It's all about Weathering

This week in our Natural Science subject, we were tasked to bring kinds of minerals or stone in class, but I didn’t have the opportunity to bring any of those. Where the heck am I going to find those kinds of stuffs in the heart of manila? Anyway, the fact that I don’t have an assignment, makes me feel so nervous while waiting for our professor, I was hoping that he’ll forget the homework, A few minutes later; I was shocked when one of the BEST students in class reminded him about the assignment.  I was really in delight of what she did and wanted to kiss her on the cheeks!  Who wouldn’t be so happy??    Of course, some of our diligent classmates won’t gain any grade if it wasn’t for her, RIGHT?!! After that electrifying “mini recitation” that we had about stones, our class proceeds to reporting. Here’s one of my favorite report discussed: It is about Weathering.

Weathering, is a process that changes the Earth's surface. Weathering is the breaking down of the solid part of the Earth's solid surface. Rocks are broken down into smaller and smaller pieces until they become part of the soil. Many things can cause this breaking down: wind, water, ice, plants, animals, and chemical changes. Weathering is a slow process. It is also a continuous process.

There are two types of Weathering:

Mechanical weathering only changes the size of the rock. The rock's chemicals are not changed, and no new substances are created. 

Heaved

River rocks

Chemical weathering is different. It changes the chemical makeup
of the rock. New substances are created. For example, rocks with iron in them may rust. Oxygen and iron combine to create a new substance (rust). The rocks may have a rusty-red color on the
outside, but when broken, are dark on the inside.

 Decomposes or decay rocks

Dissolution

That's all folks. :))

For more information about our professor, Mr. Crisencio M. Paner, click here.

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References:

/Two%20Kinds%20of%20Weathering.pdf

http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfjps/1300/heaved.jpg

http://0.tqn.com/d/geology/1/0/6/Y/1/riverrocks.jpg

http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/images/wsci_04_img0583.jpg

http://teach.albion.edu/jjn10/files/2010/10/dissolution2.jpg

http://teacherpages.nhcs.net/schools/anderson/lynneadams/Land%20and%20Water

Shredding paper is fun :)

For the period of our meeting in Natural Science 102, I was unquestionably trying my best to focus my attention in our class discussion, but then, I can’t stop fluctuating my attention with my seatmates as they are twittering and shredding papers to very tiny pieces while our professor is having a discussion.  I was anxious about their doing, but then, I did my best to not shift attention with other things instead of listening to my professor’s dialogue, fortunately, I did the right thing and for that, I’ve learned new knowledge to be shared with you guys.

So, these are the products of my “trying to focus” understanding.

As we all know, Atom is the smallest particle of a matter with the Nucleus in its center. The Nucleus contains proton (positive electrical charge) and neutron (negative electrical charge). When an atom’s outermost energy level does not contain the maximum number of electrons, the atom is likely to form a chemical bond with one or more atom. The types of this chemical bond is the Ionic Bond which is form between positive and negative ion; Covalent bond, formed when atom shared electron; and Metallic Bond which are formed when metal ions shared electrons. These types of bond are naturally occurring in most kinds of minerals.

How do minerals formed? These are formed through crystallization from magma, Precipitation, Pressure and temperature; and hydrothermal solutions.  Minerals are subdivided into groups. These are:

• Silicates

• Carbonates 

• Oxides

• Sulfates 

• Sulfides

• Halides

• Native Elements  

Aside from having its different groups, Minerals encompass its own Properties. These are following,

• Color
• Streak
• Luster
• Crystal Form
• Hardness
• Cleavage
•  Fracture
• Density

Our succeeding focus is about Rocks and its sorts. First up, what are rocks? Rocks are any solid mass of mineral or mineral-like matter occurring naturally as part of the planet. Similar  to minerals, Rocks have different types.

• Igneous Rocks 

Coarse-grained granite

  Granite consists of Quartz

 Glassy texture

 

• Sedimentary Rocks

 Opal

 Conglomerate

 Sandstone

• Metamorphic Rocks 

 Gruenerite Schist

 Gneiss

 

 Phyllite

This is where our discussion ended. After paying attention to all of these stuffs, and experiencing information overload, my “trying to focus” schema was a bit deteriorating, I tried to chill my mind and look at my surrounding, when I realize that my seatmates are still shredding papers into tiny pieces (though they still manage to pay attention to class and take down notes, how do they that?) anyway, because of my curiosity and stuff, I joined them. I shred papers too, (HAHA!) without a hint on what they’re planning to do with it. After showing a video presentation, our professor dismissed the class,  and after praying, one of my seatmates blew off the shredded papers to my others classmate’s face, and said, “yey”.

So that’s where the “shredded paper” story ends. :| Ugh. what a mess? *bow*

 For more information about our professor, Mr. Crisencio Paner, Click here.

.xo