For Activity 1 we found out what heats faster and cools faster water, sand or dirt. After conducting the lab we discovered that all the different substences heated to an extent and then cooled back to around the temperature that it started. We found that the water heated the slowest and that the dirt and sand heated at the fastest rate. They all slowly cooled down. I expected that the sand would kinda heat up quickly just from expiriences from the beech, but i thought that water would heat a little faster.
In Activity 4 we tested and measured how well the 3 different matirials water, light soil and dark soil reflected the heat given off by a light. We found that it didn't matter which matirial it was that if it had the painted cloud over it that it reflected the heat a whole lot better than the ones without. I thought that would be what happend, just because we expirience the same thing here on earth.
The small scale labs that we do help represent our climate on earth, becasue the same things apply. It all explains why we have cold days and warm days. With this information i could help to explain why when it rains it tends to cool off, but when it stops raining it warms up a little bit and becomes humid. It would help to explain the tempereture that we expirience rain.
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