Friday, October 30, 2015
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Book Review Jedi Academy Series
The Jedi Academy series by Jeffery Brown is a great series, the writer is himself a star wars fan. I think that was an essential factor for the books to be a success. The books are more of graphic novels but they have written parts. These books are filled with jokes and funny content, I highly recommend this book for all star wars fans. I give this book four stars
Drainage basin research
Rivers Report
João
Guilherme B.H.
15/9/15
A drainage basin is an area drained by a main
river and its smaller tributaries. The drainage basins are separated by natural
boundaries called watersheds.
The main components of a river are the source,
tributaries, confluence, main river and mouth. Usually the land around the river has vegetation
even in very different biomes. Studying the Amazon drainage basin some examples
are:
Amazon
The water of the river Amazon comes from the snow
of the Andes Mountains in Peru. The source of the river amazon has not yet been
found for certain but scientists think it is the river Vilcanota in Peru that
flows into Brazil as rio Solimões and turns into the Amazon in its confluence
with rio Negro. The Amazon drainage basin has many tributaries such as the rio
Tapajós, rio Madeira, etc. The Amazon drainage basin is known for being the
biggest on earth with about 7 million square kilometers and occupies 40% of the
Brazilian geographical area. Around the Amazon River runs the Amazon
rainforest.
Upper
course of the river:
V shaped valleys are formed by erosion. This land
for is formed when erosion happens for millions and millions of years forming a
great valley with a river in the middle.
Waterfalls are formed when the softer rock that is
under the hard rock is eroded forming a space under the hard rock that is
called a plunge pool. When this happens, the water falls in a steep way.
Gorges can be formed in two different ways by
waterfall retraction that is when the soft rock is eroded and the and the hard
one falls and after many times that it happens there will be two rock walls
after a waterfall. Another way is when a tectonic plate goes up and the other
goes down. Then there extreme erosion happens and the plate that went up is now
divided by the river.
In the Amazon the upper course is in the Andes
mountains. The river goes through many gorges and waterfalls. The river systems
and floodplains in Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela are called the
upper Amazon.
Middle
Course:
Meanders are formed when the outer side of a curve
in the river has erosion and the inner part has deposition. Then a big curve
will form.
Oxbow lakes are formed when a meander has
deposition on the start of it and the river tries to find a new way past it so
it erodes a straight line and a lake stays beside the river in the form of a
bow.
In the middle course of the Amazon the water flows
at a speed of two kilometers per hour.
In the basin flooding occurs between June and
October.
Lower
Course:
Flood plains are formed when there is a large
river and a lot of deposition takes place so there is only a small stream but
when there is too much water all the area that was once the river floods.
Deltas are formed very close to the mouth of the
river. Deltas are formed when the water needs more space to flow into the ocean
so it erodes many little streams that flow to the mouth. Here deposition also
takes place, between the streams sediments are deposited in islands
The floodplains in the Amazon are made of many
features such as shallow lakes, swamps and mangrove forests. The river mouth
extends for 320 kilometers and it pours out 214 million liters of water per
second in the Atlantic Ocean. The river Amazon does not have a delta because of
its bore.
The coastline by the mouth is being eroded and
muddy sediments are deposited.
Sources:
World
Atlas.
8th ed. DK. Print.
"Sua Pesquisa - Portal De Pesquisas Temáticas." Bacia Amazônica. Web. 14 Sept. 2015.
"Amazon
River | Facts, History, Animals, & Map." Encyclopedia
Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica. Web. 14 Sept. 2015
"Amazon
River." - New World
Encyclopedia. Web. 15 Sept. 2015.
"Amazon Basin
Facts." - National Zoo|
FONZ. Web. 15 Sept. 2015.My group also did a 3D model of a drainage basin
Invented diary
In this project I had to invent a diary of a sailor in a travel during the 1500s
Diário de Bordo
Viagem Calcutá – Lisboa
Outubro 1527
8 de outubro de 1527
Hoje
estamos iniciando a nossa viagem de volta para Lisboa, compramos muitas
especiarias e o capitão espera ganhar muito dinheiro vendendo para os
burgueses. Nosso leme já foi consertado, quando estávamos vindo para a Índia
bateram na nossa popa e isso quebrou o nosso leme dificultando a nossa chegada.
Partimos em direção a Melinde na costa oeste da África.
11 de janeiro de 1528
Tornamos
o cabo da boa esperança, há alguns dias paramos em Aguada de S. Braz para pegar
mantimentos e deixar um homem que teve escorbuto por falta de vitamina C. Por
causa da falta de alimentos na nossa embarcação, temos apenas carne, cebola,
azeite, vinagre, biscoitos secos, com consumo restrito.
23 de janeiro de 1528
O
capitão Manuel foi forçado a fazer uma parada de emergência hoje. Onze homens
da nossa caravela pegaram Leptospirose e foram retirados. Esta doença é muito
comum nas embarcações por causa das condições de higiene precárias. Agora temos
apenas 54 homens a bordo.
2 de fevereiro de 1528
Hoje
eu, que estava limpado o convés, e alguns homens que estavam hasteando a vela, sentimos
fortes pancadas na parte de fora da proa. Eu deixei meu escovão de lado (pois
sou apenas um moço de convés) e fui ver o que acontecera. Chegando lá me
encontro com um homem encharcado e desesperando, ele me disse que seu navio
tinha sido atacado por piratas africanos. Levei-o imediatamente para o capitão
Manuel.
10 de abril de 1528
Por
conta das muitas perdas de marinheiros o capitão parou ontem em uma vila na
costa leste da África que foi colonizada por portugueses. Mais de vinte homens
embarcaram no nosso navio. Felizmente o senhor capitão me promoveu a
contramestre.
28 de abril de 1528
Um dos
homens novos no navio comentou comigo que pouco antes da nossa chegada a vila
um navio grande com muitos canhões saiu de lá. E que hoje de manhã seus amigos
lhe mostraram o mesmo navio que os aterrorizou. Eles acham que são os piratas.
18 de junho de 1528
O
capitão fez algo muito estranho hoje, quase bateu em uma Nau que vinha da
Espanha e saiu da nossa rota. Mais chegamos ilesos a nossa última parada antes
de chegar em casa. Acho que alguns homens querem fazer um motim contra o
capitão Manuel.
27 de junho de 1528
Os
homens se viraram contra Manuel que agora não é mais capitão. Os poucos que
ficaram com ele foram presos pelos seus companheiros no porão. Manuel agora está
preso em seu dormitório. Infelizmente não fui nomeado capitão, mas meu grande
amigo Joaquim (novo capitão) me pois de capitão de cabotagem.
2 de julho de 1528
Estamos
muito perto de Portugal só mais alguns dias e estaremos em terra firme. Mas
Manuel foi à loucura e jogou todos os instrumentos no mar. Astrolábio, balhestilha,
quadrante, foi tudo por água a baixo. A única coisa que nos restou foi a minha
velha bússola.
8 de julho de 1528
Finalmente
depois de vinte meses chegamos em casa de novo. Muitos homens nos deixaram
durante a viagem e serão reconhecidos pela comunidade. Joaquim voltou para a
pequena vila na costa para levar de volta os bravos homens que embarcaram nesta
viagem. Nós vendemos as especiarias e conseguimos dinheiro para sustentar
nossas famílias por algum tempo.
Famous scientist Jane Goodall
Dame Jane Morris Goodall
Wanted
dead or alive
for discovering similarities between humans and chimpanzees
May be found in gombe, location she worked, or england, where she was born
Jane had many discoveries in Gombe, but the most amazing one was that the Chimps can craft tools, simple, but tools! She also discovered that Chimps ate some meat and would fight, but they would show more love and affection instead of hate. Jane’s discoveries were and are applied in other discoveries and hypotheses of other scientists and biologists, her discoveries helped them prove their discoveries as well. After Jane's discovery the world started to know how and where we (humans) came from. Her discovery also led to other more amazing discoveries about our origins. Jane also has a institute called “The Jane Goodall Institute” she uses it to show her research to the world and to protect endangered chimpanzees.
Reward: $1,000
Graphs in exel
In science we worked with graphs and charts, here is some practice I did in the computer.
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