Biking on Little Mt

On Wednesday I went up to Little Mountain with my buddy Rhys, it was a 10 minute climb with our bikes, I hit a ten foot gap  which is the biggest I have ever hit. After i hit it I had o much adrenaline I was literally shaking, it was awesome. I am going up again today to hit some more stuff. Ill see if i can get a picture.

Spelling - Dictionary Skills

Dictionary Skills

Write the list word that comes between each pair of guide words.

1.  parade/parallelogram     Parasite 

2.  biohazard/biometry       Biography

3.  geoid/geometry           Geographical

4.  thermoscope/thesaurus    Thermos

5.  humor/hydrogen           Hydrant

6.  telephone/thermodynamic  Televise

7.  geodesic/geologic        Geological

8.  banner/beacon            Barometer

9.  aqua/aster               Aristocrat

10. parameter/parboil                   Paralysis

Bill Nye - Space Exploration

1. What was the first type of tool used for space exploration?  Your eyes.

2. What pulls all things back toward the Earth?  Gravity.

3. Why are rockets so big?  They need to have enough fuel to escape Earth's gravity.

4. Space is a Vacuum.

5. We have to have air pressure around us at all times.

6. Where do astronauts practice working in space suits?  In a pool with a model of the space craft in it.

7. How hot do the tiles get? 1200 Celsius. 

 

Bill Nye - Planets Part One

1. How many planets do we have today? Nine

2. What is the first planet that is made up of heavy metals in our solar system called? Mercury

3. What planet is the hottest in our solar system? Venus

4. What planet has water and an atmosphere? Earth

5. What planet is big, red and dead? Mars

6. What planet is the largest and is mostly a big ball of gas? Jupiter

7. What planet has rings and 18 moons? Saturn

8. What planet is blue and has very thin newly discovered rings? Uranus

9. What planet is extremely cold and farthest from the sun? Neptune

10. What planet is considered no longer a planet? Pluto

11. If a rocket left Pluto travelling 1000 mph, how long would it take it to reach the Sun? 450 years

12.What is the weather like on Jupiter? Extremely stormy

13. How many theories are there about how the moon was formed? Four

14. What type of pattern does the Earths’ orbit take around the Sun? An elipse

15. What happens to the Earths’ orbit speed as it gets closer to the Sun? it gets faster

16. What are asteroids? Giant chunks of rock and metal flying through space

17. Which direction do planets/space particles rotate around the sun? Counter clockwise

18. What is considered the glue that holds our Solar System together? Gravity

19. How long does it take Pluto to orbit around the Sun? 248 years

Hatchet Questions Chapters 13-19

                               Hatchet
                         Questions


1. What tools does Brian make and for what does he use them? How does this accomplishment make Brian feel about himself and his situation? He made a spear and bow and those both helped him catch fish / fool-birds
 
2. In what two ways does Brian measure time? Which way has the most meaning for him and why? me made marks on the rock outside of his shelter to mark the number of days, but the events that happend on certain days is more meaningful.
 
3. What causes Brian to have to rebuild his shelter twice? Why does Brian spend so much time on rebuilding? He rebuilds his shelter after a hurricane goes past and he spends more time on it because he wants to make it stronger.

4. The author spends more than two chapters describing Brian’s trip out to the plane and back. What effect does this description have on the reader? He/She understands more about Brian's childhood.
 
5. Why might Brian have mixed feelings about using some of the items in the survival pack? He felt a bit shaky about using the rifle at first, because he didn't want to hurt himself.

   

Bill Nye - Comets and Meteors

1. When you look up in the sky and see a star with a fuzzy tail it is really a comet.

2. Comets and meteors are made up of the same "stuff" as what other objects in our solar system? planets

3. When were the comets and meteors formed? when the planets were- 12-13 billion years ago.

4. Orbits of comets are classified as elongated elipse which may take many years to orbit the sun.

5. All comets orbit the sun.

6. About 10 years ago, scientists witnessed a comet that had broken up into large chunks hit which planet in our solar system?Jupiter,.

7.  These comet impacts left large black spots the size of which planet?Earth

8. Meteors are chunks of rocks and metal that orbit the sun.

9. Comets are chunks of dust and ice that also orbit the sun.

10. A meteorite  is a chunk of rock that actually hits the surface of the earth.

11. 12 or 13 billion years ago, there was a huge explosion called the Big Bang.

12. Why isn't the earth covered with meteorite impact craters like the Moon? The friction from the atmosphere hitting the meteor causes it to burn up.

13. As a comet gets closer to the sun, the heat and solar wind from the sun vaporizes the ice and creates a Ion tail which always points away from the sun.


14 A "shooting star" is really a Meteor.

Bill Nye - The Moon

1. Moonlight is really Sun light.

2. Why does the moon reflect so much light?
Because the rocks on the moon are reflective, the atmosphere is thinner than the Earths so it doesn't absorb as much sunlight.


3. Tides are caused by what?
The moons gravitational pull.


4. Why don't we get an eclipse every month?
Because the Moons orbit line is on a angle.


5. How did ancient astronomers figure out that the earth is round?
They saw the Earths shadow on the Moon.


6. The moon has 1/6 the gravity of Earth.


7.  If you weight 60lbs on Earth, you would weigh 10 lbs on the moon.

8. If you can jump 2 feet high on Earth, you can jump 12 feet high on the moon.

9. How does the gravity of Earth affect the moon? 
It causes moon quakes.  

Baseball AA Rep Team

From February till mid March I've been at Chilliwacks AA Rep Baseball tryouts, And I made the team! Im going to have practices and games from april until the end of July, I am going to have to do some fundraising and bottle drives, my summer will be jam packed with baseball.


On April 1st I had my first baseball game of the season against Tsawassen, it was a good game we won twenty one to one. I played right field and first base, we made a few errors but they will be fixed in practice.

Here are some picture...