Lab

Guiding Question: What are the factors that affect the appearance of impact craters? How do scientists use craters to tell the relative age of them

Hypothesis: I think that the weight and temperature will affect the appearance of the crater.

Materials:
Tray
Flour
Marbles
Ruler (cm/mm)
Computer.
Meter stick

Procedure
Mark 30, 60, 90, and 200 cm on a meter stick. Then, put the ruler vertically inside the tray full of flour. Then take your marble and drop it into the flour at 30 cm. Then repeat this process 3 times for 30cm drop. Record the diameter of the hole in flour the marble made and also how deep it is. After that repeat this process for the other drop heights.

Data Table
On next post

Conclusion
In this experiment I discovered that the higher drop height of the meteor the deeper hole it will create, however the diameter of the hole is not affected by this. I think that this is because a meter will burst on impact, while our marble won't. The deepness of the crater is affected by the speed of the marble and the speed of the marble is affected by the height it is dropped from.If the marble was dropped from an even higher place the crater would not increase in diameter, but will increase in depth until the point that the marble is so deep that the hole it makes will collapse on it.

Further Inquiry
I think that this experiment went relatively well and there aren't many ways to improve it, however I think that we should have tested even bigger heights to see if there is a difference, also I think that we could have measured the crater more accurately.