Thursday, March 19, 2015

My Rock Collection


The objective of this  assignment was to collect and identify 8 rocks. I have identified mine as Andesite, Phyllite, Granite Porphyry, Fault Breccia, Gneiss, Slate, Gabbro, and Granite.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Change in Elevation over Distance


I chose to use Macon as my city for this lab. First, I measured out a line of 12 miles that can be seen in red in the above image. I then recorded the elevation for every 2 miles in order to see how the elevation (dependent variable) was affected by the change in distance (independent variable).


Next, I recorded my findings in the above chart. 


Finally, I created a scatterplot of the data in Excel. As you can see, the elevation in Macon was inconsistent and it went up and down over the 12 miles that I recorded.