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Tuesday 8 September 2020

India and Greek

 Q: (What is the main difference between india and greek foods?)

A: India uses spice almost every time and in Greece they use herbs for their flavour


Q: (Why would the southern parts of India be noted for making fish dishes?)

A: Because they are closer to the biggest ocean in the world the pacific ocean. Also they are a part of more than 3 of the most other biggest oceans. They are the United States, the United states, Atlantic and indian.


Q: (Why would many herbs grow wild in the greek mountains during spring?)

A: In the mountain it's steep and people don’t walk in that bit so when that bit is not disturbed it and plus the temperature is good for the herbs.


Q: (Why does olive oil hold the flavors together)

A: It would hold and observe the herbs together. 

Q: (Main points and bigger idea why are some breads used for mopping up a meal?)

A: Because it helps you finish your food faster and its even good by itself


Q: (How would you describe the pastry used to make spanakopita?)

A:Its thick crust on the top and bottom but not side and crispy


Q: (Do you prefer foods that are flavoured with spices or those that are flavoured with herbs?)

A:Some people prefer spicy and some prefer herbs


Kelp Forest

 Q.Where do kelp plants live?

A.Shallow cool water


Q.How could the relationship between kelp, sea otters and sea urchins be described?

A.Sea otters feed on sea urchins and sea urchins feed on kelp


Q.Which part of the kelp plant is similar to a tree trunk?

A.Stipe


Q.When the sea otter populations increased, why did the sea urchin populations decrease?

A.Because the otters were protected so then there were more sea otters that feed on sea urchins that's why their population decreased


Q.How could pollution destroy kelp forest?

A.The water would get warmer and the kelp needs cold water, If the water is filled with rubbish and sediment the kelp can’t get the sunlight that it needs to grow.


Q. Look at the photograph on page 6, Why do you think the top layer of kelp is called the canopy?

A.Because its blocking the sunlight from going in the water.


Q.what do you think should be done to help protect kelp forest?

A.Stop littering in the water and stop polluting.


Thursday 3 September 2020

Tree of life

 


Our initial thoughts

  • The wolf is connected to the 

  • A water lily is connected to an orchid and a sunflower

  • This is the evolution of sea creatures

  • Its about animals and insects

  • Its like a timeline and family tree

  • Its what they use to stay alive

  • Its what they eat

  • The green thing is what they eat

  • Its about where they live

  • Its about animals

  • There’s heaps of animals

  • Its about how the animals and stuff evolved

  • Its a tree of nature

  • Different categories of animals

  • Different food chains


What we learnt

  • 3.6 billion years ago - first living things started to exist (origin of life)

  • All the organisms on the purple branch live in the ocean. 

  • The blue branch turns into insects and crabs. 

  • The green branch is the plant kingdom. 

  • 42 million years ago wolf,lion,Bear and kekeno in car nvores.

  •  Lion is in the animal kingdom.

  •  The last flower was a sunflower.

  •  It started 3.6 million years ago.

  •  The first organism archaea.

  •  Bear is in the animal kingdom.

  • There are more in the animal kingdom.

  •  The first plant was a sea lettuce.

  •  There are 5 kingdom.  

  •  The second to last plant is a carrot.

  •  They is 6 colour

  • There are less 

  • The second organism is a spirochaete.

  • Litia- Kingsnakes are medium size nonvenomous snakes that kill by constriction.    

  • A crocodile is related to the dinosaurs and birds - Kymani 

  • A flamingo is related to a T-REX. 

  • The Sunflower is the last flower to be born.

  • Litia- Kingsnake is colored in repeating patterns of Red, White and black

  • Railey:a flatworm is a kind of worm that's from the lophott

  • Wesley:A platypus is the only animal that gives birth

  • Mariah - Platypus is in the kingdom of animals. And a platypus is in the color Red. It is in the family of tetrapods. It exist 170 million years ago.

  • Davchimpanzee are closely related to humans.

  • Butterfly are beautiful bugs they have a extraordinary life the first kind involved in about# 160 mya  

  • Michael: Hippo is inside the animal kingdom.

  • isi - 

  • Hope - A Carrot Daucus is in the dicots family

  • Maria -  The clown fish is in the vertebrate family  

  • Stanley - A Aardvark is connected to a pekapeka, an aardvark is also family with the Elephant.

 

Wednesday 2 September 2020