TWIS #15 Milestone

   This week, we had done our last Marshmallow Challenge to see if we had better ideas than the last ones we had did. We also had to a video interview for our tenth grade science teacher. We had to better make our marshmallow challenge. To see what others ideas we had after the first one we did.

   We had learned how to better our Marshmallow Challenge by making as many spaghetti sticks stack up in a cool way. But my group and I had did it a basic line formation. But we had tapped three or four sticks to each other. So when we place the marshmallow on the top. It will hold the marshmallow without braking or leaning back. For the video interview. We had to make a video describing about ourselves. To give our tenth grade teacher a little heads up of what kind student she will be dealing with next year.

This Year in Science - 10 grade Intro Video

TWIS #14

   This week, we had a chance to have work day. Meaning, make up any work that we're missing or  had a bad grade for. I had to label TWIS #11-14, as science. We had to do a summary about HIPPO. This subject, is about the ways of animals habitat. I had to write in my Spider Observation log, giving a summary of what HIPPO is about.

   This week I learned that HIPPO stands for Habitat Loss. Introduced species, Pollution, Population growth, and Over-consumption. HIPPO describes the animals ecosystem in many ways that will feed your brain valuable information. It helps you by giving a specific animal and talking about its habitat, etc.

Marine Digital Food Chain

Sun

Zooplankton

Fish

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Great White Shark

TWIS #13

    If we were to leave these spider habitat tanks sealed but removed all of the plants, what would happen? And why? Use these terms in your explanation: glucose, photosynthesis, energy, carbon  dioxide, oxygen.

   If we were to leave the spider's habitat tanks sealed but removed all of the plants. The spider might die because the plant produces oxygen for living organisms to breath. The plant has Glucose (sugar that's in plants) which makes the plant have a bright green color. If the tank is sealed in a plant free environment. It will die because it has no oxygen from the plants and it will suffocate because the tank is sealed shut. The photo above shows the Photosynthesis inside of our spider habitat. The energy from the sun feeds the plant, providing it to stay alive. As well as the water(H2O).   

TWIS #9

   My group and I had four new different specimens. We had choices either to dissect a frog or mouse- or a skate(related to a stingray) or perch(a fish). Theres four people in my group, and we had to pair up in two. My partner and I had dissect a skate and the opposite part of our group had chose to work on the perch. When we stabbed the skate's stomach. All we saw was oil and water OOZING out of it's belly. We had found the liver, stomach which we thought was a heart, and the lungs.

   From this experience with aquatic animals. I learned that the skate smells extremely bad when you get all the way inside of the animal. It has a smooth belly but a hard surface on the Dorsal view. It has lots of liver and it's stomach looks similar to a huge heart. We also learned that if you squeeze the skate's stomach, Green slimy particles comes out (Ewwww).

TWIS #8

 We leaned how to dissect specimens in a harmful way. We learned how to label the specimens inside and outside body parts. To show what is what on the animal. We then, learned how to dissect the specimen in a proper way to make it less difficult. So we won't cut the wrong thing.



 We were split into groups and in each group were two specimens that we had to work on. We had a cricket and crayfish. In this photo, my team and I had labeled the specimens body part in Ventral and Dorsal view. The crayfish's "Cheliped", is located at Proximal as it's claw. It's Anterior is connected to its arm. Its Posterior is the size and unusual shape of the crayfish's claw. The crayfish's Environment is somewhere at the body of the sea. it crawls on the ocean floor where there's lots of fish and ocean plants for housing in. Its Feature is a lobster like animal but smaller.