Riser Geyser Essay

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Riser Geyser Question- Does Temperatures affect the height of a geyser? Hypothesis- I think the 104°F will reach the highest height. Materials- 6 Liters of Diet Coke, 1 Pack of Mentos, 1 Geyser Tube, 1 Roll of Butcher Paper 20 feet long, 1 Black Marker, 3-5 Bricks to surround the bottle, 1 Yard stick or tape measure, 1 roll of duck tape, 1 tall wall or roof of a house, 1 thermometer, and 1 willing parent to tape the chart to the wall or roof. Procedure- 1. Take some butcher paper and lay it out on the floor. Use your marker to measure out each foot until you get to 20. Have a parent hang up your butcher paper from a tall wall or on top of a roof, so it touches the ground, which is your starting point. 2. Next place a 2 liter bottle of Diet Coke in the refrigerator so that it can cool down to 45°F. Place a 2 liter bottle of Diet Coke outside so that it can reach 104°F. Place a 2 liter bottle of Diet Coke inside on the counter so that it can reach 77°F. 3. Take the 2 liter Diet Coke at 45°Fand place it on the ground (flat surface). Then secure it with bricks by putting them all around the Diet Coke bottle. 4. Then place 1 Mentos into your geyser tube. 5. Take the cap off the 45° Diet Coke and place the geyser tube in the bottle. While holding the string on the geyser tube, I recommend you stand back, and when you’re ready, pull the string. The 1 Mentos will fall into the soda and cause it to shoot up. 6. Record the height that the soda reached on the butcher paper scale. Repeat steps 3-6 with the two other Diet Cokes listed in step 2. Bibiliography- 1. Schreier, Carl. Yellowstone’s geysers, hot springs and fumaroles (field guide) Moose, Wyoming: Homestead Publishing, 2003 2. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 21 August 2010. Wikipedia Foundation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geyser 3. Webster’s Notebook

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