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- Benton
- My favorite subject during the regular school day is:
- Everything but Math!
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A week on Andros: salty, but so sweet.
April 2, 2009
Tomorrow’s the BIG day. Headed off to Andros. A place I’ve been dreaming of for the past year. Ever since Mrs. Nash showed me pictures of the previous trip in my Zoology class. I was mesmerized by all the colorful fish, breathtaking corals, beautiful sunsets, and amazingly blue waters. I had to go! Tomorrow’s the BIG day. Hope I can get a little sleep.
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Tomorrow’s the BIG day. Headed off to Andros. A place I’ve been dreaming of for the past year. Ever since Mrs. Nash showed me pictures of the previous trip in my Zoology class. I was mesmerized by all the colorful fish, breathtaking corals, beautiful sunsets, and amazingly blue waters. I had to go! Tomorrow’s the BIG day. Hope I can get a little sleep.
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Posted on April 29, 2009 at 11:00pm —
Genes not Jeans!
Okay, so for our assignment last time I didn’t really write it down clearly. I wrote on my paper “BLOG POST- Student Comment -20 pts,” I also wrote “POEM- 5 pts...” So, I figured the Blog post consisted of going to the Extreme ‘08 website reading about one of their articles and then blogging about it? I am no poet, so I'm not even going to tortue you with that... So I’m not completely 100% sure if I’m even doing the right assignment. Bu… Continue
Posted on November 30, 2008 at 10:30pm — 2 Comments
The Apo Scenario provides a ray of hope.
Chapter 12 to me was about hope. The hope of saving the coral reef fish and the reef itself. The Apo Scenario uses the concept of “sustainable use.” In other words “fishing is off limits!” Scientists blocked off a 20 acre reef on the Apo island in 1982. By 1993 the density of the fish had increased near… Continue
Posted on November 2, 2008 at 10:00pm — 8 Comments
The needy and the greedy.
Chapter eleven to me was about how stupid Indonesian people are for ruining the coral reefs, plain and simple. Osha discusses two methods the Indonesian people use to fish, dynamite and cyanide.
Dynamite; “Blast fishing” consists of idiots throwing explosives into the water to kill fish among other sea life. They dive down, find all the dead fish that sank because their swim bladder broke and collecting all the ones that float. Seriously,… Continue
Dynamite; “Blast fishing” consists of idiots throwing explosives into the water to kill fish among other sea life. They dive down, find all the dead fish that sank because their swim bladder broke and collecting all the ones that float. Seriously,… Continue
Posted on October 19, 2008 at 10:39pm — 3 Comments
Jakarta Bay :'(
After reading chapter 10 I felt really sad and depressed. It’s a shame the once brilliant abundant Jakarta bay is now what seems one of the worst places to be. I know one thing for sure after reading this chapter, I will NEVER take a vacation to the Jakarta Bay region. Not just because it’s a crappy place to be but because I’d want to slap every single person I… Continue
Posted on October 5, 2008 at 9:30pm —
WATER...
warm
tropical
water
flowing
ever
so slowly
...northward
tropical
water
flowing
ever
so slowly
...northward
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Use the space below to reflect on our latest class session... and introduction to the ins & outs of coral reef formation.
The slide set we used to facilitate our chat can be viewed here: (soon)
In the space below, tell what connections you made ...
yes, and yes... and also simply trap it within a structure they can close. think: mollusks.
I understand now. That helps.
To an extent. Does this mean they find water to make gills efficient, or does it mean they produce a saliva or water based substance to clear up their needs?
Whoa. That's sick to think algae is in all those common everyday things Americans eat. Didn't he also say it was in gum. Or am I totally making that up? I'll have to check up on that.
You did an awesome job looking up all those definitions. I'm a visual learner too, so when I was making my post. I opened up my Marine Biology book. I have to see it in person, or in pictures to understand something. One thing I think we all didn'...
Also, I have a quick question. In this picture, is this considered a tide pool? I am confused because it is not in an enclosed pool but it still has to go through the different levels of high-tide and low-tide.
So I love chocolate milk and pudding so this is a cool way to connect the ocean and the foods we eat to people like me who are not to much of sea food fans. I never would have guessed but i would have never really thought about it either.
Hey this is what mine is about. There are the four different levels and that pretty much determines how much sun and water each are exposed to, i think.
I, being the procrastinator, am just starting to do this assignment (you know the one that is due in just a couple of hours). Therefore, I am doing this two weeks after the lesson and the thing that stuck with me the most was the tide pools. The p...
Before last class period I knew nothing about oceanic zones, I learned that there are two main oceanic zones called the pelagic and the Benthic zones both of which are seperated into smaller zones within them. I also learned that light penetrates ...
Hmmmm..... I see it here just fine.
Nicely done.
What happened to my reply? When you click on Zones & Trophic levels and then go to the last page, you don't see mine at all, but if you go over to the Latest Activity and hit the "replied" link, you can see it.
During class, we began to talk about seaweed. When Mr. Nash asked if we knew what it felt like, I hadn't, because I'd never really seen seaweed in real life. I've been to an ocean and all, but never been to a spot that wasn't a beach where tons of...
Remember... the trophic pyramid is real. It is just that above coral reefs... it seems to be "inverted." Of course, this cannot be. There is simply no way to consume more than is produced. Thus, we spoke of the trophic pyramid on a coral reef as b...
Again... excellent clarification of some possible confusion between supralittoral... and littoral.
Apparent inverted trophic pyramid... apparent. It really cannot be inverted. In fact, this is related to the Law of Conservation of Mass/Energy.
Lungs are good at extracting oxygen from dry air. Gills are efficient only when wet.
Therefore, the paradox is most easily solved with regard to marine critters by finding a way to keep their gills wet during periods of drying.
Make sense?
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i took that (well- someone took the one of me) one about five years ago... then i merged the two images and tinkered with the opacity of the top layer. ;-)
make sense?
;-)
glad you like it.
it will get MUCH better as people contribute things.
have fun.
;-)