Month: February 2023

What is a plant?

Plants are living things that exhibit all traits of MRSGREN. they reproduce, breathe air, and hydrate and respirate with oxygen.

structure of plants:

The roots absorb water from the soil and keep the plant in the ground. The stem supports the plant above ground, and carries the water and minerals to the leaves. The leaves collect energy from the Sun and make food for the plant, using an amazing process called photosynthesis.

why do plants have roots?

roots have two functions.

they anchor the plant into the ground

2. they absorb water

what do the different parts of plants do?

Stems and trunks support the plants. They have tubes called xylen that move water from the plant’s roots to the leaves. They also have different tubes called phloem that transport glucose from the leaves to the rest of the plant.

plant cells –

definition of cell: the smallest structural and functional unit of an organism, which is typically microscopic and consists of cytoplasm and a nucleus enclosed in a membrane.

Nucleus: the most important part of an object or in this case, the plant. the nucleus also contains the genetic material also known as dna.

What is pollination?

The act of transferring pollen to a flower to encourage fertilisation. Bees most commonly do this.

How does pollination happen?

Pollination is a very important part of plant reproduction. Pollen from a flower rubs or drops onto a pollinator. This for example, may be a bee, butterfly or wasp.  The bee (or anything holding the pollen) then take this pollen to another flower, where the pollen sticks to the stigma. After that, the flowers hold seeds and other stuff.

find a pollination diagram

How does the tui pollinate a flower?

Tui feeds on nectar at the bottom of the flower.

All tuis get pollen on their head when it eats the nectar.

The pollen on its head is transferred to different flowers when the tui eats more nectar.

germination

what is germination?

germination is the process of flower/plant seeds evolving into newer plants.

Diagram of a flower and its parts:

diagram of a seed:

summary of what occurs in germination:

Germination is the act of a seed growing and evolving into a plant, using its surroundings and atmosphere to thrive. Germination cannot occur if the seed does not have a steady amount of water, sun, and oxygen. If the seed does not have oxygen, it cannot respirate (breathe).

causes and effects of agriculture

in this piece I am going to be explaining the neolithic revolution and how agriculture has become so important to humans. There are advantages and disadvantages to agriculture which I will also discuss.

Why – causes

One reason for large scale agriculture during the neolithic revolution 9000 years ago was population, this has meant that no, for example there are now 8 billion people in the world, compared to 10 million in 6977 BC.

One advantage of agriculture is control. This is good because you can manage how much food you have, where it goes, and when it goes. Therefore, this will mean that with help, surrounding areas will have a food supply, and people will have energy from the food to complete stuff like jobs, which could slow down production of other products and economy slows.

One disadvantage of agriculture is hard work. This is bad because farmers will have less energy to complete other tasks. Therefore, this will mean food production could slow down which could lead to surrounding areas not having a balanced amount of food, which will also mean that other people won’t have enough energy and nutrition from the food. If the issue is widespread it could lead to a depression, and it will affect wider areas.

Another disadvantage of agriculture is the costs of machinery. Current day agriculture requires tractors, bale movers, cow sheds, milk tanks and quad bikes. All of that in total could come up to costs nearing $50,000. If you want to start farming, it’s an expensive process. You’re probably better off to farm through family farms.

Alright so uhh

In social studies for the past couple weeks we have been making our own countries that have to have temples, gods, farms, cities, palaces and stuff like that. They had to be made-up places so yeah. Don’t expect to see literal god in this country soooo

My country was called dumb country (idk i felt like it) and it’s just pretty much a country based on a caribbean island but not based on it at the same time. It has a river running through it and two cities, called dumb city and le bagel city. It has a dock called le baguette docks as well. I put some of my friends as names of places as well, like I have cooper palace (from my friend eddie), hammond river (from my friend zane) and yeah. It also has four gods that the country follows. It doesn’t really have a food supply or anything because there is a lot of shipping to and from the island, but it does have a two story hospital with a morgue in the basement. They just kinda end up stuffing dead bodies in the morgue, but for some reason it has a lot of murdered people in it. s e r i a l   k i l l e r ?

Anyways yeah I’m done writing so here’s my country.

Alright so uhh I’m back

In social studies we have been learning about sumerian gods and I now have to do a list about what I now know about them, and about sumerian history itself. I can’t be bothered writing 10 paragraphs just for an intro so here.

1. Gods were also referred to as deities
2. Gods can be accepted into heaven but regular people can’t
3. Sumerian gods and their view of how existence came to be is actually kinda similar to maori
4. Cities were ruled by priests and later, kings
5. There was a king for each city
6. Kings lived in ziggurats (pyramid house thingys)

And as well as that, we had to make our own god