How Valuble is a Rock

During the past 2 and  a half months my class and I have studied the inner earth, concectoon currents, trocks and minerals, and earths crust. The last sections of this unit that we have studied was rocks and minerals. For this section we beggined with minerals, my class and I have made a crystal garden indevidually and "planted" crystals in our "garden". Afterwards we have reaserched more about minerals and rocks, we have reaserched how does a mineral form what are its charecteristics. I have learned that a mineral is a naturally occuring solid which its charecteristics are: it needs to have clevage, color, luster, chemical formuls, streak, and transperency; for minerals you could use also SNIFC which stands for
Solid
Naturally occuring
Inorganic
Fixed composition
Crystalinized structure.
During this section of our MYP program we have discussed some questions like who owns the sea, who owns the seas and the minerals in the sea
My group have disscussed and we have came to a conclusion that everybody owns the seas but nobody owns the sea, why. Because enybody can just come and claim the sea for his self. our group propozal was


The Oceans are for everyone and the main minerals from the Oceans are


salt. Any country that is neighbored by the sea should get a profit

from it. But also, every country has to have some sort of resource and


not everyone needs to have water even thought its essential. Trading

is the main point that will give these countries their water and they

can benefit from, other natural resources and trade those. In our

opinion, there should be mining happening because it is one of the

jobs that keeps humans alive and like there is the: if you kill one

tree you seed 2 more, and if u mine a place, you have to plant other

trees and once you finish mining you have to bri9ng the place to the

original look. Bring the animals in and make sure everything is the

same as before.
 
 
Thus we need to share the oceans and seas and the goods in it.
Here are some questions that we got for the end of this unit exploration
What have you learned that will help you give your thoughts to this question?

Why do you think the Area of Interaction of the unit was: Environments. Does it fit? Explain.
It fits because we have learned about properties of earth like minerals and gems mining and plate tectonics and convection currents all these things and topics fit this area of interaction

How do you feel you did during this unit and the activities you took part in?
During this unit i was very interested in to this unit and i was very active


Did you learn any new skills or knowledge that you did not know before?
During this unit i learned a great deal and i learned how to study and how to disscuss in groups calmly
What did you find interesting?
much information and ineresting information


What was your favorite and/or least favorite part?
testing and writting blogposts
What would you add or change about this unit for next year's grade 6
students
i would decrease the number vof blogposts for writing and make more disussions

Ocean minerals disscution

On Friday my class got a new assignment to discuss our blog post about "Who Ones the Ocean Minerals". There were 4 groups; the members of my group were Alex, Maryam, Alfie, and me. In my opinion the best arguments were Alfie’s and mine. Basically, we said that the oceans belong to everyone, but they don’t belong to anyone, meaning that everybody should share the sea on the other hand it won’t be fair that anyone claimed the sea by themselves; that coastal countries find a way to share ocean minerals with land locked countries through trade or some kind of exchange so anyone have access to ocean minerals; that in case of poor coastal country neighboring with a rich land locked country they should kind of compromise and offer each other hand in form of technology from one side and access to the ocean from the other side; unfortunately we didn’t even mention a case of poor land locked country which kind of doesn’t have a solution. We also talked about how important ocean minerals are, for example salt as the most important ocean mineral and is essential for human survival. We also mentioned other minerals especially crude oil which lead us to the topic of pollution as every exploitation of the ocean bed inevitably leads to pollution, therefore who ever exploit the ocean must take responsibility to protect the eco system that has been disturbed by exploitation.

Minerals in Serbia

Minerals in Serbia
Mining in Serbia dated for centuries; it has been started under the rule of Nemanjic kings in 13th century when they invited miners from other countries to establish mines in Serbia.
There are lots of different minerals in Serbia such as Iron, Chrome, Manganese, Molybdenum, Cobalt, Cadmium, Copper, Antimony, Lead, Zinc, coal, crude oil, limestone, quarts and even some Gold and Silver..
However, there is no abundance of any of these minerals although all of them are mined and exploited. The biggest mines in Serbia are: Rudnik, Kopaonik, Bor, Majdanpek, Trepča, Kolubara, and Kostolac. Unfortunately, being a country in transition between socialism and capitalism, Serbia has either solved most of its mines or they operate with losses.

Minerals in Serbia

In Serbia there is a big variety of minerals like: copper, zinc, aluminum, iron, antimony, etc.
Unfortunately Serbia is a developing country; therefore neighbor rich counties have bought some Serbian mines or mineral factories in Serbia. However, Serbia is slowly but surely developing. The minerals in Serbia are the most being mined from the ground and then separated from other ores and alloys which were stuck together in the dirt. These minerals are needed in Serbia a great deal, like aluminum is needed to make, aluminum foil, telephones, and etc. On the other hand these minerals are not really expensive in Serbia only it depends on how much mineral weight are you taking but if you’re just taking on a kilogram it won’t be very expensive for example, a kilo of aluminum in Serbia costs around 1000-2000 dinars. Most of the Serbian mines are located in Sumadija, the south and central part of Serbia. On the other hand in Vojvodina the northern part of Serbia there is also mines, but not as much as in Sumadija. Also Serbia is a great producer of limestone which the biggest mine of limestone in Serbia is located in Zlatibor. From my point of view minerals in Serbia will make a large difference in economical standards a great deal.

Oceans' Riches

Answeres

A1. On one hand oceans and everything in them should equally belong to a mankind. However, it is not a case coastal countries obviously have more rights to exploit the oceans then the land locked ones. Also rich countries have technology to exploit oceans unlike the poor ones. Of course certain laws have been established which regulate ocean exploitations. For example coastal countries have a right to consider 22.2 kilometers from the coast as their territorial waters. Also, coastal counties have the right to exploit the oceans 322 km of the shore (EEZ or exclusive  economic zones).

 A2
The richness of the ocean floors, it's mineral deposits including oil and natural gas, is a permanent issue in last few decades. Although UN tried to convince the men kind that oceans belong to everyone it seems that rich coastal countries will get the most from the oceans. I really don't know what could be said that wold reassure developing countries and made them think hey would get the rights and opportunities to exploit the oceans

A3 Looking at the world map it is clear that many many many countries have their shores on Atlantic and Pacific ocean because the continents of North and South America, part of Europe, West coast of Africa, west coast of Asia, and Australia are bordered by either Pacific or Atlantic Ocean. Therefore it's logical that all of those countries should have equal rights to exploit the oceans. On the over had as the oceans do not really belong to anyone or any country, the land locked countries have the right to exploit the oceans' riches. Another problem is sharing. Rich countries which can afford to exploit the oceans are not keen to share the riches with anyone  on a contrary they are trying to grab more then it even belongs to them and they are even ready to start the wars over the oceans' riches. Therefore developing countries would probably stay deprived of those riches, and the rich would become rich and the poor would become poorer yet.