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The website shows how you can take ashes and make them into diamonds and jewelry

I think that it is crazy that the temperature has to go up to 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit! Then the carbon turns into graphite. This process takes a few weeks. I think that it's very cool that you can turn ashes into diamonds.

This is really interesting how cremations can turn into diamonds with very high pressure and heat but I don't think this is really relevant to our unite. If you get one you can always keep your grandma close to your heart...literally.

Good Dino site

Evan, this was a very good site to learn about brontosaurus or apatosaurus. Apatosaurus have a small head which concludes that they have a small brain, and aren't the most intelligent species that had lived during their time. They had a long tail which acted as a counterbalanced to its very long neck. It also was a tool of protection from other predatorsYet the extremely long neck had advantages for a herbavore who would be constantly attacked by hungry predators. The apatosaurus was a very tall sauropod, which was taller than the allosaurus, which was a predator of the time. The allosaurus is not tall enough to try and snap at the head of the dinosaur, and it wouldn't be smart to get near a whip like like tail such as the apatosaurus's. It had a bulky body and ate rocks to help the digestion of its food.An interesting fact that i had learned was that their nostrils were located on the top of their head, but it couldn't be used as a snorkeling device because the apatosaurus lived on land and not near many big masses of water. I had peg like teeth, which resembling ones of a lizard today, and had four legs.

This website was very useful in talking about the apatosaurus. The apatosaurus was a plant eater (herbivore). This dinosaur had a small head and walked on four legs. The apatosaurus was one of the biggest land animals.

This is an article about the tectonic plates that make up the crust of our planet.

This was a very informative website about tectonic plates. It talked about where plates are found and boundaries made by these plates.

This was a very good article about the movements of tectonic plates. One of the most interesting facts that I had learned from reading the article was that the tectonic plates make up earths outer shell called the lithosphere. There were also many different things that I didn't know about such as that if the plates keep diverging in the Great Rift Valley in Africa, millions of years from now, eastern Africa will split apart from the continent creating a new continent. the three different types of Tectonic Boundaries are called convergent, divergent, and transform.

This shows the process of cremation diamonds are made.

This website showed how ashes can be turned into diamonds.

I think that it is crazy that the temperature has to go up to 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit! Then the carbon turns to graphite and that takes a few weeks to do I think that it is crazy that you can turn ashes into diamonds!

An unconformity is when there is a missing layer in the rocks

Its a good site that goes through a lot of different rock layers.

The oldest rocks in Colorado are 1.7-1.8 billion years old.

On the link I posted, scroll down for EVERYTHING Dinosaurs!

This was a very useful website that talked about the size of the sauropods bodies and necks, what they ate, and a lot of other cool facts about them.

Sauropods are not heavily armed, but later versions of sauropods had some form of armor which was used as protection against other predators. Sauropods were plant eaters and had a very small brain hecause their head was very small. They were herbavores and ate mostley connifers.

This website is very interesting. It shows a map and when you click on a region it explains in detail how the climate change in that region has changed.

This is about the climate change that has happened in the USA I the pasted years. This is a government website and it is amazing.

I thnk this website is really good because of the regional map. When you click on an area it shows you how much global warming has really affected it in the past years. If enough peopl in the world look at it ( randomly ), it could help us cut back on harmful products.

Cute clam

strange but interesting

This is utterly useless to what we are studying. This shows how a clam swims, and we are learning about geology.

This is a Wikipedia article about a type of sauropod called apatosaurus. (Website seen in 7-1 class...)

Wikipedia had a variety of facts which will help us in class. The information was fascinating but the website did include some details about the animal that weren't necessary.

The brontosaurus lived from about 154-150 million years ago.

The website tells about igneous rocks and how it's formed and where it's found

I learned that hypabyssal rock forms under the surface of the Earth's crust.

Igneous rock is one of the 3 main rock types and Ignis means fire in Latin.

This is a really informative website about stromatolites. I learned a lot about stromatolites in this article.

Stromatolites are the oldest form of life and are composed of many different types of bacteria hardened together. This website was pretty accurate and related to the Lykins era in Denver history.

I really did not know that 96% of marine life died. Also 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species were extinct.

A lot of information about record highs and emissions in the atmosphere.

Gives good information on what sort of heat increases gain throughout the years.

This website gives the statistical facts about global warming, such as carbon dioxide facts and all time highs. This article is highly fact based, explaining statistics as well. It also speaks of the U.S. and its increased temperatures in 2011.

Website for crater rock

This isn't very helpful... More touristy.

This museum has really cool rocks and artifacts, but doesn't have much to do with our ancient Denver's unit.

This is a website about stromatolites.

This is a good website on stromatolites and the history behind them.

This is a great website on stromatolites and its what we learned. Great job!

A website about dinosaurs and there everyday lifestyle.

This website had a wide variety of dinosaurs. It talked about the dinosaurs habitat and there lifestyle.

This is a really good website because it was talking about alls of the different dinosaurs that lived in the cretacious period. in this, we also more about the sauropods, which contributed to a great amount of chatter in class disscusion. Basically what we learnd here was that sauropods had gone extinct, but their relitive, which are lightly armored, roamed all of the continents on the now changing Pangea. We learned about Avian life, plant life, and Marine life, which at the time includedearly versions of fish and sharks, which contributed a lot since all of the marine life dinosaurs before had gone extinct.

Check it out, y'all

Although emerging markets are a very large portion of the problem, they are necessary for any solution. Most books that talk about the environment has the West as the starting point. This is a very understandable starting place. For many decades the United States of America has been the largest polluter, contributing to the problem more than any other country in the world. Europe, has environmental laws to negotiate new and different solutions. Now Europe and the United States of America are only in supporting roles. Now the leaders are China and India. China emites nearly half of current global emissions. India accounted for 83% of the worldwide increase of carbon emissions from the years 2000-2011. Global warming started with industrialized countries. But, it can only end with developing ones. India and China are fully engrossed in growth of the countries. To continue to feed this growth they are building more and more coal-fired power stations, which is a very bad form of energy. The cities in China and India fume smoke and the rivers are catching on fire. Global warming will effect developing countries very much more then rich ones. A little bit because tropical and sub tropical areas are much more sensitive to warming and cooling temperatures. Richer areas can pay for better flood control and drought-resistent seeds that poor countries. William Cline, an economist, estimated a rise of merely 2.5% in temperature wold cause a 6% decrees in agriculture productivity in the United States of America. but in India there would be a 38% decrees. China and India are very vulnerable. New economic giants (such as China and India) will have to push rich countries to make more environmental compromises. Messrs Mattoo and Submaranian estimate that if China and India want to cut their carbon emissions by 30% in 2020, their production rate would fall 6-7% and the manufactured exports would be effected much more than that. Poor countries cannot handle the issues as well.

This is a really cool sight about fireworks. It goes into some detail about how with a different sized grain of the chemical it can make the last longer once exploded to create a better visual effect. It also explains how different fireworks can create different colors thermodynamics (natures way of conserving energy). To get a sound out of your fireworks scientists are putting a basic fuel in one end while the other is open and when it is lighted it rushes off to the open end the carbon dioxide gives off a whistling sound. One can also make really cool shapes and words in the sky with fireworks. Its all in the way one packs the basic fuel and the colorant pellets. If you like chemistry this is a really cool sight to visit.

This is help full to know more about Colorado earthquake history.

I never knew Colorado had any earthquakes, but the largest one was a 6.6!

This was helpful to learn about the history of Eathquakes in Colorad. Didn't know that Colorado ecer had a earth quake history let aline actually have a minor earth quake in the 1800. Even though I didn't learn about ts in my class, other clsses had probablly learned abiut it.

This website is really interesting because it says that dragonflies have grown by 15%. It was interesting, but irrelivent to the unit.

The giant dragon flies are 15 percent larger than others. This is interesting to know and read!

The reason why dragonflies are smaller is because of a decrease in oxygen over the years since then. The deacreased oxygen makes the bugs smaller because there is less oxygen for there bodies