Best Friends For Life!

 

 

Hello everyone and welcome to another one of my blogs. I have decided to my blogs on Friday because Friday is awesome....and I got really bored and have no homework so yeah... So anyway I'm going to be talking about my best friend Alex! Here is a link to her blog so go check it out! Alex's Blog.

 

 

 

How We Met

 

I met Alex on the first day of kindergarten. She was playing with dinosaur toys and walked and I sat next to her. Then we started talking and became best buddies!!!!

 

How We Are Doing Now

 We are still best friends and get along great! We have lots of sleepovers and do everything together. We Also love to go shopping at the mall and go to Starbucks. We enjoy spending time together and gossiping about random things and laughing together she is an awesome friend and has a great personality.

 

Well, that's all that I have for today come my blog next Friday to learn my other best Mari! This is science cat be nice to friends By guys!

 

 

 

 



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Hey guys its Science Cat here again! Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while. I was really busy during the summer......but here I am back with another blog! As you can see its going to be about school. I know not many people like to talk about school,  but I'm not going to just talk about school I'm gonna talk about myyyyyy school.......(awkward silence). It's called Mcginnis Woods Country Day School. It is a private school and doesn't have many middle school kids.

 

 

My Home Room

 

Since there are not many students 7th and 8th grade are combined in the same home room. SIGH*. I'm in seventh grade with FIVE other people that's a really small class. In fact that's the whole grade there are six people in seventh grade! There are five people in eighth grade and THEY ARE ALL BOYS! Alex: EEEWWWW! I know Alex.....I know...Its ok...(cough no it's not). You see...the boys are...lets just say different. THE BOYS ARE SO CRAZY!!!!!and annoying and weird and obsessed with turtles and yeah stuff.

 

 

So yeah that's my school life and don't forget to check out my friends' blogs. This is science cat saying see you later!

 

Mari's blog

Alex's blog

Amisha's blog

 

 

 

     Hello Everybody, and welcome another........Blog With Sciencecat! Today we will be talking about the Water Cycle. So are you ready? Well I hope so,  lets get on an airplane and go to an ocean to learn about the water cycle. Lets go!

     Yay we're here! Ok so now I am going to tell all of you about the steps of the Water Cycle. The first step is evaporation. Evaporation is when water from oceans or other bodies of water is heated up by the sun and turned into water vapor and is risen up into the sky.

                                             

     The second step is condensation, this is when the water vapor cooled and then is formed into what we call clouds. Its sort of like when you get out of the shower and there is fog  little droplets of water on your mirror.

 

                                               

     The next step is precipitation this is when the clouds are so full of water they have to let it out. Precipitation is rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

 

                                                  

      The last step is called Collection this is the step in the water cycle when the water the falls back to earth. It falls in lakes, oceans, and rivers along with becoming groundwater.

                                                     

 

      So how does the water cycle relate to weather and climate? Well, when it is hot and sunny outside water will evaporate, and when it is cloudy outside it might precipitate. There are lots of weather patterns that relate to the water cycle and they are all around you.

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     Hello everyone and welcome to my blog, today I have Scientificmeap here to help you people learn learn about renewable and nonrenewable resources. Scientificmeap: Hi Sciencecat I'm here to help. Well, lets get started.

     Scientificmeap can you explain to the audience what natural resources are? Scientificmeap: Sure, natural resources are resources that naturally are available in the environment. There are two types of resources renewable resources and nonrenewable resources. Scientificmeap: Well, what are renewable and nonrenewable resources?  Sciencecat: I was just getting to that. A renewable resource is a natural resource which can replenish with the passage of time, either through biological reproduction or other naturally reoccurring processes. Some examples are trees, water, the sun and wind because we will never run out of them.

     Nonrenewable resources are resources that we will eventually run out of someday. Like coal, oil, and minerals.

  

     Now we are going to talk about fossil fuels which are natural fuels such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms. Fossil fuels are considered nonrenewable resources because Earth only has a limited supply of them and if we use up all the fossil fuels there is no way we can bring them back. Scientificmeap: Now I understand what nonrenewable and renewable resources are.  I'm happy for you but we must move on now. Scientificmeap: Ok.

    Scientificmeap, can you tell us why nonrenewable resources are used more than renewable resources? Scientificmeap: It's simply because more energy comes from the nonrenewable resources than the renewable resources, therefore we use more of the nonrenewable resources.



      

     Now we are going to talk about solar energy, wind energy, and hydroelectric power. There are some advantages and some disavantages. So, Scientificmeap can you tell us some advantages and disadvantages of solar energy? Scientificmeap: Ok here are some for solar enrgy, for solar energy some advantages are: It's highly unexpected that we will run out of it soon, it doesn't cause pollution, and Solar cells make absolutely no noise at all. Some disavantages are: Haveing solar panels installed on your roof is very expensive, the batteries can be big and heavy and can take up a lot of space.

     Now I am going to tell you some advantages and disadvantages of wind energy. Some advantages are: Once the wind turbine is built the energy it produces does not cause green house gases or other pollutants, the wind is free and with modern technology it can be captured efficiently, many people find wind farms an interesting feature of the landscape. Some disadvantages are: many have been injured because of wind turbines, they expensive to keep and maintain, there has to hills and open space for them to be installed.

     Scientificmeap: Ok we have one thing to tell you advantages and disadvantages about, and it is hydroelectricity. Some advantages are: Using dams can make a lot of energy, dams are designed to last a long time, they do not pollute the atmosphere. Some disadvantages are: many places have been flooded to make the dams, they are very expensive to build, and the building of dams can cause serious geological damage.

     Now we are going to learn about conservation. The definition of conservation is the action of conserving something in particular. Conservation is to all living things. Conservation is also very important to prevent floods, fires, new deserts and drought. It is important to protect habitats and natural areas like rainforests. If we allow the destruction of rainforests it will increase the production of greenhouse gases which make the world warm up. This results in melting of Arctic and Antarctic ice caps, rising sea levels and flooding of low lands. 


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Hi everybody and welcome to Blogs with Science Cat! Today I have a assistant here with me today and her name is Science Fairy. Science Fairy: Hello I can't wait to talk about the phases of the moon. OK then lets get started.

Phases of the Moon

    So Science Fairy you know why some people believe all these myths about the moon. Like turning into werewolves and stuff, is that really true? Science Fairy: You've heard same thing over and over again. There's a man in the moon. It's made of cheese and it inspires love. People will turn into werewolves and stuff.

 

    Since the beginning of human history, civilizations around the world have been bewitched by Earth's nearest neighbor, making up myths linking the moon to everything from the human life to the rhythms of nature. Aaaahhh I see now.

  

Even now that science has shown us that it's no more mysterious than anything else we can reach out and touch, surveys indicate that people can't shake superstition. Nurses blame a full moon for more chaos and incoming patients. Police have linked full moons to aggressive behavior.  I don't know why people act so weird during a full moon. I mean is doesn't man anything its just a full moon.

 Well the moon doesn't just stay a full moon all the time. It goes through a series of phases.

There are waxing phases and waning phases. Waxing means the moon is growing. Waning means it is getting smaller. Here are the phases of the moon. A new moon is when the moon is between the earth and the sun and we can't see it because the lit half is facing the sun. A Waxing crescent is when you can see a thin slice of the moon. The first quarter phase is when you can see half of the moon. A full moon is when you can see the whole entire moon. Thise were the waxing phases now here aer the waning phases. The waning gibbous is when you can you half the moon this is the third quarter phase. Then comes the waning crescent this when you can only a slice of the moon just before the new moon comes and the cycle starts all over again. Science Fairy: Yep those are all phases of the moon.

Well Science Fairy can you tell why we don't get eclipses every month? Science Fairy: A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon enters the Earth's shadow. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's shadow falls on the Earth. They do not happen every month because the Earth's orbit around the sun is not in the same plane as the Moon's orbit around the Earth.

 One half of the moon is always lit by the sun even when the moon is going through phases the side that faces the sun is always lit. As the moon goes through phases we see more of the moon the we see less of moon as it goes through it's phases.

 To help you understand the phases better here are some pictures.

New moon

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    Hi everyone! And once again welcome to my blog. I hope you enjoyed my last my blog on Neptune. On this blog we are going to learn about the mysterious Moon.

     You know how the Moon looks so bright at night sometimes? Well that is because the Moon reflects light coming from the sun. So it makes the Moon look like it's glowing.

   The Moon doesn't always appear in full circle because of the way it orbits and spins on it's axis around Earth. You see, the Moon rotates on it's axis about the same time as Earth does. So we always see the same the side of the Moon. So when it goes through phases like cresent moon and other phases its not in a full circle.

  It takes about 27.3 days for the Moon to orbit earth and once every month there is Full moon. This month is called a lunar month.

     Since the Moon doesn’t have a significant atmosphere, nothing can stop even the smallest meteoroids from striking its surface. As a result, the lunar surface is heavily cratered. As a matter of fact, tiny craters are quite common even on lunar rocks. This was observed on the Moon rocks brought home by the Apollo mission. The surface of the moon is very dry and dusty since there is no water on moon.

 

   Today, there are several main theories on the origin of the Moon. The most widely accepted of these theories states that the Moon formed after a Mars-sized protoplanet (a young planet not yet fully formed), collided with the early Earth over 4 billion years ago. This massive collision produced debris that eventually coalesced due to gravitational forces to form the Moon. Some other possibilities: Some scientists believe that the moon formed when a rogue planet struck the Earth in such a great impact that it vaporized into small bodies. These vapors rose about the Earth's atmosphere where it orbited the Earth until it formed into what we call the moon, or the moon just got caught in Earth's grvatiational pull.

Guess what time it is! It fun fact time! Here are some facts about the moon.

1) No is sure how the moon formed.

2) The moon doesn't have an atmosphere.

3) Neil Armstrong was the first man to go to the moon.

 

Thanks for reading my blog!!  See you next time. This is Science Cat saying keep learning about the moon.

 

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Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog! Today we have a special guest it's Scientificmeap! Scientificmeap: uuuuuuggggg why  did you make come all the way here its so much work is had to walk a yard to get here wwwaaahhh!!. Shut it! no one cares about your feelings! If you don't want to be here just leave! or better Security! Security! Get this lazy girl out of here!Now as i was saying today we are going to talk about Neptune.

The planet Neptune was mathematically predicted before it was discovered, by Urbain Le Verier, telescopic observations confirming the existence of a major planet were made on the night of September 23–24, 1846, at the Berlin Observatory,by Johann Gottfried Gall. Neptune was named after the roman god Neptune which is the god of the sea.

Neptune is different from the other gas giant planets because: Neptune is smaller then all the other gas giants, but it is similar to Uranus because it's atmosphere absorbs red light like Uranus that's Neptune has its pretty blue color. Neptune is similar to Jupiter because it has a great dark spot which is like Jupiter's red spot. Neptune is really similar to Uranus by color and size its only a little bit smaller. Unlike the other planets Neptune has a really long orbit around the sun it takes 164.79 years!. Also Neptune is the only planet to have a moon that orbits Neptune the opposite way Neptune spins.

 Now we are going to talk some of Nepune's storms. First w are going to talk about the Great Dark Spot. The Great Dark Spot was a huge spinning storm in the southern atmosphere of Neptune which was about the size of the entire Earth. Winds in this storm were measured at speeds of up to 1,500 miles per hour. These were the strongest winds ever recorded on any planet in the solar system! Wow that's some really strong winds! The Great Dark Spot was first discovered when the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune in 1989. When the Hubble Space Telescope looked at Neptune in 1994, the Great Dark Spot was gone and a different dark spot had appeared in the northern atmosphere of Neptune.

Neptune's Small Spot is The Small Dark Spot, sometimes also called Dark Spot 2 or The Wizard's Eye, was a southern cyclonic storm on the planet Neptune. It was the second most intensive storm on the planet in 1989, when Voyager 2 flew by the planet. When the Hubble Space Telescope observed Neptune in 1994, the storm had disappeared.
                                            
The Storm nicknamed the Scooter is high level clouds that whip across the sky in the upper atmosphere.
                                           

It does snow on Neptune but it's not like snow on earth, it is of ammonia ice crystals. i
Neptune does have water because ice is present in the atmosphere of Neptune, which is comprised of water. Also, the interior of Neptune contains ice. Ice, and thus, water, can be found among the rock inside Neptune.  

                                                     
Neptune has thirteen moons that we know of. The largest moon is Triton. Triton is slightly smaller than Earth's Moon and has active volcanoes which erupt like geysers and eject nitrogen frost over the surface.
                                      

Guess what time it is! Its fun fact time!!!!!! Yaaayyy!! cough cough I mean lets get started.
1) Neptune is the 8th planet in the solar system.
2) Neptune's largest moon is Triton
3) Neptune has a lot of strong storms.


Thank you for reading my blog! OK Scientificmeap you can leave now! Scientificmeap: YAAYYY!!! WOOO HOOO OH YEAH!! I mean ok sure thanks for letting me be on your blog.

                                
























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Hello everybody! Welcome to my blog. Today we are going to talk about the planet Uranus. Well.... here we go.

Uranus was discovered on March 30th 1781 by William Herschel. Uranus got its name from  Uranus is named after the ancient Greek god of the sky, who was the father of Kronos.

Yes Uranus does has rings here are some facts about them: Uranus has 9 brighter rings as well as several fainter rings. Some of the larger rings are surrounded by belts of fine dust. The outermost ring is made up of ice boulders several feet across. The other rings are made up mainly of icy chunks darkened by rocks. The rings are thin, narrow, and dark compared to the rings of other planets. 

Uranus has 27 moons that we know of. One of the bigger moons is Titania. Here is some information about Titania. Titania is Uranus's largest moon. A prominent system of large valleys, some nearly 1,000 miles long, are visible near the shadow line. The moon is about 1,600 km long in diameter. 

  
Uranus is a giant ball of ice and gas so you can't really say that is has a surface  If you tried to land a spacecraft on Uranus, it would just sink down through the upper atmosphere of hydrogen and helium, and into the liquid icy center. When you look at Uranus see the blue-green color that seems to come from the surface of Uranus. This color is light from the Sun reflected off Uranus’ surface. The atmosphere of Uranus contains hydrogen and helium, and most importantly, it has relatively large amounts of methane. This methane absorbs color in the red end of the spectrum of light, while photons at the blue end of the spectrum are able to reflect off the clouds and go back into space. So the full spectrum of the Sun’s light goes in, the red and orange end of the spectrum is absorbed, and the blue green end of the spectrum bounces back out. And this is why the surface of Uranus has its color.
                                         
Uranus is different from the other planets because Uranus has a very weird axis rotation. because its axis of rotation is tilted sideways, nearly into the plane of its revolution about the Sun. Its north and south poles therefore lie where most other planets have their equators.
                                   
Guess what time it is! It's Fun Fact Time! Here are some Fun Facts about Uranus!!!!!

1) Uranus is the 7th planet from the sun.

2) Uranus's largest moon is named Titania.

3) Uranus has 27 moons in total.

4) Uranus was discovered by William Herschel.

Thank you for reading my blog! This is Science Cat saying keep reading my blogs and have a very nice day. 


 has one of the most unusual orbital characteristics in the solar system. In contrast to most other planets, Uranus's ax moving in a large circle, Uranus is more like a barrel, rolling on its side in a bigger circle. The cause of this peculiarity is unknown, but one theory presents it as being the result of a collision between a massive body sometime in ts past. Thus, with the planet's south pole pointing toward the , Uranus receives more solar input in that area than it does on the equator! However, an unusual fact is that the equator is still hotter than any other area of the planet, a phenomena that remains currently unexplained.
   

































































































































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Hello everyone and welcome to  M NEWS and this is Science cat here my assistant Scientific Meap(cough Amisha)Scientific Meap: UUUUGGGG why did you make come here it took so much effort and oooowww now my mouth hurts from talking. Too bad! GET OVER IT! Now here is the news story for today. Cold climate is ..... Scientific Meap: CAN I GO HOME NOW! No now shush. As i was saying cold climate is is killing penguin chicks in Argentina.

 

From 1983 to 2003 researchers based at the university of Washington in Seattle monitored a colony of 400,000 Magellanic penguins living halfway up the coast of Argentina on a peninsula  called Punta Tombo. Each year the researchers  visited penguin nests once or twice a day  from mid September to late February to asses the overall status of the colony and the health of the chicks once they hatched in late November or early December.

The resulting data set provides one of the largest ever records of a signal penguin colony. It revealed that starvation and predication were the most common and constant chick killers over the years, but hypothermia was the leading cause of death during years with many rainstorms, which became more prevalent through the study period .

    

Young chicks about 9-23 days old were particularly vulnerable to hypothermia as they were to young to have fully grown their waterproof plumage but already to big to seek shelter under their parents bodies the team reported on weds. Jan. 29th . They have to have water proof feather to survive, if they don't they  will die as soon as they hit the water.

 

Well I know it wasn't the best ending but thanks for listening to M News this Science cat saying keep loving penguins.

 

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Hi everyone! Today on my blog we are going to talk about a very awesome planet with many rings and moons. Today we are going to talk about Saturn! (Cough Cough this planet is my favorite)

Saturn is named after a character in Roman mythology. Saturn is named after the god Saturnus. Saturnus is the god of agriculture.

Saturn differs from the other planets because Saturn is bigger than all the other planets except for Jupiter. In fact the diameter of Saturn is 120,536 km in diameter not counting the rings. Also Saturn differs from he other planets because of how many moons orbit Saturn. Here is example Saturn has 60 moons orbiting it while Jupiter has 67 moons orbiting it. So basically it is very different form all the other planets.

Saturn is the planet with the lowest density. That means Saturn is lighter than water so if a pond or body of water big enough and Saturn went for a swim Saturn would float.

Now we are going to talk about my favorite part of Saturn it's rings! The rings are made up of small particles and can range in size from micrometers to meters that orbit around Saturn. The particles are made up of mostly water ice with a race component of a rocky material. Now we are going to talk about Saturn's atmosphere. The planet has a yellow haze due to ammonia crystals in it's upper atmosphere. Electrical current that is within it's metallic hydrogen layer is thought to give rise to Saturn's planetary magnetic field.

 

Titan is interesting to scientist because Titan is the only other celestial body to have stable pools of a liquid element on it's surface. Titan has atmosphereic cycle of methane.

 

Now guess what time it is! Fun fact time here are some fcts about Saturn!

 

1) Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun.

2) Saturn's largest moon Titan is bigger than Mercury.

3) The first ring discovered on Saturn was ring a because they named them in alphabetical order.

4) Saturn might have a solid core.

 

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