pit house model reflections

1. How does your model repersent an actual pit house? We built the fram like a actual fram. the buck skin repersents the dirt and grass on the fram.

2.What materials did you use to represent the parts of the house? Buckskin for outside , sticks for the frame and rocks.and mores sticks for the ladder.

3.How are these materials different than the ones used for the full sized house?
they are different from a actual pithouse is that different materials are used for the model to the actual.

4. What would happen to your construction if you used the materials from the model? it probly would not hold up like the original materials.

5. what type of problem does the pit house solve? it gave shelter and temperture.

vocab

periodic law- the law that states that the repeting chemical and physical properties of elements change periodically with the atomic numbers of the elements.

period- a horizontal row of elements in the periodic table.

group- a vertical column of elements in the periodic table.

ion- an atom or group of atoms that has lost or gained one or more electrons and has a negative or positive charge.

atomic number- the number of protons in the nucleus of a atom.

mass number- the sum of the numbers of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of a atom.

isotopes- an atom that has the samenumber of protons as other atoms of the same element do but that has a different number of neutrons.

atomic mass unit- a unit of mass that describes the mass of an atom or molecule; it is exactly one-twelfth of the mass of a carbon atom with mass number 12.

average atomic mass- the weight averge of the masses of all naturally occurring isotopes of an element.