Tuesday, 5 October 2010
The new planet Gliese 581g contains Earthlike blues and greens
Sunday, 3 October 2010
Living things and the environment reflection
What needs are met by an organism's environment?
An organism obtains food, water, shelter, and other things it needs to live, grow, and reproduce from its surroundings.
What are the two parts of an organism's habitat with which it interacts?
The food it eats, if the organism needs to hunt it down or just get it from a tree, and the other organisms surrounding it.
Why do you find different kinds of organisms in different habitats?
You would find different types of organisms in different types of habitats, because, the polar bear wouldn't be able to live in Egypt because it's too hot for it's body, while a camel wouldn't be able to live in the arctic because it's too cold for it's body. Each organism lives in a habitat they can adapt to, and they won't freeze to death, or burn to death.
Think about what will soon start happening within Belgrade. How do animals prepare for such a change?
Well, I’m guessing that most of the animals know that this type of weather is coming, and they start making their shelter better/more productive, hibernating, and eating a lot, etc.
The monkey would not be able to survive without the banana it was eating, because that’s what the monkey mainly eats.
Which factors could they survive without?
The monkey would most probably be able to survive without the rocks it was sitting/standing on.
Video:
Mr. Watts' presentation
I found this presentation quite interesting! So many amazing things I learned about different animals, for example, I never knew about the krill.
· Seals
- The seal mother’s milk is 40% fat.
- Super Weiner, a pup that doesn’t stop eating, most likely to be a dominate male.
- Crab Eater Seals eat mostly krill.
- Leopard Seals eat Penguins and Krill.
- Leopard Seals can be extremely aggressive.
- Elephant Seals can be 500 kilos and eat squid and penguins.
- Female Leopard seals, are very dangerous, for your own safety, don’t go in the water with one around.
- Male Leopard Seals, sing to attract the Female seals.
· Whales
- Eat all the time.
- Huge animals.
- Migrate from Brazil, going down to the arctic.
· Penguins
- Macaroni Penguin
- Adelie Penguin
- Gentoo Penguin
- Chinstrap Penguin
o Hatch at Christmas
o Arrive to arctic at about the same time at spring.
- Emperor penguins
o Arrive at the end of summer, because they take longer to grow a chick.
o Hatch in Christmas / New Years.
o They have to survive during the winter to grow a chick.
· Krill
- Eat algae like super fast machines.
- Swim fast.
- Gets eaten by almost every animal in the arctic.
- Eat ¼ of their body weight in a day.
- Live until 10 years, eat algae the whole time.
- They only make eggs in around the spring.
· Polar Bears
- Almost eat only the fat in the animals they kill, very rarely eat the meat.
- They have very thick fur, so they won’t freeze to death.
- Very Strong and powerful.
- Not very fast runners.
- Polar Bears live only in the Arctic, not in the Antarctic.
I consider Mr. Watts’ presentation very good! I learned so many things from it, he had great stories, and tons of information. I really enjoyed the presentation, I can’t imagine living in such a cold climate, and in some of the pictures of him and his team they were sometimes not wearing any hats, which I found quite weird, not wearing a hat in that type of climate and in that type of weather. Mr. Watts helped me to connect more to the things we are learning in class, with stuff he actually got to experience. He taught me something which I found pretty important: Every animal is equipped with different types of tools, to make our world as it should be.
- -Roy