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__//** The awesome world **//__

__//** Conservation international Info **//__ Conservation international is doing every thing they can to save the species. We are losing a species every 20 minutes. That's just irresponsible. There is less than 1,600 pandas that are not held in captivity. There are only 3,500 Black Rhinos that are not held in captivity. One of the things I signed up for was the search for lost frogs. it's basicly a bunch of scientists looking for amphibeans that have not been seen for over a decade. i am mainly focusing on the Turkestanian Salamander. it has not been sighted since 1909. There are 17 species of primates, and 5 of them live in Madagascar. 50 types of lemures live on Madagscar. in the year 2000, 17 of the 50 types of lemurs were on the endangered or the criticly indangered list. Orangatanges are endangered too. 

= ﻿ Climate Change =

The Greenhouse Effect: What is it? The Greenhouse Effect is when radiative energy leaving the Earth's

surface and it is obsorbed by atmospheric gases called Greenhouse gases

Radiative energy is like radiation. It is a source of heat such as the sun and lightning. The greenhouse gases

turn the energy into components in the atmosphere and they are re-radiated in many different directions,

including down tworads the surface of the earth. And then this transfers energy to the surface and lower

atmosphere, so the tempature is higher than it would be if direct heating from solar radiation was the only

way to heat the earth.

__//** Turtles in General and Cool Facts **//__ As the name obviously states, a sea turtle a reptile that lives in the sea. they weigh some where between 100 to 1,300 pounds. Sea turtles have eardrums, but they are covered by a layer of skin.When they come out of water on to land, they become nearsighted. The top part of seat turtles shell is called a carapace and the top is called a plastron. Leatherback turtles are the only species of sea turtles that don't have a shell. There is no way to see a sea turtles age by its physical appearance.

__ **//The Leatherback Sea Turtle//** __

The Leatherback gets its name because of it's non hard, smooth, leathery back. They are generaly 4 to 8 feet in length and weigh about 650 to 1,300 pounds.

Q & A!!!! How do scientists find out how old sea turtles are? There is no way, just educated guesses. Matt, nice wiki, but you need to make your paragraph for our group wiki.--Brandon B. Sources: Caribbean Conservation Corporation, conservation international, science news for kids, kinds of turtles.com, [|www.conserveseaturtles.org]  Da group wikis on my wiki

Group 1: The Forest Defenders. So, Deforestation is when people are wiping out trees. The earth loses about 1 acre of forest everey second. Sit there for one minute. (WARNING DO NOT READ AHEAD UNTILL ONE MINUTE!!) After that past minute, Does it not bother you that we just lost 60 acres of land? it bothers me!! And, already rainforest area that equals 200 football fields has been lost in brazil. That is really distubing.

Group 2: Stop The Oil Spill. You guys all know about the spill in the gulf, right? Oil rig exploded, 11 people killed, and 210,000 gallons rising to the surface per day. Horrible. It has been affecting animals, therefore affecting the food chain. Take dolphins fore instance, the oil clogs there blow hole, they cant breath, they die.

Group 3: Air And Water Pollution. Air Pollution: The U.S.A is responsible for 30.3% of the worlds air pollution! That just makes me feel terrible. How about you? To 30% of the people in china, the air they breath is equivilant to smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day. Some teachers in Mexico City say that when there pupils draw the sky, they rarely use the color blue. That is just sad. Water Pollution: Fact: 56 million people die a YEAR from water pollution. 9/11 killed 6000 to 8000 in a day, on average 153,000 people die from water pollution a day. So please, watch what you throw down your drain.

Group 4: Habitat Heros. Rainforests once covered 14% of the world. now it only covers 6%. Thats less than half of the original amount. Every decade 9 percent of the polar ice caps melt.

ADHD INCREASES THE RISK OF DEPRESSION AND SUICIDAL THOUGHTS.

ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is a condition that causes children to be overactive and have trouble paying attention. Children also have trouble in school, tend to have poor grades and impulsive behavior which causes them to have difficulty making and keeping friends. This disorder also causes a lack of self esteem and depression and/or suicidal thoughts. So, I have with ADHD and I saw this article on [|www.sciencedaily.com] and thought I should check this out. Here is some information that I thought you might find interesting, especially if you have ADHD. Benjamin Lahey basicly said if your child has ADHD, it is very important to keep an eye on your child's behavior. About 4.4 MILLION children have ADHD.

Earlier studies of the connections between ADHD, depression and suicidal thoughts have had mixed results. The study, done by the University of Chicago and The University of Pittsburgh, followed 123 children aged 4-6 until age 18-20. The study copmpared them with 119 children that were similar, but did not have ADHD. The study found that 18% of the people that were diagnosed with ADHD at an early age suffered from deppression, about 10 times the rate than those who did not have ADHD. Children with early ADHD are 5 times as likley to have had a suicidal thought at least once, and 2 times as likley to have made an attempt. Lahery says that suicide attempts are relativly rare, even in the study group. almost 80% of the children with ADHD did not attempt suicide, and no one in the study group commited suicude. It says no one in the study group COMMITED suicide, not attempted. And it said that suicide attempts were relativley rare, even in the study group. Rare. Not never, rare. There are different subtypes of ADHD: the people who have attention deficit part, the hyperactive people, and the people who have both. Based on which type of person you are, you could be more proned to depression or suicidal thoughts and/or actions. Children with combined subtype are more likley to have depression. Those with hyperactivity are more likley to have suicidal thoughts/actions. Those with combined subtypes are more likley to have both depression and suicidal thoughts/actions. There are many more boys than girls with ADHD, but being a girl increases the risk of depression. Children with more complicated ADHD are more likley to suffer from depression or suicidal thoughts/actions. Children with uncomplicated ADHD with few symptomes of other disorders were at low riskfor depressionbut children with many symptoms were at a very high risk. To sum it up, more symptoms, more risks. Less symptoms, less risks.

Animal Rights

Personally, i think that it is fine to test medicine on the animals, especialy rats and mice, because they are very heavily populated all over the world. I mean, they are just some of the millions, maby even billions of that type of species all over the world but as for other animals i say no, and, of course for cosmetics i say no. We don't really need cosmetics. Thats just me, but what about my neighborhood. i went around my neighborhood, surveyed 20 people, and had them tell me what they thought. For medicine: 10 people said yes, and 10 people said no. and a few people told me that if there was an alternative, that they would choose no. As for cosmetics: 5 people said yes and 15 people said no. Many people also said that there were no use for them.I think its wierd that zoos are sometimes considered taking unfair advantage of animals by keeping them caged so people can view them. Without zoos, some of those animals would have already gone extinct. why take away that guys life, i mean com on one bear a whole family of starving people. for me, it depends on what the human need is and what type of animal your using.

Q&A

1. Ianswered this in the top of my paragraph. 2. What if the experiments could save human lives? yes. 3. How about if it was your pet. no. 4. If it was a drug that could wipe out cancer? HECK YAA!!

Hydrothermal Vents

OK, so im gonna do this by paragraph. Paragraph one. i read this and im like, and i quote:"WOW, HOLY COW, THATS INSANE, I MEAN 300 DEGREES FERIEGNHIEGHT, THATS JUST TOTALLY, WICKEDLY, AWESOME!!!! so that is how i pretty much felt when i read the paragraph and then i flipped out again because ANIMALS LIVE DOWN THERE!!!!

Paragraph two. Ok, so i read this and i get all confused because it says cold water. cold water in 300 degrees ferinhieght. did i miss a negative sign or a below or somthing???? i read on it says 34-37 degree ferinhieght water. whats up with that???? i read on and it says thet the water goes into the cracks and mixes with the the magma in the cracks, dissolves the chemicals in the craks, and releases them into the open water. Ok no more paragraph by paragraph//.//

//FAST FACTS//

// this can happen as deep as 20,000 feet under the sea. usually its only lone animals that live at the vents, but in 1977 scientists found a coleney of animals. // // the animals that live at the vent have a chemical in their bodies that turns the chemical released by the vent into nutrients. //

Classification

Organisms are classified by the specific traits that that organism has. Organisms that are related to that organism are classified almost exactly the same except, depending on how closely related the organisms are, the traits. For example, the book tells us that the domestic house cat (Felis Domestica) is very closely related to the panther (Panthera Lepardus). All until the genus they are completely the same.\

You can also see how the organisms can have different traits. In the book, it shows the deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is the same until order which it split’s the deer being herbivore and the cat being carnivore. It shows that you cant just sort by one trait like where it lives or its color, you have to think of all the traits.

Philipine Eagle The Philipine Eagle's cause that is is criticaly endangered is deforestation.one thing that could be done to save them is STOP DEFORESTATION!!!!!!!!!!!like, make a boycott.