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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Questions from Mr. Watts's Presentation

When does reproduction occur?
It occurs when the organism finds a place to give birth where the newborns have food and are safe.
How did this presentation help tie in everything we have learned?
 It showed how organisms survive in an eco system with adaptations and how they interact.
What interactions between these animals did you notice? (For example, think about these various forms of interactions that you have been studying for your project: producers, consumers, decomposers, predation, commensalism, parasitism, mutualism)
There is
Why do animals migrate? (What is occurring within their environment that triggers this response?)
They need to always have food and a suitable environment. If the environment loses its food for the winter or gets too cold, then the organism must migrate. What adaptations did the animals exhibit in the polar region? (For example: body shape, appendages, wing span, food, coloration, stream-lined bodies, teeth, beaks, blubber, fur, group formations, hooks on tentacles, etc...)
What adaptations did the animals exhibit?
Some animals had thick fur or blubber to protect from cold. One of the birds had an extremely large wingspan to help it fly better. What various (breeding) mating rituals do species have?
As far as I know, many species always come back to a certain spot for breeding. How did this presentation provide examples of what we have been studying?
Mr. Watts showed us what adaptations animals had to survive, how they interacted with other organisms, and what heir ecosystem was and when they went there/what they did there, all of which are things that we are studying.
What are you wondering about now?
I think that it would be interesting to have a similar presentation to this, except for a completely different biome, for example a desert.

1 comment:

  1. I visited some other blogs, (Luka's, Jude's, Kyle's and Brin's), I read the posts and tried to answer some of Mrs M's questions.
    What did you notice that other classmates talked about?
    They talked about similar things I did. Jude talked a lot about adaptations, and Luka's post was very short, answering only two questions, but it talked about reproduction and adaptations.
    How did they structure their writing?
    Luka structured his like mine, having a question, and then the answer underneath. Jude tried to put the answers into a text. Kyle also answer similarly to me and Brin listed facts.
    What ideas did you forget that they reminded you of?
    Jude did a lot better job explaining adaptations than I did, and I wish I had some of his ideas. Kyle's was visually appealing, and he put his food chain in, but I think Mrs. M said we didn't have to.
    What did you like about your own writing?
    I think it was easy to read and understand. It could have used more detail, though.

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