Careers Expo 2011

On the 10th of June Tamaki Intermediate students and teachers went to the ASB Showgrounds for the 2011 Careers Expo. We travelled by bus in bad weather.

When we went inside we had to sit beside the entrance and wait for the teachers to tell us to go. After that I went with Saitia, Mowbray, Apelu, and Samuel. The first career we went to was the Police and they told us that we have to be fit to be a cop.

Next we all split up, I went with Apelu to the Flight Attendant display who mentioned to us that the minimum age was 18. Next she told us that we have to have a written CV, she said that their salary range was $1,000+ each year.

Apelu and I heard an announcement over the speaker that all Tamaki Intermediate students should report to the main entrance, so we did and when we got there most of our class were there. After a little while the teachers instructed us to follow them to the bus to return to school.

The best part of the Careers Expo was collecting information to see what experience I needed for these jobs.

Matariki Slideshow

How do earthquakes happen?

So how do earthquakes happen?

Earthquakes are the phenomena experienced during sudden movements of the Earth’s crust.

Under the Earth’s crust lies the asthenosphere, the upper part of the mantle composed of liquid rock. The plates of the Earth’s crust essentially “float” on top of this layer and can be forced to shift as the upwelling molten material below moves. As the plates shift an enormous amount of energy is released in the form of waves, although they can occur anywhere on the planet with little or no warning.

The most extreme earthquakes occur near plate boundaries, as the plates converge, diverge or shear. Moving rock and magma within volcanoes can also trigger earthquakes. In all of these causes, large sections of the crust can fracture and move to-and-fro to dissipate the released energy. This “shaking” is the sensation felt during an earthquake. The energy released is often described in terms of “magnitude”, a logarithmic scale used to describe how energetic an earthquake was; a quake of magnitude 2 is hardly noticeable without special monitoring equipment, while quakes over magnitude 8 may actually cause the ground to visibly heave and roll. Since the scale is logarithmic, a magnitude 8 quake is not four times more energetic than a magnitude 2 quake, but one billion times more energetic.

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Hello my name is Chae and I am 12 years old. My year level is year 8, Form 2. I am happy to have my blog to put my own writing stuff. I aspire to be a rugby or rugby league player for any New Zealand team. I hope you like what I have written.