Volcanoes - science

How do volcanoes form?

They form because of the movement of tectonic plates. Tectonic plates are pieces of earths crust and uppermost mantle together referred to as the lithosphere. The plates are around 100 km, 62 mi thick and consist of two types of material, oceanic crust and continental crust. Divergent boundaries occur when two plates pull apart, letting the magma through the gap. Convegent boudaries occur when to plates come together, when the continential crust and the ocianic crust come together.

Mount Ngauruhoe

Mount Ngauruhoeis located in the central north island. Mount Ngauruhoe last erupted In 1977 and is still active to this day.  

I caused no major damage to the are surrounding the volcanoe but it spat out lava for a few hours and eneded later on that day.

 Interestingly enough the most active volcanoe today is the Kīlauea in Hawaii, it is currently the world's most active volcano, followed by Etna in Italy and Piton de la Fournaise on La Réunion.


 Kīlauea in Hawaii cause major damage to both the people and the island of Fiji when it last erupted on january the 3rd 1983.

Graphs - social studies

This is my graph about the number of auzzies born overseas
We used an abreviation call Faultspk and made a graph on the amount of auzzies born in a different counrty and migrated to Australia
faultspk stands fo:
F- Frame
A- Axis
U- Units
L- Lables
T- Title
S- Scale
P- Plot
K- Key
 

Particle Theroy of Matter - Convection

Aim - To observe convection in a liquid 

Equipment - 200 ml beaker, water, tweezers, a crystal of potassium permanganate, a drinking staw, bunsen burner, heat mat, tripod and gauze mat.

Method -  
1. set up a bunsen burner on a heat proof mat, Put the gauze at on the tripoad but leave it just to one side of the bunsen burner.
2. Fill a 200 ml beaker with 150 ml cold water.

3. place the beaker on top of the tripod and guaze and allow it ot settle for a few minutes.

4. carefull inster the drinking straw down one side of the beaker, ensuring the straw is toucing the bottom of the beaker. be careful as you do not want to disturb the water to much.

5. using tweezers, drop a crystal of potassium  permanganate down inside the straw. wait for the crustal to settle on the bottom of the beaker.

6. very gently, so you don't distirb the water, remove the straw.

7. light the bunsen and slide it under the tripod so that you are only heating the outside of the beaker where the crystal is, obseve.

Observation -  The crystal dissolved and made a thick purple cloud and dissolved more rappidly on the heated side of the beaker. the purple moved up the beakers side and then formed a big circle and made its way around the beaker.

explanation -  this is because of convection currents. Hot water wanting t omove to a cooler place 

Persuasive writting reflection, English

What did i learn?
I learnt how to write a persuasive statment without dragging out the topic and using the same words more than once.

Why did we do it as a class?
To use everyones ideas and help create a SEXY paragraph that is both powerful and interesting.

What will i do better next time? 
I will try to involve myself more in these activitys. I will aslo take what ive learnt and put it into my writting.

What questions do i still have? 
Why do we have to use the 
"SEXY" paragraphs.