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One thing that really was cleared up for me last class was the fact that reefs don't cause islands to sink. It is caused by the magma moving underneath the surface of the plate. I also thought it was cool that there are more islands to Hawaii than w…
Bahaha. I didn't realize that was where a lagoon was either. I love the spongebob connection though. Oh, and Fact or Crap is a fun game to play with a 10 year old who gets them all right and doesn't know anything about the question.
I think it would be really neat to live on an atoll. That information was really cool Nordbye. The Tokelau islands sound really interesting. But, the people there sound creepy if you are suggested to take a picture of your family because they would…
I loved last week's discussion. I used to think that a barrier reef was the largest a reef could get. Maybe this is because there is always talk about the Great Barrier Reef of the coast of Australia. Also, I had never heard of Bikini Atoll until a…
Okay. I am totally confused. Are we supposed to reply to this? I thought we were supposed to research something that interested us like seaweed or something?
Seaweed is slimy and gross. I can't stand it touching my skin let alone putting it in my mouth! Apparently people eat seaweed. I know I have when eating sushi but never really thought anything about it. There are a lot of diet fads going around thes…
Brett I absolutely love the bit strip. I saw it and was like huh? But it made me want to really read your post and figure out what it meant. Also Corvette would like a rubber chicken.
Just to help you out you photos and videos link don't work there…
Okay, well this is my first time blogging...so here it goes.
I actually learned quite a bit from these first four chapters. I took zoology this past year and learned a lot. But this book went way deeper into coral. I honestly had a hard time focusi…
I wish my first blog post was anything as effective and fun as this one is.
I like your style of writing. It is informal, fun and seemingly-flippant... but in the end, still very informative. I'm thinking you could hone this to a style thousands of…
Okay, well this is my first time blogging...so here it goes.
I actually learned quite a bit from these first four chapters. I took zoology this past year and learned a lot. But this book went way deeper into coral. I honestly had a hard time focusi…
Now that I'm finally able to hear the actual video it's really good. You packed a lot of information into it and the hand movements really add to it.
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- James Taylor and more James Taylor
- My favorite subject during the regular school day is:
- Math...so many crazy things...
- Extracurricular activities I am involved in at school:
- Key Club
Freshmen Mentor Program
IB Program
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- My interests (other than school) are:
- Hanging out and being crazy with my friends
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Seaweed is slimy and gross. I can't stand it touching my skin let alone putting it in my mouth! Apparently people eat seaweed. I know I have when eating sushi but never really thought anything about it. There are a lot of diet fads going around these days. One of them includes eating seaweed. A lot of seaweed. People think it is good for them because it is a plant. Also, they use it to replace salt in their diets.
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Posted on November 22, 2009 at 6:11pm —
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Okay, well this is my first time blogging...so here it goes.
I actually learned quite a bit from these first four chapters. I took zoology this past year and learned a lot. But this book went way deeper into coral. I honestly had a hard time focusing on some parts of the book. My attention span isn’t really that short but, wow, I would get into a part and it seemed like it jumped when the book realized I realized what was going on.
I originally skipped over the preface. I mean who seriously ev… Continue
I actually learned quite a bit from these first four chapters. I took zoology this past year and learned a lot. But this book went way deeper into coral. I honestly had a hard time focusing on some parts of the book. My attention span isn’t really that short but, wow, I would get into a part and it seemed like it jumped when the book realized I realized what was going on.
I originally skipped over the preface. I mean who seriously ev… Continue
Posted on August 14, 2009 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment
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- At 1:04pm on August 24, 2009,
Colt Snapp said…
- Yep!. on my 4th year of the marine biology program at Texas A&M
- At 1:51pm on July 20, 2009,
Brett Gilpin said… - The tanline isn't really noticable because of the whole effect thing. It doesn't seem to me to be any blogs by anybody. I, personally, haven't even started reading the book. I was about to last weekend, but then everything got all busy.
- At 6:33pm on July 19, 2009,
Brett Gilpin said…
- I like the new profile picture.
- At 11:10am on July 2, 2009,
andrew nordbye said… - im sure we will see plenty of fish :)
- At 11:37pm on June 5, 2009,
Brett Gilpin said…
- That's terrible, that's practically all I did during personal finance when I took it in summer school (well when we weren't doing anything and I was done with stuff). Sleeping was fun.
- At 12:44pm on June 5, 2009,
Brett Gilpin said…
- That makes sense. I was just confused because when I did personal finance during the summer, we only used computers one day.
- At 1:01am on June 5, 2009,
Brett Gilpin said…
- That sounds entirely interesting.
Why were you on here during personal finance though?
- At 12:32pm on June 3, 2009,
ricky maddox said… - Oh ok, makes more sence now :)
- At 11:52am on June 3, 2009,
ricky maddox said…
- Key Club?
- At 9:50am on June 3, 2009,
paula toalson said… - yea i can only imagine
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Last Monday's class cleared up how the atolls sank, the coral is not the major cause of their sinking, it is the weight of the magma that comes out of the volcano. I was confused about how the coral weighed this much, but this cleared it up for me.
One thing that really was cleared up for me last class was the fact that reefs don't cause islands to sink. It is caused by the magma moving underneath the surface of the plate. I also thought it was cool that there are more islands to Hawaii than w…
URRRRRRRGGG. Why is the hyperlink NOT working?
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 pic…
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.
;)
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 have…
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 of…
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 we…
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 locate…
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 under…
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 tha…
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 to…
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