Blue Print of Experiment!

This is the blueprint for our experiment. We plan on setting this contraption up, and then modelling three different earthquakes. Hopefully, our seismograph will show us accurate results.

Bibliography!

Earth Science Bibliography:


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Introduction

This is our first post about our exit project. Our exit project is about Earthquakes and Seismographs. Our exit project question is: How can we create a simple seismograph that is as accurate as the scientific seismographs and how can we model an actual earthquake, to get the correct readings? Our hypothesis is: We think that we can create a seismograph using a record player, pencil, weight, string, and other materials. We think that we can get the seismograph we create to be just as accurate as a scientific one, as long as the weight can hold up the pencil. We also think we can actually shake the seismograph to get the same readings as a high magnitude earthquake. We will use internet resources for finding information about the history of seismographs, and we will also be reading books and conducting experiments.
Materials:
Record Player, String, Pencil, Fishing weights, paper, springs, are the main things we need. We will update this as this science project progresses.