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Dominique Pulver and Leia Chimienti We got to hike down and back up the canyon. We stopped at random spots to learn about the different parts of the canyon we're by. The guide taught us about the canyon walls, the plants, the history of the canyon, how to canyon was formed, and etc. When we were done with are hike, we got to look at the mules.
 * Grand Canyon:**
 * What we did:**

We thought the Grand Canyon was beautiful and inspiring. There was so much that we got to learn about and see. Going to the Grand Canyon is something wereo nly going to do once, and this one time we went were going to remember forever, remember how beautiful it is and were going to remember everything we learned.
 * Our thoughts of the Grand Canyon:**
 * What the Grand Canyon loooked like:**
 * Surrounded by big masses of rock
 * Discolored rocks
 * Different layers of vegetation
 * Lower part of the Grand Canyon has dead trees and plants, or small trees and plants
 * Upper part of the Grand Canyon has a vast forest, with big pine trees and big bushes
 * Colorful flowers
 * Many layers, all different colors, shape, and size
 * Water dripping down from the cracks in the canyon from rain
 * The Colorado River
 * Long, bumpy, rocky, and sandy trail, for the tourist to walk on
 * Fact:**
 * 1) Limestone needs water to form(picture number 5)
 * 2) Limestone is formed by oxygen, calcium,and carbon
 * 3) Top layer of the canyon is about 270 million years old
 * 4) Bottom layer of the canyon is about 2 billion years old
 * 5) Grand Canyon used to be a giant sand dessert
 * 6) There are bumpy rocks on the trial, this is a way for water to flow down the trail
 * 7) Native Americans who used to live in the Grand Canyon always used to say,"All things are living and all things are alive" This is stating, how nothing in the canyon should be wasted.
 * 8) Rocks hold tree and tree holds rocks. Tree holds soil for things to grow.
 * 9) Mix of alage and moss, formed by water and oxygen, only grows on rocks, has good oxygen(picture number 1)
 * 10) 1929 The Great Depression, many people needed jobs to make some money, one of the ways was to make the Cibob Trail. Although you got paid little money, you still made some money during this hard time.
 * 11) The reason for the top half of the canyon having a forest type of land scape(picture 2) and the bottom half have a dessert type of land scape, is because of the water running pff amd swooping down, watering the soil.
 * 12) Land rises- Pacific Plate pushes in Alantic Plate, land rises, water pulling sand away, and makes the canyon get deeper and deeper.
 * 13) The pine trees on the upper half of the Grand Canyon are Pondros pines, they let off oxygen.
 * 14) Purple flowers- the purple flowers are more sucessful to survive. This is because, insects are attracted to the more colorful flowers, making the insects repollinate.

We walked on the trail and looked at the Hopi houses/buildings. then we sat in this brick/rock circle, where there are seats(benches) that are attached to the wall. We listened to a story and learned about the Hopi, from are guide. Then after listening to are guide, we got to tlook at the blowhole, and see if the blow hole was blowing are sucking. Mrs.Wilkening got a bottle, put it over the blowhole, and we got to see if it was blowing or sucking. The blowhole was blowing. We thought it was interesting to see how the Hopi built and lived their lifes 1,000 years ago. We also thought it was really cool how the Hopi built a circle in the middle of the reervation, and it had perfect acustics. The blow hole was also really interesting, how it blew the water bottle up in the air.
 * Lu Poci(Hopi)**
 * What we did:**
 * What it looked like:**
 * Old and ancient
 * Dirt and red rocks
 * Old and breaking Hopi houses
 * Big circle that is made out of brick and rock in the middle of the sacuary
 * Giant rocks everywhere
 * Long and dir path to walk on
 * Rocky stairs
 * Dessert plants
 * Hills
 * Pottery and old artifacts
 * What we thought of the Hopi reservation:**
 * Facts:**
 * 1) The Hopi reservation was a big trade route
 * 2) The Hopi ansectors lived in the houses
 * 3) Used local stone to build their houses, collected rain water to drink, and had a type of air conditioning in side of their homes.
 * 4) 200 people lived on the Hope reservation
 * 5) Many families shared rooms in the Hopi homes
 * 6) All of the rooms in the houeses, were multi- purpose rooms. example: The bed room could also be used for kitchen as well
 * 7) The Hopi left a lot of things behind when they desserted their reservation, they were ready to move on. They might of left because of water drought or war. There are many other possibilitys why the Hopi left.
 * 8) The houses on the reservation are over 1,000 years old
 * 9) The Hopi had and played many types of sports
 * 10) People today still live in Hopi homes, they use solar power, although children go to regular day schools. Some people live in 1,000 year old Hopi homes.
 * 11) Large circle in the middle of the reservation has good acustics, it was built perfectly. Maybe used for ceremonies or meetings.
 * 12) The Blow Hole on the reservation is athmic pressure

We were on a boat, sailing along the river, stopping at different points to observe and learn about the dam and the wildlife. We also took a stop at a tiny island type of land. We got to swim if we wanted to. We thought it was beautiful and interesting. It was interesting by learning new things about the dam, that we never knew about. The lake and the canyon was absoutley beautiful. It was breathtaking. We walked on a trail through the volcanic ash that turned into rock. We walked on the trail around the volcanoe. At some points we stopped to learn about what was around us. We also got to go inside "Super Mans Cave." We thought the natural nature was very beautiful. We also thought it was amazing how much volcanic rock there was. For there was piles and piles of volcanic rocks. The ice cave was amazing and so was the volcanoe.
 * River Trip on the Colorado River**
 * What we did:**
 * What did it look like:**
 * A long river
 * There were big and colorful canyons surrounding the river
 * There were different types of desert plants everywhere
 * Sand on the side of the lake
 * Big and tiny rocks everywhere
 * Fish in the water
 * Little sand islands along the lake
 * Little plots of grass in the sand along the lake
 * Long grass growing out of some parts of the lake
 * Many different layers, shapes, indents, sizes, and colors of the canyon
 * Some parts of the canyon are not attached to one another
 * What we thought of the Colorado River Trip:**
 * Facts:**
 * 1) Theres a 2 mile long tunnel and 18 adits
 * 2) In 1957 they started building the dam, it took 3 years, and they worked 24 hours every day
 * 3) The beginning of the dam is made out of Navajo sandstone
 * 4) Black sandstone is still Navajo sandstone, this happened from a chemical reaction formed black. The black was formed 2,000,000 years ago
 * 5) Speege of Lake Powell drains into crack in canyon
 * 6) Lake Powell 1983 over flowed took off a layer of the dam canyon
 * 7) Limestone lens, deposit left over from ocean, formed in a Jurassic time period, fossils, prehistoric things found in a lime stone lens.
 * 8) Leftover lateririal sliding fault- two used to be connected together
 * Sunset Crater National Monument**:
 * What we did:**
 * What did the Sunset Crater look like:**
 * Most of it was surrounded by the ash rocks
 * Pine trees
 * Giant volcanoe, with pine trees and grass on it
 * The trail we walked on was dirt
 * There was a ice cave
 * Many hills
 * What we thought of Sunset Crater:**
 * Facts:**
 * 1) Sunset Crater is a cinder cone volcanoe
 * 2) It erupted in the year 1064 and represents the most recent volcanic activity in the Flagstaff area
 * 3) Sunset Crater had periodic eruptions over the next 200 years and is now 1,000 feet high.
 * 4) The ash from the volcano has covered as much as 800 square miles
 * 5) Around the year 1250 red and yellow ash shot out of the volcano resulting on a colorful reddish glow that led to its name, Sunset Crater.
 * 6) About 75% of the magma erupted at Sunset Crater erupted explosively as scoria
 * 7) About 25% of the magma was erupted as lava flows
 * 8) 0.07 miles of magma erupted from the Sunset Crater vent system
 * 9) Eruption may of continued on and off for about 150 yearsThe eruptions that produced Sunset Crater and several nearby flows and smaller cones began between the 1064-1065 AD growing seasons

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