Nicolas Reed Science Blog

Summary:        This week in science we finished our Geologic Time Project where each student researched a certain era on the Geologic Time Scale and created an interactive poster about that era. The era that I chose to create a poster about was the Cenozoic Era. This project was very research intensive as almost half the project was spent on research. The types of things that we researched about our era's were the climate in the era, the geologic events of that era, the position of continents during that era, and much more. The climate in the Tertiary period of the Cenozoic Era was mainly warm. In the Quaternary period however, there was a change in the environment as the climate of the Earth began to cool. In result of this, there was a series of ice ages during the Quaternary Period. Although eventually the climate began to warm up and become what it is today. The main geologic events that occurred throughout this era are the formation of the Himalaya Moun...

Homo Sapiens: 15,000 Years Ago by Neil R Summary:        "The geologic time scale uses events, or huge things that have happened, instead of years to refer to different sections of Earth's history." as said in the article titled "Tic-Toc-Time" by Rocketlit. Geologic time is split into three types of measures of time, those measures being eons, eras, and periods. One era in the geologic time scale is the Cenozoic Era. One important thing to note about the Cenozoic Era is that it is the current era that we (humans) are living in. This era is split into two different periods, the Tertiary period and the Quaternary period. The Tertiary period lasted from 66 million years ago to 1.8 million years ago. The Quaternary period has lasted from 1.8 million years ago to present time. The major events that occured in the Cenozoic Era is the rise of the homo sapiens (humans) which occurred and is still occuring in the Quaternary Period. Other major events are the afte...

Rockcycle by Woudloper/Woodwalker Summary:        The rock cycle is the process in which rocks are broken down and transformed into other rocks. These rocks are igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, and metamorphic rocks. Igneous rocks form when molten material from beneath the Earth's surface cools and hardens.  Sedimentary rock is made of sediments that have been deposited and then pressed together to form solid rock. Lastly, metamorphic rock forms when an existing rock is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions.  One interesting fact about the rock cycle is that one of the stages of the rock cycle, magma is around 1000 degrees celsius. Magma is the result of when rock melts deep underground. Also, the type of rock that is formed from underground crystallization of magma is an intrusive igneous rock. At the same time, extrusive igneous rock forms when magma crystallizes above ground. Lastly, sedimentary rocks are formed form when sediment goe...

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           This year I decided to return to AdVENTURE and spend my last year of middle school here. In my past 3 years here I have had a great time and have learned a lot. AdVENTURE has given me many things, one of those being friendships. AdVENTURE has also taught me many things in engaging ways which made learning those things much more enjoyable. But I did not just come back to AdVENTURE because of the education, I also came back due to the after school programs such as sports, and doing these sports is very fun. So when taking these things into account, I had very little reason to not attend AdVENTURE, which is why I decided to come back.        Some of my best friends have come from AdVENTURE, and without AdVENTURE I would probably not even know most of my friends today. These friendships played a vital role in me coming back. But it was not just my friends that made me want to come back, it was also the fact that AdVENTURE has t...

Link to Ozone Hole Image Summary:        This week in science we finished our scientist wanted project. For this project we had to choose a famous scientists (I chose Mario Molina) and then create a wanted poster on them. This project allowed me to learn many things about Mario Molina which then allowed me to develop a my thoughts about him. Based on what I learned I think that Mario Molina cares about helping the environment. This is due his many quotes he has about the environment (such as climate change) and the fact that he discovered the ozone hole. I also think that Mario cares about spreading the science field to Latinos and Hispanics. I think that he cares greatly about science and that he believes that their should be more Latinos and Hispanics in the field. I also think this this due to the following quote by him, " Many Latino kids should become scientists because we need scientists all over the world from all different backgrounds. We have many toug...

Summary: Link        This week in science we studied certain scientists so that we could make a wanted poster about them. The scientist that I chose to learn about was Mario Molina. What I learned about Mario Molina was what he is famous for, personal information, where he conducted his work, his educational background, his main achievements, and who he worked with. He is famous for his important role in the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole.  The personal information that I learned was his birth date, place of birth, and family members.  Most of his work was done in California more specifically at University of California, Irvine, University of California, San Diego, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He also joined the facility of MIT for some time. His basic studies were done in Mexico and at the Institut auf dem Rosenberg in Switzerland. He than got his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ...