Yosemite/Mono Lake Final Assignment
After completing your fantastic Yosemite/Mono Lake 7th grade field trip, you will now be asked to create a blog that will document what you learned.
Please complete the following:
- Create a Blogger Account
- Create a Blogger Life Science Homepage
- Create a Yosemite/Mono Lake Blog Page that will be linked to your science page.
On the Yosemite/Mono Lake Blog Page please include the following:
- Post One: Title it “Yosemite Valley”
- Please insert one picture - hopefully one that you took on the trip at Tunnel View (the first stop we made).
- Write a one paragraph summary of how Yosemite Valley was formed. Please include the following words: Glacier, glacial moraine, plucking, sediment, erosion, granite, Half Dome, El Capitan, fissure.
- Insert an image of from Google images of a glacier carving out Yosemite Valley.
- Post Two: Title it “Yosemite Granite”
- Insert one image from Olmstead Point. (Hopefully one that you took on the trip)
- Write a one paragraph summary that explains the story of Yosemite granite. Please include the following words: Seafloor, Oceanic Plate, Continental Plate, subduction, uplifting, magma, slow cooling, crystals, erosion, granite, igneous rock.
- Insert one image of an oceanic plate subsiding under a continental plate. (Do a Google image search)
- Insert an image of from Google images of the igneous rock cycle and explain why this is relevant to Yosemite granite.(Think strength and crystal growth)
- Include as many other images of granite as you like.
- Post Three: Title it “Mono Lake”
- Insert one image from Mono Lake. (Hopefully one that you took on the trip)
- Write a one paragraph summary of Mono Lake using the following words:
- Basin, runoff, salinity, basic, pH, calcium, carbonate, tufa, fresh water, upwelling, alkali fly, algae, brine shrimp, seagulls, producers, consumers, migration
3. Write a second paragraph that explains how humans have impacted Mono Lake
and your opinion of that.
4. Insert an image of a tufa tower and explain how it was created.
5. Insert as many other pictures of Mono Lake as you like, either from your camera or Google images.
- Post Four: Title it “Bodie”
- Insert one image from Bodie. (Hopefully one that you took on the trip)
- Write a one paragraph summary of Bodie using the following words:
Gold, Stamp Mill, Gold Rush, mining, 10,000 people, boom, bust. ghost town, AND include your personal opinion of Bodie.
3. Insert as many other pictures as like.
- Post Five: Your favorite memory
- Insert as many photos of the trip as you like.
- Write a one paragraph summary of your favorite moment. I include as many details and descriptions as possible!
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Date Created: October 11, 2015