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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.

This had good information but very little, it told how extrusive rocks are formed.

Great information but it is a little short.

Igneous volcanic rock and it forms when lava from inside the earth flows out

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 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.

Shows the definition of igneous rock and examples of them

I think it was a good website and very informative

That is a good website! It helped a lot and was very informative!

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

Wikipedia had useful information which will be helpful in the future, when we reach it in class.

This website is very good and definitely relates to what we are talking about in class. It talks about the Great Dying and I rethought the graph was good.

This web sight was was really helpful. I think we mostly covered all of this information in class but gives nice little details.

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.

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 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.

What we watched in science class on Thursday

This video had good information about the bone wars, or the first dinosaur bones being stolen, and destroyed by two greedy men.

This video was useful, because I found out that if they had not broken those bones we would have more evidence of the previous monsters.

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.

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

This website contained very useful information about the front range. I didn't feel it had a lot to do with are topic.

A good rock formation sight.

Great site, very relevant. The info on the front range was good. A little off topic though.

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 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!

Dinos in Morrison

Interesting site on the Morrison formation.

How many Dinosaurs were found there

Giant millipede information

This is a good source about how arthropleura were created, and how they are related to millipedes and centipedes.

Why do most people think that arthropleura were carnivorous if millipedes and centipedes aren't?

This is a great website showing really rare and good preserved Ankylosaurs bones.Found in Hell Creek U.S.A

This is a fairly small PDF about Edmontosaurus. It is mainly about their description (physical and other facts).

This is a good place for a biography of the edmontosaurus and to find out how it was excavated. It's also a good place to learn about the history of this dinosaur.