Sunday, October 26, 2008

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

Saturday, October 25, 2008

My Blog

Hey guys!
i finally got my blog out!
i figured it out
yey me!
jk
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

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.

I got my information at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27163661/

Friday, October 10, 2008

Read! Blogs.

What are you doing for your blog?
im kinda confused
please help help me!
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Thursday, October 9, 2008

Hola

Hola!
can you guys leave comments when you see my page
tell if you like my "gadgets"
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Saturday, October 4, 2008

blogs and polls

hey!
answer my poll
and check the blogs i posted
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Thursday, October 2, 2008

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