This week my team and I had a Plant Project on carnations and food coloring, where we put the carnations in veil's then watered them with food coloring. My claim was that 50% or less of the stem would turn blue and/or red. My evidence was that our results came out to be that the plants died at the end with little color on the stems, and the tips of the flower, all of our predictions were wrong. My research was, vascular plants have plant tissues, which circulate resources through the plant. This feature allows vascular plants to evolve to a larger size then non-vascular plants, which lack these specialized conducting tissues and are therefore restricted to relatively small sizes.

Wright, Jacob J. "Do Flowering Plants Have Vascular Tissue?" EHow. Demand Media, 30 Jan. 2011. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. http://www.ehow.com/facts_7870000_do-flowering-plants-vascular-tissue.html

Elastic force is when the force of a rubber band and other stretchy object stretches or expands at short or long distance. You can very the amount of force by the amount you expand the object. An example of elastic force is a sling shot. When you load it with a rock you would have to pull the rubberband lines back long enough so it will go a great distance. Then the force of the lines would sling it a certain direction. I learned that rubber bands are very stretchy and have a lot of force.

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Energy changes from one form to another by transferring through things. When it is still in the battery it is called stored chemical energy. When it transfers through to something it is called electrical energy. When my teams rechargeable battery was dead, we charged it. So that we would not get electrocuted, we unplugged it before we put the two battery's in. After we charged our battery for three minutes we put the two battery's in the flashlight and the light stayed lit for six minutes and five seconds.

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One day my 6th grade class and I went weed pulling at the Chimacum grange. We split up into two groups and my group went to go weed pulling 1st. We were pulling out weeds like crazy then I came upon a large root about 9 inches across and 11 inches tall it was quiet a struggle trying to pull it out. After that we went to the creek and we saw how big it was getting - it was huge! Overall, I had a good time with my class that day and helped clean up the community at the same time.

What is fresh water pollution??



Water pollution occurs when waste products or other substance dramatically change the physical, thermal, chemical or biological chareristics of water which affects the living things in the water! Some sources are sewage, chemicals, and heat. We wont have any fresh water to drink if everyone keeps polluting our water supply. Fresh water needs to stop being polluted by everyone! We would have no fresh water animals.



                                             What can we do to help??



We can try and stop people from throwing trash in the lakes and rivers; we can also help clean out all the garbage from them. We can tell people to carpool or ride the busses and not take your cars everywhere and putting a whole bunch of gas pollution in the air. By doing that everyone will stop polluting the air and affecting everyone around us. We can help by trying to pick up a lot of the garbage on sidewalks and everywhere around us. We can try and get the word out about what would happen if everyone not just one person, littered.

                                        What are nitrates and

 How do they get in our water supply??



Nitrates are a chemical that is good for animals and plants but unhealthy for humans. They simply would make a grown man incredibly sick within hours. They help plants and animals to get nourishment. They get in our water supply by fertilizers because when it rains the fertilizer slides down hills and into our rivers. Rivers are most of our water supply.

 

What effects do high levels of nitrates

                                                    Have on people??

It could cause illnesses or death with four months olds. It could cause blue baby syndrome. High levels of nitrates can be harmful to humans and animals health. The highest amount of nitrates drinking water is 10mg/L. Nitrates in the water supply can hurt you by giving you illness and the possible chance of death!

What are point and non-point sources of pollution and

 What are the differences between the two??

Point sources are a specific source of pollution. Also point sources can be identified. It’s a source when you know where the pollution is coming from. A non-point is when you don’t know where it’s coming from! The difference is point can be found and non-point is too hard to find and non-point is more than one source! Non-point and point are similar because they are kinds of pollution.

                                        What can we do to prevent Fresh Water Pollution??

                                    We can prevent Fresh Water Pollution in a number of ways. One way is, we could stop thinking that just because

                        It’s a little pond or river that if you throw something into it, it won’t matter! But, it does matter to the things in the water

                                Mostly because it could spread out to everyone’s waters!    It not only affects the animals and plants in the water but

                            It also affects us, humans. Because were the ones in the first place who caused this.

I will start out with volcanoes then lava. First an example of a composite volcano is Mt. Saint Helens! Our volcano! These volcanoes are many miles wide and several thousand feet high. They consist of layers of solid lava flows mixed with layers of sand- or gravel-like volcanic rock called cinders or volcanic ash.

A cinder cone volcano these volcanoes consist mostly of loose grainy cinders and no lava. They are smaller than the usual composite volcano. A shield volcano is what makes up the islands of Hawaii. The lava is frozen and big craters at the top.

Now onto lava! Low water/low silica is a type of lava that is really runny not like water but more like hot wax or warm honey. When these types of lavas erupt they can flow for long distances before solidifying.

Low water/high silica lava is very "pasty" like soft clay and hardly flow at all ending up with a tall, narrow pile of lava. This type of lava is high in silica, or quartz, and tends to stick together.

High water/low silica lava has low viscosity and bubbles and froths a great deal right at the surface. It produces tiny cinders and larger "bombs" of lava that quickly cool and fall back to the ground. This type of eruption creates a spectacular "fire fountain" at the top. The remaining lava quietly flows away.

The last type of lava is high water/high silica this type of lava is inside the mountain known as Mt. Saint Helens! As the lava oozes to the surface, the gases quickly form bubbles that turn the lava into a red-hot froth that explodes out of the ground. A hot grayish cloud of superheated steam and tiny particles called ash is what makes up the explosion.