My Packaging Product

I was doing the packaging of Duracell batteries and I found out that they are making rechargeable batteries for the environment and more performance batteries.

Food Inc. Reflection

Food Inc. Reflection

After watching Food Inc, what are your impressions of how science, technology, and society are interrelated?  

After Food Inc.Most of our society relies engineering on from scientists.
 And we lie to be better and make are life easier. Scientists have fed chickens with chemicals to make them grow faster and bigger. If this didn't happen this way we wouldn't have the chickens in Mcdonald's and they are unhealthy.

How did the film describe science & technology as a positive or negative impact on society or the environment?  

The film described science and technology in both a negative light5. The movie focused on the bad effects , because when you are presented with the positive facts of science and technology, it is easy to figure out why it is good. Like the food that is given chemicals to make it grow faster. When it's grow faster you have a lot of them. And when you have a lot of them the prize is much more cheaper.

How do our consumer choices affect what is out on the market and therefore, our own survival?  

It affects it because when we buy a food from the market the amount gets lesser in the market. So they record that and get more of that,but if we don't buy and they see it is not selling anymore they will change the food and maybe replace it with something else.

How are we as humans connected to how the Earth is used?  

We humans are connected to Earth because we use factories and that causes damage to the Earth because we pollute a lot. We kill species of animals for food and this can make the survival time of the world much more lesser.

When do we say no to more high tech devices and go back to what caused the problem in the first place?  Why are we only into the "HOW" and not the "WHY?"

For example Apple. They had the ipod touch and now they made the ipad without even thinking the ipad does the exact same thing as the ipod touch, is much more bigger and costs much more. They just wasted money and people buys ipad but they also have the ipod touch.

What is the difference between natural farming and industrial farming? Which is better? Are they both necessary for human survival? Why or why not?

Natural farming is much better than industrial farming. Because industrial farmers doesn't care about the nature or the animals. Industrial farmers gives food to their animals that they can't eat it. Natural farmers cares about the environment much more than the industrial farmers.

If technology and industry have improved so much that we are getting faster, fatter, bigger, and cheaper, how are science and technology held responsible for improving or ruining human health and survival?

We have a several number of companies that does the survival for us. They must make life better for animals buy not feeding them with chemicals that make them grow faster and that is bad because then we eat the chicken for example and we get fat and that is not healthy for us either.

What economic costs, environmental costs, ethical costs, health costs, and cultural costs did you observe while watching the film?

I observed in the film that all the companies find the most cheapest way to do things. This is unhealthy because we eat animals and if they don't feed them in the right and good way they are not good to eat and we must eat them so it is not good for us either. We must help our population because people can die and are dying from these situations.

Finally, state your final thoughts about this film and any changes you see happening in the food industry in the future or even your own eating habits.

After his movie I can't trust the companies and see how the food I eat is processed and how they treat animals. I watched a video how McDonalds treat animals just to make money and sell. They must think how they treat them and see if they would want to be threaten in the same way as they treat them.

Current Events # (Marsupial carnivores 'as diverse as other mammals once')

They are an extraordinary and now rare group of animals but Earth has had some formidable marsupial carnivores.These pouched killers have included lions, wolves, and even sabretooths.Today, the only large marsupial carnivore left in existence is the Tasmanian Devil, and that is on the brink of extinction.These animals' past success though is illustrated by a new skull study that reveals the creatures to have been just as diverse as their cousins, the placental mammals.An international team examined the skulls of some 130 carnivores - marsupial and placental, living and extinct - from the past 40 million years.

My Ecological Footprint

I found out that my ecological footprint was 7.04 hectares and also that if everyone lived like me we would need 3.87 earth. This interesting and I found out my footprint.

Tracking tigers in Korea's DMZ

 This talks about a man that loves wild animals. These are not soldiers from the nearby U.S. or South Korean armies. Rather, they are a rag tag team of conservationists (and, he suspects, a few of their buddies who may have joined the trip for the rations of hot dogs and blueberry pancakes).(CNN) 

He is squeezed in a sleeping bag in an old military tent near the Demilitarized Zone in South Korea.He is camping out with a band of men dedicated to protect their loved ones.(he calls it the loved ones, that means wild animals)

The chief eco-warrior is Sun Nam "Tiger" Lim. (In Korean, his last name translates to "Woods" -- as in Tiger Woods -- no kidding.) Lim has been tracking tigers for 20 years and says his research shows the endangered cat lives in the DMZ.

Current Event #4

The study is the most extensive and sensitive planetary census of its kind. Astronomers used the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii for five years to search 166 sun-like stars near our solar system for planets of various sizes, ranging from three to 1,000 times the mass of Earth. All of the planets in the study orbit close to their stars. The results show more small planets than large ones, indicating small planets are more prevalent in our Milky Way galaxy.We studied planets of many masses -- like counting boulders, rocks and pebbles in a canyon -- and found more rocks than boulders, and more pebbles than rocks. Our ground-based technology can't see the grains of sand, the Earth-size planets, but we can estimate their numbers," said Andrew Howard of the University of California, Berkeley, lead author of the new study. "Earth-size planets in our galaxy are like grains of sand sprinkled on a beach -- they are everywhere."

Current Event

Hippo Escaping From Montenegro Zoo

The two ton animal, considered one of the world's most dangerous, reportedly swam over the wall of her pen during heavy flooding in the Balkan country.The owners of the private zoo say they have to wait for flood waters to get out of the was before trying to capture her.Nikica has been wallowing in the water in Plavnica village. The Plavnica village is where he is popular attraction.Nikola Pejovic, one of the owners of the zoo, says her movements are being tracked by the zoo's private security and that she is "extremely tame and peaceful".He told AFP news agency that she would probably stick to a path about 1km (0.6 miles) long, leading towards neighbouring houses in the village, near the capital Podgorica on Lake Skadar.The hippopotamus, which is native to Africa, is one of the heaviest land animals. It is a plant eater that can weigh up to three tonnes.Fiercely territorial, it can run faster than a human over short distances, and has powerful teeth and jaws.

Renewable vs. Non-renewable Resources

A renewable resource is something that is being continually replaced faster than we use it up. 

 Renewable resources are such as water, oxygen, timber tree and fruits and vegetables.These can be replaced and will never be gone, as we use them.

A non-renewable resource is something that is not being replaced as we consume it. 

When you use petrol, gas, coal, basically anything you burn to produce heat and then turn this energy into electricity of mechanical energy (a car engine) you are using a raw material that is not going to be replaced. In fact petrol, gas and coal takes million of years to be naturally produced. 

 1) Renewable energy sources (e.g. wind, solar, hydroelectric...) are more environmental-friendly as they are taken from nature compared to nonrenewable energy sources (e.g. coal, petroleum, natural gas...) as they produce greenhouse gases when burnt.

2) Renewable energy sources will last forever and will not run out whereas nonrenewable energy sources will run out sooner or later.

3) Most renewable energy sources are cheaper (now or in the future) as compared to nonrenewable energy sources (e.g. coal).

4)They are more cheaper because they can be replaced easily and fast versus to non-renewable. 

Non-renewable resources cannot be replaced.They are much more expensive than renewable because it is harder to find and takes a lot of time for them to be reproduced.

The only way so they can last longer is to recycle and to be used how much is needs to be use.

People mostly choose renewable because it's easier to find than non-renewable, can be replaced much more easier and is a lot more cheaper. 

Current Events

Scientists recently reported on a disgusting new idea for human health: The ground-up brains of cockroaches, they say, may help fight infectious diseases.

To most of us, not even a spoonful of sugar is going to help that medicine go down.Cockroaches are insects with simple, small brains.

What Is A Living Thing

Livings things needs air, food and water this sows they are living.Examples are animals humans and plants these need air food and water.

Points to discuss:

• What interactions between these animals did you notice? (For example, think about these various forms of interactions that you have been studying for your project: producers, consumers, decomposers, predation, commensalism, parasitism, mutualism) I noticed that all of the animals feed on each other to live.
• Why do animals migrate? (What is occurring within their environment that triggers this response?) Animals migrate because of the changes in the weather and food. Most of them can't survive because they are not fat. Being fat is important for them because it's to cold there and they use their fat like a coat.
• How do animals know when it's right to reproduce? What conditions are they looking for?  They reproduce when the weather is getting hotter, when it's not so cold because, when they reproduce in cold the new born one wouldn't be so fat and could die. If they reproduce in summer they would get fat and be ready for winter.
• When do most large animals reproduce? What does it depend on? Most large animals reproduce in the same time as the others because of weather.
• What adaptations did the animals exhibit in the polar region? (For example: body shape, appendages, wing span, food, coloration, stream-lined bodies, teeth, beaks, blubber, fur, group formations, hooks on tentacles, etc...) Their body shape is huge, most of them eat krill for food, their colors are dark just the color of the bird was white and the bird had enormously long wings. The animals have big and sharp teeth for food.
• What various (breeding) mating rituals do species have? ???
• How do they ensure survival of their species? (Feeding, reproduction-production rates/birth rates/death risks, growth, etc... You can see it by going and measuring and taking tracks of the expiriment
• How did this presentation provide examples of what we have been studying? It showed an example when we were watching survival how animals fought with nature and these animals in Arctic and Antarctic fought with cold weather.
• What are you wondering about now? I am wondering about if those animals live in a different place, like much more hotter or maybe in an island.
• How did Mr. Watts help tie in everything that we have been discussing during this unit? He showed us relations between animals in cold place. How they survive and fight for food.

When plants cry for help ,predator bugs answer

The topic of this is all about plants wanting help. They have a very clever method.The method is when caterpillars start nibbling on wild tobacco plants,they give a "help us" with their saliva cues. This is interesting because i learned the sign in plants when they want help.This took place in Jena,Germany in 27th August.I found this interesting because it was a very different method of wanting help and that is why I wrote about this.

Survival

      You can survive in any climate by having sight,hear and taste.These are the most important things to survive.3 forms of being born is egg lying, live barrying aband marsupilion. Adaptations tactic that animals use to survive are: The fox used playing dead so it can catch the rabbit.And some other animals stay still and hide and jump out when they get close. Fox also uses this tactic.
    I learned that its very hard for animals to survive and find food and water.They need to be very careful. It was interesting the part part when it shows the turtles getting eaten by birds.I learned also that.

Questions

Organisms has basic needs.Animals need water and food.Plants need air,water,nutrients and light.Organisms can just survive in environments in which their needs can be met.The two parts are habitat and environment.The levels of organisms is organisms,population,ecosystems and community.Different kind of organisms are in different habitats because they have the things to survive in that habitat.It is also about food chain.They will repair by collecting food and trying to move to a safer place for food and water.

Science Goals

To learn and improve at the end of the year.
Have a good time improve some skills through out the year.
Make experiments to learn things by fun and interesting.