My Inner Fish

In the two videos we watched about how we were related to early animals like fishes and how they later evolved over millions of years into us. In the unit we are learning, we talked about different types of animals, and how they were similar to each other, making easy to order them into different areas. One such types were the ones that were focused on in the videos: the Fish and the Reptiles. In past units, we talked about evolution and why it occurs. This is especially shown as Fish went onto land and reptiles evolved into mammals. One such part in the video was the discovery of the Hadrocodium, whose name means big brain. This early mammal had a brain bigger than that of their body mass! This was used to allow for better performance in dangerous , and allowed them to survive in a world where dinosaurs lived. Another thing in the video that interests me is unexplored area in North America. When they talked about it, I was surprised by the fact that this place was not explored for years, even in times where the conditions there were low enough to do work in. Even with high-tech gear, people didn't want to travel in Canada because of the cold snow, and chance of getting lost in blizzards, and high chance of death.

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4th Blog Post

Moving on over the second hurdle:

This week, I had decided that I would use an info-graphic with my portfolio, along with other information to amplify the meanings of the pictures, since there is very little pictures in the past, since cameras and others weren't invented back then ( Oops.....). The topic I'm trying to convey is not easy to convey with little photos. I may have done my best with each one, but I'm not a perfect photographer. I decided that I would research more about now and back then, and talk to a certain teacher that knows a lot about back then. For now, I moved my work onto easel.ly to continue the rest of my work. Recently, I have thought a lot about myself, and I believe that I am constantly doubting myself. I can't seem to stick to something without thinking of  a negative downside to come with it. I think having someone to ask, come to, or just talk to really helps with this problem and clears my mind up.

3rd Blog Post

This week, I wasn't able to update the blog on time, but I have been making progress one at a time. I learned that not everything was great in the past. All the trees may have lived about 20 years ago, but so did natural calamities and occurrences in the world. Because of that, not everything was perfect, but was more natural than now. I still feel that I'm different from others, but the big thing that affects my process is that I don't have great "talent" or efficient ways to spend my time. I might do something unnecessary, or be very inefficient with my time. Lately, I have been thinking about what format I should really decide on for the final project. The TED talk coming up, I can't really afford to make a portfolio with google slides. Many other options are out considering the amount of photos I can insert without making it harder upon myself. I feel that I should slow down and see what I can make out of the little options I have left. When applying what I learned to other things is that not everything is perfect, since most options I thought would be suitable has a hidden flaw that I stumbled upon midway through the project.

Porifera and Sponges

After watching and taking notes about Invertebrates, I have learned a lot about these abundant animals, especially about the animals in the group, Phylum Porifera. This group includes the topic of this post, sponges, and many others that are multicellular organisms with pores and channels that allow water to enter inside, and be filter by the cells inside them. Sponges are like a clumped group of cells that work together to filter the water that passes through it. They do not have organs or any systems to deal with anything else. All this organism has is a filtering system that draws unfortunate prey into them, where the cells could digest them overtime. In a video that was related to the vodcast, a scientist demostrated the function of sponges and corals by putting dye near the base, and eventually, the sponge/coral was spewing out the dye from their opening. The vodcast talked about the kingdom this group is also in, the Animalia Kingdom, and that the group was also known to be sessile metazoans, which mean they are multicelled immobile organisms. These types reside in the ocean, near the floor where they could eat the plankton that flowed into the organism with the water. Like corals, this organism have formed symbiosis relationships with other organisms in order to protect each other and survive better. Unlike corals though, they are able to adapt to certain situations, for example, there are carnivorous sponges that use thread inside them to capture prey.