My 3 Favorite Peer Projects (#2)

My 3 favorite peer projects

One of my favorite projects that my peers presented was the "Spellbinding Weather Rarities" which was all about strange weather formations and how they come to be. In the presentation we saw beautiful weather sites diamond dust and learn the trick to its construction. That being a warm front pushing in humidity into a cold clear area which then forms ice crystals.I got to learn more about the awesome site of the Catatumbo in Venezuela. I love this awesome place because of how cool it looks whit all of the lighting crashing down and was so happy to see it in the project. I learned that the reason so much lightning strikes down there is because of the multiple number of warm fronts coming in and mixing with the methane gasses from the swamp and river.

Another one of my favorite projects is "Tornado Alley" which is an area within the United States that is particularly tornado prone. The area is located anywhere between the Rocky Mountains and the Gulf of Mexico. I learned about how the formation of the tornadoes is similar to the physic properties that allow a an ice skater to spin around. They are generally created with the occurrence of three different elements, those elements being warm air, moist air, and instability in the atmosphere.

And finally the last peer presentation that I found to be my favorite was the “Hoodoos of Bryce Canyon” presentation. In this presentation I learned about the long skinny pillar rock formation called Hoodoos that are located in Utah. I also learned that the rock formation are made out of limestone forms from frost wedging weathering. The hoodoos area in Wyoming has over 300 freeze/thaw cycle that caused the giant 5-150 feet tall hoodoos to form.