clinometer

the clinometer is very simple to use! all you need to do is follow these simple steps!

1. find your elevation via the gps.

2. find an object.

3. look at that object through the hole in your clinometer.

4. have a friend note down the angle that the string is pointing to.

5. now plug the information you have into this formula: D= elevation x Tan( angle

6. now plug this into your calculator and BLAMO! you have your distance!

whale watch at McGregor's point

the purpose of the whale watch for me was to see how many whales i can spot, then at the end of the year compare it to the number of whales i see at McGregor's. So is there more whale at the beginning of the year or at the end of the year? if whaling has gone down id think there would be more whales at the end of the year because at that time all the whales would be done traveling. the observation at McGregor's point was great. i think i saw 4 different pods, but i only recorded 2. it was very hard to see them because they where way of in the water, also the sun reflecting of the water was making it hard to see. all i saw was water spouts, no breaching sadly.

in this lab there are 9 marine phyla. these are porifera, cnidoria, mollussca, arthropoda, echino, nemotoda, prutyha, annelida and crustations. we will go to the tide pools and observe and count as many marine phyla as we can. we will use a quadrate and a transect line and count up all the creatures that are in our quadrate. we will count each creature and name them by there phyla.

are research question is which marine phyla are present at the tide pools and which one is there the most of. our hypothesis is the mollusk will be the most of any phyla at the tide pools. so we found out our hypothesis was true, but there may have been sources of error such as, re counting specimen, rising tides, creatures moving ect.

it was great fun geting out there in the pools. we got to see some amazing creatures like a puffer fish! it was also a good learning experience. it kept us thinking and i don't think anyone got bored.

tide pool blog

this is us discussing where we need to go

this is our first location!

again trying to find out where we need to go

our first location!

Geo cashing

GeoCashing i a fun little website that hides these GeoCashes all around the world. your job is to find one near you. if you find one you like you can take the given location, plug it into your GPS and go searching for it.

I learned so much on the GPS doing GeoCashing. i learned how to mark down locations and much more.

The first time i went GeoCashing my team didn't find anything, but the second time i went we found 1.

termites overview.

they started with a very humble environment. with little resources and only some fake silicone sand for shelter. when the first entered the test jar they seemed to know what they had to do. by the first week they already had a few tunnels under the sand. it seem as they don't know if this is or inst there natural environment. even then they are still doing work.

by the second week they have already started eating into the wood we gave them. they are out and about working to there hearts desire. munching on wood seems to keep them content. but they have no idea what will happen next. another week and there just a fine as they where last time. still working and still eating. it looks like a lot of them are just laying there, while the other guys are working. but it dose look like they have eaten more of that wood.

i think its now week 4 and BLAMO! it look like some kids where messing with the jar and ruined the termites environment. i think they had to rebuild there tunnels. i'm not sure. but other than that and there place looking like its going to fall over, everything seems fine. termites are still working and eating.

now where back from break we take a look how our termites are doing. it looks like there fine. there still doing work. holding on for life.the sand kinda leveled out for a better working environment. i don't know if the termites did that by eating it or if the sand did it on its own. if you take a look at the other periods termites they seem almost dead.