1. They say its their right and part of their cluture to kill the dolphins but is it really right to kill inasant animals that are sold for food when they are high in mercury and can posion you?
2. Why did they start killing the dolphins; what came of the idea to kill dolphines for product?
3. Will the dolphins go extinct if they keep killing them?
4. Are they killing the dolphins kindly?; with care?
I have watched the movie The Cove and it was unbelieveable, the Japanesse were killing dolphins for merchendise. But who would want to eat dolphin meat? Even after dolphin meat was tested to be high in mercury and it can cause a certian disease that can make you go blind and can make you lose your ability to walk or move. But the Japanesse argued that killing dolphins are just like how Americans kill chicken for food or fish for food or anything else, they also say that it is their cluture to kill these animals.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Climate in Australia
Interesting facts:
- Australia is seperated by cold waters on the south and warm waters in the north
- it is the flatest, most arid, least inhabited continent
- Part of Australia lies in the tropics, and the other part lies in the subtropics
- The few low mountains are vital for precipitation in Ausrtalia
- Australia is divided into three topographic regions: Western Plateau, the Central Lowlands, and the Eastern Highlands
- Intermittenly= ceasing, or at certain times
- Australia has many caves, and rivers that are seasonal
- It obtains the Great Barrier Reef, which is the most extensive coral reef
- extensive: ongoing
Questions:
- How do these climates affect the animals?
- What climates attract different animals?
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
What are Genetics?
1.How are genetics passed down
2.Do genetics really determine who you are?
3.Do genes have anything to do with genetics?
4.What does hereity have anything to do with genetics?
I know that genetics are some what apart of who you and your children are im jus really interested on how and why.
2.Do genetics really determine who you are?
3.Do genes have anything to do with genetics?
4.What does hereity have anything to do with genetics?
I know that genetics are some what apart of who you and your children are im jus really interested on how and why.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Global Warming
HOW DOES GLOBAL WARMING EFFECT PEOPLE AND ANIMALS?
http://www.school.eb.com/elementary/article?articleId=353185
- The average temperature on earth is slowly increasing. this trend is known as global warming
- Greenhouse: a glass house where plants grow, glass lets light in and keeps heat from escaping; ythis trapped heat keeps the plants warm even when its cold outside.
- The Earth's atmosphere traps energy from the sun, Carbon Dioxide and other green house gasses do the trapping.
- Without certain gases trapping energy, too much heat would go back into space and living things could not survive.
- As more green house gasses get into the air, they also trap more heat-->which leads to global warming.
- Green House effect: warming of the earth's surface and the air above it.
- Fossil Fuels: remains of organisms that lived long ago.(oil, gas, coal, exc..)
- People burn fossil fuels to power factories, run cars, produce electricity, and heat houses. As fossil fuels burn, they release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
- Also, people have cut down many forests. Trees use carbon dioxide when they make their own food. Fewer trees mean that less carbon dioxide is being taken out of the atmosphere.
QUESTIONS: 1.) What types of animals are being effected by the cutting down of trees?
2.) What materials can citizens use instead of fossil fuels to power things?
3.) In the future what is going to happen if things keep getting worse?
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Volcanoes
http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-22839
1. “Mount Merapi, which rises to 9,551 feet (2,911 metres) near Yogyakarta (Jogjakarta) in central Java, erupts frequently—often causing extensive destruction to roads, fields, and villages but always greatly benefiting the soil”
2. Ash clouds that circled the Earth decreased solar radiation and produced spectacular sunsets for more than a year.
3. Volcanoes have overall caused great destruction in society, but while destroying homes and displacing many residents, volcanoes help the soil and and produce wonderful sunsets.
http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9108777
1. The list of hazards associated with volcanic eruptions is long and varied: lava flows, explosions, toxic gas clouds, ash falls, pyroclastic flows, avalanches, tsunamis, and mudflows. In addition to these immediate dangers, volcanic activity produces secondary effects such as property damage, crop loss, and perhaps changes to weather and climate. These hazards and long-term effects are described in this section.
2. Provide a strong source of geothermal energy
3. Volcanic Gases created our atmosphere
4. Volcanic activity allows the formation of new islands to occur.
What are volcanoes capable of?
How do they benefit the environment?
How have volcanoes played a role in the creation of our planet?
1. “Mount Merapi, which rises to 9,551 feet (2,911 metres) near Yogyakarta (Jogjakarta) in central Java, erupts frequently—often causing extensive destruction to roads, fields, and villages but always greatly benefiting the soil”
2. Ash clouds that circled the Earth decreased solar radiation and produced spectacular sunsets for more than a year.
3. Volcanoes have overall caused great destruction in society, but while destroying homes and displacing many residents, volcanoes help the soil and and produce wonderful sunsets.
http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9108777
1. The list of hazards associated with volcanic eruptions is long and varied: lava flows, explosions, toxic gas clouds, ash falls, pyroclastic flows, avalanches, tsunamis, and mudflows. In addition to these immediate dangers, volcanic activity produces secondary effects such as property damage, crop loss, and perhaps changes to weather and climate. These hazards and long-term effects are described in this section.
2. Provide a strong source of geothermal energy
3. Volcanic Gases created our atmosphere
4. Volcanic activity allows the formation of new islands to occur.
What are volcanoes capable of?
How do they benefit the environment?
How have volcanoes played a role in the creation of our planet?
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Arabian
Horses around the World A-Z
A list of horses that we will be looking at in order to answer the main question. How do horses in different parts of the world differ in cost, breed, dicipline and popularity?
A list of horses that we will be looking at in order to answer the main question. How do horses in different parts of the world differ in cost, breed, dicipline and popularity?
- Arabian
- Belgium Warmblood
- Canadian Horse
- Dutch Warmblood
- East Bulgarian
- Friesian Horse
- Gypsy Cob
- Hackney Horse
- Irish Draft
- Jutland
- Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse
- Lipizzaner
- Morgan
- Newfoundland Pony
- Oldenburg
- Paso Fino
- Quarter Horse
- Russian Trotter
- Saddlebred
- Tennessee Walking Horse
- Unmol Horse
- Vladimir Heavy Draft
- Welsh Pony
- Xilingol horse
- Yonaguni
- Zweibrücker
These are the 26 different breeds of horses that we will be covering.
Today we start with my all time favorite, the horse that I own and show, the almighty
ARABIAN HORSE.
The god of all horses. The best looking horse anyone could ask for.
So to get going with the Arabian Horse, I have many connections in the Arabian horse industry. Often showing around the country, my family and I have made many friends. The summer of 2010, my family went on vacation on Albuquerque, New Mexico so I could participate in a National Horse show. It had to have been the last days of competition. My dad got invited into one of our neighbor barn's trailers. Now when you think of a horse trailer, you think of some two -horse piece of junk. We however, think of the most magnificent device to carry livestock ever possible. Automatic water, heated floors, and even the trailer itself being completely covered in huge photos of people winning. (on the outside) My father got to go into one of these pieces of art. He later found out that the man who was showing him the trailer's brother was one of the most hated people in the Arabian Horse industry.
Today, I found an article on this man. Here are some key factors to the big "no-no's" in the Arabian Horse industry.
"He": David Boggs
-He cosmetically altered a horse for a showman ship class.
-He took out muscles in the tail of Ace of Bey, to make her tail look better.
- Hafati Elegance (another show name for the horse) was alleged to have had the fat sucked out of her too-round croup.
- David argued that he did "horse liposuction" on the animal, because the fat was supposedly, cancer like deposits, not fat.
- At the end of the investigation, Boggs had cosmetically altered 12 horses.
- The investigation is a big and controversial one in the Arabian industry
- Bogg's judges card and showing licence had been expelled.
COST: $500-250,000
DICIPLINE: Hunter, Saddle Seat, Western, Endurance, Trail, Arabian Racing.
DICIPLINE: Hunter, Saddle Seat, Western, Endurance, Trail, Arabian Racing.
1-Emma: Animals in Australia.
http://www.school.eb.com/ebi/article-258645
Interesting Information Withtin The Article:
Vocabulary:
Questions:
Interesting Information Withtin The Article:
- They have more than 260 different mammals and 4000 species of fish
- Australia is the only place Playpus's are found in the world
- Australia is home to 50 species of Kangaroo's
- Kangaroo's are seen as Australia's symbol and vermin
- One of Australia's most dangerous snakes is the Tiger Snake
Vocabulary:
- Monotremes= egg-laying order of mammals
- Probe= to search or examine thoroughly
- Marsupials= a nonplacental mammal
Questions:
- What is it about the climate that lets Australia inhabit so many animals?
- Why is it the only place Platypus's live?
Mythology Eor End of World in 2012
http://www.school.eb.com/comptons/article-205120?
How was all mythology created?
- Mayan Theories-Floods legends was one way about how the Earth was going to end (most of life forms)
- Native American Theories-"End of the world recurred in a cycle, followed by a new creation."
- Aztec Theories- There had already been 4 seperate destructions of the world and one more was expected
- Each world ending was marked by the ruler disapearing (In all of them it was the Sun)
- Some mythologies blamed "human wickedness" for the end of the world (ex. the story of Noah and the flood)
- All modern religions look forward to the end of the world, for a new fresh creation to occur
- *Cataclysm*
- Judaism-coming of Messiah announces the end of the world and the "restoration of paradise"
How was all mythology created?
PKlebenow Diseases/Outbreaks
How have plagues and outbreaks effected civilization in the past and the present?
1. Do the amount of people killed by the outbreaks make a difference?
2. Are the thought of some diseases more deadly than the diseases themselves?
3. Can the diseases effect the victim's (the civilization's) religious idea? Such as the people feel they are being punished?
I know that the Black Plauge was very devestating to people in the Middle Ages killing thousands. Other modern plauges like the Bird Flu epidemic killed 1 million people or more. Swine Flu was seen as a deadly virus that could start an epidemic but didn't.
How do Volcanoes effect the enviroment?
How do volcanoes help the enviroment other than regenerating the soil?
How do volcanoes destroy the enviroment?
Do volcanoes cause a major role in air polution?
They help regenerate nutrients in the soil. They could destroy roads buildings and other man made structures
How do volcanoes destroy the enviroment?
Do volcanoes cause a major role in air polution?
They help regenerate nutrients in the soil. They could destroy roads buildings and other man made structures
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Is the World Going to End in 2012?
1. Why do people believe in conspiracy theories?
2. How did ancient people (ex.Aztecs) measure time?
3. What caused use to believe the world would end?
4. How is the world supposed to end?
5. When can we doto keep the human race alive if the world ends?
6. What will happen leading up to the world ending?
7. Has the world been predicted to end any other time in past/future? If yes, when/why?
What do I already know about my topic?
-Supposedly it is supposed to end in an apocalypse
-It was predicted by the Mayans that it was ending
-Apparently it was supposed to end in 2000 as well.
-Global warming is supposedly helping cause the world ending.
2. How did ancient people (ex.Aztecs) measure time?
3. What caused use to believe the world would end?
4. How is the world supposed to end?
5. When can we doto keep the human race alive if the world ends?
6. What will happen leading up to the world ending?
7. Has the world been predicted to end any other time in past/future? If yes, when/why?
What do I already know about my topic?
-Supposedly it is supposed to end in an apocalypse
-It was predicted by the Mayans that it was ending
-Apparently it was supposed to end in 2000 as well.
-Global warming is supposedly helping cause the world ending.
What Is It like To Live In Native Tribes?
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO LIVE IN NATIVE TRIBES?
- What kind of weapons do they use?
- How do they make shelters?
- How do they gather food?
- What kind of ceremonies between different tribes?
- What are some different tribes?
I know that the two tribes the Aztecs and the Mayans where great civilizations.
How does Global Warming effect people and animals?
To answer this overall research question, I plan on answering the following:
1.) Which regions are most affected by global warming?
2.) What things have us humans done to cause globalwarming?
3.) What are some animals that are goping extinct?
4.) How can we prevent/stop global warming from getting even worse?
I already know the basics about global warming. For example I know that it is causing the artic to melt and polar bears are dying because the ice is disappearing. I would like to find out how this all began, like the time period it started in and what incident began it all. I am also curious to find out what types of animals are being affected because of global warming.
1.) Which regions are most affected by global warming?
2.) What things have us humans done to cause globalwarming?
3.) What are some animals that are goping extinct?
4.) How can we prevent/stop global warming from getting even worse?
I already know the basics about global warming. For example I know that it is causing the artic to melt and polar bears are dying because the ice is disappearing. I would like to find out how this all began, like the time period it started in and what incident began it all. I am also curious to find out what types of animals are being affected because of global warming.
How do horses from different parts of the world differ in diciplines, breeding cost, and popularity?
In order to answer this question I plan on answering the following questions:
1. How do costs in different countries differ when purchasing horses?
2. What are the top ten breeds in the U.S.?
3. The main diciplines in different places around the world?
4. What horses are good at which diciplines?
This is already what I know based on this topic:
I know that for show jumping and most dressage the prefered breed for these diciplines are the warmbloods imported from Europe. However, the cost of participating in the sport varies between where you are in the world. I would to discover just how much it differs and which breeds do more service in different places.
1. How do costs in different countries differ when purchasing horses?
2. What are the top ten breeds in the U.S.?
3. The main diciplines in different places around the world?
4. What horses are good at which diciplines?
This is already what I know based on this topic:
I know that for show jumping and most dressage the prefered breed for these diciplines are the warmbloods imported from Europe. However, the cost of participating in the sport varies between where you are in the world. I would to discover just how much it differs and which breeds do more service in different places.
How do horses in different parts of the world differ in cost, breed, dicipline and popularity?
In order to answer the question, I must ask sub-questions. Questions that partain to a specific topic.
What horses are more expensive?
Are some horses more popular than others?
What breeds of horses are used for different diciplines?
Are horses in different countries more expensive? Are they more expensive because they are popular?
What horses are more expensive?
Are some horses more popular than others?
What breeds of horses are used for different diciplines?
Are horses in different countries more expensive? Are they more expensive because they are popular?
Amazon Rainforest (need research question)
To fully answer my research question I will use the following questions:
What are the animals in the Amazon?
What do the animals eat?
What are their pretadors?
What is their climate like?
I dont know very much about this topic, but I am pumped to find out more about this subject.
What are the animals in the Amazon?
What do the animals eat?
What are their pretadors?
What is their climate like?
I dont know very much about this topic, but I am pumped to find out more about this subject.
Animals in Australia
To answer my research question (What is life like of animals in Australia) I will use the following questions:
1. What animals live in Australia?
2. What do these animals eat?
3. What are the different species?
4. What is the life style of these animals?
5. What are the threats to these animals?
6. What can we learn from these animals?
7. How can we help these animals?
This is what I already know and what I want to know:
I don't know very much about the topic. I do know that there is a big variety of animals in Australia, and there are many animals that I like. I want to know more about the life of these animals, and what makes Australia the place they inhabit.
1. What animals live in Australia?
2. What do these animals eat?
3. What are the different species?
4. What is the life style of these animals?
5. What are the threats to these animals?
6. What can we learn from these animals?
7. How can we help these animals?
This is what I already know and what I want to know:
I don't know very much about the topic. I do know that there is a big variety of animals in Australia, and there are many animals that I like. I want to know more about the life of these animals, and what makes Australia the place they inhabit.
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