Bubbling Lava Lamp

Bubbling Lava Lamp

Problem:

It all started with just 2 simple ingredients to get my homemade lava lamp to work and just a little bit of heat and light. Each element helped create this lava lamp to become something cool and exciting to look at. But what really made this lamp turn into a real working lava lamp? Adding more dye affects the amount of bubbles in a lava lamp.

Hypothesis:

Adding more dye affects the amount of bubbles in a lava lamp.

Experiment:

1. Adding the same amount of water and oil to each of the beakers

2. adding 3 drops of dye to one of the beakers

3 have a flashlight underneath each of the beakers for a full affect

4. See the difference in each of the lamps

Materials:

1.  2 beakers (same size)

2. Any kind of oil

3. Water

4. Food coloring

5. Flashlight

6. Seltzer

Observations:

Lava lamp 1:   The lamp that doesn’t have the coloring has a smaller number bubbles than the one with dye.

Lava lamp 2: The lamp with the dye has more of a colorful effect with the heat and the bubbles. When we first added the seltzer, the gas bubbles had carried the water on the bottom to the top because it became less dense. Water and gas is less dense than oil. When the gas bubbles popped, the water became more dense.

Using seltzer added the bubbly effect rather than just having water on top of oil with food coloring.

Data:

For when we did the experiment with just water,oil and seltzer we got less of a reaction with the bubbles. This did not give it a lava lamp effect to it. When we had the experiment with the food coloring, water, oil, and seltzer it had more of a gas effect. having the bubbles start out big to the top and getting smaller as it decreased.

Conclusion: Having dye in the lamp has more of a colorful effect on the bubbles and how dense it got. Then having just water, oil and seltzer. Giving it more of a lava lamp effect.

Matter and Energy

Authors Note: In this project I tried to focus on combining more than one topic in a project. At first I was interested in figuring out all the kind of energy around us. After reading and researching I decided that I wanted to go more in depth with matter and energy. Looking more into energy, I found out information that I never knew about. Realizing that energy is all around us. 
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5 Themes of Geography

Location: There are 2 different type of location. One is called Absolute location and the other Relative location. Relative location is a place in relation to another place, while Absolute is the exact latitude and longitude of a place.

 Place: The human and physical characteristics of a location. Some examples are culture, population, climate, land masses.

 Movement: The travel of people and goods, such as trading. Examples of movement is immigration, airplanes, and the internet.

 Region: Region is the border or surrounding the location and how they interact. Mexico and Canada are in the same region as the United States, forming North America.

 Human Environment Interaction: How humans interact with the environment. An example is pollution, people throwing their trash in bodies of water and just plain littering.

 Ireland

 Location: Ireland is west of the U.K., North of Spain and France. Which is the relative location. Ireland’s absolute location is 14 degrees north and 67 degrees south.

 Place: Ireland’s main language is English and Gaelic. They are known for the Blarney Stone, Blarney Castle, and the Cliffs of Moher. These features are human characteristics. Ireland’s physical characteristics are their rivers and their lowlands, high, and middle. The main religion is Catholicism.

 Movement: The travel in Ireland is pretty much the same as it is here. The one thing with car travel there is that they don’t have a lot of roads and highways which makes gas and cars more expensive.

 Human Environment Interaction: People in Ireland grow a lot of crops which help the soil, and makes food for animals. When Ireland gets lots of rain their land gets flooded and destroys most of their crops, reducing food. Region: Ireland is a part of the British Isles, which is a region that contains islands that lie on the northwest coast of Europe.