Biodiversity is the variety of organisms in an area. Diversity changes with habitat

A rainforest has a large number of organisms living there.

A desert has very few organisms living there.

Biodiversity contributes to ecosystem services such as pollination, water purification, and climate regulation.

plants are at the beginning of every food chain that involves the sun. All energy comes from the sun and plants make food with that energy using the process of photosynthesis. Energy in the form of nutrients and food are passed onto other organisms when they eat consume the plant

Keystone species play a vital role in maintaining the structure, function, and stability of their ecosystem. Their removal or decline can have far reaching consequences, leading to the loss of biodiversity, alternation of ecosystem processes, and even ecosystem collapse.

Eco – living things

system – a collection of different activities working together.

Living world ecology explore and describe the interconnections and interdependence of living thing in an ecosystem.

Students will understand the concept of ecosystems and identify the components that make up an ecosystem, including both biotic and abiotic factors.

the physical environment is the surrounding of an organism and it includes the atmosphere, land and water

An organism may depend on it’s environment for nutrients, light, warmth, shelter and space

Bitec factors

1. Competition a rivalry between two or more parties striving for a common goal, where one’s gain may be another’s loss

2. Predation other organisms that want to hunt you and eat you

3. parasites small organisms that live inside you and feed inside you

4. Food availability the physical presence of sufficient, nutritious, and safe food at a specific location and time

5. Disease a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that has a known cause and a distinctive group of symptoms and signs

The habitat of a species is the places where members of the species live and reproduce

The habitat of austraisain gannet

coastal areas of New Zealand and Australia

the breeding habitats is mostly on small offshore islands

a juvenile New Zealand birds migrate to australia

Relationships include

predators animals eating there animals

grazing animals eating plants

competition two different species competing for resources

parasitism a species lives on or in another species and feeds off them

infection one species infects another species causing illness or death

mutualism two species living together and helping each other

commensalism one species helps another species without return

These are non living things of an ecosystem abiotic factors fall into three groups

1. climate features – sun, wind and rain
2. factors affecting growth – soil condition, location
3. keys chemical elements – nitrogen, oxygen and water

The organisms that live and interact in an ecosystem fall into three groups according to the way they obtain their food. The groups are

1. Producers
2. Consumers
3. Decomposers

Producers are organisms mainly green plants that make their own food by a process card photosynthesis

ants can be thought of as food factories which provide most of the living organisms on earth with a source of energy and food

They start the food chain and are called producers

Consumers are organisms that cant make their own food, so they feed on other organisms to meet their nutritional requirements, such as animals

Consumers can be split into sub groups

1 herbivore organisms that only eat plants

2 carnivore organisms that only eat meat

3 omnivore organisms that eat both

decomposer mainly worms, bacteria and fungi live and feed on dead organisms

decomposer have a vital role in ecosystem because they recycle nutrients

Some insects are decomposers such as flies

3 examples of a carnivore

lions, cheetahs, and a wolves

3 examples of a herbivore

cow, rabbit, and a deer

3 examples of a omnivore

bears, raccoons, and humans

Hello blogger, I would like to talk about the my story and what it’s about. Now its still a draft so it would still not be the my best story but once I have done some tweaks and sketches I know that it will be way better than the draft.

First I will talk about what characters are in the story and what key events are going to happen in the story like what problems the main character is going to have and how he is going to solve the problems. The first character that will be introduced is Drake which is the rapper Drake, the next character is going to be Timmy who is a small duck that Drake had found.

Now these two are going to be the main character of my story because I don’t want too many characters on my story. The setting of my story is that Drake was on a private jet going to miami but the engine breaks so the plane is falling and is going to crash but he has a parachute so he is ok but now he is stuck on a deserted island.

Now that bit that I had talked about was the first part of my story of an introduction on how he got on the island. The next paragraph is going to be about how he is falling out of the plane and this next paragraph I will be talking about it but its not in the draft but it’s an idea that I had decided to try out.

As Drake falls out of the plane he is filled with too many emotions that he cant handle. Hes feeling like all of the emotions are falling on him but his senses kick and and he start to try and get his balance in the air trying to get the parachute out from the bag but as he gets grip he realizes that parachute has malfunctioned and its not working. He tries again and again but it doesn’t do anything. As he’s thinking to himself that he’s gonna die he grasps hope and tries one more time with all his hope and finally it actually works. He starts to thank god and himself for not giving up.

Now is one of my ideas for a paragraph for my story but right now it has not been tweaked or changed yet and right now in thinking of making it a tad bit smaller and changing the wording in the sentence right now.

I’m going to talk about the middle part of my story but just summarize it so I don’t have to write a whole bunch of paragraphs in my blog so I can save time.

In the middle of the story after Drake lands he is grateful that is alive but he is very mad at the same time because he is now stuck on the island so he is now punching and kicking his parachute while crying about how he is going to survive and get out of this island.

Once he had finished he started to walk around the island just trying to find shelter, food and water to survive. But he finds a duck on the island and he is questioning himself like how did it get here and why is it here but he decides to take the duck and call it Timmy and Drake is going off with Timmy to find food.

After many hours of trying to find food Drake has almost given up his arms have almost given up from carrying Timmy and he is starving he think that he is not going to find food but after a couple of steps he finds coconuts.

Now thats how my draft is going right now and that is me just summarizing it up and I honesty just want to get this story finished right now but I must wait to finish my story right now.

This will definitely have to be the end of my blog and currently and right now I am kinda thinking about how I am going to finish my story because I have actually not finished my draft yet so I am excited how I am going to make my story and what events I am going to have in my head for this story.

Heat of energy that is in everything Hot air goes up and cold air goes down

Heat is a form of energy objects are made up of molecules and heat energy is the movement of the mecues Heat can be transferred from one object to another objects absorb the heat energy from warmer objects the sun gives the earth most of its heat energy.

The way that you know you are hot is when you start to sweat or  when you have a fever your head might feel very hot and warm on their head

The difference between being warm and hot is with warm you are just in a good state of your warmth but when you are hot you start to sweat and want to cool your body down.

Temperature is a measure of hotness or coldness.

We can measure temperature with a thermometer.

Temperature can be measured in celsius or fahrenheit.

In NZ we use Celsius to measure temperature you might hear on the news the temperature for the day in celsius.

the normal temperature for a human body is 36.5C

The boiling point of water is 100 degrees of celsius

The freezing point of water is zero degrees celsius

In the picture that I can see on the TV the person is cleary cod because first they are wearing a lot of warm clothes and their skin is getting quite white which can be a easy sign of being cold and he is blowing his hand for warmth

In the next picture I can see that they are warm because he is in the poo with a poo foaty just swimming in the warm weather

In the third picture I am able to see that this dog is warm because he is wearing a warm blanket

In the fourth picture it is very cod because there is a lot of snow and in the picture it was currently snowing

The next picture is hot because it is boiling water and boiling water is very hot

In the last picture the cat is warm because his environment is neither cold or warm

We can keep warm in lots of different ways one way is by trapping our body heat inside the clothing and it keeps us warm

The same way can nice, thick curtains help us keep a room warm they act as a trap so the nice warm air doesn’t escape out the windows and stays inside the room

Heat is a form of energy that is created when tiny particles called molecules move around.When these molecules speed up, they produce heat, making things warmer, and when they slow down, they make things cooler. Also known as thermal energy.

Temperature is the measurement of how hot or cold something is. When matter is heated, they absorb energy. THe molecules vibrate faster and become hotter and hotter. Temperature measures how much energy a substance has absorbed. Cold objects do not have as much energy and move slowly.

Heat is a form of energy transfer.

There are three main types

1. Conduction
2. Convection
3. Radiation

Conduction is the movement of heat from molecules to molecule in a solid until the whole is hot.

Energy is the ability to do work. This means the ability to make something move against a force. Energy is not a physical thing, it is carried and passed from one object to another.

Energy is measured in joules.

Renewable energy

1.  Sun
2. Water
3. Wind
4. Waves

Nonrenewable energy

1. Coal
2. Gas
3. Food

Energy cant be

1. Used all up
2. Destroyed

Energy can be

1. Stored
2. Transferred from objects
3. Added to an object
4. Taken away from an object
5. Changed into another form

Kinetic energy – Energy of a moving object

Potential energy – Energy stored on  an object – it is not yet active

Energy changes

1. Riding a scooter ( Chemical to kinetic )
2. Shooting a bow ( potential to kinetic )
3. Putting a battery in a TV remote ( potential to kinetic )

Equipment

1. 7 popsicle sticks
2. 1 spoon
3. 3 5 rubber bands
4. ball of foil

method

stack b popsicle sticks on to top of each other.

take 2 rubber bands and wind them around each end of the popsicle sticks.

add one popsicle to the stack and attach it with 1 rubber band.

add a a spoon to the top of the stack of sticks.

attach the spoon to the popsicle at the end and use 1 rubber band.

fired the catapult with the foil ball.

energy

heat energy – fire sun

light energy – torch light bub

sound energy – TV phone

gravitational potential energy – burger ball

electrical energy – charger electric poll

chemical energy – pizza burger

kinetic energy – football car 

The law of conservation of energy

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be transformed from one form to another. Scientists call this the (Law of conservation of energy) energy transformations cause all of the change that occurs around you.

a  light bulb

b  ball moving up

c  microphone

d  heater

e  speaker

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Sound is a form of kinetic energy.

It is the energy of molecules as they vibrate.

Our ears detect these vibrations and our brain processes it as sound.

Sound is made of vibrations.

These vibrations travel from one molecule to another in waves.

We can see and hear these waves as they bounce of surfaces.

We can hear the plane in the sky because the sound from the plane is very loud The sound waves are bigger so it can travel further.

why are our ears shaped like that

the reason why our ears are shaped Ike that is because so that we can hear sounds without them destroying our ears.

why do rabbits have big ears 

the reason is so they can hear at night.

Hello, today I wanted to tell you about three traditional maori food and one special. Now the maori culture has gone down may different food to survive and has gone through may normal and strange diets through the decades.

When the maori first came to New Zealand they brought many different plants from where they came from. But first they had brought over the the kuri which is the polynesian dog they brought it for food because at first it had been a crucial food for their diet.

Now for the three plants they brought they had brought the Taro, Kumara and yam they were a valuable source of food because since the climate was cold when they came to new zealand they had to sophisticated cultivation techniques to adapt the crops to New Zealand’s cold climate.

Now this will have to be the end of my blog and I actually enjoyed researching about this topic because it really interests me how they were able to adapt their plants with the cold climate when they came to New Zealand so I was quite shocked when I had first found that out.

Hello bloggers, today I want to talk about a specific topic and it in the title of this blog and it will mainly be about the Great Wall Of China. There had been many emperors that had used the Great Wall Of China for many purposes because of various different things that had happened while they had command of the Great Wall Of China.

The great Wall of China was mainly built from hard packed soil and wood until Genghis khan took over the Great Wall Of China and saw flaws and tweaks inside and outside of the wall so he had decided to fortify and rebuild the wall with weapons and huge boulders into the walls as defense for other empires trying to attack the mongol empire.

The great Wall of China had been one of the longest if not the longest wall that was man made it stretches somewhere between 4000 – 5500 kilometres. There were also rumours about the dead bodies from the people working to make the wall actually inside and buried in the walls.

Now this will be the end of my blog about this landmark and I actually really enjoyed researching about the Great Wall Of China because it is a major landmark in China and also it holds a lot of backstory inside the walls. But I the part I didn’t enjoy was the writing because it had taken some time but in the end I learnt quite a lot about the Great Wall Of China.