Mechanical Weathering In Mrs. Babb's Earth And Space Class

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In Mrs Babb’s Earth and space class we had a lab that was about Mechanical Weathering. What we had to do was to put sugar cubes in a jar and shake it. The first step was to put one sugar in the jar for three minutes while shaking the jar. Then you repeat this but only adding one more sugar cube to the jar. ( we only did three test so three sugar cubes in the jar . After shaking the jar we had to weigh the sugar cube. After you weighted the cube. You subtract the the weight before shaking and the weight after shaking the jar. But before you do all this you first have to make a Hypothesis. (is an idea or explanation that you then test through study and experimentation.)

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