Extra: Mars

Mars is the Fourth planet from the Sun

Distance From the Sun: 227.9 million km

Mass: 0.107 Earths    Diameter: 6794 km

Rotation: 24h37min23s    Revolution: 687 days

# of Moons :  2     Terrstrial or Jovian (eliminate the wrong one)




Planet Description

 

 

Mars is basically a desert planet. The surface is fiiled with sand and the gravel is all over. This planet is without a stable liquid water body. Mars is referred to as the "Red Planet" because of its surface.The tempurature is pretty low on the Mars. The average temperature of surface is minus 55 Celsius Degree. It's easy to freeze water and carbon dioxide. So some of Earth's organisms can survive.

2 Interesting Facts

 

 

•  Mars is the name of Roman God of war and agriculture, the father of Romulus and Remus.
•  Although Mars is much smaller than Earth, but its surface area is equivalent to the Earth's surface land area.

Venus

Planet Order  2  from the Sun

Distance From the Sun:  108.2 km

Mass: 0.82 Earths    Diameter: 12,104

Rotation: 243 days    Revolution: 224.7 days

# of Moons  Noun     Terrestrial or Jovian (cross out the wrong one) 

Planet Description

Venus is surrounded by a dense atmosphere and cloud. You can only use the radio telescopes to see through the layer of the atmosphere. Venus's surface temperature as high as 485 Celsius degree to 465 Celsius degree. Some scientists called Venus is the Earth's "sister" planet because they have the similar size, radius, and volume. People think that Venus doesn't have water but in fact there is water inside of the Venus's magma. Just because the surface of Venus is too hot that then causes the water evaporated out. 

2 Intersting Facts

•  Venus is one of the names of Greek Goddness of love and beauty.
•  Venus is the second brightly star in the solar system.

Hurricane Irene Project

Critical Thinking

1. What time of the year do hurricanes occur? Why do they only happen during that time?
   The hurricanes would occur mostly from June 1 to November 30 because the ocean water are warm during this time frame. Hurricanes need warm weather to develop. The warmer weather causing more vapor and more precipitation.

2. How can the timing of the tides(high or low) effect the devastation of a hurricane?
    High tides causes storm surge of hurricane goes further into the land and low tides causes less damage since the storm surge is weaker,so hurricane would not reach as far into the land. So high tides causes more damage than low tides. High tides result in flooding of the area.

3. If an area is fully saturated, will a hurricane have more or less impact on an area?
    If an area is fully saturated, hurricane will have greater impact on an area. There are more flooding. Trees are knocked down.

4. How does groundwater saturation affect rivers and streams?
    When there's a hurricane or heavy rain, rivers and streams will overflow with water leading to flooding of the area.



Reflection

1. What is something that you liked in this Mini Project?
    I learned some of the natural phenomenas from this project. It's important to know how the phenomenas form and how we can prevent the disaster happen.

2. What is difficult for you on this project?
    The most difficult thing on this project was to organize the details from all of the natural phenomenas because there were lots of things that had connections and confused me easily.

3. What would you change about on this project?
     One thing I would change on this project was the grammar because my grammar is not good that people would not understand what I was trying to say.

4. How did this project help you learn about Hurricane Irene?
    If there is a hurricane happen next time, I would know when would it mostly occur, what should I do, which places are safe for staying, and how can I protect myself.