This is a picture I took at my friends house. It is a great example of mutualism. Mutualism is when both of the species benifit from their interactions. In this picture there is poison ivy on a tree. The reason why the poison ivy benifits is because it has a place to live. The tree is helped because it is protected by other animals. For example, if birds wanted to build a nest they would not build it in this tree because of poison ivy. That is just one example of mutualism in the world.

This is a tree in South Brunswick. It is a biotic figure which means that it is living. Another example of a biotic figure is grass, animals, plants, and many other things. There is also abiotic figures which are non-living. Examples of these are sunlight, temperature, clouds, and many other things.

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Reptiles!

I was surrounded by reptiles as I was sitting in my chair. Reptiles are an extremly cool group of animals to learn about. A few things that all reptiles have in common is that they are cold blooded, they shed, and they have scales. Some kinds of reptiles are turtles, snakes, lizards, and alligators. The first animal that we were shown was a tourtise, or a kind of turtle. It was a very slow mover and had a giant shell. It also had stubby legs that were covered with scales. The next animal that we were shown was a snake. It was a long phython, that gently wrapped around the womens arms. The color of ot was brown, and it was small and skinny. After that, we were shown two different types of lizards. The first one was a long one with spikes on top and very sharp teeth. The next one was a lot different because it was a legless lizard that looked like a snake. By far, my favorite animal was a tourtise. All of the animals that I saw today tought me a lot more about reptiles, and how they live.

Frog Dissection

As the black frog was layed out in front of me, I wondered what it was like inside of it. As my group made its first incision, we quickly realized we had a boy. The way we could tell is that it did not have eggs or giant oviducts. Shortly after we found out its gender, we saw three big brown lobes covering all of the other intestines. This was the liver and above it was the heart. I hope that word is fimiliar to you because it is what keeps us alive. It pumps blood all throughout the body for us and the frog. Around the frog were yellowish and sphagetti like organs. This was the fat bodies which stored energy for the frog. I am sure that a frog needs a lot of that because it hops and climbs constantly. Of course, the frog has a stomach but not extremly big. I find that wierd because frogs swallow their food whole because they have no teeth. When they swallow food it goes down the esofagous and through the intestines. When all of the food exits it goes through the cloaca and out through the anus. That was the dissection of the frog in my science class.

Child Soldiers Numeral Facts

There are many facts about child soldiers that can have to do with math. First of all, they are under the age of adulthood(15-18)(Child Soldiers). Some of them could even be as young as the age 5 or 6. Also, about 120,000 child soldiers are located in Africa, which is also a third of the worlds child soldiers(Child Soldiers). Many other child soldiers are in the middle east, and the first country to use child soldiers was Germany. Additionally, 12 year olds are used as mine clearers, which are soldiers that go ahead of their group to see if there is any mines in front of where they will be going. Most of the kids that are under 18 do not fight but they spy, cook, are messengers and many other stuff that these kids do. Although, they are doing this stuff, they are still called "child soldiers." Finally, another stunning fact about child soldiers, is that there has been over 2 million deaths for them in Africa. In my opinion, that is one of the stunning facts that I have learned about child soldiers. Finally, those are amazing facts about child soldiers and what have happened to them.

Earthquake in Heidi

Who ever would have thought that a earthquake could have hit one of the poorest countries in the world(Haiti) and kill 45,000 to 50,000 people? People that survived the massive 7 earthquake were walking around Haiti with tissues over their noses because of the bodies rotting. It was a horrible quake that had multiple aftershocks. The quake sent the counties capital down to rubble, and people collapsing to the ground. Multiple other countries (China, US, Spain, and France) sent over people to search and gallons of water in the 81 degree heat. They were digging through the rubble with there bare hands finding people- dead and alive. If people were found alive they would be taken care of in the street, or taken to a hospital. Also, "water is the currency"- it was not money that the residents of Haiti cared about, it was not water. Many of the people had facial injuries and skull fractures. Now, the only question that I have is, where will the residents of Haiti move on from this devastating natural disaster?