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Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Clasafied

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:
Keep Ponds Clean Or Fish Get Sick

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 
  • Say it fun guy
  • 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)

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Joan Wiifen

Brainstorm and plan. 


Joan Wiffen
Structure
Topic 
Words and ideas to use
Introduction 


Paragraph 2
Early life 
Born in ??4th of February 1922
Lived where??InNew Zealand
Married to…?? KIds??Pont wiffen and have two kids
What was her job??She was a paleontologists


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 some - 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 




P1-There was a woman named Joan wiffen.


 P2-She was the first person to find a dinosaur bone in New Zealand. She was born on
the 4th of
February 1922 and lived in New Zealand. She Married Pont Wiffen and had two children.
She also is a
paleontologists.
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P3-In 1975 Joan Wiffen was at New Zealand at Mangahounga where Hawkes bay where she
found the
first ever bone in New Zealand it was a tailbone of a theropod. When Joan Wiffen started to
be a paleontologists
she took her family and friends. She is also a person who found bones of six species in the
world or she found them in New Zealand. b


Everytime Joan Wiffen found a dinosaur bone in inside rock she would use special
tools to split the rock in
half and then she took it to her car.
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P4-In Australia Dr Ralph Monlnar said that the bone that Joan Wiffen found was a
real discovery  in 1980.


After the discovery people went and found some themselves.
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P5-In 1944 Joan Wiffen was awarded the Honorary doctorate award after her discoveries.
Later she died on 30 of June 2009.


She would be remembered-her fossils are kept safe. Some are at Auckland University,
some are at
National places,collections of GNS Science in Lower Hutt. The first one she found is on
display at Te papa.
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Con- We will remember her with all her discoveries and achievements.