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Friday, October 30, 2020

Elephant Toothpaste Volcano Eruption

 Today in science we made elephant toothpaste but throughout the past couple of weeks we were creating our volcanoes with flour and water as our glue to stick the paper together around a bottle. The bottle was there to create the eruption.

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Where is it? Taranaki

When did it last erupt? 1854

Damage it has done? destroyed a whole tribe

How and when was it formed? It formed 120,000 years ago from the two plates crashing underground. The plates were the pacific oceanic plate and the australian continental plate.

Interesting random facts? You can't drive up it

Myths/legends about it? apparently it once lived with mt Ruapehu

pictures.Mount Taranaki - Wikipedia

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Japan

 I learnt that people from Okinawa live really long. The average life expectancy is 83 years old.

Rice is a cultural practice of Japan.Rice is so important in Japanese society that it has been called the essence of the culture. ... Historically, wet rice cultivation was a labor-intensive task that could not be accomplished easily. As a result, families pooled their labor. More importantly, they also shared their water resources and irrigation facilities.

The population of Japan is 126.5 million

The population of New Zealand is 4.8 million.

The population density of Japan is 347 people per sq km

The population density of New Zealand is 15 people per sq km

The size of Japan is approx 377,000 sq km

The size of New Zeland is approx 268,000

Japan is 41% bigger than New Zealand