Minerals lab Video

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1)I most enjoy making hypothesis and checking its right or wrong. If our hypothesis is wrong we have some thing new and different to learn but that the most enjoy full part to me.

2)The most challenging is to make video and editing and the writing lab reports.

3)I learned about minerals, which I never saw in my life.

4)If I do same thing I will choose to make I movie.

Mineral Lab

Names: Ridda, Francisco, Shahzod     Class: L

MINERAL ID: A VIRTUAL LAB REPORT

Lab Title: Identification test of the minerals

Background: Minerals is a non-living solid all minerals are formed from natural processes occurring on the surface or within the earth without any human interference, if a mineral is not made naturally if is made by human is not considered as a mineral. Rocks are made of minerals some of them are made by more than one mineral. Every mineral is broke in cleavage or fracture.

400 minerals found. All minerals are naturally. Minerals are organic and non organic. They are everywhere on earth in different conditions. Some of minerals known as carbonates made in warm, shallow ocean waters. Other minerals made when rocks changes in pressure or temperature. There are four major processes which minerals made: crystallization from magma, precipitation, changes in pressure and temperature, and formation from hydrothermal solution.

Minerals properties when minerals have there own thing what thing minerals have, for example color. Height, weight etc. some minerals can be organized by other different properties. Metallic minerals such as gold, silver, and copper, are easily shaped. Some types of magnetic are magnetic and can used to pick up paper clip and small nails. A minerals properties elements depend on the element that compose the minerals.

Purpose: The purpose of this lab is to describe the characteristic of some minerals to find the type of minerals that they are. We did this activity to learn more about minerals. In this lab we were supposed to learn more about minerals and the steps that we have to take order to describe a mineral.

Materials: Streak plate, glass plate, penny, nail, fingernail, magnet, camera, minerals and magnifying glass.

Problem: To identify minerals using their physical properties and to get acquainted to a set of common, rock-forming minerals.

Methods/Procedure: (you will need more steps than 3)

Step 1 – We tested for streak to find the color.

Step 2 – We did the hardness.

Step 3 – We did the cleavage.

Step 4­- We did the luster to find if the minerals were metallic or nonmetallic. 

Step 5- We use a magnet to see if the minerals were magnetic.

Data (Copy and paste this symbol: S)

	Luster	Streak	Hardness	Cleavage	Other	Mineral & Composition
	Hypothesis: Muscovite Mica		Properties: color(yellow to amber), luster(nonmetallic), cleavage
	o Metallic S Nonmetallic	o Color S Colorless/White	S Soft o Hard	S Cleavage o Fracture	Non magnetic	Muscovite Mica
	Hypothesis: Fluorite		Properties: Colorless or variable
	o Metallic S Nonmetallic	o Color S Colorless/White	S Soft o Hard	S Cleavage o Fracture	Non magnetic	Talc
	Hypothesis: Quartz		Properties: Colorless or variable
	o Metallic S Nonmetallic	o Color S Colorless/White	o Soft S Hard	o Cleavage S Fracture	Non magnetic	Quartz
	Hypothesis: Hematite		Properties: Metallic silver or earthy red
	S Metallic o Nonmetallic	S Color o Colorless/White	S Soft o Hard	o Cleavage S Fracture	Non magnetic	Hematite
	Hypothesis: Selenite Gypsum		Properties: White to pink or gray
	o Metallic S Nonmetallic	S Color o Colorless/White	S Soft o Hard	S Cleavage o Fracture	Non magnetic	Selenite Gypsum

Results: A= Muscovite Mica, B= Talc, C= Quartz, D= Hematite, E= Potassium Feldspar.

Discussion/Analysis: I get 4 out 5 minerals correct; the one that I get wrong was because I made a mistake doing the hardness.

Conclusions: I learned that by predicting the mineral using the chart I can get the definition that can tell me which one is that mineral, but is not accurate as testing it.

BE SURE TO HAVE THIS CHECKED BEFORE YOU PRINT!!

Reference

Tarbuck, Edward J and Fredrick K. Lutgens. Earth Science. New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006.

Feather Jr., Ralph M.,Susan Leach Snyder and Dinah Zike. Earth Science. New York: McGraw-Hill Inc, 2002.

Our shaking world project

Summery

Faults

Fault is large fractures in earth crust. There are types of faults, normal fault, reverse fault and strike-slip. Normal fault when rocks move down. Reveres fault is when the rocks move up ward. The last fault is slip- strike is when rocks slide pass one another in opposite directions these fault also cause on earthquakes and tsunami because if their fractures in earth crust. Most earthquakes occurs faults

Earth interior

Earth is made of 3 layers. 1) Crust 2) mantle 3) core. The crust is the part of lithosphere. Mantle is liquid layer. And the core has 2 types of core, one of them is other core and another one is outer core.  Inner core is solid and inner is the mantle and liquid iron.

Volcanoes

Volcanoes are the opening in the earth that erupts gases, ash and lava. There are 3 types of volcanoes. The first volcanoes are shield volcanoes another volcanoes is cinder cone volcanoes and the last volcano is composite volcanoes. Shield volcanoes are volcano volcanic cone made up of larges of harder lava. Cinder cone volcano an opening in the earth that erupts gases ash and lava. Composite volcano made up of alternating lays of lava is rock particles.

Critical thinking question

Do you agree with the theory of plate tectonics? Why or why not?

Yes I am agree with the theory of plate tectonics because to be cover with them to covering idea. The 3 piece of evidence is continental drift, seafloor spreading and Pangaea.

Reflection

1)        The most enjoy about this project is to do lab.

2)      The most challenging for you during this project is making reference because its make me confuse.

3)       I learn from this project how it’s hard to make quiz.

4)      Yes I improve  the  time because I was absent but in this time I improve and try my best to work  class mates.

Eclipses

Video

Vocabulary

Word	Native language	Definition
Penumbra	تمہیں جان سے مار	The lightest part of the shadow.
Umbra	اللہ	The darkest part of the shadow.
Lunar eclipse	چندرگہن	When the moon around the earth shadow.
Total eclipse	کل چاند اور سورج گرہن	When the entire moon enters the earth’s umbra (the darkest part of the shadow).
Partial eclipse	جزوی چاند اور سورج گرہن	When the only part of the moon enters the earth’s umbra, this is called partial eclipse.
Solar eclipse	سورج گرہن	When the moon comes between the sun and earth.
Partial solar eclipse	جزوی سورج گرہن	A partial solar eclipse is when the moon only covers part of the sun.
Total solar eclipse	کل سورج گرہن	When moon cover whole sun.

Summary 

Our project name is eclipse. There are two types of eclipse. 1) Solar eclipse and 2) lunar eclipse. Lunar eclipse when the moon moves behind the earth’s shadow. It’s a full moon. Total eclipse and partial eclipse is also part of solar and lunar eclipse. Total eclipse happens when the whole moon enters the umbra.  Umbra is the darkest part of the shadow. Partial eclipse when only part of the moon enters the earth umbra. In eclipse we have two parts of the shadow, umbra and penumbra. Solar eclipse is an other type of eclipse. Its also have total solar eclipse and partial solar eclipse. A partial eclipse when the moon covers only part of the sun. A total solar eclipse when moon cover the whole sun. And when full moon phase happen. This is our part of the solar system. In

How is earth affected by movement (revolution)?

The earth revolves around the sun. Its one cause of seasons. Earth revolves at axis. If sun light direct to the earth its summer. If the sun light in direct to the earth its winter. If sunlight hits on equator its spring and fall seasons.

Reflections

1)    I most enjoy about this project is sharing idea with groups.

2)    The most challenge was the moving the pictures around and its was really confusing.

3)    The new skill is before you record video make sure all vocabulary word  are there to represent.

4)    I prove that how to speak slowly and give them time to fix every thing.