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This week is my last week of architecture and my last week of 6th grade science. This week I learned how to take care of a landscape. Xeriscaping is dry landscaping. The benefits of dry landscaping are: Less water costs Less maintenance Drought resistance I would like to thank my teacher Mr. Dignan for aContinue reading “Week 4 of Architecture”

This week I learned about landscape design. A few principles in designing your landscape are balance, rhythm, and emphasis. Emphasis adds force and intensity. To stop repetition and make your landscape interesting add at regular intervals.balance can make your landscape formal or informal you can have a symmetrical or an asymmetrical. If you have aContinue reading “Week 3 of Architecture”

This week I learned about what is architecture. The word architect means chief builder. Architecture is the art and science of planning and building buildings. Landscape architecture is building outside environments. Planning, designing and building takes a lot of hard work. You are considered a architect if you build a building, a park, or evenContinue reading “Week 1 of Architecture”

This is my last week of weather and I will be starting landscape architecture.This week I learned about how meteorologists forecast weather.  Meteorologists use many tools to help them forecast weather such as a barometer. A barometer measures air pressure using mercury. There are 3 types of barometer a liquid barometer, a mercury barometer andContinue reading “Week 6 of weather”

This week we talked about hazardous weather. There are 40,000 thunderstorms a day world wide. The life cycle of a thunderstorm has 3 parts . The first is the towering cumulus stage then the maturing stage then the dissipating stage. A tornado consists of moist air and is visible because of these water droplets. SomeContinue reading “Week 5 of weather”

This week we talked about cloud formations. Clouds provide precipitation for plants and keeps us warm by holding in the heat. Condensing water vapor forms clouds. Clouds make up is partially water but there is dirt in the air that these particles form around. Cool air cannot contain as much water vapor as warm air.Continue reading “Week 4 of weather”

This week We talked about polar jets and subtropical Jets. Polar Jets are more powerful but are lower in the air they are only 23-39,000 feet above ground. Subtropical Jets have less power but are higher in the air then polar Jets ,they fly between 33-52,000 feet in the air. The air that is inContinue reading “Week 3 of weather”

 This week we talked about wind. When air is moving vertically, it’s called an updraft. Air motion is caused by 3 forces. The first force is the pressure Granite Force also known as PGF. This is when high pressure areas force the air into low pressure areas. The second force is the Coriolis Force thisContinue reading “Week 2 of Weather”

This week we talked about the atmosphere. There are a few layers of the atmosphere and they are classified by the temperature. The lowest layer is the troposphere which is 10 miles high at the equator and 4 miles high at the poles. As temperature decreases the altitude increases. The second layer is the stratosphere.Continue reading “Weather week 1”