CONSUMERS, PRODUSERS, AND DECOMPASERS

Three interesting facts:

1.) Consumers eat other consumers and producers and can't make their own food

2.) Producers make their own food

3.) Decomposes break down other organisms an recycle them back into the earth

Information i learned from another source:

1.) Producers or autotroph produce organic compounds from inorganic compounds. the sunlight, water, minerals,and carbon dioxides lead the producer to make a type of sugar called glucouse, which is the food and/or energy.

2.) Decomposes help make the soil healthy by putting the nutrients and cemicals in it. They are important because they start the the food chain all over again.

My opinion:

I think that leaning more about something is very interesting. For example, learning how producers make their food is very interrestin yet important. I learneed that even things that don't seem important, like woms, realy are. Everything on this earth is important even if it doesn't seem like it. i Also learned that decomposers are like recicling machiens. They put all the nutreances bak into the earth so the food chain can start all over again, and the produsers can grow.

http://www.chs.k12.nf.ca/science/b3201/WebCT-Copy/units/unit1-05.htm

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/foodchain/photosynthesis.htm

http://www.uni.edu/cns/LakeStudy/Education%20Pages/more%20pages/new_page_10.htm

Symbiosis Is Everywhere

Three Interesting Facts:

1. there are five types of symbiosis mutualism, commensalism, parasitism,competition , and neutralism





2. there are all different kinds of names to categorize symbiosis (example: Nutritional Symbiosis, Shelter Symbiosis, Transport Symbiosis, etc.)



3. competition means neither species benefits
   

In class we are learning about ecology, and symbiosis. My opinion is that ecology is important to learn about. Symbiosis is a close relationship between two organism in which one organism lives near, on, or even inside another organism and in witch at least one organism benefits. I already know that there are three types of symbiosis; mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism. What I didn't know was that there are two more types of symbiosis, competition , and neutralism. Neutralism means that both species are unaffected. I also didn't know that there are all different kinds of names to categorize symbiosis. To learn more about this you can visit this website:


http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent591k/symbiosis.html

Food Allergies

Who: 3 million kids

What: Have food alergies

Where: In the U.S.

When: In 2008

Why: Nobody really knows but some, experts say that it is because parents are more aware nd have there children cheeked out right away. Others say it is because the food allerge in penuts nearled dubbled. Last ly some people say it is because it is taking kis longer to outgrow milk and egg alergies.

I think this artical is important because it shows how aware you have to be about kids with food alergies. You can't just go around an give people food, because you don't know if they have food alergies. Also the risk of have food alargies rises too.

http://http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1853114,00.html

Nobel Prize For Chemistry 2008

Who: Osamu Shimomura(Japanese), Martin Chalfie, and Roger Tsien (American)

What: They won the Nobel peace prize for Chemistry

Where: Stockholm, Sweden

When:on Wednesday October 8th

Why: they discovered that a a green florescent protein(GFP) found in jellyfish can track cancer cells

I think that this article is important because it shows that if you work together You can accomplish more then if you work alone. It took three men and three different minds to figure out the answer. That is why it is so important that you communicate your thought and ideas in the science world.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1848177,00.html