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Friday, September 30, 2011

Aphotic,Euphotic, Disphotic

This is a viper fish. It lives in the aphotic region of the ocean. This is where there is barely any light.

This is an angel shark. It lives in the euphotic part of the ocean. This is the very top of the ocean wher there is plenty of sunshine.

This is a hatchet fish. They are very shiny. They live in the disphotic or twilight zone. This is the zone between the aphotic and euphotic zones.

Coral Reef

There are lots of animals that live in the coral reef. There are shrimp that live in a sponge. They have a queen. She is the only one that can lay eggs. They have guards. These guards protect the colony. They have big pinchers.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Water Properties





When a dirty plate sits in water the water turns brown, this is an example of diffusion. Water is the universal solvent. This means that it dissolves most things. The reason why it is so easy for things to diffuse in water is because the water molecules are constantly moving. Water is constantly moving because because it has both a positive and a negat
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ive atom. This causes them to constantly attract to each other.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Seasonal Sea

In todays video I thought the most important animal in the food chain was the plankton. The copepods eat the plankton. The jellyfish eat the copepods. The seals eat other fish that eat the plankton. Pelikans eat the fish also.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

The awesome ocean

The thing I found most interesting was the macrol and the cleaner fish. The macrol were awesome when they formed a ball to ward off predators. They would swarm in a giant ball. I thought the cleaner fish were cool because they got rid of parasites. Fish would let them hook on and eat the parasites. They even cleaned sharks.

Friday, September 9, 2011

The animal I picked was a Ross seal.They have their babies on littl broken up pieces of so the polar bears cant get them. They also sleep on these chunks of ice. They have extra flubber to keep them warm. They only nurse for 4 weeks.