Brody

Week Four May. 4, 09. I learned about ecological success in the enviroment. I thought that is was really cool how plants can take over the enviroment and support new life, like when algae and moss grow on rocks and how that alone can eventually turn into a forest. Also the difference between primary and secondary succession is pretty neat. If rocks can eventually turn into a forest, I was wrong. I had always thought that soil cannot develope on rocks. Another thing that is neat is that animals that live together have three different outcomes. One is when both animals benifit from each other, the second is that one animal benifits and the other is not harmed and the third one is when one animals gets the benifit and the other one is harmed. I think that is really neat how animals interact. I had heard of these before, but never really had it explained. A question I have about science is what is the basic structure of an atom. I am very very curious about this question.

Week Three Apr. 20, 09. I learned how the food chain chain works and how energy goes from the sun to the producer to the primary consumer to the second consumer to the top predator. I think that is real neat how everything clicks together. Also they way energy is transfered, nobody ever really thinks how energy travels from one living thing to the next.2. I learned about the three levels of consumers and how they relate to each other. Firstly the primary consumer eats the producers, the secondary consumers eat the primary consumers and finally the top predator eats everything.

Week Two Apr. 9, 09 1. I learned how to really run the program Toondoo. I think I was using it wrong last week and so this week I kinda got the hang of it. To me Toondoo is really fun and I hope we get to use it in the future. When I made the cartoons on the cells, I had a sense of "I'm making cartoons!" I have always wanted to make cartoons but my pictures were really bad so I gave up until now. I also no idea that there was an on-line cartoon maker. 2. I learned that "chicken-a-saurus-rex" in Kevins article had feathers. I had no idea that dinosaurs had feathers. I just thought they were big scaley brutes that were several tons in weight. I was facinated with "dinos" as a little kid and I still remember a few names and stuff. But the size of a chicken, I mean that brings a totally new respect for dinosaurs and there ways. I would have never thought that way. 3. I question I have about science is how big is the Universe? To my knowledge, the observable Universe is 14 billion light years across and is still expanding. I also have heard a theory that there might be parallele Universes?

Week One Mar. 19, 09 1. I learned how to join Wikispaces as a member. We ran through the whole process starting with a request to join BHMS7science. After that I thought it was pretty neat on how Mr. Burtis had to approve of us all. Soon after that it was cool when we started to edit our own pages. I also learned how to upload an image. Firstly I browsed through my images, selecting the one I wanted, then pushed the upload button, and finally picking it out of the Wikispaces gallery and choosing where to put it. At first I was a little confused, but then I got everything all sorted out. This is one thing I learned this week in science. 2. This week I learned one of the most interesting things I learned in a while. I learned that human beings are eukaryotes. This was a little bit of a shock for me. I thought only celluar bodies could be eukaryotes. It is kinda weird thinking of myself of a eukaryote. 3. A question I have about science is how come NASA put off the Moon missions. I have no idea how to answer this question personally, but I think its possible that it could have gotten too expensive.


 * Hello, my name is Brody

I learned how to join Wikispaces. I also learned how to upload an image onto it. I did'nt understand how to make my heading biger. **