Tuesday, July 23, 2019

mnemonic



New words from reading
Tuesday 23rd July 2019
Big idea: within each kingdom there are more different groups that classify animals.
Prokaryotes - a name of a kingdom
Etc means etcetera
Interbreed - when two different animals have babies together
Mnemonics help us remember hard things, for example NEVER EAT SOGGY WEETBIX helps us remember North East South West.
This is the mnemonic i learnt to help me remember the order:
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Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

Monday, July 22, 2019

animal kingdoms

New words from animal kingdom reading
Monday’s reading
Organism - a living thing
Vertebrate - has a spine
Invertebrate - has no spine
Taxonomy - a way to group things
Diverse - a big range
Amphibians -
Heterotrophic - means they must find and eat food
Primates (apes, monkeys)
Rodents (rats, squirrels)
Cetaceans (dolphins, whales)
Marsupials (kangaroos, koalas)
Monotremes (egg laying mammals like the platypus)
Autotrophic - make their own food by photosynthesis
Photosynthesis - how plants make their own food
Vascular - uses roots to absorb water
Nonvascular - uses the whole plant to absorb water
Decompose, decomposition - to break down
Non-flowering - no flowers
Thermophiles - (root word is thermo which is about temperature)
Big ideas from the reading
All living things are called organisms.
They are organised into 6 groups called kingdoms. Each group has certain characteristics that each organism must have.
Animals
Can move on their own
Are heterotrophic (can’t make their own food)
Must eat to survive
Vertebrates and invertebrates
Plants
They are Autotrophic (they make their own food)
Some are vascular and nonvascular.
If a plant has seeds or fruit, it is a flowering plant.
Eubacteria
Are made up of just one cell. They are everywhere. Some bacteria are good and some are bad.
Bacteria called decomposers break down dead plants and anacteria.
Archaebacteria
Can survive where no other organism can live.
Thermophiles, methanogens and halophiles
Fungi
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Mushrooms are a fungi
They are heterotrophic (can’a make their own food)
Use enzymes to break down food 
Protista
Are related to either plants, animals or fungi (one of them, not related to all of them at the same time)

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

mary anning intro

Brainstorm and plan. 

Structure
Topic 
Words and ideas to use
Introduction 

She sells sea shells on the sea shoare and also fossil.
Paragraph 2
Early life 
May 21, 1799
Lightning
Dad
Poor - sell stuff
Paragraph 3
Discovering fossils 
Curios 
Lyme Regis
Skull of a crocodile - brother - 12 years old
Extinction was a new idea
1812 - ichthyosaur
1824 - plesiosaur
Georges Cuvie
Paragraph 4
Later
1847 died of cancer 
Conclusion 


In 21 may 1799, mary anning was born at lyme regis, united kingdom and when she was a little kid she got struck by lightning but luckily she survived it. She finds fossils and seashells so she can sell them and earn heaps of money. She got interested in fossils because her dad told her stories about them when she was a kid. She sells the fossils and seashells because she lives life poorly.
She was curious about rich people so when she found her first fossil she said “I should start selling them for a business so I can get more money”.she lived on a cliff in lyme Regis and when she went on the side of the cliff she dug into the cliff and she found a skull of a crocodile. Then sadly in 9 march 1847 she died off breast cancer.

joan wiffen intro


Brainstorm and plan.
Joan Wiffen
Structure
Topic 
Words and ideas to use
Introduction 

She was the first person in nz to find a fossil of a theropod.
Paragraph 2
Early life 
Born in ??
Lived where??
Married to…?? KIds??
What was her job??

First fossil she ever had was given an Ammonite (fossil of an ancient squid) that made her interested in finding fossils.
Paragraph 3
Discovering fossils 
First in NZ. 1975. Mangahouanga Stream in Hawke’s Bay. dinosaur tailbone from a theropod.  From six different species. Joan and family and friends. 

Fossils were in rocks, used some special tools to split the rocks open, carried it to her car. 
Paragraph 4
Changing ideas about fossils
An Australian paleontologist Dr Ralph Molnar confirmed it was a dinosaur bone in 1980. 

Other people started looking for fossils and found somen    - page 24.
Paragraph 5
Later life
Honorary doctorate in 1994. 
Died in ??

She is remembered - her fossils are kept safe. Some are at the University of Auckland, some are at National Paleontological collections at GNS Science in Lower hutt. The first one she found is on display at Te Papa. 
Conclusion 



Joan wiffen was born in 4 february 1922, and she was born in nz, she lived in nz by nz hawkes bay. Joan wiffen has 2 big kids and she was married to leslie allan wiffen, she was a palaeontologist  finding fossils non avian fossils the first fossil shed seen was given to her it was an ancient squid palaeontology.In 1975,in Mahanga stream,hawkes bay. she found a fossil with her husband it was a tailbone of a theropod inn a big rock in the river.
Joan wiffen died in 30 june 2009, in hastings hospital at the age of 87.