Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Week Three

Eighth Grade - A2.1-2: Earthquake!

This week we begin a new chapter on earthquakes.

Answer this: What causes earthquakes? Where do they occur and why? How does energy from an earthquake travel through the Earth?

Contract 3 to be presented on Friday.


Seventh Grade - C2.1-2: Multicellular Organisms.

This week we be gin to look at the most complex organisms.

Answer this: How is a multicellular organism different from a unicellular organism?
How do multicellular organisms meet the needs of living things? How do plants obtain and store energy?

Contract 3 to be presented on Friday.

22 comments:

  1. If primary wves can travel through soilds liquids and gases why do they reflect off earth's surface? And then why don't secondary waves bounce off the core?

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  2. secondary waves aren't powerful enough to enter the core

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  3. What makes secondary waves bounce off the outer core?

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  4. A plant gets its energy by the sun breaking up the H2O and mixing that with the CO2 and chlorophyll to make sugar= C6 H12 O6.
    A plant stores the energy in starches that can be broken up by oxygen into sugars and it releases the extra oxygen.

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  5. what is a unicellular organism?

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  6. what process do plants use to obtain energy?

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  7. A unicellular organism that is only one cell and can meet its needs by functioning deffrently then a cell from aq human.

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  8. What is the growing hormon in plants?
    Hint: it doesn't like sunlight and it helps causes the plant to bend.

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  9. i had a great time hunting for mushrooms.

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  10. did u find wat type of mashroom we
    had

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  11. A plant gets its energy from the sun by breaking up the water, mixing with the Caron Dioxide, and chlorophyll to make sugar.

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  12. how many kinds of mushrooms are there?

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  13. what is the most poisonus mushroom

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  14. How is a multicellular organism different from a unicellular organism?

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  15. A multicellular organism is a organism that has more than one cell and a unicellualar organism is a one celled organism

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  16. Why do mosses and ferns need shade to grow?

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  17. Answer me this: how do epicenters develop in the ground?

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  18. Is they're a plate boundary around Wisconsin and is it active? Because I don't want to die when there's an earthquake!

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  19. a multicellular organism is an organism that has more that one cell. some having special functions in the organism. A unicellular organism is any life form that consists of just a single cell. one example is bacteria

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  20. How do plants use photosnstis to make sugar into energy?

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  21. how do plants make sap

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  22. how do cells form together

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