Wetlands: What They Really Are

greenclasswetlands.webs.com

Here is the link to our wetlands website. The citations are on here, but we have additional citations on our packets.

Books and Ecology

Currently, I am reading a book called Tangerine, and I've noticed that some parts of it relate to ecology, specifically the food web. In the book, humans put Koi into a pond. Then, Ospreys started to eat the Koi. This shows an actual food web that can take place in the real world.

Adaptations

This Mud Turtle that I  found has many helpful characteristics. For one, it has claws. This adaptation helps it dig through the mud to make a burrow to hibernate, which they make at the bottom of muddy lakes, which is what I found it doing when I saw it. Also, it's black color helps it camouflage with what it burrows in, and the stripes on the head look like the surrounding weeds. Also, it's webbed feet help it swim under water. Also, the musk turtles shell gives it good protection from predators. This animal is a predator its self, eating small fish and insects. Another adaptation is the fact that they have feet. This allows them to go out of water and make dens for their eggs and sun bathe. Obviously, the Mud Turtle is well equipped to survive easily in life.

This hawk is a biotic limiting factor because it limits populations such as the mouse population. It also limits the population of rabbits, squirrels, and basically any small mammal that can fit in its talons. It does this by eating them.

Tornado Projecthttp://allabouttornado.webs.com/

http://allabouttornado.webs.com/

Camden Aquarium

This past friday, we went to the Camden Aquarium. First, we made groups with our friends, than we were given a chaperone and a bus. My group was on bus number two. After about an hour, we finally made it to the aquarium. After getting off the bus and finding our chaperones, we were allowed in. Although most of my group left us, half of us found a new chaperone after getting lost and half found our old chaperone. The half with our old chaperone got to see all of section D and part of section C, and I don't know what happened to the other group. At the end, we all went to the gift shop, and then went home.

worlds only immortal animal

An immortal jellyfish (turritopsis Nutricula) has been discovered. It was originated in the Carribian but spread throughout the world. Its immortality is thanks to something called transdifferation, or the ability to completely transform from an adult to a polyp and back again. Scientist believe that it can do this to no extent, making it, literaly, immortal.

Math in the Afghanistan Conflict

Most people would think that the war in Afghanistan is only something that has to do with Social Studies, yet there are a few math aspects in the war as well. One aspect is finding out how long the war lasted. Also, sadly, another aspect is how many bombs were dropped. On a happier note, another aspect is how many buildings were repaired and how many people were saved. Finally, there's how many soldiers were braught in.

Wonderful, Glorious Goop

In science class, we had an experiment about the states of matter. On the lab tables, there were beakers filled with "slime" (corn starch mixed with water). We had to find out what state of matter it was: solid, liquid, or gas. My group thought that it was a trick question: that it wasn't a solid, liquid or gas. We thought it was an amorphous solid, which is a solid that will hold it's shape when moving, but will turn to liquid when it stops moving. We later found out that our guess was correct.