Community Garden

Community gardens in urban areas are somewhat of a mixed bag. While one has to worry about contamination of the food by products of the city surroundings, community gardens also hold many benefits. 

A community garden is a single piece of property gardened collectively by a group of individuals. They provide communitys with fresh produce, beautiful flowers, and occasionally ripe fruits; though vegetables are more typical. Community gardens also give the patrons a sense of community, satisfying hard work, while also increasing property appeal and value. 

The Ring of Fire Video Blog

The Ring of Fire video summarized an area of the world within which a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions take place in the basin of the Pacific ocean. It is closely related to a near continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs and belts and plate movements. 

The video also covered indigenous tribes whom worship the volcano, believing it to be the power of an individual goddess or multiple gods. 

Quartz

Quartz is one of the most abundant forms of rock in the Earth's crust, exceeded only by Feldspar. Quartz can be a beautiful rock, and some forms are considered semi-precious gems. It is a silicate made up of Silicon  and Oxygen (SiO2).

While this igneous rock is highly deposited all around the world, a particular high concentration of it can be found on the inland, and both coasts of Brazil.

 

Mineral Identification:

Quartz

 Obsidian

 Amethyst

Galena 

 Limestone

 Mica

Geologists utilize many types of maps...

The Choropleth Map

Showing the state by state Presidential preferences of  2004

Isarithmic Map

Depicting the barometric pressures across North America

The Bathymetric Map

portraying the sea level around the coast of Puerto Rico

 The Dot Density Map

Illustrating the gross domestic production of mining within the U.S. in 2006

 The Proportional Symbol Map

Showing the amount of cattle sold in Maryland

My Prepared Map

The Peruvian Andes

The Andes are the largest continental mountain range in the world. They are located on the western coast of South America. Im particularly interested in the rock formation because this summer i will be traveling to La Florida, Peru; a village filled with immigrants who trek down from the Andes looking for work. The Andes acquired their modern shape by the uplifting and folding of Metamorphic (top right) and Sedimentary Rock (bottom right).

Above is a view of the Peruvian Andes, with some of its greatest peaks highlighted.