This is my flag of Antarctica. I have some of the animals that live there (the seal and penguin). You might wonder why I have a plane on my flag, but if you went there a plane would be a huge part of transportation. It took 27 or more hours of flying!. The background I chose was a gradient blue, signifying the ocean in the continent. The big circle in the middle with body of land is actually in the shape of Antarctica. Throughout the entire flag I used blues and water colors, because Anarctica is made all of ice! If used red or orange, that would signify heat and sun, which is not a good example of Antarctica.

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This is a picture of me hiding from my art teacher in a tube filled with colorful paper. To create this picture I used photoshop and created layers in the picture for myself and the backround.  I used a magnetic lasso tool to cut myself out and paste myself in to the other backround. Good luck finding me!

The light enters through your pupil, goes into your retina which turns it into electricity which goes through your optic nerve to your brain. Then you see.

Have you ever tried floating underwater in a swimming pool? This is the closest thing you can get to experiencing weightlessness on Earth. A lot of your daily life routines would be altered if you went up in a space ship. Imagine sleeping when your arms float up and your hair floats around your face because of the lack of gravity. The astronauts have to work out everyday so their bones don't become to weak when you use them back on Earth. Some things are gross, but others are just plain awesome! The question of food has always been a question for people interested in space. Astronauts are able to eat some foods in their natural form, such as brownies and fruit. Other things like mac and cheese require adding water. In space, crumbly things are a negative, so tortillas are used for sandwiches as opposed to bread. There are ovens on a spacecraft, but there are no fridges, so the food that is brought on the flight must be stored properly. I wonder if a brownie would taste different if there was no air. I bet an astronaut could tell you! How could you take a shower in space if there is no gravity? Sponges. The astronauts take a sponge bath with distilled water from everyone's sweat and breathe (it may be distilled but I still think it's gross). Each astronaut gets to choose an assortment of hygiene items to bring on the trip. Astronauts use rinseless shampoos to wash their hair. After learning about hygiene in space, I'm not sure I want to go up their anymore. What do you do in space? Well you mostly float around, but other than that there is lots of work to do! The astronauts on the spaceship constantly check their quarters for flaws. They clean filters, update computers, and fix systems. They get daily emails on what to do each day from mission control, who monitors there progress. They do pretty much everything in the same room: eat, sleep, work and workout. Astronauts need to work out in space so when they return to Earth, their muscles and bones aren't weak from experiencing weightlessness. I personally might get bored with the same room and walls and people if I were in the spaceship. So over all, there are definitely ups and downs to being in space. I think that a lot of people would love to experience weightlessness, but others wouldn't like being cramped up in a small space. Other reasons to go in space is to learn more. I, for one am very interested in learning about the universe. But being a astronaut is certainly not the only job up for grabs when it comes to spaceships. There are so many more jobs. All those people monitoring the trip, building the capsule, planning the job that will be done, and communicating with the astronauts are all people that are hugely important in the success of the trip.

Recently, we had the Moon rocks in our classroom.

I Am Magma

Here I am in the center of the earth.  I am about to go through the changes that I (magma) go through. I’m a shape shifter, always very slowly changing. It’s boiling hot and I’m a liquid of hot lava.  I’m in the lava chamber and I’m slowly rising upward.   As I flow out of the magma chamber I feel myself start to go through consolidation.  I can’t believe my days as liquid are over! I’m slowly oozing downward.  I’m slowly changing into an extrusive igneous rock.  There are tiny crystals forming all over me.  I left my friend down under the earth because he crystallized into an intrusive rock (his name is Granite) because he cooled under the earth.  Now, after I’ve totally became a solid, the erosion is starting.  The weather is pushing sediments out of me.  The rain pours down, and the wind whips me.  After the erosion ends, my sediments are swept away by a river.  After the transportation, the deposition of my sediments happened.  As the water gets deeper, the flow of the water slows down, and then I find that all my sediments are being whirled around in the river.   Then the compaction and cementation happens to all my sediments.  The seawater is now carrying all my dissolved materials.  Then I can feel minerals being deposited between my grains and I feel myself being cemented together.  I am now a Sedimentary rock. I’ve been put through transportation, deposition, lithification, and compaction to become what I am now. Some of my particles went through a nasty chemical reaction and now are non-clastic sedimentary rocks, but here I am, a clastic sedimentary rock, soon to become metamorphic.  But before we go through my process to become a metamorphic, some of my rocks went through the uplift and exposure process.  Some of my matter was pushed up from where it was until it was exposed. Then, part of me went back through the weathering, transportation, deposition, and lithification process. As I expected, I now am going through a process called metamorphism.  Rocks push me downward and I’m put under high temperatures and pressures while I slowly change into a metamorphic rock. Now I am turning into magma. Slowly I melt away into a liquid. I’m back in the center of the earth.  

Have you ever wondered were the seasons came from? Well, here's your answer. The seasons are made up from the Earth tilting its axis. There's the Summer Solstice, the Autumnal Equinox, the Winter Solstice, and the Vernal Equinox. These are all based off the Northern Hemisphere. The summer and winter solstice are the first days of summer and winter. The autumnal and the vernal equinox are the first days of autumn and spring. Solstices are days when the sun goes farthest south or north on the globe. The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year, and it marks the beginning of winter. The summer solstice is the longest day of the year, and marks the beginning of summer. Equinoxes are days when the day and the night have an equal amount of time. The equinoxes happen when the sun crosses the equator. Winter Solstice: December 21 or 22 Summer Solstice: June 21 Vernal Equinox: late March Autumnal Equinox: late September The winter solstice is the day when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted farthest from the sun, and so it is the day with the longest night of the year (the most darkness). The Southern Hemisphere experiences the summer solstice at this time, which gives them the most daylight of their year. Also, it marks the first day of summer in the Southern Hemisphere. The summer solstice is the day when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted closest to the sun, making that day the longest of the year (the most daylight). The Southern Hemisphere has the winter solstice at this time, and it marks the start of winter for them. The vernal equinox is the day when the Sun is directly over the equator, and at that time the Northern Hemisphere has twelve hours of daylight and increasing. This is the autumnal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere, and it marks the start of its autumn. The autumnal equinox is the day when the Sun is (just like in the vernal equinox) is directly above the equator. At this time the Northern Hemisphere has 12 hours of daylight and decreasing. Around this time, the Southern Hemisphere has its vernal equinox, starting its spring season.