Sunday, September 8, 2013

Temperature and Density Demonstration

 In the Temperature and density demonstration, we took 4 mason jars and filled two up with warm water and colored them red, and filled two with cold water and colored it with blue. And in the before picture, we put one of the cold water jars on top of the warm and vise versa. also we have note cards in between to stop the mixing of the 2 waters.
Then in the after picture you can see that the jars that had the cold on top had mixed together when you pulled the cars from in between. And that happened because cold water sinks and warm water rises. so when the cold was sinking, the 2 mixed and created purple water. And in the jars that had the warm on top, obviously didn't mix because warm water rises and cold sinks.
This connects to the environment because like in creeks or lakes most fish like to stay in warm water, so fishermen need to know where there is warmer and shallower water, so they know were to fish. Because if its shallower, there is less room for cold and therefore the fish stay towards the surface, and the fishermen have more luck in catching dinner.

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