12 Soil Order

This is the 12 soil orders from all over the world. The most prominent type of soil that is in GA is inceptisols. Here is a picture of that Soil: 

When a person takes a sample of soil they will take the Munsell color chart and try to determine the hue, chrona, and value of the soil from the color chart. This can come in handy when someone is trying to determine what crop would be best to plant there. This is the link to the Munsell soil color chart online. It shows the different colors of soils and how each of their hues, values, and chronas change based on their individual color. 

This is a soil map of the state of Georgia. This link is one to a Soil Texture Dichotemus Key. Where it will show a person how to describe what kind of soil that one may have. The next picture is one of the soil texture diagram pyramid. This picture shows what type of soil that one might encounter when they have it in front of them. 

Sylvester Ferdinand Pollock III

I took my plant, named Sylvester, and placed him on the windowsill in my room. He is in a lot of light, and I watered him for the first time today. I am looking forward to what this brings for Sylvester.

So it is 2/18, and I have gave Slyvester his first spoonfull of water. I have waited this long because I have been keeping my humidifier on all during the night so that there is a lot of moisture in the air. Hopefully this will help Slyvester not be too watered.

Its 2/21, and there is no sign of growth in little Slyvester. He has not grown at all from what I can tell. He has stayed in the same spot on my windowsill, and my humidifier has kept the air moist, but there is still no growth. Maybe in two days I can see what will happen.

It is 2/23, and there is a sprout!! I thought that he was dead, but no Slyvester triumphed and poked his head through to live. It was so very cool to see him grow, maybe there will be more to come.

it is 2/27, and Slyvester is growing even more, i am looking forward to seeing how well he will grow for the future. his two stems at the are starting to curl around more and more while he grows higher and higher.

Its 3/1, and Slyvester continues to grow more and more. He is not curling under, and he is doing great. I have been watering him every other day and keeping him in a lot of sunlight so he is doing so well

Its 3/3, and Slyvester continues his phenomenal growth, he is growing straight up and looking fantastic. For Spring Break i am going to take him with me, and i am going to continue to water him every other day.

its 3/5 and i have just realized that I have left Sylvester in my dorm room over the break. This is a mistake of mine that could cause the death of Sylvester.

Its 3/12 and I am back in my room where i have realized that yes Sylvester is dead, i have watered him and maybe this could bring him back to life, but it will come out in the next few days.

Its 3.15 and it looks as though Sylvester is not going to make it. I am being optomistic that he could pull it out.

Its 3/18 and i am finally pronouncing the Death of Sylvester Ferdinand Pollock III.

Geocatching path

This is a map of the area that my group went for our Geocatching lab. the Distance that we walked was 454 yards all around the area of campus that we went. At each of the stations we found an item that was there. At the first station we found a keychain with a piece of paper there that was for other geocatchers to mark that they were there. At the second station we found black eyed peas in the container. At the third container we found a red container. At the Fourth container we found a tube of tabasco sauce. At the fifth container it was coke tabs that were in the container. At the Sixth container it was chalk that we found. At the seventh container it was a batter. And finally at the eighth container we found a magnet with a little car.

      Geocatching is something that can help people in many ways. With the way that it is a hobby for many people, but not only just people in everyday life, but for many scientists who could use geocatching as ways of researching and studying. For example, fisherman could use geocatching to plot where the fish have been previously caught by another fisherman and so on. Not only fisherman, but biologists could study where found a specific plant or animal species. The list could go on and on with how geocatching could be used to help people with their everyday lives. Many can use Geocatching in order for them to have a hobby that they could do on the weekends, and have a good time with it.

geocaching.org


       This is the link that leads to the geocaching of america website. Geocaching could help many environmental scientists who are out in the world trying to help the world. Environmental Scientists could use geocaching to help label where in the world that they are doing their research, and to help plot out areas where they would maybe find where the oil is spilling from a valve, or how far inland it would be moving. Scientists could use many geocaching techniques to find out where different aspects of the weather are acting different for the way that of the area surrounding it. This is just some of the few ways that Geocaching can assist in the study of Environmental Science.