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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This has good information about the tectonic plates, but it is very long. I also like it when I can see the part of the world the commentator is talking about. 1/2 of the time this part is on the other side of the world than the techtonic plate that is moving around.

It is really interesting how the tectonics plates are moving constantly and it clearly describes the Pangea thory

theory

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.

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.

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!

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.

Great website about pterosaurs

Cool website about pterosaurs

This is a educational website about pterosaurs. I found it by looking about a cool picture on the different head types of the pterosaurs. It is amazing how many different head types there actually are for a pterosaurs. I would suggest looking here for any useful information that you would like to know about pterosaurs.

I'm not sure if I thought this was that useful. Millipedes are one of many animals in that time period, it does not give much use if the information is about a modern insect.

This is a good website to use for the biology of the millipede and there's info about its history too.

Apparently, millipedes have two pairs of legs per segment

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.

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.

Dinosaur ridge is a cool place to get to get. Involved with what fossils look like and how a cool mark that the divisors lift dose not have to be bones it can also be foot prints.

I found this sight Extremely helpful. I really enjoyed they extra information about dinosaur preservation. I never new there were so many cool things in my backyard.

Dinosaur Ridge holds evidence to the past creatures that lived in Colorado. while the Alameda Parkway was being constructed so local citizens and visitors from other places could come and visit the beutiful rock formations of red rocks, tons of dinosaur footprints were found, mostly ones of the iguanadon. In dinosaur Ridge, widley know dinosaurs were found such as the fossils of the allosaurus. The allosaurus is a predator to sauropods.

This website is very thorough in examining the causes and effects of climate change. The website stated that temperatures have risen up to 2 degrees across the entire planet, causing natural disasters, poor air quality, and destruction of wildlife and habitat. Although climate change is natural and there has been 7 glacial retreats in the last 650,000 years, the recent temperatures are off the charts and carbon dioxide levels are higher than they have ever been, showing it is linked to human oil consumption. Global temperatures, sea level rise, shrinking ice sheets, warming ocean waters, glacial retreats, and extreme events are all signs of the global warming that is plaguing the planet. This website confirmed my original point-of-view on the global warming issue because it showed how this is uncommon for previous climate changes and how the warming can create natural disasters.

Good official government site

This is a very helpful website with the information about the climate and carbon levels in the top bar of the website.

This is NASA's website about climate change. It has sidebars that you can click/tap on. You can find out the causes and affects of climate change, evidence of climate change, etc. There is also a tab where you can find other useful websites about climate change.

This website is all about climate change in Denver. It talks about how different temperature changes can effect our water supply from the mountains. A 2 to 5 degree Fahrenheit increase in temp. could cause a 7 to 14% decline in water supply yield. It talks about how we are fixing the damage of climate change and global warming. Also it talks about the Denver climate change adaptation plan. This is a very good and detailed website.