in a certain region, also to see how much the weather is changing from how it is today and how it was before. It is an example of absolute dating.

which layer is the oldest, which is the youngest?

Layer D, is the oldest layer because layer's A and e are on top of it. Layer E's the second oldest and layer A is the third oldest because the same rock composition of layer B is above it, Then next is layer B and the youngest of all the layer's is C.

The unconformities are the squigly lines between layer's A and B, also at the very top of B due to erosion (weathering)

Volcanoes or Earthquakes...humm...Volcanoes or Earthquakes?

I think Volcanoes are more dangerous than Earthquakes, because Volcanoes can cause Earthquakes and Volcanoes have long lasting effects on the enviroment. A Volcano can destroy a whole forest, kill wildlife and block out the sun for some time also it can harm water bodies or lakes, killing any fish or life in it.

Want i think my grade should be?

What i think i should get for my first quarter blog post? Well i think i deserve a grade within the range of an 85B-94A, mainly because i answered all the questions for each blog with an exceptional amount of accuracy and facts. Also because my blogs are very descriptive and written in a professional manner such as using the correct type of grammar on an educational site used for the purpose of me getting grades and not for a look alike myspace page,with graffiti styled words and article headlines that sound and are made to look good and are off topic. I also think my grade should be based a little on the fact that 95% of my blogs have been posted on time. I also make sure my blogs give reasonable answers before i post them on to my page. That's not all but I'm going to stop for now and i hope i gave you enough excuses lolz! jp;=), reason's on what i think my grade should be.

Rocks! Sedimentary, Igneous, and Metamorphic all rocks!

The two main types of Igneous rocks are Intrusive which is the solidifying of magma under the earth's crust, and Extrusive which is the hardening of lava above the earths surface. An example of an Intrusive Igneous rock is Basalt which is a fine grained, dark colored rock composed mainly of material called plagioclase and pyroxene. An example of an Extrusive Igneous rock is Rhyolite, which is a light colored fine grained rock that usually contains quartz and feldspar minerals.

The two types of Metamorphic rock are Foliated and Non-Foliated rocks. Foliated rocks appear to have a layered or banded appearance that is produced by heat and directed pressure. Non-Foliated rocks do not have a layered or banded appearance. An example of an Non-Foliated rock is Amphibolite which forms through recrystallization under conditions of high viscosity and directed pressure. It is composed primarily of amphibole and plagioclase usually with very little quartz. An example of a Foliated rock would be Gneiss which has a banded appearance and is made up of granular mineral grains. It usually contains an abundant amount of quartz or feldspar minerals.

The two types of Sedimentary rocks are Clastic and Chemical. Clastic rocks consist of Breccia, Conglomerate, Sandstone, and Shale which is formed from mechanical weathering debris. While Chemical rocks such as rock salt and some limestones that form when dissolved materials precipitate from a solution. An example of a Clastic rock would be Shale which is made up of very small millimeter sized clay/weathering debris. It usually breaks into flat thin pieces. Rock salt is an example of a Chemical Sedimentary rock which form's from the evaporation or a ocean or saline lake waters. Also known as Halite, it is often used for chemical indusrty, highway treatment and as food seasoning.

Based on AGM? I think you should get this car Dad

If my parents wanted my advice on which car they should get, i would recommend a 2009 Nissan Altima because of its average gas mileage which is very effecient

Preferred map projection humm?

Out of all the map projection's there are, i would prefer to use the Robinson map projection. The map was introduced in 1961 by Author H. Robinson and is still in use today. It was intended to show the whole world on a flat accurate surface, which it has done but with a minor/major set back. The North and South poles are distorted

Minerals Minerals Minerals

Diamond is used for: jewerly, and saw blades.

Copper is used in electrical wires and coins.

Hematite is a source used to get iron ore.

Muscovite is used in electrical insulators.

Quartz is used in many electronics.

Astronomy of course!

Well astonomy seems most interesting to me, because it's the biggest and most promising with all the vast knowns and unknowns. With astronomy once you learn one thing about the universe or a solar system you want to learn more.