Throughout
the semester, this oceanography course has the aspect of geology and physic.
This is the obvious part is the physics, the physics has been part of the Earth
for centuries, believe it or not it is the ocean itself has physics. There has
always been a curiosity to find out what is in the ocean and how did it become
the way it is today, that curiosity has always been in almost everyone.
Sometimes more people have more curiosity than others do. There has been
explorers, whether it was to find a new way to get to China or to find a glow
in the dark fish that lives miles in the ocean. People are willing to risk
their lives to discover, it can be divers or explorers, like Columbus and
Darwin. Many explorers and many divers male and female. The human curiosity
had lead humans to the desire of wanting to discover what was deep in the
waters, but there is one problem, that is lack of air in the water. The scuba
suit was just an improvement from the metal head it was before. The scaba
equipment is also an improvement to what it was before. Even now there is no
finished producted. Inventions have always been part of everyones’ life. There is
the invention of
the compass, maps that had led us to the way new technology is today like the
GPS. Has there ever been a
thought in your mind about how a hurricane is trace and what path might it
take? Wella s part oft he semester course, we had learned about how hurricanes
were tracked and depending on the hurricane, it will depend on the path that
the hurricane will take. It can only take a few hours for a hurricane to hit
land and travel its path. This was not surprising to me, I already knew this
could happen with a hurricane and I have seen it happen right before the
hurricane became stronger. Measuring tides that all has to depend on the ocean
floor and how it is made. It also depends on the moon, the ocean is effected by
the moon during high tides and low tides, this is due tot he position of the
moon. There is no such thing as cold or being cold, only being less warm or
less warm. The water can have a low temperature, but a high density. The
further down someone goes in the ocean, the more dense and cooler the water
becomes than it is up on the surface. The continent had broken
apart or separated due to the plate tectonics. There is a theory that the
earths crust has six large plates that always moves along the earths crust.
Another theory where there are cracks in the seafloor and magma pours out and
then cools, making the new crust which slowly pushes away the old crust, making
the seafloor larger. We had also learned about Bathymetric mapping, seafloor
features are mapped by using sonar/sound. The sound bounces off the seafloor. At
the rate that at it comes back and shows what the seafloors look like. The
seafloor maps are mainly used as a navigation tool in the ocean in a way so
almost no one hits a ridge or goes over a section where magma might be flowing
out or hits any danger. Everything that we had done, every assignment, every
blogger, they were all different compared to the one before that. The homework
was either to type a blog or answer the chapter questions. The class
assignments are not always hands on sadly, they were to take notes, do the
assignment that was handed out, but when they were hands on, there were always
worksheets that had to be filled out before, during or after the hands on work.
The hands on work always had some kind of reading to go with it that was
required to read before doing anything. The blogs were never the same either,
they were either about our opinion or about what the last class assignment was
and some more questions to go with it. Not all work can be fun, we all have to do work. If my mind did not
work how it was and was able to work in a better way, I would probably already
have gone scuba diving by now, if I saw what divers saw than I would probably
have a different idea on the ocean and how it looks and would want to discover
it like I want to discover the world. If
I had a better understanding on the ocean, I could think better and have an
idea on how to help the world. I also know how the hurricanes form when one
formed in front of the highway, but I also know how they trace hurricanes. I know
how salitany and denity work. I do not always know my strengths and weaknesses,
when they constantly change. My
strengths is any activity that gets my hands involved, but the weakness is that
I cannot write it does not help me remember things as easy as activities do. My
strength is also drawing, electronics like when we use blogger, and something
happens to the computer most of the time I know what to do and how to fix it.
The problem with strengths is that with every strength comes a weakness. When I
draw for any of my classes, I will not be able to draw something for that class
and will have to think harder and it will not turn out the way I wanted it to
turn out. With electronics the problem is the electronics cannot be fixed or
that if the electronic cannot be fixed than I cannot do what I need to be done.
These are only some examples of what I can do for my classes and how they come
in handy. Throughout the semester, I have learn an aspect of physics of the
ocean.
