HERE IS THE HOT SPRING DIAGRAM
Pacific
High School (PHS) students had five different groups. There are
Botany, Marine Biology, History, and Geology. My group studied the geology
of Goddard Hot Springs to find out how hot springs work. The reason
why we studied the geology of Goddard Hot Springs was to make a hot springs
model. This web page is about our hot springs model. We studied
Goddard Hot Springs to find out how the water gets hot, and how we will
make the hot springs model work.
This diagram explains how hot springs work. The Earth has five different layers of rock. The magma rock which is the hot rocks in the middle of the earth. So when it rains, the cold water filters down through the layers of the earth and when the water hits the magma rock (the hot rocks), the water rises up and makes a hot springs. Some hot spring bubble flew out of cracks in bedrock. After we understood how the hot spring work, we find out what we would have to use for the model.
Here are all the equipment we use for hot spring model, erlenmeyer vacuum flask #6, rubber stopper #4, tubing #7, glass pipe #9, water container for catch the water #3, one box 24"x 24", some dirt # 1, cold water # 5, and the last is propane for heat the water. All these hot spring equipment they'll go inside this box.
The erlenmeyer
vacuum flask would be sit on the propane. We had one glass pipe go inside
the erlenmeyer vacuum flask and its not go all the way down, its about
two inches off from the bottom. With this glass pipe we put the rubber
stopper around and put on top of the erlenmeyer vacuum flask. So
when we heat the water, the water boil and the heat pressure
push the water into the glass pipe and make like a hot spring #2.
The water container had two hole in it. One is for the glass pipe
because when all the water flew up the water container catch and the other
one, #8, is for drain in to the erlenmeyer vacuum flask. So it kind
of cycle. With this tube we put one valve for control the water to
fill the erlenmeyer vacuum flask. This valve is for open and
let the water filled the erlenmeyer vacuum flask when the the water raises.
The erlenmeyer vacuum flask suck the water so quick and it is better if
you put valve to control the water fill the erlenmeyer vacuum flask.
That's how our
hot spring model works.
Link Back to the PHS Goddard Project
by Carlson
HERE'S ME, TAKING SOME HOT SPRING WATER FOR TESTING
THIS IS THE PICTURE OF HOT SPRING SULFUR
THIS IS RICKY, TESTING THE HOT SPRING WATER
HERE IS MY GROUP THEY TAKING THE SOIL SAMPLE OF GODDARD
THIS IS MY TEACHER AND RICKY
HERE IS ME AND BILL. WE BUILD THE BOX FOR THE HOT SPRING MODEL.