SAND

Bonaire: The color of the minerals in the sand were clear, there was no magnetite, it was very small, it was moderatly sorted.
Hampton: The color of the sand is tan and pink. there was no magnitite in the small sand, and was very well sorted. these minerals were rocky
Bahamas:The colors of the sand are clear and white and they are very small and rocky. these minerals are well sorted.
Red Rock Canyon: The colors of the sand are a white clear color and red. And are very small and rocky. the minerals are very well sorted.
PEI: The colors of this sand is white and red, there is no magnetite and the small rocky sand is very well sorted.
Niles: The colors of this small non magnetite sand are clear and tan! these minerals are poorly sorted and subrounded.
Key West: The color of this sand is Clear almost white. these small minerals are poorly sorted and subrounded. 
Maui: The color of these small minerals are orange and white. they are well rounded and very well sorted and are basically little rocks.
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The two sands i chose to compare were Maui and Hampton beach. Maui is part of Hawaii and i have never seen the sand before until under a microscope. Hampton and Maui both do not have magnitite and they are both different colors. Maui are little rocks that are red, and orange. and Hampton is a tan and pink color. They both are very well sorted but Maui is a little more sorted.

Oceanography Field Trip

I went on a field tip in sailsbery beach. We went on a boat an we sailed out to hapmton beach and did labs that had to do with the ocean. There were five different labs that we were assigned to do. in one lab you started out looking at thing that live on the bottom of the ocean for instense sea annenmies muscles,  skelton shrimp, sea skates, we got to pick up and feel the sea skate.

(A sea skate is to the right)

In the second lab we had to capture plankton from the bottom off the side of the boat, after we took them up we had to put them into little test boxes and look at the through magnifying glasses, they’re  are microscopic and can grow up to six to eight feet long.

In the third lab we had to learn all about how the fish and other mammals do and what they eat at different times of the year and it was extemely factual.

In the fourth lab we had to take compasses and pick point around us to navigate where we were and when we were done drawing the lines on the aps of certain points we then got to see a little triangle an that’s where we were out in the ocean! In the fifth lab we had to use a device that apture a good amount of water and use the water to find the density, sailinty, the tempature, the pH level. Out of all of those labs i learned so much that i never knew was in the ocean, that you could find out about the ocean and so much more. we then went to the beach and i learned what a wrack line is, a wrack line is where the last high tide came up to on the beach and left a bunch of dried up sea weed, cigarettes, bootle caps, and shells. This field trip was a great expiernce and im glad that i had the oppertunity to go with such good people on an amazing day!

Yesterday October 3, 2013