Class Response: What is Symbiois

<-a picture of mutualism

Symbiois is a close relationship between two organisms in which one organism lives near, on or even aside another organism, and the organisms benefit. This happens everywhere and all the time. There are three types of of symbiotic relationships. One type is commensalism, this is when one of the organisms benefit and the other is not harmed. An example of commensalism is when there barnacles on a whale. The barnacles have a place to grow and the whales don't seem to mind. The second is mutualism, that is when both organisms benefit from each other. Mutualism would be a clown fish and an anemone. The clown fish would get safety and have shelter; meanwhile the fish will attract others the anemone which it can feed of. Parasitism is when one organism gains while the other gets harmed. a pine tree and a woodpecker would be an example of parasitism because the woodpecker will get food from the tree. However, the tree will suffer from diseases and will weaken. Symbiotic relationships are important to life in my opinion and we can can notice multiple relationships while just out on a walk.


http://www.poliz.de/starship/sciencenew/symbiois.htm

The Unfortunate Truth

Seven innocent whale have gone missing! Scientists presume that they are dead. This took place by the Seattle area in the US. this been a huge thing for the marine life. This has been the greatest loss of orcas in the last ten years. The marine biologist have turned on the alarm. They also believe there are explanations. One explanation they believe is the loss of food, this year it has been harder for the orcas to find salmon. However, there could also be the possibilities that pollution has been apart of this. Also, naval ships. There was a baby killer whale, Luna and she was once following a tugboat near the Vancouver Islands and was unfortunately killed by the boats propeller. This is one of the many of the sad stories of the unfortunate deaths of many whales. Whales have been an endangered species since 2005. I think that the the seven went out looking for food and since there's a decrease in salmon they went out farther to look for food. However, they could've got lost on their way back.

http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/sevn-orca-whales-missing-coast-british-columbia-deemed-diaster-marine-researchers

Class Reponse: The Food Chain

Recently, in class we have been working on what a food chain is. We have understood that the food chain shows how living things get their food and nutrient. The food chain always starts with a producer such as a tree, plant or shrub and then will get eaten by a primary consumer which could be a rabbit or a squirrel. Next the Primary consumer will be eaten by a secondary consumer. A secondary consumer could be a snake or an owl. Another interesting fact is that decomposers aren't always added to every food chain because they are always at the beginning and end of a food chain. Examples of decomposers are mushrooms and bacteria. A third interesting fact is that a herbivore only eats plants, a carnivore only eats meat and an omnivore eats both plants and meat. Also, there are more herbivores than carnivores. The reason is because each time energy is passed, less and less energy is passed. So a carnivore has to eat many herbivores to get enough energy. I think that the food chain is very complex and helpful especially for ecologist. I have learned a lot from this because I understand how energy is passed from one organism from another.
http://www.vtaide.com/png/foodchain.htm

What Happened To The Hubble Telescope?

The Hubble Telescope has been fine for eighteen years. however, recently on September 27th the Hubble Telescope stopped working. this almost stopped all scientific communications from the telescope. the telescope has helped us extremely. we have a way to look at cosmos and because of the telescope scientists were able to confirm that black holes exist. scientist have also found out the refined measurements of the age of the universe and we also the the universes expansion rate. the universes expansion rate is rapidly increasing. over the two weeks the scientist at NASA are sending remote commands that switch on the failed operations. Scientists have been optimistic and they think that the rays of the sun harmed the Hubble Telescope or cosmic debris entered the backup of the Hubble Telescope. soon scientist will send a new handling unit with astronaut.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/37608/title/Hubble%2C_heal_thyself

Math Blog: Math Is...

Math is a lot. Math this year has been about learning new ideas and reviewing and solving more complicated problems. This year math wasn't a extremely hard challenge. I understood everything that happened and everything that occurred even if I absent because everything was well explained and examples were shown for how to do a problem. Math was and is something that you learn from. Math this year was exciting because we learned something new each day or continued fun projects from previous days. To sum up, math is everything!!!

Class Response: Kites

Flying kites is an easy task, but did you know there is science behind it. It's all air pressure. when you run with your kite in the wind air moves downward which causes the air to go upward. when the air goes quickly and fast there is less air pressure and more pressure below the kite. this also makes the kite move above. to fly a kite you need wind. The wind you'll most probably get is local winds because most people don't live close to beaches so the land heats up and the hot air rises. then, the cool air so below pushing the kite.

*EXTRA CREDIT* To Earthward

Robert Frost is a great poet who wrote a poem called To Earthward. This did not incrmy ease knowledge of weather, but it did teach me some poetic techniques. the techniques were rhyming and added some description. but the type of weather that was discussed was the dry spring. This is high density. it also talks about when honeysuckles come out in spring and how grassy and sandy it is. you really have to use context clues and the weather helped me understand what the poet was feeling and what was happening. this is a great poem for all to read.