Noor's Science Methods Two Blog

  Week 14 Lab: We began to discuss the Interview with an Elder and all of our findings.  Overall Video Notes: Droughts cause dried dead wood to fall causing massive mega fires to spread. 2020 was the year of the most mega fires. Fossil Fuels are made of old plants, when we dig them up we release old Carbon 12 into the environment. This significantly shows us that the rise of Co2 in the environment is from the burning of fossil fuels. This is why the Carbon 13 in our environment is changing to Carbon 12. When we trap more heat into our atmosphere it causes a transfer of energy into extreme events increasing mega fires, sea level rise, etc.  1. What is a greenhouse gas? Gasses that trap heat, and makes earths temperatures increase.  Some solar radiation is reflected by the earth and the atmosphere, it will either be absorbed or reflected of.  Albedo is this affect, lighter colors will reflect them, darker colors will absorb them Most of the radiation is absorbed b...

  Week 13 ALL UPDATED Lab: We began by talking about inquiry based learning and also climate changes overwhelming affect on almost everything. For example Aly mentioned that climate change has affected covid 19 because when deforestation occurs, and humans ruin wild life habitats, the wild animals that live in that live in these habitats will start intermixing with humans and they carry thousands of unknown diseases that can cause pandemics. We then each read different articles about climate change in Iowa and learned that the high temperatures will double in the next two decades. This effects our economic systems, health, and can cause flooding in Iowa.  Teachers who teach about climate change sometimes avoid it, and also teach wrong information that what is occurring is natural.  Lecture New Thoughts: Climate Change Again, climate can only be measured over 30 years, anything less and it is considered weather.  almost 14k peer reviewed articles on climate change, an...

  Week 12 I did not have a previous blog last semester to update.  Climate and Weather Climate is a 30 year average of the weather. Weather is whatever it is that day or week or month. Climate is a personality and weather is the mood. S omeone with a great personality who is always bubbly and happy can also just have a bad day. Same concept as climate and weathering.  Before the flood: Common themes- Caused by humans, oil, coal, people not believing in climate change, big corporations and their roles, and poor people were affected the most. What questions to address- What will our new normal look like? (societal/economical) What other things are being affected? Why is renewable energy not used more? How can we make them more affordable? If we invested would the US be able to use more renewable energy soon? How could we address them- Through labs and hands on experimentation. I would prefer that over lectures.  The percentage of precipitation is increasing in America...

  Week 11 Lab Law of Superposition: Oldest rocks are at the bottom Igneous means born from fire If an igneous molten lava came and tried pushing through the rocks it tips the layers of the rocks. Anything that tilted is older than the lava. Every new layer of rock on top of that will lay flat.  We then went over the Sweater Article, we discussed the power we have as teachers and how we have to understand the flaws of the system before we can be better.  Next we analyzed sand from all over the world under a microscope.  Lecture Water, wind, and glaciers are the forms of erosion (moving material). Wind erosion can only move small particles, but they can eat away at larger.  Principles of wind erosion: Wind shadows- areas behind an object where wind speed slows down and material is deposited Carves the earth  Sand created through water is polished, smooth, and generally similar in size.  Sand created through glaciers is polished, smooth, but irregular in...