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Lab Due Tuesday, January 29

Purpose:  Does the temperature of water affect its density, when floating an egg?

We did a lab last Friday, testing 3 different types of salt and how the density was different for each.

At home, I want you to test room temperature water, hot tap water and cold water left in the refridgerator overnight.  Use Friday's lab as a basis to write up this one.  You will need to make changes to each section accordingly.  Please use regular table salt, which everyone should have and an egg.

This will need to be typed or written in ink.  We'll discuss this in class and I'll answer any questions then :-)

In your conclusions, discuss how this relates to ocean water!

Use this one for Friday

http://www.livescience.com/oceans/

Worksheet on Oceans-Due January 14th

http://library.thinkquest.org/6234/newpage1.htm

You may use this site or any other you find to complete the worksheet.

This will be due on Monday, January 14th.

Friday's computer assignment

http://www.livescience.com/environment/061226_oceans_wildfires.html

Choose any 4 of the featured ocean stories and give this info about each:

Title, Date and 5 facts about your story.

Done: check this out

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/supervolcano/puzzles/puzzles.html

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/titanic/puzzles/puzzles.html

Link to use for later assignment-Dive and Discover

http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/vents/index.html

Choose an expedition to explore, view the slide shows and see things you've never seen before!

Everything you could possibly want to know-Oceans

http://www.palomar.edu/oceanography/salty_ocean.htm

Explore a Sea Canyon- Homework Assignment

http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/media/dsc_life_flash/deep_sea.html

Give a summary of each of these regions: canyon wall, the midwater and the seafloor.

Write about 2 of the inhabitants for each of these regions.  This will be 6 in all.

Hydro-The Water Game

http://www.epa.gov/watersense/quiz/game.html

Try this out!!!!!!!!!

Windward- Ocean's Interactive

Internet Assignment for January

Due January 22

Print results or have your parents write a note.

http:www.ciconline.org/windward
Chances are the link won't work...so retype the address on your navigation bar.

Can't Send Email :-(

In case you were wondering why you hadn't heard from me this holiday- there's something wrong with my mailbox, so I can't email out.

Hope you've had a great and restful holiday!!!!!!   We'll be starting up Hydrology in January.  That's basically everything pertaining to water on Earth.  I'll be attaching the outline for the unit soon, so you'll know what's expected.

See you soon :-)