Canyon Lake Gorge

Acrocanthosaurus

This Friday we took a school field trip to Canyon Lake Gorge. I have to say some of the views were just beautiful. The canyon exposes rocks that are over 100 million yeas old. It contains several dinosaur tracks and millions of year old fossils scattered all over the place. On our way trough the gorge we saw two dinasour foot prints. We saw an Acrocanthosaurus, a large theropod dinosaur, walked in two legs and were carnivorous.They could weight over two to three tons and could grow over 41ft long. The other foot print we saw was a camarasaurus, large four legend dinosaur that feed on plants and often swallowed rocks to help them digest and break down plants. They weight over 20 tons and could grow up to 59ft long.

Not only can you see dinosaur prints you can also find hundreds of different fossils that have been there for millions of years. Scientists from all over the world come visit canyon lake gorge to see different rock formations and the millions of year old layers of the earths crust that the canyon has exposed. The canyon exposes faults, bends, and it exposes soil that was formed millions of years ago. Canyon lake gorge is a great and beautiful and fun place for anyone to vise enjoy it, have fun, and learn about the earths history while doing it.

The Earth is heating up and we have to stop it

My quarterly project this semester is about global warming. So what is global warming? Well global warming is the slowly raise in the average overall temperature of the earth. As the temperature in the atmosphere and oceans increase the earth starts going trough a serious of domino effects that are hazardous to humans and animals. We as humans have an enormous affect in the creation and speeding up of global warming. How global warming works is trough the greenhouse effect. As the heat from the sun enters the atmosphere it is reflected by the earths surface and what doesn't get trapped in the atmosphere or in the oceans is released back into space. But as our earth gets filled with more green house gasses like CO2, CH4, N20 and other gasses more heat gets trapped in the atmosphere and less heat is released back into space.
Around the world we can see how just a few degrees higher the earth is starting to go trough some dramatic changes. We can see places that are normally dry becoming even more dryer. In some places the temperature has made it to where our crops are failing. Also there has been a series of record breaking storms. Our whether has started to become more erratic. Since the earth is getting hotter the ice in the polar caps are melting and sea levels are rising. We see more floods and a decrease in the population of marine animals that are essential the the earths ecosystem.