Thursday, April 28, 2011

Rivers, Karst and Glacial Aftermath

In the movies How To Train your Dragon, there are landscapes that are in every type. There are the river formats, karst and aftermath from glaciers. The rivers were set in various places and many rivers looked to have banks to them. The banks are areas where the rivers flow into and creates and turn while it moves. The aftermath from glaciers pull dry land away from each other and creates coast and rocks to be different height levels.

From this image, you see there are karst. The karst cause the water to be settled in many area because the rocks are in different shapes and levels.

This image is a point bar from rivers. The land cuts off the water to flow in a different direction from where it came from.

The aftermath from the glacials cause the end of the island to have parts of it to be in the water. It creates coasts that has one end to be at a higher elevation of water.

The rocks in the back look to be karst. It looks that the glacers from many years ago came by and pulled some pieces of the land and left the rocks to be how it is.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Earth's Atmoshpere

When the earth decides to turn a different direction, no one is aware of what can happen during or after the disruption. The atmosphere can change gears from windy, raining, foggy, snowy, hail and ect depending on how the earth cycles. The reason for all these weathers to occur is because of the precipitations and cycle the moisture flows through. Sometimes when there are great amounts of pressure in the cycle it can create major storms such as thunder, lightning, hurricanes, hail and great gusts of wind and rain. These storms can create the sizes and shapes of the cycled air that are visible such as hail and clouds.
In the pictures below, the clouds are in many shapes and forms. The clouds each have a name based on the features: cumulus, stratus, cirrus, nimbus and sometimes fog can be labeled as clouds.

The picture above looks like it is stratus clouds because it looks layered and featureless. It looks to be a start of a rain storm coming in because it is thick and the clouds are compacted.

The air around this image above looks to be nimbus and fog because the air is very light. It looks to be near the surface of the earth and the start of rain clouds.

The image above show clouds in their altocumulus shape of cloud. It is very light and verticle. There are not many clouds together and is spaced.