This Year In Science - 10 Grade intro

This Week In Science # 14

This week in science we did a Marine Food Chain explaining what eats what and how they get the energy they need by using videos. This was a bit difficult for me but after I started to think "outside the box" I found an easier way to find the videos and put them together. We also continued to do the Spider Observation Log and we did the over view of HIPPO which is not what it sound like. I will explain what it means in the next paragraph. We also kept feeding our spiders and writing down the changes that the tank has made during the time it has been watered and revealed to the sun.


This week in science we learned about Phytoplankton and how they are the first organisms in a Marine Food Chain. We also learned about the HIPPO. HIPPO stands for Habitat loss meaning when people cut down trees and other places that animals might live in, Introduced species meaning species of plants or animals travel with other things and land in new land and take over the place, Pollution meaning pollution kills the environment which doesn't allow plants and animals to live, Population growth meaning the more people there are the competition will get stronger over the natural resources, and finally Over-consumption sort of related to population growth which means people use more resources than other.

Marine Food Chain

This Week In Science # 13

If I was to add five more spiders the cycle of photosynthesis is increased. I say this because the spiders provide carbon dioxide so this will allow the tank to produce more photosynthesis. The plant will take the carbon dioxide that the spider makes then make glucose to create oxygen.

This Week In Science # 12

This week in science we made observation logs. We also put information in them like what our tank looks like. David also fed the spiders flightless fruit flies which was pretty cool because we saw the way that the spiders eats it. They wrap it around with their web and then they eat it.

This week in science we learned about three symbiotic relationships. They were: Mutualism, Commensalism, and Parasitism. We learned that Mutualism is when both organism benefit ( +,-), Commensalism is when one organism benefits and the other organism is neither benefited or harmed (+,0), and Parasitism is when one organism live in another organism and harms the organism while its benefitting.