Meet the Elements

1. Every living is made up of 4 elements.
2.the molecules are made of 2 connecting atams.
.3.Oxygen and selican are what make up sand.
4. Propane is made up of the two elements hydrogen and csrbon .
5.Salt is made from the two elements
      1sodium
       2 .chorine

Element Reaction in Water

               Element Reaction

Lithium  - (LI) Row l, Alkali metals group
Sizzles in water while making a craking sound and smoking untll it is disolved.

Sodium  - (Na)  Row l, Alkali metals group
Bubbles in water until it explodes with a puff of smoke.

Potassium - (K) Row l, Alkali metals group
Creates flames when dropped in pan then begins to put out sparks until it explodes in a puff of smoke.

Rubidium - (Rb) Row l, Alkali metal group
Exploded when it hit the water creating a puff of smoke.

DAY 5     5/16/12

More egg hawe been porduced
The water has became darker
there is more duckweed

DAY 4'..WATER IS DARKER THAN YESTERDAY.MORE PLANTS ARE SETTLING TOWARDS THE BOTTOM.
DAY5'.. MORE DEAD INSECTS THAN BEFORE .WATER SEEMS MORE MERKY THAN YESTERDAY.

5/10/12    Day 3

1. It smells better then yesterday
2. The leech stretched out longer
3. The water is getting darker
4. Plants are going down toward the bottom of the tank.

5/ 9/12       DAY  2

ACTIVE

  HAVE   MORE EGGS

UNIMULSHAVE DIED

SKIN BEING SHEDDING

MORE ULGE THAN  YESTERDUY

MACRO OBSERVATIONS

1;LONG LEGS OF THE WATER BEETLE HELPS IT TO REACH MORE DISTANCES IN THE  WATER.
.2.THEY HAVE FEELERS TO HELP THEM TO FEEL THEIR SURROUNDINGS.
3.THE LEECH SITS AGAINST THE GLASS OF THE  TANK TO EAT THE ALGI IN THE TANK.
4.THEY ALL SWIM AROUND THE TANK PASSING EACH OTHER WITH LITTLE OR NO INTERACTING TOWARD EACH OTHER.
5.OUR TANK HAS A STRONG ORDER




















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;  THE LONG LEGS OF THE WATER BEETLE HELPS IT RESCH MORE DISTANCES

MEET THE ELEMENTS!!!

1. Atom: Smallest particle of the elements.

2. Element: Building block of all matter.

3. Molecule: Smallest particle of a substance that still has its properties.

4. Compound: Two or more elements.

cells division

Cell die and we need to replace them with new cells. We need to create new cells to make new life.

You need a cell division post!

Hydra and Planaria

Hydra has tenctics out of one end

mouth in center 

transparent layers

Planaria crawls circle in shape brown in color

CRUSTATIONS

WATER FLEAS/FAST MOVING/DARK IN COLOR/LINE MARK ON BODY
CLAMSHRIMP/ROUND IN SHAPE/DARK SPOTS ON BODY
SCUDS/SHIRMPLIKE SHAPE/LARGE EYES/FAST MOVING

Protozoans

Protozoa #1
Transparent green color
Oblong in shape
Small dots inside of them
Fast moving

Protozoa #2
Clear color
Round in shape
Move fast

Plant and Algae Observations

Elodea

• Cells are in straight lines.
• Square in shape.
• Pointy in the edges
• Various shades of green.

Algae

• Darker color around the edge of each piece.
• Cells are round and oval.
• Some are thin and long.

Duckweed

• Round shaped.
• No pattern.
• Bumpy surface.
• Stems have cells in lines.

Sagittaria

• Lines of small cells.
• Some lines seem to be solid.
• Various shades of green.

Specialized Cells

Leaf cell

• Different colors black, green, red, and white
• Sizes very from small to large
• Round in shape
• Sizes are grouped together
• Very few red cells

White blood

• Smooth with bumps sticking out
• Bumps appear to be transparent
• Very round
• Smaller then white blood cells

Platelet

• Long strands sticking out
• No specific shape
• Smooth surface
• Smaller than white blood cells

Red blood cell

• concaved in the center
• Rough surface
• half round

Tree trunk cells

• Square cells
• Cells are in rows
• Different sizes
• Dots inside

Bone cells

• Circles that gradually get smaller, one inside the other
• Black or white centers
• Random spots throughout

Muscles

• Pink streaks
• groups of small cells randomly placed

Nerve cells

• Many strands coming from center
• Round centers
• Strand coming from main strand

cell lab

• Cork
• Looks scaly
• Are in rows
• more square in shape
• some are circle
• Privent Shrub Leaf
• more randomly spaced
• more cells toward the adge
• are a circle shape 
• are bare spots 
• they are clumped
• Lettuce
• small little circle
• gross green
• has veins and bubbles
• Onion
• small lines
• small dots scale shape look like holes
• black dots

Battle of the Beaks 3, 2, 1

                  Battle of tne Beaks   :3,2,1, 
1.  The beaks were less sharp
2. As rhe time past they became more roundand larger.
3 .Less curves on the beaks in earlier years  Our question is Why   don"t the beaks have less round shape?  Why did the shape of the beaks change?     What we learned was the bird beaks shape has changed.    Our hypothesis is : Over time the beaks change and adapted to fit their needs and environment for food and protection.                                         

Battle of the Beakes

We predict that the big beaks will do better during a drought than small beaks because they can eat both large and small seeds.

How does the change in environment affect which beak gathers more seeds? Explain 
Lack of water changes the amount and size the seeds produce.

Did the small beak bird try to adapt due to the environmental changes? Explain. 
Yes, it tried to break it into smaller pieces.

How did variation in the population (the fact that there were large and small beaks) of birds help or hurt the bird’s ability to survive?
If the large beaks eat all the seeds than the little one would not have any.

Chromosomes, DNA, and genes.

CHROMOSOMES - Made up of DNA wrapped around proteins to fit in a cell.

DNA - Entire code for all traits.

GENES - Contain a  specific trait. 

Natural Selection and Selective Breeding

Natural Selection is allowing the natural environment to select traits.   Natural selection happens for in wild animals such as deer, moose, wolves,and coyotes.

Artificial Selection is when select animals with more desirable traits to breed together.  Artificial selection is used with animals that we want  to have a desired trait such as more milk production in dairy cows or more lean meat on beef cows.

Fast Plants

The stems look more purple in color as they grow.
The leaves seem to be more heart shaped.
One plant is growing much faster than the other two.
After this picture our plants began to get small yellow flowers.

Traits

Traits such dimples, bent pinkies and detached earlobes are more equally distributed in the class.  While traits such as rolling of the tongue, having a widows peak, hairy knuckles and short big toes have large differences between those with and without the trait.

Baby Mice

We believe there were more black mice because black is a dominant trait and white is not.