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 THE SEA TURTLE Sea turtles are very interesting creatures!! Most people don't know that they are endangered because of pollution and litter. Why would anyone want to harm a Hawksbill for a pair of earings from the shell? Read on for more on these friendly amphibians... See That Sea Turtle Swim!!! - Sea turtles are nearsighted out of water. - When it's time for females to lay their eggs, most of them return to the beach they were born! -Australian flatbacks are captured, their eggs are harvested, and their nesting beaches are being destroyed... -Hawksbills are no longer found in large numbers.  - The earliest known sea turtle fossils are 150 million years old. - It takes a 15-50 years for sea turtles to mature !!! -Green sea turtles have a single pair of eyelids, unlike others that have two. -Loggerheads can have 100-126 eggs -Australian flatbacks are named by its flat shell. -Olive Ridleys live in tropical regions of the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic ocean. - Green turtle's shell can be black, grey, or brown. It's actually named after the green color of its fat. -Kemp Ridly's first name was from the man who discovered it, Richard Ridley. Second name, a mystery...   -Loggerheads can grow 8 feet long!! - Largest leatherback was 10 feet and was 2,019 pounds!! -Leatherbacks are capable of swimming in water 40 degrees farenheit!! -It is ILLEGAL to ride or handle a turtle.

-Oliver Ridley's dive to dephs of 500 feet!! -Kemp Ridleys are the most endangered sea turtle. -6/7 sea turtles are theatened with instinction!! - Every second, a parcel of the rainforest the size of a football field colapses!! -It is ILLEGAL to import, sell, or trasport turtles or their other products. Fresh Water in percents Did you know that less then 1% of fresh water flows freely?! Water is a necesity to all living species. It is very important to the food chain, because it waters plants. That explains why 70% of the fresh water is used for agricaltural reasons! As I read further, I found out that 2 out of six human beings lack sanitation. 4 out of six have water born illneses!!! It isn't right! I am guilty of allowing the water to run while I brush my teeth. To preserve the inviornment,start at home intoducing......       GO GREEN!!! -RECYCLE - CLEAN UP LITTER -WRITE ON BACK OF USED PAPER -CARPOOL -TURN OFF LIGHTS OR FAUCET WHEN NOT IN ROOM - TAKE A TWO MINUTE SHOWER -PACK A WASTE FREE LUNCH BY USING REAL SILVER WERE, CLOTH NAPKIN, LUNCH BOX,CONTAINERS, AND A WATER BOTTLE. ASK the SURFER...   Q: What is the prosess a sea turtle goes through to lay eggs? A: At night, the female scuffles to a dry part of the beach and pauses from time to time, like she is scoping out her spot. She then comences digging with her flip pers and rotates her body, transforming a body pit, and starts to lay eggs 2-3 at a time. At the end, she uses her front flippers to cover the body pit to disguise it. She then returns to the sea, never returning to care for her hatchling.



I, personally, think that it is amazing how technology evolved.In the colonial days, no one knew how to preform surgery on the brain or spine. Docter ( M.D) Holmes dose!! When he believes someone has an infection in the spinal cord, he would puncture a needle into the spine that releases a fluid resembing water.You could than test to find out if their was an infection! What is the spinal cord, you ask? Well, the spinal cord is a cord the size of a pen made of nervous tissue ( No, not the tissue you sneeze into!!) that is protected by your backbone.If it is broken, it can not be mended ): .   Lets say your in a car acident. The best thing to do is not move. The unbalance of weight and pressure of the head is too much for the spine and neck. The spine can't withstand the capacity, and starts to shift.You could die in as little as 4 minutes.    The brain, another important part of your anadomy, is capable of getting injured, too. Cocain results in high blood pressure, and later results in strokes. Who wants to ruin their lifes with useless drugs?! Do you like the scent of markers? Stop wiffing, it kills brain cells. You can't regrow them, so others take over! Another fun fact. Neurosurgeons can tell your in need of brain surgury when one of your pupils are larger than the other. This is because the presure is building up, and soon will stop working when there is no longer any capable space. Scalp clips are used to hold the scalp ou t of the way during sugury( They look like barettes. . .). Speaking of surgery, 10 people tend to in the room helping. The docter, the nurses, people making sure the patient has enough anistashia, and other handing the tools around. If you think about it, that must be a large room. In the WHOLE U.S, from the Grand Canyon to New York, ONLY 120 naurosurgeons are graduate a year. If eaten more fritos this week then that. Lets thank our lucky stars Mr. Holmes is such an inteligent, hardworking one (=!!

= ﻿ Nero, the recyclers of Egypt, the Earth keepers of the World = 80% of reusable objects in Naro are recyled by hand! The remains are fed to the pigs in this poorest town of Egypt. The recycables are brought on donkey carts. Even women and children help to do it for profit. I believe this ecanomical cricis is due to its population of tens of thousands of people. Recycling is a suficient way to earn money to suport their family, even if the majority of the residents live on a dollar a day. Americans (hint,hint) waste money for new video games they MUST HAVE!! One school name Mokattam fill empy shampoo bottle with a cheeper substance to sell. Now, schools learn the buisness of recycling. Despite of all the phisical touching with garbage, one woman reports there is barely any water to wash her hands. Instead of purchasing solar water heaters, a group called the Solar Cities constucts them out of plastic tubing( recycled, of corse!) America is so spoiled and lazy, some of us can't even mustard the stengh to reach out and discard of a scatch paper ( have you ever thought of using the back first?!) Seeing picture of Nero really changed my perspective. The whole world, every crack and crevise, isn't all smiley faces and large allowences. It must be like that. It's the way human life was intended to be. You have to shoot for their shoes ( "if they have any", punny) to understand that your goal is really going to effect the way life will evolve for you and other citenzens. This is why I think Nero is such a hard working, proggresive country. They set a goal any think positive whle reaching for it, and soon, maybe these hard working role models will inspiere other forign counties to become invironmentalist.

= ﻿ ﻿ The earth as we never knew it (until know...) = =I wonder what it would feel like to run across a field. Not a field with litter lurking around. Not a world were one and a half acres of rainforest is lost every second. Not a destiny that is scared with disaster if humans keep pushing the earth beyond measure. No, not having any situation we cast apon ourselves would be a bright world. Aperently, humans don't care to do something. That smiley newsreporter just sits their improvising world distruction with resurance. Miss Kochs class know a secret. One that can unbalance the earth. To all you literers and baby seal clubers, let me introduce the world to you. As you're reading this, think if your are guilty of distructing the biosphere. I admit I did! = = ﻿ Air and Water polution = Air. You hardly even think about it. Just there, right? WRONG!! Air can be polluted, too. 2.5 billion people breath polluted air, and an estimated 4.6 die each year from it. Some substances that go into it are fertilizer, pesticides, power lines with cut wires letting off toxic, smog ( a mixture of smoke and inocent fog), evaporating oil from oil spills, volcanic activities, and much more. What substance volcanoes release into the air harm people? Ash and steam create hot clouds called pyroclastic flows that roll down mountain sides during an eruption. The volcanic ash in pyroclastic flows released into the air people breath really harms people.Cars are responsible for 40% to 90% of polluted air! The United States of America is responsible of 30.3 of emmision. In China, Some of the locals breath in so much poluted air, it amounts to smoking two packs of cigars a day. So you see, it's not just us Americans that will be afected. In water polution lurks dead animal carcusses, plastic six packs, rotten food, chemical runoffs, and pestisides ( bugs aren't that difucult to cope with, people!) How many American rivers are polluted? forty percent! Do you really want to think about that when you want to drink/ swim in pure liquid? Unless you are a living creature, I bet you don't!

=Oil Spills= On April 20, 2010 BP carelessly spewed 210,000 gallons of oil. Eleven people died when the rig blew up. 800 birds are dying after swallowing oil that stops their lungs. What animals are most afected? The brown pelican, Louisiana's state bird, five out of seven sea turtles of the world are in the gulf, dolfins( the oil irritates their eyes, and they breath in the hydrocarbon vapors), sellfish and crabs, north Atlantic Bluefin Tuna ( they spawn in the gulf in mid- April / June) And shorebirds. It has been seven months, and it still has not been cleaned! It will be hard to clean the bottom, so many animals that live down there, such as the two thirds of dieing krill and plankton, will have a dificult time surviving. The crew uses hair to soak up oil, and boats that vacum the black, sticky goop. Every year, 706 million gallons of oil pollute the water. Thanks, BP!! Only 74 killer whales and 500 bald eagles, our nations symbol, are left. It feels like having that many eagles is like having a limit on freedom. Eagles symbolize our country. Were did they go? Well, 900 of them died in the Exxon oil spill. The Exxon Vadez spill in 1989 spilled 11 million gallons. By the fourth day, the oil had traveled 37 miles. It took 10,000 workers and 1.28 billion dollars to clean it up. When did they compleatly finish cleaning the spill up? They finished in ninteen ninety two. That was three years later, and they had spilled much less oil than BP. The company is going to be busy, if they even help clean up, for a long while. Maybe it is time to boycott Bp... = Deforestation﻿ = Deforestation is when people cut down and clear away trees! Subsitence cultivators cut down trees and burn forest in diferent places. They than may use the barren land for agricultural reasons, or to constuct human buildings. How much paper do Americans use a year? More than 748 pounds! How many animals do we use? Scientist estimate 50,000 species a year! One and a half acres of rainforest are lost every second, due to chainsaws, flames and bulldozers. Climate change also has a strong affect. The carbon dioxide in trees are released when they die. since trees contain oxogen, we are minimizing the amount when we cut down, burn, or harm trees. Is this the world we want?

= -Habitat destruction- =

Many areas are being destucted, taking away plant's and animal's homes. The ocean contains a large amount of life. Polution and litter always efects the conditions. Chemical effluent is when chemicals sink into the sea from the land and tributaries. There are more than 400 dead zones ( parts of the ocean where oxogen is sucked out.) What area has the most Dead zones right now? The Baltic sea, it now has seven out of ten of the seas dead zone. Bottom trawing is when a net is dragged at the bottom of the sea to capture large amounts of fish. This can catch more than just fish.It can catch turtles, sharks, and other sea crreatures from out of the blue (literally.)

Speeking of water, nine percent of thre polar icecaps melt every decade. If this keeps up, it will flood the WORLD!! Global warming caused by chemical runoffs,oil drilling and car exust are the culprits.

Lets go from the freezing icecaps to to the scorching desert. 5% of the world is covered in it. Vehicles desroy desert plants when they drive on them. This will afect the the amimals that may soon disapeer from the foodchain! When we pull out desert plants for medicine, we basiclly get the same results.

= I remember going to Disney World. There was this ride that you rode a float down the " rainforest." When you turn the curb, you see plastic models of people and machines cutting and burning the trees down. 300,000 plants cure cancer, and 70% come from the forest. Which kinds? Madagascar periwinkle is used to treat Hogkins lymphoma and leukimea. Topatecan is use dfor cancer therapy, and irinotecan is used to treat metaltic colorectal cancer. 80% of the air we breath is disapearing due to us cutting down trees. seventy to ninety percent of the world's species live in the forest. We cut down trees for furniture, paper, and other product 60% of people ﻿ live on. We ﻿ are wasting an unecesary amount of trees. Can our destructive habits stop... ﻿ =

Desertification

Deserts take up 20% of the earths surface! Desertification is when the weather changes the land into a desert. Overgrazing, droughts, and slash and burn. Slash and burn is when people cut down trees and burn them. Why do they do this? They want to clear the land for livestock, farming, and shifting cultivation ( when cultivated land is temporarly used, than abandoned.) What is the largest efected area in the world? Asia, which has under one thousand four hundred hectares!

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The hydrologic cycle is basiclly the sequence water goes through. The heat from the sun evaporates the liquid water into a gas or water vapor. It is stored in its water vapor state when clouds are formed. When the clouds become dense,full of liquid and cold, percipitation is the state it goes into! Liquid from the sky can fall in snoe, rain, hail, and sleet! Here are some water facts ( of course, that is the main part of the "water" cycle ﻿:) ====== - Nearly 97% of the earth's water is undrinkable! -Water expands when it goes from a liquid to a solid. -In twenty minutes, a thunder storm can pour over 125,000,000 gallons of water! -About two thirds of your body is made of water! - The earth's supply of water: 97% ocean, 2% icecap/ glaciers, and 1% ground fresh water!

= ﻿ Facts about Marine life!! =

I've always loved the ocean's beauty and power ( Partly because of The Disney movie the Little Mermaid ). The facts I found were awesome, so " vuala", here they are (: . ..
~ Ocean mammals can temporarly live in fresh water, until they are tired because of the lack of buoyancy ( the upwards force that keeps objects afloat) and food. ~ If dolphins slept, they would STOP breathing! They have to always have to take a breath each time, unlike humans who do it naturally without thinking. Dolphins must either rest in the water column horizonally/ vertically or close to another animal. ( they say it is similar to how humans take short naps). ~Great white sharks can have up to 3,000 teeth! ~ Walruses eat up to 6% of their body weight! ~It can take decades for a whale carcus to decompose ( other creatures eat the body) ~ Dolphins can swim under water for five to ten minuteswithout going up to the surface! =﻿ ﻿ = = ﻿Plant eating Insect V.S a Host Plant!! =

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Flys are all over the place. In your picnic sandwiches, the dump, you name it! Who knew arobidopsis thaliana, a weedy plant related to the mustard family, would allow female scaptomyza, a red eyed fly, to lay eggs in the hole they pricked in the plant's tisue? Noah Whitemen, working as an assistant professor at UA's department of evolutionary ecosystem, discoverd this fly spends its whole life depending and living on the plant. Mr. Whitmen compleated a test by putting the flys in a cage with the host plant. They started carving holes in the leaves and drinking the juicy sap flowing out! On a walk in Boston, he witnessed one scaptomyza was making " mines" in the plant, and the other apeared to be living inside. How does the flora protect itself? The thaliana buces its production of protein that causes dificulty in the insect's digestive system!======

My first reaction to this artical was agastment. I can not believe science is being performed in such a way to scope out every question of the biosphere and solve! Suspence leads you to depts of anticipation for the truth. Like air, you practically never even give a second thought to flys unless they are in you food. To dig with such bold carisma and no dought what you are reserching will afect the world awes me. I never even knew flys "lived" anywere, much less whan they ate besides human produce! Animals minds may not be adapted as well as ours, which gives us the responsibility to gain all the knowledge of the world. Based on this article, it makes me believe we are doing a suficient job!

= ﻿Expierements I want to try and my questions of the world = ="Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path.... and lead a trail"=

=﻿~ Ralph Waldo Emerson~=

=﻿ ﻿ ~ How long does it take to get a distracted group of students aficially through the lunch line then those who are eager, atentive and ready? = = ~ Why is the sky blue, and how do clouds form? ~ How long does it take for the average meal to be digested?~ = = ~ What is the Hottest recorded tempturature? ~ This is a question about calture more than science, but, how was sushi invented? I know a tad about where it originated and such, and I crave more imformation! ~ = = ﻿~Why do people club baby seals? ~ =



= ﻿ANIMAL RIGHTS = =I believe there is a difference between needs and wants. Wants will not sevearly efect the earth's destiny. Make-up was a luxtury until it transformed into an everyday idems, because we believed it was our right due to being top of the foodchain. Needs do play a large role in life. It can cause remarcable affects. Cancer, for example, ends the lives of millions of people. Therefore, I aso believe that they should run test for necesitys. When they do preform the expierement, they should perform it carefully and with full atentivness. This shall reduce the amount on inocent lives taken ( the scientist would have an understanding of the results more quickly. It would cut the extra effort of running the test dozens of times.) Although the test will proceed to a worthy cause doesn't necesarally give the exception to put countless organisyms through torture! The article says the animals feel pain. Isn't there a sleeping or numming medicene we could use to cease the pain?= = ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ A man in India was taken away the privlages of his trained bear, although he used his money to support his family. Humans need to work for their cash. Was this man helping the world progress in a positive state? Absolutly not, this is what some people can't see! It's called animal cruelty. Most bears and lions have their front paws burnt so the have to stand on their hind quarters in circuses! Although the athoritys should try to give him another job, they ignored the hungry families needs. It was a sutible move to asist the bear, but cruel, bitter, and harsh for the family to put up with. I mean no ofence whatsoever, but India is not as progressed a country as we are. Maybe the man truly didn't give bear training a second thought. How did he train the animal? Maybe then I could achieve a strong emotional grasp of the situation... = =Zoos and circuses enclose animals in small places! Freedom is the most important thing animals have, because it's one of the only things I believe gives them joy. Unlike humans, they can't speek out and say "no." Animals don't live in large, open spaces when in a zoo. They usually live alone or at the most with a mate. I watched a you tube video showing two GROWN women childlishly tapping on the glass case enclosing the chimpanzee.They were cooing at the poor, defensless creature while slapping the map in it's face. The animal tryed to get it, but the glass surface kept him from doing so. Some circus animals are forced to allow children to hold them. I held a baby alligator when I was four. I never thought about it till I looked at the picture and saw it had a ruber band around its snout. Hunting was first ment to supply families with energy (food). When did shooting a bullet through another animals skin become a joyous sport? Humans give the excuse that we can not equally treat them because of over population. We wouldn't have to be that pathetic if we hadn't started littering, polluting, etc. (basically world destruction.) Humans aren't capable of knowing what animals are feeling.Do you think it's right?= media type="youtube" key="zbiuwHYIAPA" width="425" height="350" align="center"



=hydrothermal vents= Is that even posible to have a place that is 300F*( what a sauna!) ? Wonderland seems to be the onley place with 10 foot catapilars ( or in this case, tube worms ) and mamoth clams! To survive down in the ocean 20,000 feet in such hot climates, the creatures must have numerous unique adaptions. I based my thoughts on the following adaptions on the text and pictures. I don't know if it was the camera lighting or it is the original colors, but do you see those white spider on the bottom right hand corner? White tends to radiate heat back so that it does not limit the animals range of area it is capable of scudling around. The animals they listed that are locals in the hydro vents seem to be small,which places them at the bottom of the foodchain. Do they go there to protect themselves from predetors that can not survive the heat? When I think of the word tube worm, it reminds me of this perasite tape worm that lives in bodies. If they are related, then I believe the tube worm got used to the warm water such as the tape warm got used to animal's body heat.The siphonophores where compared to jelly fish. Jelly fish do not have complex anadomys, so they may not have as many nerve to feel the suroundings and react to it. If so, this animal may be the same and not feel as much heat and be capable of surviving.Jelly fish also do not have teeth. Maybe to siphon has a hard time chewing and eats algea and other plants growing at the bottom of the ocean floor. I don't know whos more facinating, the vents or the organisyms thriving in them!

=Polar Bear's journey=

Beliefs effect how people react to the same situation in many diferent ways posibly based on religeon, facts, and what people WANT to hear. At this age, I start to question what I have been raised to believe and what I think about personally. Am I right to do such? My suroundings are blended into a blur of truth and false that I have to sort out myself being independant. This is one of these times where another expierience thows off the balance for me again. Litering and pollution need to decrease, but what about global warming? This commercial practically made me cry.Habitat destruction and global warming may one day lead to where polar bears may sleep in tunnels ( not literally, just having a comercial flashback.) When the mammal roars at the ongoing truck, it is as if he is aposing vehicals.The ending was sweet, because you could imagine the bear traveling all the way to the suburbs to show his gratitude. But do these Nissan cars really work? Was it to draw attention to the crowd of earth friendly people, or was it all just an excuse to raise the price of the vehical? Were they attempting to pop heart strings? Maybe the company thought the global warming believers would set an example of buying an expensive car until it becomes a status symbol to all? Was the comercial sincearly to aware the world of global warming, and improve the world?

The world's perspective changes often. In the 1970's, people thought the next ice- age was coming when the earth's surface was cooling. Sorces say the next 30 years are going to be the coldest in recent history!Who would apose the majoraty of the world's human's thoughts unless sure? The earth's tempurature increases and lowers. This may be just another time where the earth's climate is changing due to the way it is tilting on its axis. I don't believe the whole company has the same thoughts on global warming.So how could the employees all work together without putting their beliefs first? Somone was bound to speak against the idea, or at least let it slip to somone else about how the car was or was not greatly reducing the amount of pollution. Maybe they are anticipate the amount of money they may get they are willing to lie to the public to earn it. Weather this car helps the air or not, I am not sure. All I know is what I am given through life and how I sort it.

=Animal Kingdom- The wild side Facts= ~ The animal Kingdom is the main clasification of living organisyms that includes all animals. ~ The word animal comes from the word soul in latin, pronounces "Animalis" ~ To name an living creature an animal it. . . . . may be multicellular, meaning it's anadomy is made up of more then one cell

~capable of phisically ﻿ digesting food through a digestive track and waste hole ~Has a cell wall, which surrounds and protects the cells ~Be a living thing ( able to adapt, reacts to the inviornment, reproduces, needs energy- food and water-, grows, and has cells)media type="youtube" key="5Q2gVUmo1ss" width="425" height="350" align="right" ~ Gives life- reproduces- by eggs, being born alive, etc. They do not reproduce by seeds!

~﻿Feed directly or indirectly from other living specimen. What they eat is what they are called ./' Carnivores chew on meat!!

./'An omnivore is "daring" enough to eat plants and animals

./' a herbivore munches on nutrient plants!

./' parasites depend on other animals to survive (cheaters!)

~ecdysis are animals that have a tempotary layer of exoskeleton, called exuvia, they shed when growing.

=my two facts of the clasification of organisms=

~ scientist need a classification system based on useful traits. ~Greek philosopher Aristotle attempted to group organisms by location.

= ﻿The Mountain Gorilla = = The best stories are the ones of discovery. This is why it blows my mind that scientist found the mountain gorilla it 1902 living in the dense forest of tropical Africa! Sadly, since the dawn of time, humans have found ways to destruct any thing on the earths surface, solid or liquid.Read my facts onow the gorilla is tragically becoming endangered in such revolting manners! = = ~ Human population and habitat destruction has left us to destroy forest for our own kind to plant crops, build more cities,logging, etc. This know kicks the gorilla out of its habitat and forces them to adapt to new, unknown suroundings! This proud beast eats over 100 different plants, and doesn't need much water since it gets its liquid, juicy water from the suculent plants. = = ~Only 786 mountains are left on the face of the earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! = = ~The creatures are forced out of their natural habitats to sell the scientific reserch, meat, to zoos or a private collector by poachers( who sometimes kill for trophys).What a senseless waste of life! = = ~Some times they are caught in snares purposfully used for smaller animals and die from their wounds! = = what we can do = = Being a kid doesn't mean we are useless. We can check what we buy wasn't ﻿ constructed from "poacher" materials.The products may not be made of gorilla fur or gorilla meat stuffed in between buns and fries, but at least it is discouraging the poachers. The profits will clearly go to them, alowing them to buy that hot tub they wanted! Join an organization that helps save any endangered animal. All though others may dought you, you still need to chug on in life, no matter what! (: = = (p.s) I was looking at our sea turtle, bimimi. There was a slide show with pictures of Bimimi. Isn't taking pictures bad, because it stuns them, frightens and disorients them? What are they doing to our poor turtle?! = = ﻿ ﻿ =

=Night jars=

==﻿ All around the world except New Zealand and some islands of oceania, in the early evening or early morning, nocturnal night jars fly about catching flying insects( beetles, moskitos, grasshoppers, etc.) to feed their growling tummys. No, night jars aren't jars that wonder around at night! This species is a type of short legged, long winged bird with camoflaged feathers that range from dark brown, pale grey, tinted red with white spotted flecks.There are about 60-70 species. The winged creatures mate in the spring and open fields in the summer are soon filed with round, speckeled eggs.Next time, remember night jars don't live in musty cupbords livving off their preserves! (: ==



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