Lichen

Evolution Activity Write Up Melanie Perez Period 7 Biology honors 1st quarter Purpose The class activity was to pick gray and white butterflies of the tables. However, some of the tables were gray and some were white and with the lights turned off the butterflies camouflaged. This experiment showed that when butterflies use their traits of camouflage they succeed. Some butterflies did not succeed if the white butterflies were on the white tables they camouflaged so they don’t get eaten but if…

As a child growing up in Rhode Island, the smallest state in the Union, the idea of a vast planet brimming with civilization and culture was more like something out of a fairy tale than it was reality. So, when my father announced that we would be leaving the country to go to Scotland, the home of his and my ancestors, my world began to expand at a rapid pace. This trip could not have been timed more perfectly. The summer of 2007 marked the end of fourth grade, my first year at Saint Mary…

You feel the cool breeze as winter recedes in the beautiful Alaskan Yukon. As you stand in the breeze you think, “this is the most beautiful place in the world”. Everyone who has visited Alaska has said the same thing, and even the most strict critics have admitted to its splendor. Alaska is an amazing place the history, landscape, wildlife, and the many things to do will show you that Alaska truly is a place of wonder and majesty. Historians still do not know when and how people began to live…

Throughout the history of the United States we have always had those that have stood up for the natural resources that we all as Americans share, and we have had other people who feel like the human race needs to be more industrialized. The former is a persuasion that one who truly values America’s great beauty should fall under. Unfortunately, it is the latter in which many of the politicians and people who control things in this government have succumb to. Greed, power, money, and corporate…

development of America, and was dedicated to the Mount Rushmore monument July 2, 1939. The wildlife near Mount Rushmore is very diverse. For example, the Rocky Mountain goat live for around twelve to fifteen years, and usually feed on shrubs, grasses, and lichen. Another interesting animal is the Mule deer. They have a lifespan of about nine to eleven years. They usually eat shrubs and weeds. The least chipmunk also lives near Mount Rushmore. They mostly feed on seeds, fruit, and fungi. They…

Water bears are hearty creatures, which inspire people to create useful things, such as the development of a special type of glass and a refrigerator-free form of storage. Water bears are tardigrades, and their hardiness has been put to the test. There are 900 known species of tardigrades. Water bears are also known as moss piglets. German pastor Johann August Ephraim Goeze discovered them in 1776 and named them tardigrade kleiner wasserbar, which means little water bear in German. They were…

The arctic ecosystem has its own food web which is made for its own animal and species and other environmental characteristics. Carbon cycles through the web from atmosphere and to the seawater. The arctic ecosystem helps reduce global warming and helps keep the temperature normal. Earths poles are cold because they get very less sunlight. The arctic ocean insulates the air. Arctic ecosystems have over thousands of algae, microbes, fish, birds and marine mammals. The Arctic ocean is one of the…

Loyola University Chicago is a Jesuit institution that promotes caring for others, caring for one’s self, and caring for the community. It is one of Loyola’s foundational aspect of caring for the community that has made the requirement of engaged learning a part of the curriculum. Since the Fall of 2012, Loyola has required its students to go out into the world and obtain hands-on experience in different sorts of fields. One may accomplish this through an internship course, or a class combined…

way our body naturally declines and to where our body can adapt quickly to an environment. Natural selection is a process where nature chooses the organisms adapts best to the surrounding environment. An example of this is when the smoke killed the lichen off the tree and made the bark dark. This increased the dark moth population by ninety eight percent. Charles Darwin would call this process survival to the fittest which he discovered while at Galapagos island. He went on this voyage for five…

is to express the joy of his encounter his nature, and to give an idea that sometimes a break from the civilized world is alright. “ The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything-the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow lichens, the texture of the clouds-to stand out in brilliant…