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Tapeworms as Parasites

Symbiosis is a close relationship between two organisms in which one organism lives near, on, or even inside another organism and in which at least one organism benefits. There are three different types of symbiosis, mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism. Mutualism is a form of symbiosis in which both organisms benefit. Commensalism is a form of symbiosis in which one organism benefits and the other is not harmed. Lastly, parasitism is a form of symbiosis in which an organism benefits and the other is harmed. In parasitism there is a parasite and a host. A parasite is an organism that lives on or inside the body of a host organism and harms the host. A host is an organism that provides a home for another organism; in parasitism, the host organism that is harmed by the parasite. For example, a tapeworm is a parasite causing infections in humans. A tapeworm infection is caused by eating meat that is not cooked enough. The tapeworm once inside the human can grow to be very large. According to a recent Mayo Clinic article, a tapeworm can measure 50 feet long and stay in the body for 20 years. Tapeworms can attach themselves to the intestine and grow there for many years. Tapeworms can cause symptoms of pain in the stomach, dizziness and diarrhoea. A tapeworm can be removed using surgery or using strong medicine. In the picture above, on a show called "House," the doctors are taking out a tapeworm from a woman's body. In my opinion, tapeworms are very disgusting. Therefore, I would cook everything well before I eat just in case there is a tapeworm in it. I would not want to be in the hospital for eating something bad.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapeworm_infection

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/tapeworm/DS00659/DSECTION=causes

Wind Farms on Water

Wind power is an environmentally safe way to help us create power. Wind farms are very common throughout Europe. These are also located on the coastlines of New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Delaware on dry lands and other places in the United States. This week, I read an article about how offshore wind power could affect currents and therefore affect marine life. What the scientists are thinking in this article is that when wind farms are converted from dry land to the water, they should be studied carefully. The wind blows more on the sea and could affect the tides. The Norwegian scientist, Goran Brostorm, says, “I think you will see a large effect over time. You will get more plankton blooming, and you will see more vibrant life overall at that place.” I think he is trying to say that with the wind farms in the ocean more life will occur. For example, if the number of plankton increase then the whales will have more to eat and the whale life could increase. This can happen with any kind of species with the wind farms in the ocean. There could also be a negative side effect. Plankton can also cause toxic red tides and could suck the oxygen from the water which could be bad. Overall, Brostrom’s cautions that anything can happen and this phenomena should be studied carefully.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27681666/

Food Webs and Food Chains

We all know what a food chain and food webs are. A food web is a diagram that consists of many overlapping food chains. A food chain is a representation of a series of events in which food energy and matter are transferred from one organism to another. They consist of producers, consumers, and decomposers. A producer is an organism that is able to make its own food by using a source of energy to turn simple raw materials into food. A consumer is an organism that cannot make its own food. A consumer can either be a herbivore, carnivore, or an omnivore. A herbivore is an animal that only eats plants or a primary consumer. A carnivore is an animal that only eats meat or a secondary consumer. An omnivore is an animal that eats plants and meat or a tertiary consumer. Finally a decomposer is an organism that breaks down bodies of dead organisms into simpler substances that give nutrients to the producers.
I found this website where you can make your own food web: http://www.vtaide.com/png/foodweb.htm. It is very interesting. You should try it out.
On the picture above, I made a food chain that consists of a rare animal, the anteater.
My opinion of this topic is that food chains and food webs are very important for scientists to know about because everything in the world, even an unknown thing, is in a food chain or web. These chains and webs can help scientists figure out why different things are getting extinct and why other things have been living for many centuries. Food webs and food chain can be very helpful


I got my information from:
http://www.vtaide.com/png/foodchains.htm
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/fooodchains.htm
http://www.earthsbirthday.org/explore/teachers/foodchains.htm

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MP3 players can be bad for you

We know everybody likes music. Who knew that if you listen to it to much, it can seriously damage your ears! I found this article was about kids and their MP3 players in Europe. Some scientists there did some studies on kids that listen to their portable music players too much and too loud. They found out that it could damage their ears after five years of usage. This could affect many kids in our generation who always have i-pods in their ears and are listening to music on their phone. The risk depends on the amount you listen to music and how loud you keep the volume. Scientists say that between 50 and 100 million people listen to portable music players daily and about 10 million people could be affected in Europe. This could be very bad for health later on in life. Imagine not being able to hear! I think that this should not be a concern as long as we limit ourselves. If we turn down the volume on our MP3 players and ipods and listen to a little less music, everyone could be fine. Until then, kids worldwide read this alert or you might be in a little bit of trouble.

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