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Amber Berumen Baker Talissa Romero
 * // Grand Canyon Field Trip //**

Photo by Talissa Romero

We went on a field trip to the Grand Canyon with our 7th grade class. Our teacher Mrs. Wilkening is having us write some journal entrees on two pictures we took. This first picture is of the South Kaibab trail; this is the trail we took through the canyon. Our hiking guide told us a lot of interesting facts and the most interesting to me was there is soft rock and hard rock in the canyon, the soft rock erodes and the hard rock falls on top of the eroding rock. The guide told us a lot about the canyon, he told us that there is more than 1700 different plants in the canyon. Some of these plants are killing other plants and shrubs and need to be removed, but they’re deep in the canyon and there’s no way to remove the plants from the canyon. The first people in the canyon were Native Americans and there were 11 different tribes living in the canyon. To survive they used Yucca plants and braided them to make ropes, the Yucca is a very strong and helpful plant growing all around the canyon. They used tree bark for their babies' diapers and used many plants as medicine, the Native Americans would hike from one side of the giant canyon to the other side just to get medicine for their loved ones and they ate acorns on their way to get the medicine. Photo by Talissa Romero ==== The river was the best part of the whole trip in my opinion. Our guide was very funny and welcoming. She told us about the different canyons and dams. The Dam at the beginning of the rafting trip was 700 feet tall. The river we were on was going through Glen Canyon, but the name of the river is the Colorado River. It was fairly tall, but it was very narrow. The Glen canyon is right between the Marble canyon and the Grand Canyon. John Wesley Powell named the canyon. John Wesley Powell named it Glen Canyon because it was very green and a Glen is an area of greenery. We learned that 25% of the World’s produce comes from the Colorado River. Some parts of the Canyon walls are Sandstone. Sandstone is very pours; it soaks in water and then releases it into the river, that’s what gets the river so deep. The only fish in the river is Trout. This river is one of the most impressive fly-fishing spots. If you fish in the Colorado River you can’t use live bait. ==== This is a picture of the Wupatki National Monument =** Wupatki **= ===** The Wupatki National Monument was big. It looked like it was in the middle of nowhere. When we got down to the Pueblo that the earlier people had built, the building looked like it had gone through 10 earthquakes. **=== ===** When we were at the National Monument we got to go down to the blow hole and the ceremonial ball court. At the blow hole we had to figure out if it was going to blow or suck and that day it was partially blowing not a whole lot. **=== ===** At the ball court it was red sand everywhere. We would put the red sand across are face so we had stripes or the tribal spirit. We also had to come up with a game to play, so we played one that we had to knock each other off balance by pushing on each other’s hands. This was something new for both my partner and I. We had a great time hiking and going in the pueblo house. **===
 * ===** 400a.d. was the first people came through and built the ruins. **===
 * ===** There was 100 rooms in this building **===
 * ===** Wupatki Pueblo trail is about ½ mile (.8 km) round trip long. **===
 * ===** The whole site had a tower, community room, and a ceremonial ball court. **===
 * ===** By 1190 as many as 2,000 people lived in the Wupatki Pueblo. **===
 * ===** Wupatki Pueblo stood 3 stories high in places there were no exterior doorways at ground level. **===

This is a picture of the Sunset Crater Cinder -Cone Volcano we visited on the ride home from the Grand Canyon

=** Sunset Crater **= ===** At Sunset Crater there was ash everywhere. Also there was hardened lava from long ago at the bottom of the National Monument. Unfortunately we didn’t get to hike the trail like planned but before we got on the bus most of us stopped to smell a tree that supposedly had an unusual smell. Honestly it didn’t smell like anything but kind of had a hint of vanilla. **===

** This was also something new for both my partner and I. So of course we had fun, but we just wished we could have hiked the trail like planned. **

 * ===** John Wesley Powell named the crater Sunset Crater. **===
 * ===** This crater is a cinder cone volcano. **===
 * ===** 1,000 &1,100 A.D. was the last time the volcano erupted **===
 * ===** Liken eats the rocks minerals and it grows off of that. **===
 * ===** The Sunset Crater is on a hot spot **===