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The Moon, the Tides, and the Waves.
The moon, the tides, and the waves have to deal with astronomy and earth science. This subject has to deal with astronomy and earth science because tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun. Tides are the rise and fall of the sea level. The moon pull upward on the ocean while  earth pulls down.Most place experience four tides each day. There are two high tides and to low tides each day. Everyday the high and low tide times change by about fifty minutes.Waves also have to do with earth science. Waves are most commonly caused by wind. Waves transmit energy not water. When a wave breaks it loses part of its energy. A breaking wave can apply a pressure of between 250-6000 pound per square foot, depending on its weight. That is the science behind the tides, the moon, and the waves.

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New Jersey
Physics
This summer I played in a lacrosse tournament. Stick acceleration begins when the elbow of the top arm has reached maximum flex and then starts extending. This phase ends with ball release. The duration of this phase is very short and dynamic. Stick deceleration begins once the ball release has occurred and ends when the elbow of the top arm has reached maximum extension. The follow-through phase begins when the top arm has reached maximum extension and ends when trunk rotation has been terminated. The recovery phase begins with the end of trunk rotation and represents the movements the player needs to make to prepare for the next task.

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Baton Twirling, Physics
Baton Twirling is Physics. When tossing around one, two, or three batons you need to toss them from the center of your body, which is your belly button. If you toss to the left or the right the baton will go to the left or the right. Baton Twirlers need to wear special shoes such as jazz shoes. Jazz shoes help control the friction between the shoe and the floor. Most tricks performed by twirlers require balanced force and unbalanced force. A balanced force does not cause a change in motion and an unbalanced force is when two forces are not equal.  You have to use force when you are tossing to keep it in the air and you need force to catch the baton so it stops spinning. Baton twirling is full of science!

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Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls is a type of Earth Science because it has to do with erosion, and water. Niagara Falls is carved by rock. Here is how Niagara Falls was carved, rock under it, as well as the fall of erosion formed the the falls, as well as a 6.8 mile gorge.This was formed under the falls.  It use to be much higher, but erosion brought them down. Here is how it happened, the rock underneath the falls moved so much, some of the rock got powdery. When the powder hit the water it fell down. It eventually dissolved. Niagara Falls fell down by erosion and water. It contains 750,000 gallons of water.  In a couple billion years there will be no Niagara Falls  because of erosion. That is the science behind Niagara Falls, and how it was formed.

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Beneath the Ocean
My science is behind waves and oceanic science. This picture shows me riding a wave. The gravitational pull of the Moon on the water makes the energy carried by the waves of the ocean . At high tide, the waves are way bigger than normal  because the pull of the moon is stronger. The Moon’s rotation on the Earth makes the Moon facing one or more oceans. The oceans the Moon is facing is high tide. The oceans that aren’t facing the Moon are in low tide. The spaces between low and high tides are in normal state.

Low tide is when the waves are small because the Moon's pull on the water  is weaker or almost has no pull in low tide. Low and high tides occur every six ours. One happens in the daytime and on happens in the night (twice a day for high and low tides).

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Digesting Ice cream and why it is considered slow digesting food.
Each type of ice cream has to contain a specific amount of fat. For example, regular ice cream contains at least 10 percent milk fat, while reduced-fat ice cream contains at least 25 percent less fat than the original. Additionally, regular ice cream is divided into groups based on quality, which includes super-premium, premium, regular and economy. Premium and super-premium ice creams have higher fat contents than regular and economy. The amount of fat in ice cream plays a big role in how it's digested. Compared to protein and carbs, fat takes the longest to leave your stomach, which is why certain types of ice cream are considered slow-digesting. Ice cream with a higher fat content, such as premium ice cream, may take longer to leave your stomach than regular or reduced-fat ice cream. The glycemic index, or GI, is a system that ranks how carbohydrates affect blood sugar based on how quickly they digest. Foods with a low GI digest slowly and raise blood sugars at a slow, steady pace, while foods with a high GI digest fast and cause blood sugars to rise quickly. Premium ice cream has a low GI, and regular ice cream has a medium GI, which means it digests moderately faster than the premium. The fat content in ice cream is the likely reason for its low GI status. It's OK to eat ice cream as a treat, but you should limit your intake.

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Ziplining
You probably don't think there is much science in zip lining.  Turns out, force in motion is applied to the rider while riding.  One of Newton's Laws of Motion states that an object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an outside force.  This applies to the rider standing on the platform.  The rider stays on that platform unless another force/person pushes you off.  As soon as I left the platform, gravity pulled me down toward the water below while I was riding.   Once I hit the water, friction stops me and I'm no longer riding, but I'm still. Acceleration is  also involved in zip lining.  If you're a bigger or heavier person, you may need a bigger or greater force to push you off the platform.  The greater the mass, the greater the force needs to be.   Not only the forces are science, but you can calculate many things on the zip line.  You can measure the length of the zip line, measure how fast the rider is going, (velocity) and the force of the wind on the rider.    Who knew there was so much science in zip lining?!

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Ocean City Maryland
When you jump into a body of water as soon as a body hits the water's surface, water is displayed to make room for the plunging body. Since the water has no other place to go, it shoots upward and outward. As a body descends, an air cavity forms in its wake. This cavity is about the size of the object and as it descends in the water it becomes an hourglass shape. A pencil jump would make a smaller splash than a cannonball because of the weight being distributed. After the collapse, the water that is still rushing inward to fill the cavity escaped upward and amusing that the body hit the water straight on, it shoots straight up and out of the water.

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Parasailing
This summer my family and I went parasailing. The science behind parasailing is physics. Physics are the properties of matter and energy. The science behind parasailing is physics because  a harness is attached to the parasail, which is then connected to the boat. Then the boat drives off, carrying the parasail and the people in the air. Also the parasail is at an angle moving quickly behind the boat. The parasail stays in the air because of the speed of the boat the wind making it rise. Parasailing is like flying a kite, you hold on to the rope and the wind makes it fly and move so it is the same thing with a parasail, the wind makes it fly. The height limit of how high the parasail goes is 500 vertical  feet from the surface. The parachutes used for parasailing are as wide as thirty to forty feet.

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My Cats:
This summer I adopted to cats from the Harford County Humane Society. When I first got the cats they were both very distant. When I got to know them, and hang out with them, I realized that they both have something in common...they both purr while I was petting them. Then, I asked myself, why do cats purr?
I found out that a cats purr can be multiple different kinds of expressions.
After doing some research, I found out that cats purr when they are happy about something. They often purr when they are being played with or shown affection. A cat's purring is like the equivalent of a human smiling, or maybe even laughing.
However, when cats are purring that doesn't necessarily mean that they are happy. Sometimes, instead of shaking, like humans do, they purr. In this case, cats purr when they are afraid, scared, or might just have no clue what is going on. One very common and very good example of a case scenario like this one is a cat purring when being taken to, or at the vet.
If two cats are in the same room, there is a chance that they are purring at each other, because it is a way of expressing their feelings and emotions through communication.
As a result of having my two cats, I figured out that the above reason for cats purring might be one of the reasons why both of my cats purr.
No matter weather the cat is content or timid, a purr is always a low-pitched rumbling sound, and if you touch the cat's neck, or throat, it should be vibrating. If the cat's throat is not vibrating, the cat is not purring.
Actually, out of hissing meowing and purring, purring is the most common sound that cats make.

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Video Games
When I think about science in video games I think about Electricity, Human Brain, or Light. The part of video games in science is Technology. People say will rot your brain but games can help your brain in different ways.  3D games can expand brain memory capacity. Virtual reality games can reduce anxiety or pain( anxiety-a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome). It can also activate your visual and other senses. Games can help dyslexic kids 7 to 13 read faster(dyslexia-a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, but that do not affect general intelligence). Tetris helps people who through trauma. Video  games can actually make you smarter. Researchers discover action and non action games, improve cognitive function in participants. These are ways video games are helping us today.

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Alligator Rescue,
Fort Launder dale, Florida

The study of the science of animals is called zoology. I studied the life cycle of an alligator. The life of an alligator starts during late June or early July, when the mother lays 50 to 100 eggs. Some alligators or born into zoos or wildlife habitats. When the eggs hatch, the baby alligators stay with their mothers for 3 years. The alligators can not count on it's parents for protection or food. Most of the time the adult alligators eat their babies. The alligators that are not living in captivity live in freshwater environments such as, ponds, marshes, wetlands, rivers, and swamps.
The alligators grow from 2 inches to a foot per year. The adult alligators can be up to 11.5 feet. After this the alligator stops growing. An alligator in adult years hunts for it's babies. They usually eat small animals that are easy to catch, like fish and mice. Science is everywhere.

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Tree
This summer I was at my grandmothers house and I was bored and I took a picture of a tree. My mom tried telling me facts about trees and I didn't think they were true so I did research on them. I found out that there is a lot of living thing in trees that we don't know about. One thing that I didn't know about trees is that they are the longest living organisms on Earth, and never die of old age. One thing that I already knew about tree is that they make sap witch makes syrup, and we put syrup on a lot of things. Another thing that I didn't know about trees is that they drink about 2,000 liters of water each year. One more thing thing that I didn't know about trees is that Pine trees are the only species in the whole world that spread seeds and cones, and those cones also have genders. The reason I think that it is Earth Science because it is a living thing.

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Space Ships in Space

This summer I went to the Kennedy Space center in Florida. I went there for the whole day and saw a lot of cool things. One thing I saw was the space ships. I started researching on it and found out cool things. One thing I found is what a space ship needs to launch out of the Earth's system. First it needs 2 solid rocket boosters and an external booster. Next a space shuttle is covered with LI- 900 silica tiles. They have this so the space shuttle wont catch on fire when it is going out of the atmosphere. How does a space ship travel through space. Newton says that force created by the shuttle's engines in expelling the burning fuel produces an equal thrust in the opposite direction.

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Artificial Turf
Artificial turf increases illnesses and injures. This is called cemetery because the reactions of your skin to the turf. It can cause concussions and cancer. Some people can get allergenic reactions from the crumbs of the cut up tire. The tires are natural and synthetic rubber, carbon black – a material made from petroleum. You can get infections from the turf bacteria can grow one the tires. The paint of the fake grass blades is made of lead or titanium and medal. These chemicals can get into your cut and get it infected. Infected cuts could led to illnesses or something wurst. It can led to concussions because before they putt the artificial turf down the pad it down with cement or dirt. When you fall and hit your head the artificial turf doesn't really absorb the in pack of the fall, but if you fell on natural grass it would adsorb the fall. Crabgrass and weeds can grow into the turf.

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Rock Climbing
- Gravity was the main reason that helped me climb this rock wall.  Gravity can determine how easily you go up and down the rock walls . Without gravity, it would be impossible to come down safely. Rock walls are made so that you can let go at any time and come down slowly and controlled instead of crashing down to the ground. You also need to be on your center of gravity. Finding your center of gravity is shifting your weight until you can find the position that you can balance best. I found it easiest to climb the rock wall when I leaned as close to the wall as I could. finding your center of gravity can help you move up the rock wall smoothly and quickly. That's how I made it to the top.

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Roller Coasters
physics science because it is moving which is kinetic energy.  When it accelerates down the hill and picks up speed 32.15 feet per second as it comes down its getting converted to kinetic energy. Also there is something called inertia that when the roller coaster is in motion it will stay in motion and it will only stop when an equivalence of the opposite force stops it. Now that the coaster is whipping around loops and other hills. It's energy is being lost to other forces like friction (energy created by two things being rubbed together) and air resistance. By the time the roller coaster gets to the end of the ride it has lost enough energy to come to a stop. Also usually with a little help from the brakes it will stop. That's why I think that the roller coasters that everybody rides is physic science.

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Water slides
Now, you might be thinking, water slides? what does water slides have to do with science? Well, let me tell you.
In a water slide, there are three things you need to account for. gravity, friction, and inertia.
Speed is important thing because of how heavy the rider is. You see, they need to make sure the ride is fun for heavy and light people, so in order to do that, they use the speed of the water. A heavy rider won't go that much faster than the speed of the water, while a light rider will eventually reach the speed of the water. Inertia is important because it's the resistance your body has to change speed. It's important because on a serpentine slide,  your body tries to keep going forward, but because you are on a curve your body  goes up the curve and keeps going forward.

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Lock Picking
This summer I solved my first escape room. The objective of an escape room is to do solve as many puzzles as you can and try to unlock any locks to escape the room. You and your team can ask for hints, but they only get a limited amount of them. The escape room monitors you, so you do not cheat at any of the puzzles or pick the locks. You are not allowed to pick the locks , but I decided to write about it because the escape room involves a lot of locks. The science behind lock picking is physics. A deadbolt usually use a cylinder lock. Inside a cylinder lock there is a mini puzzle. When you put force into pushing the key into the deadlock, the key will lift up a small metal cylinder which without the key a the spring pushes down. A key has grooves at the end of it because it lifts up the cylinder at the correct place. When all the cylinders are at the right place, then when you turn, using force and motion, the key it rotates a bigger cylinder which will unlock whatever has a lock. When you are picking a lock,  you can use a paper clip. You will have to lift up those small cylinders in the correct place which when that happens you will hear a click. Now, I wouldn't pick a lock only if it was an emergency. Therefore, Science is all around you.

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Basketball :
This summer I played basketball in Ocean City. Newton's Laws of motion apply to basketball. The first law applies because when  you dribble a basketball your hand and gravity both push the ball towards the ground. The second law applies because as you are passing the ball it is thrown down( like when you are dribbling)  it hits the ground and the ball accelerates and speeds up. When you pass a basketball, you exert a forward force toward a target player. The ball travels in an arc rather than a straight line.  If you do not account for gravity, the destination of your pass will be lower to the ground than anticipated, which will make your pass difficult for the target player to handle. For this reason, you must exert a slight upward force and pass the ball slightly higher than the target to compensate for the downward force of gravity

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Campfire wood has stored energy called potential energy, which is energy ready to be used but hasn’t been yet. The potential energy in firewood is called chemical energy, that is stored in its molecules. Energy itself cannot be created or destroyed. A conversion of energy happens when the fire turns wood to ash. When wood burns, its potential energy turns into two other kinds of energy - light energy and thermal energy. For example, some of the potential energy in the wood is converted to light energy. This "heat produces light" effect is called incandescence, and it is the same kind of thing that creates light in a light bulb.  It is what causes the visible flame. The thermal energy, which is the kind of energy that keeps us warm and cooks our food.  “Yum yum - s’mores!”

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Chicago, Illinois Skyscrapers

Building Science is the architecture-engineering-construction technology discipline that concentrates on the detail design of buildings.

Architects have to deal with the vertical force of gravity and horizontal force of wind when designing a building. Skyscrapers sway back and forth several feet (like a swaying tree) but the trick is to not affect the people inside. To control this swaying the design has to make the building move as a single unit (like a pole) rather than flexible skeleton with several moving parts. The Home Insurance Building, built in 1885 and located on the corner of Adams and LaSalle Streets in Chicago, Illinois, went down in history as the world's first modern skyscraper.