Hiyah! Welcome back to a wonderful Science Solutions blog post! Today our topic is a simple question... "Why is the sky blue?" Thankfully, in this blog today...no research was needed. Us students were asked to guess or discuss why the sky is blue. Here is my hypothesis, or a simple thought about something with a though out detail. When oxygen first formed on the earth... it created the ozone layer. The ozone layer helps protect the earth from harmful outer-space objects. When the oxygen formed the ozone layer, it kind of trapped itself inside a big bubble. The oxygen still populated just filled the bubble up slowly. This created the sky and the oxygen helps the sky stay its color by reflecting only the color blue, but absorbing all the other colors as well. Everything we know reflects color. Your shoelaces, your aunts china set, your teachers calculator. Everything. It takes in color but only reflects a few of the colors it absorbs.
Color is a very interesting topic but is useful to our scientists. What would life be like without color? Why is color so important? Those are all simple questions you can answer! Just remember that color absorbs all but only reflects small. That's an easy way to remember that even the grayest shade you've ever seen still absorbs red, purple, and yellow (much more colors as well) but only reflects the gray. Color absorbs all, but only reflects small.
You know when your room is a mess and you can't seem to find something your looking for? Let's use socks as an example... you found one by the piano, but can't find the match! Where could it be! All of the sudden you find it... in the shower upstairs. How'd it get there.
Fossils are the same way... fossils could be found in California and the same fossil could be found in Antarctica. Well, here's why. A long time ago all the 7 continents were once joined. This meant that they were all closer to the equator and had warmer weather than they do today. That also means a lot of the same animals could live somewhere else where the weather was just as nice. Like some animals in Asia then, could be found in Antarctica because the temperatures for weather were the same.
This doesn't mean you're a scientist looking for socks... it means animals can be traced back, a long ways. Animals traveled just like humans just ended up hopefully a little different than we will. Since the animals traveled and explored new places that suited them, when they died; they made it possible for humans to learn more about what the earth was like... millions of years ago.
Well...it's been a while! What a spring break! It was super crazy but now I am back in school so I need to fo-cus! Today, we're writing about the best scientific discovery ever made. In my opinion, I know I might sound crazy but this is what I've agreed to write about... the circle. The circle is perfectly round, which means, it can roll. A rolling circle, created the wheel; which helped create transportation. Transportation plays a really big role in our society and even in earlier societies. After the carriage, came the car and, who knows what will come next. Without the circle/wheel we would be without a lot of things. Think about our lives today and how they are effected with the wheel and what life would be like without the wheel. No trains, cars, buses, bikes, unicycles, wheelchairs, elevators, (older) cameras,and sadly snowmen. Could you imagine your life without those things?That already takes out about half of our life, if a little bit less. The human life is basically built on circles/wheels. Without the wheel/circle our schools, classes, houses, transportation, and other things would be VERY different. Even the smallest things really do have meaning... just look at the circle; look at where it got us.
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