Water

For the past few sceince classes we have been watching a video about water. When they say "every drop counts" it means that literally every drop counts. Since we are running out of water we need to be careful and save the water that we have and use only what we need and what we will use nad not waste or not over waste water. We can save our water by taking shorter showers, filling up the washing machine all the way with whatever is dirty not just what you want to wear the next day.

"its melting away, its wasting away, i need it, theres no doubt about it" refers to the glaciers and how they are melting away from what we call global warming. Since the Glaciers are melting away there will be less and less water that will melt and go into our rivers and lakes. which means that we wont have fresh drinking water. when they say its wasting away meaning that people arn't being very cautious with the water they have and they are over using it and that its just wasting away.

"its what we've got, it's all, thats it" means that water is irreplaceable and there is no way to replace it. there is also no other resource or material on earth that can be close to it. and what we have now is it there is no way to get it back after it is gone. It is a very valuable resource and if people dont get their act together we will surely run out of water and be left with nothing.

how the body works: tonsils and adnoids

The Tonsils and Adnoids are glands that are made of lymphnoid tissue which are found at the back of the mouth and throat. If on the first line of defense against airbourne organisims and bacteria and viruses in the area that are passed through the nose or the mouth, then are carried to the tonsils and the adenoids. Where they multiply in number and cause inflamation. White blood cells then come to the area to combat the organisims. They cause swelling and a soar throat that acompany the infection in the other glands. Continued infection causes swelling of the lymphnods in the neck.

ocaean currents as Alternitive energy

What I learned is : ocean currents are gaining significance as a possible form of alternitive energy, and scientists all over the world are experimenting, to do this by building turbines. Turbines will convert water into energy.

How I relate to this is: I know that they have done this to smaller fresh water rivers by converting water into power/energy. These water to power converters are called dams. They use a smaller form of turbine.

What I wonder now: is how they are going to build the turbines without running into problems with all of the water? They could drain off some of the ocean, but where would they put all the water? How would some of the ocean animals be affected from doing this?

mitochondria and chloroplast

this is a picture of chloroplast- the little things that you see are called thykloids. i got this picture from course1.winona.edu/.../ Photosynthesis.htm

this is a picture of mitochondria. mitochondria the tan inner

membrane is called a cristae and the fluid on the inside is called the matrix

i got this picture from www.cartage.org.lb/.../ Mitochondria.htm

Mitochondria are found in lots of different kinds of cells while Chloroplast is only found in plants. Mitochondria and chloroplast share the same similar structure features. They both have inner and outer membrane and their overall shapes are similar. While there inner membranes are slightly different Their purpose behind the designs are the same.

Chloroplast is the reason plants are called self feeders.
Photosynthesis is the process that the chloroplast uses energy from the sun to convert the carbon dioxide into energy rich sugar called glucose. The most important part of this complex reaction. The most important part (making the glucose) is made in the Granum, on these disks called thylakoid membranes.

Mitochondrion is often called the “power house” of a cell. It is here, on the inner membrane or the cristae that an important reaction happens. This reaction is called cellular respiration. The mitochondria harass the energy within the glucose to make a special energy molecule called ATP. ATP is like a battery. And is used to power all of the other activities within a cell.

Cells

well first of all anton van leeuwonhoek was the first person to look at water underneath a microscope. and robert hooke looked at cork; tree bark under a microscope...did you know that cells are the basic building blocks of all organisims? all organisims come from other organisims with cells. there are two basic kinds of cells prokaryotic cells and and eukaryotic cells. Prokaryotic cells are simple and not membrane bound. Eukaryotic cells are complex and membrane bound