Days 171 & 172 Maine Studies & Geology

June 4, 2012 Day 171 Maine Studies Project

Math: 2 pages

Maine Studies Project 2: 10 Coolest Places to visit in Maine to learn about our state
1. Town of Brunswick, need more pictures, do later

2. Fort Knox,
3. Moosehead Lake
4. Maine Wildlife Park
5. Acadia National Park
6. State of Maine museum & capital, Augusta
7. Portland Freedom Trail
8. Popham Beach & Fort Popham
9. Cribstone Bridge & Bailey Island
10. Sugarloaf

Open Power Point Presentation and begin PPP for Maine Studies.

Each place should have at least 2 slides including pictures & personal facts/details, plus Hyperlink

June 5, 2012 Day 172

Geology of the Eastern Coast 6 x 6 FIVE
pages 64-71 and pages 77-
6 Vocabulary 1. Nor’easter: A storm blowing from the north east usually along the North eastern coast of the United States. It often brings high winds and cold temperatures.
2. Hurricane: A severe tropical storm with winds greater than 74 miles per hour!
3. Watershed: The land area that drains into a river and stream
4. Gorge: A narrow valley between hills or mountains usually with steep rocky walls and a stream running through it
5. Niagara Falls: huge waterfalls in New York that flows from the great lakes

6. Crops: plants grown for food and other uses

6 Sentences 1. Nor’easters are made when all four climate zones meet and it creates a huge storm of rain and wind and snow across the mid-Atlantic.  
2. There are many hurricanes coming up and down the mid-Atlantic coast in the summer as well as scorching heat waves.   
3. A watershed is like a big bathtub, the sides of the tub are high ridges or elevation points, and the drain is the river at the bottom.
4. Niagara Falls has moved about 7 miles since they were formed; now there is a big gorge where they were before.
5. Niagara Falls formed about 12,000 years ago, the entire region used to be covered with glaciers and as they moved they dug depression in the land.
6. The Erie Canal opened up a faster and easier route for men (especially farmers from Erie) to go to New York to buy crops.

6 Facts/ Details     
1. Hurricane season lasts from June to November 30, the peak months are August and September.
2. The average hurricane releases 200 times as much energy in a day as the energy produced by all the electric power plants in the world! That’s as much as 10,000 nuclear bombs.
3. Hurricane Katrina wasn’t the most powerful hurricane ever to hit the United States, but caused about 125 billion dollars in damage.
4. The word hurricane comes from the Spanish word huracan which comes from the Mayan word Hunraken; this was their god of storms.
5. When we drove down to Disney we traveled through all four climate zones
6. There are about 240 different kinds of fish in the Mississippi river.

6 Questions 1. Why is Florida warmer than Maine if they both receive the same amount of sunlight? A: Florida is closer to the equator, the latitude is different
2. What is the difference between weather and climate? A: climate is the average weather of a region where as weather can change
3. Describe the life of a hurricane: (page 68) They are born as tropical storms, The water needs to be at least 80 degrees, but the air above needs to be cooler than the water. The water warms up enough to evaporate and create water vapor. The Vapor rises up creating large clouds filed with moisture, the most dangerous part of a hurricane is right next to the eye, the eye wall.
4. What is the Erie Canal and when did it open? A: The Erie canal is a man made canal which opened in 1825. It goes from Lake Erie and Erie Pennsylvania and runs to Albany New York; it was an eight year building process
5. How long ago did Niagara Falls form? A: 12,000 years ago
6. Why are Niagara Falls slowing moving upstream? A: Because the softer rocks erode underneath causing the waterfalls to move slowly upstream

6 Images of Hurricanes & Niagara Falls & Erie Canal

6 Images from our trip to Niagra Falls in 2007