MidTerm Check-In:
Science now seems like a perspective of curiosity. Coupled with an intrinsic motivation to figure out how things work. A willingness to ask questions about things, and then to keep asking questions and working on it until you have some answers. Even if those answers are only more questions. It also seems that to approach science one must possess the ability to admit one's own mistakes. To see that one's assumptions were misguided or that one's conclusions were inaccurate.
After just half of a semester of active engagement with various types of scientific inquiry, the scientific methodologies feel much more accessible to me. I am able to conceive of questions and make predictions with more confidence and clarity. Our water turbine experiment led me a deeper understanding of the physical interactions in the world. It showed me that I don't really understand things that I thought I understood. AWESOME!
Soil and such.
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Yes. Usually we can gather soil samples and sort out where the minerals came from. The easiest to start with is sand that has large cliffs and/or mountains nearby.
You can also look at large rock formations in the area to determine what the soil/sand would be made off. That might give you an idea about what kind of plants can grow there.
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