Rodinia and Pangaea

1. How were Rodinia and Pangaea similar and different from each other?

there similar because there close together and compact but then there different because Pangaea is more close together and the continents are in different places from the Rodina.


2. When did the tectonic plates appear to move the fastest? (biggest difference between two consecutive maps)

350 to 300 appear to change the fastest because the body of the land was mostly south then it jump in the middle so that's why i think that 350 to 300 is the most biggest consecutive jump.

3. Look at Pangaea (250 million years ago). If the continents looked like Pangaea today, what would the world be like? Think about governments, sports teams and leagues, and other aspects of life.

O Wow that would be amazing the capital would either be EU or AF because of size and mostly all of the big time stuff would either be in AF and EU like the president the NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAA, NWBA, and etc everybody that's rich might stay in EU or AF and if you make decent money then you would stay on the boundaries of those and the poor would stay like all the way on the outside but they would still be helpful because they will have all of the main resources so the rich people would eventually help them financially because of that. So that's how I think the world in general would be like what do you think it would be like Mr. Dunn

4. Look at Pangaea. If you could pick any place in Pangaea to start a modern civilization, where would you pick? Why?

I would settle or start a civilization in Africa because it is really big and it might have treasures that may come of a use to me , plus it is in the center of everybody else so it make it look like your the king or government to some degree . Then it's close to the equator so it's hot and I like that and if you think its to hot just go down south because AF so big you can get cold air at the same time.

1. List one sedimentary rock, and explain how you use it everyday.

Coal, when people have a cookout they ues coal on the grill.

2. List one igneous rock, and explain how you use it everyday.

Igneous rocks make useful road building materials because they are so hard. Sheets of igneous rock can be cut and polished and used inside buildings gravestones.
3. List one metamorphic rock, and explain how you use it everyday.

Marble is a metamorphic rock that is used to make floor tiles, counter tops and it is carved into statues and was used extensively in the building of the Roman Colluseum among other great historic buildings.

4. Find a picture of the coolest looking rock that you can find. What is its name? Include a picture.

Rock Salt

1. How deep is the deepest mine in the world?

The TauTona gold mine in South Africa, a mere 3.6 kilometers deep.

2. How deep would you have to dig to reach the mantle?

3.6 kilometers deep because its at the bottom of the TauTona gold mine.

3. Let's pretend that you and your friends tried to dig a hole in your backyard to find a shortcut to China. The thing is, you guys had special suits that could withstand extreme temperatures, so you would not die. If you were somehow able to reach the mantle, what would it look like? What kinds of things would you see? How about the outer core? Inner core? What would it look like as you approached the surface (the crust) on the other side?

  O wow well first the mantle would look like some hot red toothpaste moving around but some of it look like its frozen and silver but it was still extremly hot then when I reached the outer core it had looked like a small sun with flames jumping in and out of it but yet at the same times it kind of looked as if it was water don't know how that could be then with those suits we had on we jump threw the outer core and was going threw the inner core it looked liked a very dense basketball and it looked cold but it was so hot and dense that it took longer to get threw it so now were passed it and were on our way to China and the crust looked like somebody with cracked up skin and it was hard kind of but we could handle it so we bust threw it and there it was China town I even got a picture. Well I had to walk for about a week but I saw it SEE.

1. List all of the geologic periods in order from oldest to present (Cambrian to Quaternary).

Cambrian,Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Trassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary, Quanternary.
2. Come up with a mneumonic to help you remember the order. (example: My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas)

Calvin Order Some Dominos California Pizza To James Company Today
3. First watch this animation. Then put the rock layers in order from the image on the right.

1.D 2.A 3E. 4B. 5.C

this was really really hard

1. What grade do you deserve for your 1st Quarter Blogs?

I think that I deserve a decent grade.

2. Why do you deserve this grade?

I think I deserve a decent grade because the blogs are great but not perfect.
3. Which blog was your best? Why?

The one when we did with the cars and the mpg because one I like cars and because it was something  realistic that we can do in real life.