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”

1. Please insert one picture - hopefully one that you took on the trip at Tunnel View (the first stop we made).
2. 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.
3. Insert an image of from Google images of a glacier carving out Yosemite Valley.

• Post Two:  Title it “Yosemite Granite”

1. Insert one image from Olmstead Point.  (Hopefully one that you took on the trip)
2. 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.
3. Insert one image of an oceanic plate subsiding under a continental plate. (Do a Google image search)
4. 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)
5. Include as many other images of granite as you like.

• Post Three:  Title it “Mono Lake”

1. Insert one image from Mono Lake.   (Hopefully one that you took on the trip)
2. Write a one paragraph summary of Mono Lake using the following words:
3. 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”

1. Insert one image from Bodie.  (Hopefully one that you took on the trip)
2. 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

1. Insert as many photos of the trip as you like.
2. 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