Monday, November 29, 2010

Monday, November 29th, 2010

Welcome back after a long Thanksgivng break, I hope y'all had fun. This week we are continuing our discussions of Weathering, Erosion and Deposition by learning about the slow changes that can occur to landforms and the rapid, or quick changes that occur. Today in class we discussed the formation of caves, and in the computer lab you watched the glaciers and mountains video.


Caves: stalactites, stalagmites, columns, cave pools

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Glaciers change "V" shaped valleys into "U" shaped valleys:

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In your response, describe how a cave forms, tell me something new you learned about glaciers and something new you learned about mountains.

33 comments:

  1. glacier are made out of ice and snow. #18

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  2. today I learned that glaiceirs are made of ice and snow

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  3. i learned that a mountain is a type of rocks that is built up together.then i learned about glaiers and it is a type of ice.20#

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  4. today i learn about glacier and how glacier help us and glacier is made of ice and snow.#3

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  5. Mountains can erode

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  6. A cave forms with acid & minerals ice&snow create glaciers #17

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  7. i learned that mountain are a type of rock. 18

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  8. caves form when all kinds of sediments fall in the water. glaciers move very gradually. mountains can form in different shapes and sizes. #21

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  9. glaciers are made of snow. and mountain is a type of rock and i learned about how slaves would get paid they worked on holidays. and caves are like a big hole under the ground.loVE,#2

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  10. when snow piles up it makes a glacier and weak acid makes a cave#27

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  11. then i learned about caves it is a hole.20#

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  12. a cave forms by acid and minerals and i never new that glaciers were on a mountain and i learned that mountains have a vocanlo on it #14

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  13. a cave forms when water from rain mixes with minerals underground making a weak acid that over time, makes a cave with stalagtites and stalagmites. Something I learned about glaciers is that they are formed by ice and snow. Something I Learned about mountains is that are formed from the earths crust.
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  14. Mountains sometimes have snow at the top.glaciers are made from ice and snow.caves are formed with acid and stalagmites and stactites.#26

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  15. #1 I learned that mountains can form underwater.#1 I learned that glaciers use the power of erosion to pick up sand,dirt,and rocks . Caves can form underwater, glaciers use power of erosion to pick up sand,dirt,and rocks, mountains form gradually#12.#1 caves are formed by minerals that travel underground.

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  16. i learned that mountans are made from big balls of rocks.And glaciers are made of big chuncks of ice and it takes a long time to move.And caves is an huge rock with a hole in it.#16

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  17. What I learned about is that volcanos are formed by cool magma.I also learned that glaciers picks up things and deposit in a new place.I learned in class that caves are formed with rain that goes underground and breaks the rock down and makes a hole underground and the water droplets leave the minerals on the top and bottom of the cave to form stalagmites and stalagtites

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  18. i learn about mountains and cave mountains can form in different shape and size and cave tell how it form a hole.#3

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  19. Mountains can form a V-shaped valley...
    Antarctica is covered with continal glaciers so thick you can't see most of the ground...
    A cave has columns,made by stlagtites &stlagmites #22

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  20. #17 Mountains form gradually and there are diffrent types of mountains.
    Caves form with Minerals,CO2,& Acid. Glaciers are formed by snow&ice

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  21. stalactites hang on the top of caves,glaciers move when ice melts from the bottom,and are made in different ways.#7

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  22. caves is a huge rock with a hole in it #18

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  23. what i learned is that glaciers are made up of snow piled up high then once its high the bottom turns into ice then it gets mushy in the bottom. mountains are made of the plates that move in the surface of the earth they pull apart or push against each other an make lots of cool transformations. what i learned about cave is that the water went through and the minerals are mixed with it and keeps on going in and it turns into a cave !!!!!! #5

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  24. I learned that glaciers are slower than buldosers and mountaions have a sharp peak.#15

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  25. mountains form when they push against each other and glaciers form when snow piles up and weak acid makes caves

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  26. In the classroom I learned that stalactites are things that hang on the top of caves,and they look like icicles.In the movie I learned that when the earth moves closer the more a mountain forms.

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  27. we learned that montians can be formed in diffrent ways. that glaciers can form v-shaped valleys. and that caves are under ground #13 #8

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  28. In class i learned that caves are formed when water and minerals are pushed more into the ground causing a cave to form.
    I also learned that glaciers move when snow piles up and the bottom layer freezes and starts getting putty and slip.
    I also learned that volcanoes are more underground and underwater than they are above ground.#6

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  29. today we learned that {glaciers} move gradually (2 centimeters every year) {mountains} can be at valleys and become valley glaciers at a frozen peak {caves} when it rains the drops go through the ground and pickup minerals then they make empty space then they form stalagtites (minerals hanging from the ceiling) stalacmites (are on the ground) colunms (connected minerals) and it keeps dripping to make a cave pool#23

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  30. #11 caves form when the it rains so much that it makes a hole in the ground .All the minerals it picks up it goes underground and makes stalagtites ,colunms,and stalacmites.I learned glaciers can make lacks and velleys and mountians are madefrom the pushing of the earth.

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  31. i learned about how glaisers move slow and move gradually

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  32. ive learned that the solarsystem is one of the biggest galaxy and pluto is not a planet anymore

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