VDA#9 1) Consider the potential of these 3-D machines, what object would you print that could help the world? Why?  The object that I would print out of a 3D printer would be steel. I chose steel because it has the highest strenght to weight the ratio of any building material. It provide for straight walls,square corners,and allows doors to open and close properly. Which can be good to protect ancient objects in the museum. Steel is also fire resistant and the steel causes the fuel to not spread.It also doesn't rot.these are all the reason why steel is benificial to the future.                                                                  2) From a selfish standpoint, what one item would you print for yourself?  Why?  I would print out a small dog . I chose a dog because it is always alert for criminals. Is loyal to its owner. Their also rescue dogs that can help you when your endanger.thaose are the reasobns why I chose a dog for myself.                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                 VDA#7                                                                                           1. What is the benefit of checking feces (poop, scat, dung, droppings) for Tversus checking the blood of the animal?  When an animal poops, the dropping contain cells from the creature's own digestive tract. Those cells contain D.N.A a molecule unique to each animal.
 2. What four things can you learn from an organism's droppings?  1. the droppings contain cells from the creature’s own digestive tract. 2.when animals are rare, so is their poop. 3. dogs help us by sniffing out bombs and drugs.4.Humans hunted to extinction the last of the wingless moa about 500 years ago.                                                          3. What hormone is produced when some animals are stressed or starving? The researchers measured levels of a hormone called GC, or glucocorticoid  in the orca poop. Animals make more of this chemical when stressed or starved.                                                                                                                           4. What did the researchers conclude contributed to the higher stress in orcas and how did the scientists come to that conclusion?Every August, there were plenty of fish for the whales to eat — and a lot of whale-watching boats in the area too. Around that time, GC levels in the whale poop dropped to their lowest levels, the team found. If the boats stressed the whales, then GC levels should have been high at that time.

Later, when the number of Chinook salmon, a favorite food, dropped, GC levels in the orca scat rose. So the researchers concluded that fewer fish created more stress for the whales than did more boats. That is worrisome, because Chinook salmon are scarcer as people overfish this species.

5.  Give two reasons why dung beetles climb atop the balls of dung.the researchers made a beetle roll its ball into a plastic tunnel and collide with a door that closed off the far end. In another, each beetle was forced to roll its ball through a curved tunnel — one that ultimately took it off-course.

Beetles confronted with these disruptions danced on their dung balls much more often than did the beetles left undisturbed. These findings suggested the insects danced to orient themselves and get back on track. For example, a beetle might check the position of the sun to aid its returning to the right path. And by looking around from atop its ball, the beetle also might prevent losing its lunch to another hungry beetle.But the researchers still weren’t satisfied. The beetles seemed to climb atop their balls more frequently at midday, when it was hot. When Baird’s team cooled down the surrounding sand, the beetles clambered up less frequently.

Because dung is moist, it’s usually cooler than the sand. Baird and her colleagues wondered whether the beetles climbed up to cool their feet.

                                                                  6.  What is the relationship between the Kakapo and the Hades flowers?  In your answer, be sure to include how each species benefits the other.      the team soon discovered the ancient poop contained the pollen of a strange plant calledDactylanthus taylorii. The plant, also known as the Hades flower, grows underground and pokes its flower up through the soil. Today, the Hades flower is also in decline. In the past, when larger numbers of both species overlapped, kakapos probably dined on the flowers, Wood says.

While the flower fed the bird, the bird probably also helped the flower. Kakapos have whiskerlike feathers just right for picking up pollen when they feed on a Hades blossom. When the parrots transferred that pollen from flower to flower, it would have pollinated the plant. Wood suspects kakapos could help the Hades flower thrive again. Scientists recently moved some kakapos to an island where Hades flowers grow, so Wood may soon find out if his hunch is right.

The research done by Wood and the other scientists profiled here emphasizes why studying poop can help us better understand (and help) species too rare or too difficult to study directly. Says Wood: “It might seem quite a weird thing to do, but it does actually have applications in the real world.”                                                                                    7. Why is the Hades flower called "Hades" flower? Dactylanthus taylorii, commonly known as wood rose orHades flower,^[2][3] is a fully parasitic plant that grows on the roots of certain trees in New Zealand. The host tree responds to the presence of Dactylanthus by forming a burl-like structure that resembles a fluted wooden rose (hence the common name). Māori names for wood rose are pua o te reinga or pua reinga ("flower of the underworld")^[4] andwaewae atua, "feet of gods". It is monotypic to theDactylanthus genus. One of its most common host trees is pate or seven-finger (Schefflera digitata).

                                                            VDA#6                                                                                              1. Scientists predict that prune fingers may serve a purpose.  What purpose do they suggest prune fingers serve? Prune like fingers provide advantage to a persons'sby improving grip on wet slippery objects wrinkling of our digits offer a survival advantage.
 2.Do you think that the study performed in England was a valid study?  Why or why  I agree with the scientist from England because they confirmed that there is a benifit to those clammy skin ridges experiment shows that our wrinkles improve our fingers ability to grasp wet, slippery objects.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  3. How would you design an experiment to gather more data to support the suggestion that prune fingers serve a purpose?   I took two pails of water and than I put one hand for fifteen minutes and than Iput the other hand for thirty minutes in the water. Than I noticed the hand which I put for thirty minutes had wtinkles like  prune then I tried to grab soap with both hands. I was getting a better grip of soap with the wrinkled hand than the other one.                                                                                               4. While scientists are attempting to determine the biological purpose for prune fingers, the article does not discuss why prune fingers happen in the first place.  What biological process allows for the skin on our hands and feet to turn wrinkly when submerged in water for long periods of time?           This reduction in volume pulls the skin inward, but as the skin's suface area cannot change, it wrinkles. This mechanism is controlled by the automatic nervous system, and the biological process is called osmosis.

                   How the economy in developed countries has an impact on CO2 emissions?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 New figures show that emissions are falling slowly in the countries including the United States . That apparently reflects a combination of economic weakness . The transfer of some manufacturing to developing countries and consaious efforts to limit emission like the renewable power target many American states have set . The boom in natural gas supply from hydraulic fracturing is about a factor, since natural gas supplanting coal at many power station, leading to lower emissions in developing countries is more than matched by continued growth in developing countries like China and India . Overall Global Emissions of carbon dioxide were record high earlier and are likely to take similar jump . The latest indication that efforts to limit such emission are falling . If the emissions continue to grow so rapidly that an international goal of limiting the planet will become unattainable . The nations around the world are required to a complish the stated aims . Delegates from nearly 200 nations are meeting in Dana , Qatar , for the latest round of talks under the treaty, the UNFCCC Governments have to find ways in which action on the ground can be taken to a higher level because it is absoluely needed .                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Long-Term Science Questions:

1. What is Richard Lenski studying and why does he think it'simportant?                                                                         A dozen bottles of bacteria. he started with 12 identical flasks, full of identical bacteria, would they all change over time in the same way.

2. What is Telewski studying and why does he think it's important?

Growth of plants in a bottle.

                                                                                                                                                                       3. What benefits do you see in performing long-term scientific studies like these?                                                               There are many great benefits if people study long term science they will figure out more ways to be healtier.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

VDA2

1. Choose which of the subsections of the article you found most interesting and answer the following questions:

a) In what way does their research contribute to the greater good? Who ever does this  research on criminals  they would be safe  because if your thinking like a criminal you would never be in a deadly situation.

b) What questions did the scientist pose that led to the research that s/he did?How can  we stop criminal from robbing or killing.

c) What field of science does this fall into? (Biology, chemistry, physics, etc.?) forensics

Select one of the scientists mentioned in the article, and write a letter to him/her. In the letter, include what you know about his/her research, what you found most fascinating and include a minimum of two well thought-out questions.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         DEAR, Heather  Mahalik  I really liked the article criminal codes. I can't believe how good you are at solving cases, and you learned  this much from studying criminal shows. I would like to ask you a question.  How many crimes do you solve in a day and what is the most crime done in your cases.

1) What was the title and URL of the article you read? Color-changing robot

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2012/10/color-changing-robot/

2) Do you have any questions about anything you read in the article? If so, what are the questions? yes.where can color changing robots be founds.

3) What did you find MOST fascinating about the article? Tiny tunnels like blood vessles run through  robots skin.

4) What did you learn?                                                                                                                                 Robots have color changing abilityand how they funcuction 

5) Why was the science found in the article important, in your opinion? it is important because scientist created color changing ability for robots.

6) Any additional comments? no