Friday, September 24, 2010

Seventh Week (September 20th to September 24th).

This week we had the science oral presentations and my topic was "Intertidal Zones".

Intertidal Zones

Intertidal zones.
Intertidal or littoral zones make up the coasts around the world; this biome is located where the sandy beaches meet the sea between the high and low tide zones, these rocky shores are exposed and submerged by the tides at least twice a day, depending on where the coast is affects the temperature of air and water in the biome. Coast lines that are in the tropics are warmer, whereas arctic coast have cold water and air, the shape of the coast affects the intensity of the waves, the straight lined coasts are hit more intensely by the water, but rounded coasts, made of bays are usually calmer and the water isn´t as rough at high tide.
The intertidal zones can be broken out into 4 zones:
The upper littoral zone also called the splash zone is only flooded during high tide and its exposed to the sun for the rest, hardly any vegetation grows here.
The upper-mid littoral zone is equally submerged and exposed for making temperatures less extreme, however wave action is more extreme and more vegetation such as seaweed grows here.
The lower-mid littoral zone is where most vegetation grows, there’s more energy in here and the water coverage allows for sufficient light for plant growing.
The lower littoral zone however is where larger organisms start to appear that can only leave in water and feed on the secondary consumers.
The intertidal region is an important model system for the study of ecology. The region contains a high diversity of species, and the different zones ranges are compressed into very narrow bands. This makes it simple to study species across their entire cross-shore range, something that can be extremely difficult





Sixth Week (September 13th to September 14th).

This week was short because we had a break due to the independence celebrations:
-Jeff Dunham Jokes:
We listened to Jeff Dunham's jokes and it was a lot of fun:
(Pretty self explanatory).

Fifth Week (September 6th to September 10th).

This week we also answered the book on a very creative and innovative way:


-The Activity.
In this activity the rules were that the teacher said the exercise we had to solve, and when said GO!  We had to run as fast as we could to the blackboard and solve it as fast as possible, and whoever finished first won



Fourth Week (August 30th to September 4th).

This week we got our books and for answering them we played "Charades".

-Charades:
We all have played charades, the basic idea is to get a word, verb, action, etc. and act it out, then the audience should find out what are you trying to say and whoever says it first wins.
The activity was a lot of fun, and a very creative way of taking the conventionality of answering a book sitting on your desk and making it a lot of fun.






We also made a happy place project:

-Happy Fun Place:

Rooms: 
1. Resting room.
2. Movies room. (Cinema)
3. Playing room.
4. Intimacy room.
5. Bar.
6. Spa.

Areas:
1. Swimming pool.
2. Restaurant.
3. Football field.
4. Tennis field.
5. Basketball field.
6. Volleyball field.

Music:
1. There is a jukebox with over a million song and artists for you to choose from.
2. There are iPods with headphones on the walls for you to listen to.

Food and drinks:
1. Pastas.
2. Fast foods.
3. Sodas.
4. Alcohol (Only over 18).

Furniture:
1. Big beds.
2. Couches.
3. Chairs.
4. Tables.

This week was a lot of fun, my goals for next week is being more responsible with the book.