2011

Today we talked about a lot of things, starting with the origin of life. I find this topic particularly interesting and I stated my belief that life started in the sea. For me, it simply makes sense because the one of the first examples of terrestrial life, according to the fossil record, was the Markuelia 500 million years ago during...

Today in class we discussed plates and their effect on the earth. The earth consists of layers including the inner and outer cores, the mantle and the crust. The inner core is solid and mostly iron. The outer core is iron as well however is free flowing. Together these cause the earth's magnetic fields. Above is the mantle and...

Today we learned about the composition of the earth and how it affects the study of marine biology. We first startedtalking about the theory of continental drift. I hadn't realized how much evidence there was to support that theory, such as the fact that fossils of the same organisms have been found in Africa and South America. We then...

Today in class we learned about how the tectonic plates are related to marine biology. This was interesting to me. In my mind, I had always thought of the continental land masses and the seven oceans being complete opposites. They are clearly separated today. This is where the continental drift theory, the theory that explains how...

Walking into the classroom today with the knowledge I had just learned about the mechanics of marine study, I wondered in the vast possibilities of what I would be leaning today, not knowing what would actually be presented my way. I learned we would talking about the whole subject of plate techtonics and the layers of the earth and...

Today we focused most of our time talking about different ideas of how the Earth originated and the early Earth history. I learned that it is very possible that all the continents came from one supercontinent called Pangea. I first learned this when I was in elementary school but I didn't realize that there was actually more facts to...

Time is ticking by and today, the third class, marked the half of the week! What was taught today was more of a background on the earth. We learned about the origin of life( how it is said life could of originated in water), layers of the earth, techtonic plates and their effects, and much more about earths structure!...

Plate techtonics would affect the research of marine biologists because plate techtonics influences the environment and therefor what lives there. One example would be that if two plates interacted and formed mountain ranges and another two plates interacted and created a trench the environments would be completely different and thus different marine life would live in those two environments...

Today in class we talked about plate tectonics and also the many layers of Earth. The earth is composed of four major layers: the inner core, the outer core, the mantle, and the crust. The core in all, composed of various metals such as iron, causes the magnetic field around the planet. The next layer is the mantle which...