The tree and the soil in this picture are a wonderful example of a mutualistic relationship because in this soil are many worms. Earth worms to be exact. These worms burrow through the soil mixing it up helping the plant get the nutrients it needs. In addition the worms are able to get the food and shelter they need to survive. Also, the scat of the Earth worms are filled with the nutrients the tree need to survive. This is a perfect example of a mutualistic relationship because both species are benefiting from what each other does and so this is a symbiotic relationship.

Limiting Factors

Trees are a very exceptional examples of a limiting factor. If you look to the tree in the picture to your left you could see that its branches and leaves are widespread shading most of the ground underneath the tree preventing most, if not all of its competition from growing. Its roots are also spread very deep into the ground giving it the ability to soak up all the water it needs. In the process strangling the roots of weeds and other pests. Trees are limiting factors that have been around for billions of years and do a very good job at this.

Super Fall!

Water falls are a beautiful part of nature and everyone loves them including me. But a gigantic one that powers electricity for a city, now thats a step up. Rio de Janeiro has a solar powered artificial waterfall that works day in or day out. This tower uses many solar panels and excess energy is used to help pump sea water into a tower. At night the falling water makes the energy. Who would have knew. An Eco friendly power generator that looks absolutley magnificent. Personally I think this is a great invention and proves to me that us humans might actually solve our energy problems and lessen our impact dramaticly on the Earth. This waterfall even has a shop and cafeteria for those not interested or bored with the waterfall. Even though that is imossible to happen I think that was still a good idea. Thats not all there is either. There are 360 degree sky decks and visitors can even do some bungee jumping for 90 stories high. Now isn;t bungee jumping of a water fall breathtaking. This place has EVERYTHING! Plus to counter all the carbon the city realeses into the air the have planted 3580 saplings! Now this city is someone we Americans should look up to.

SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH! (Sort Of)

Whats the first thing that comes to your mind when you here the phrase "3-D game" with new nintendo game system written after it. I do not know about you but I would not say any thing. Instead, I will stare wide eyes my jaw wide open for about five seconds before I act like a monkey and jump around the whole house screaming like a donkey. Well atleast that's what I will be doing in my brain. The thing is I am sort of a video game addict who loves 3-D games. Since the entire virtual world is jumping into 3-D, nintendo the biggest game system company in the world has decided to join the ride. In my opinion this would maybe be a scientific breakthrough. Oh, and also one of the single most wonderful moments of my life because I love Nintendo systems and games and I also love 3-D, so this is a very cool scientific breakthrough if you ask me. How I found this amazing piece of news you ask? Well I had some homework and had to make a blog on something when I saw a picture of a DS with a 3-D mario on it. I immediatly clicked on the link my heart skipping a beat. Ok, fine I wasn't really that excited I was just happy that I might have found something interesting for my blog. After reading what it was mainly about my initial shcok weared off and the next thing the claimed my thoughts was that how?? I know that every 3-D movie or game needs special glasses but the article said that it didn't use them. Puzzled I read on to find out that it does this using extremly sensitive tilting technology. Yeah maybe it really wasn't a scientific breakthrough rather a clever use of the technology already available. Well I was still excited to read that this master peice had already came out in Japan and would soon come to America in 3 months. I am going to ask no beg no cry so my parents to give me it on my birthday that will come soon after. I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!

Is A Snowacane Really That Bad?

This simple storm that caused a light snowfall in Texas is quickly picking up some momentum. With winds expected to reach over 50 mph the national weather service is still not sure if this storm should be classified as a Hurricane. This is becuase of the fact that Hurricanes are considered to have winds over 75mph. This snow storm has seemed to been caused by air full of moisture gathering in the south to move upward causing the warm air to move north resulting in winds and also causing more snow. People are calling this a snowacane because of the highwinds similar to hurricanes. This storm is also expected to cause floods to places near the coast as well. In contrast Hurricanes form when a cloud mass gets really big and eventually the rotation from the Earths axis cause the cloud mass to circle around a hole then causing a Hurricane. The Snowacane was formed similerly but instead of rain it gives off snow hence the name "snowacane". This snow storm is causing many incoviences to communities. This storm is causing alot of sleet causing many traffic hazards. Schools are also forced to give early releases and snowdays. Further north well into maine it seem they must extend school into the summer. At this point everyone on the east coast are just wishing for winter to end.

Relationship with Global Warming & Math

The relationship with Global Warming and Math is that global warming has many numerical things in it. These things include number relating to amount of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitros oxide in the air and atmosphere. For example one website says that America releases more then 100,000 ton of carbon dioxide into to the air every year. Well, that definitely is a number to me. Some other numbers in global warming are how many species of animals of gone extinct because of it. Or even the rising levels of Co2 in the past decade shown is in numbers. This also has another relationship with math. Graphs. The rising carbon and other greenhouse gases are shown on graphs that show their dramatically rising levels in the past 20 years. Math also plays a role in showing people the ugly truth about global warming. It helps with all sorts of graphs, numbers, predictions, averages, and many other things that wont fit. Just goes to show you math plays a role in almost everything.

Plant Stealer

Have you ever thought an animal can be a plant? Well I as sure didn't. That is until I saw the title surprising sea slug half-plant and half-animal. This really threw me off and everything i knew about animals. My curiosity then took over and I went to investigate. They say that the little animal was found producing the plant pigment chlorophyll. What does that mean was my next thought?!?!?! Well the article then said it was a plant. Well right then i thought that was a pretty fancy name for a plant. But who am I to argue, scientists could name stuff anything they want. But then I started thinking to myself. Wow this is getting pretty boring. I mean wo-hoo it can make a plant lets all go back to our lives now. But just for the fun of it I read on. Turns out I was wrong. That was a big event. A biologist named Sidney Pierce from South Florida Tampa stated "they can make energy without eating." Well that wasn't exactly what she said. But to tell you a truth I did you a favor. I mean it said something that I really couldn't understand. Energy-containing molecules. How does that fit into to the sentence was all I made out of of the phrase. In my opinion the important thing was they could basically use solar power to get energy. Isn't that cool. But wait. How could these slugs actually do that? They couldn't have evolved not the right conditions. My answer came later in this amazing article. Scientists say that these guys so much algae (microscopic plants) that they practically stole their ability. At that moment I was mind-locked. Tell you what I don not really know what to call it so the best I could come with was cool. Yeah I know really sophisticated but there are no other words to describe it. Well you guys wondering what this slug looks like? Well the picture above is what it looks like. Enjoy the weird image!