Mike Westfall's Discussions (4)
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"I got 86 correct. I think I learned quite a bit since the last time, when I got, l..."Mike Westfall replied Apr 1 to FISH ID QUIZ |
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Apr 3 Reply by Haley Mann |
"The last class felt much more relaxed than all the other classes. Not that the oth..."Mike Westfall replied Oct. 22, 2008 to 10.20.2008 |
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Oct. 29, 2008 Reply by ricky maddox |
"Ah, the wonderful procrastination and realization that I never did this reflection..."Mike Westfall replied Oct. 20, 2008 to 10.6.2008 classroom reflection |
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Oct. 20, 2008 Reply by Mike Westfall |
"Wow, that looks incredible. The pictures are phenomenal. If you go "b4 u die", tak..."Mike Westfall replied Jun. 5, 2008 to "Underwater Wonders of the World... and their Residents" |
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Jun. 6, 2008 Reply by Brett Baltezor |
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Awesome video. But that music drives me INSANE. I can't take it. :X Were pretty much on the same page. I had know idea the process it took to make an atoll. 300,000,000 years seems like a looooooooong time for something to form. But when you see p...
OK, so I get the feeling EVERYONE wants to visit one. So... why don't we just all go there?
Awesome video. I forgot all about that.
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And yes... atolls are "rare" in terms of the total surface area of the Earth in which they cover. However, in some areas (the South pacific) they are certainly relatively more common. I too concur- I hav...
Well... yes and no. A "barrier reef" certainly IS a stage of reef/atoll formation. However, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, as well as the Florida Keys/Bahamas are a different sort of "barrier reef" in many ways. You are all doing a good job ...
Yep- that's another one we will examine in tonight's session.
North End peeps will always make the connection to the "Krug Park Lagoon"... which... is obviously a different sort of thing. ;)
The type of reef we will study in the Keys is a unique type... this will come up in tonight's session!
You just claimed Spongebob to be an educational tool? You have now climbed the ladder of awesomeness (in my mind) to an all-new level!
While there are a lot of good things about the reefs to talk about and analyze in a much greater depth, I will only talk about those in a few short sentences. In truth, most of this stuff we learned about with the reefs themselves, I learned when ...
Absolutely amazing!
Hmm...I also had heard of the Great Barrier Reef, but I never knew it was a stage of formation. I think I thought it was actually just part of the name...
I'm afraid I disagree, Carsen. Spongebob is a great educational tool. (Here's the Goo Lagoon for future reference...) I definitely learned that sponges were living creatures. =D
But I also didn't know what an atoll was. Or where a lagoon was loca...
Last weeks discussion was also amazing for me. I learned so much and was totally interested. I definitely agree that bombing Enewetok was a terrible idea!
The story about the seashell is crazy! Thank you for sharing it with us. It helped me to und...
I totally had the wrong idea about lagoons as well! Whenever I hear the word “lagoon” I always think of a nasty creature crawling out of a green swampy area. Haha. I had also never heard of an atoll as well until this class. I had always thought t...
First of all, I searched for an animation of the coral formation process and found this site. Not only does it clearly explain the formation, it also reveals a fascinating fact: "The process of atoll formation may take as long as 30,000,000 years ...
Last class did clear up a lot of information about the atolls relating to the book The Enchanted Braid, and when the coral reef causes the volcano to sink, where does it sink to? Isn't it already at the bottom next to the tectonic plates? That wou...
I did not know there were different types of coral either until last mondays class. It was cool to find out information about how the coral reef can only grow in certain temperatures, being mostly warm temps. around the equator. Nice job Paula!
One definite "aha" moment was the stages of an atoll formation. The only thing close I knew about the formation was when an active partially underwater volcano erupts, it creates an island over time. I had no clue that the island sinks creating la...
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