Oregon Field Study

Hatfield Marine Science Center Visitors Center

Their is a tsunami machine at the visitors centre because they want people to know the risk with living in a tsunami area. The tsunami machine is good because people get the chance to see how destructive a tsunami can be.

Depoe Bay is known as the smallest navigatable harbour. On March 11th, 2011, the port was damaged by a tsunami caused by an earthquake of the coast of Japan.

North West Trek was fun! I enjoyed getting to see all these wild animals. I liked seeing the owls because they were good for photos because the were not hidden behind branches. I loved seeing the bears but is was sad how both their mothers died. I was interesting to see how big a cougar actually is but I did not get any good photos. I wish that we could have see the wolves and foxes because I have never seen either in real life before. Overall North West trek was really fun.

Tillamook Cheese Factory and Izzy’s Buffet

I think that Tillamook cheese cheese factory was founded here because the land was great for cattle farms. If it is great for cattle farms that is good for business.

You could not bring rocks home from Yaquinna head because they want to preserve the beach. I wish we could take them home because the rocks are so interesting but it makes sense why we can’t. 

Something I learned on the boat was that plankton was the bottom of the food chain so if their was no more plankton the whole food chain would fall apart.

The Astoria column is 125 feet tall and is covered on the out side by a sgraffito that depicts pivotal events in history.

Columbia River Maritime Museum First Nations Section

The first colonists were happy until the Europeans came for furs. The fur trade had started and the sea otters were almost hunted to extinction. Beavers were also used for hats.

Hatfield Marine Science Center Speedy Science

My group decided to compare the gender because we had an even amount of boys and girls. We put one tub of water at the start and one at the end then rested the racing track on top. We added the yellow sponge then started racing the crabs. All the girls took a long time to figure out what to do but the boys looked around then shot towards the end. The boys won the race.

I think that these activities are important because it is a good type of activity to do with almost anyone and when people go there people get to know others in the community better.

Travelling South with a stop at Cabela&apos;s!

I chose this video because the beach at the end of the day is beautiful which is perfect for photos and videos. The main reason I chose this video was because a few friends and I were having a lot of fun and I think that this video shows that.

Columbia River Maritime Museum Crossing the Bar Section

I probably would not want to cross the bar. I would not want to cross because it sounds intense. Also the video in the museum made it look like you could fall of the boat. I might cross the bar if it was not crazy when I crossed. I think that it would depend on how big the waves were.

I am excited to see a sand dollar because for a long time I have wanted to see one but I have never seen one before. I hope that I will get the chance to see a sand dollar in Oregon.

Something I learned at Fort Stevens was what a battery was and that it holds two cannons. Something else that I learned was that grass would absorb the impact if they got attacked but it was not so good for rainy weather because it would get muddy. I enjoyed going in to the Lyman Mishler to see what it was like inside and to get a better feel rather than just reading about it.

Cannon beach is most well known for Haystack rock. It is sometimes called the third largest intertidal rock in the world.

Hatfield Marine Science Center R.O.V. Challenge

For the R.O.V. Challenge my group started off small. We made a small rectangular shape but then realized that we could not fit all the motors inside. So we took it apart and made it a little bigger, still too small. We had to make it bigger a few more times until the motors will fit. We put all the motors on and it seemed great. We thought we were done but then we realized that there were no tubes covering the top motor. Once we placed the final tubes and added the magnet we had finished.

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