sábado, 9 de abril de 2011

Chemical Change







Compund: a chemical combination of two or more elements
Chemical Bond: a link that atoms or electrically charged particles can form with each other.
Chemical Formula: a way of using letters and numbers to show how much of each element is in a substance.

Ion: an electrically charged particle with unequal numbers of protons and electrons.

Molecule: a group of bonded atoms that acts like single particle.

Chemical Property: a way of describing how a substances change chemically with other substances.

Exothermic:  a reaction that gives-off heat.

Endothermic: a reaction that absorbs heat.

domingo, 20 de marzo de 2011

ELEMENTS AND ATOMS

1. Element: a substance that can´t be broken down any further into anything simpler.

2. Atom: the smallest particle of an element that has the same chemical properties as the element.

3. Nucleus: an atom´s dense center, where most of its mass is.

4. Electron: a negatively charged particle that moves around an atom´s nucleus.

5. Proton: a positively charged particle inside an atom´s nucleus.

6. Neutron: a particle with no charge inside an atom´s nucleus

7. Atomic Number: the number of protons in an atom.

8. Metal: any of the group of elements that conduct heat and electricity, is shiny and bendable.

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES

1. Matter: any solid, liquid, or gas.
2. Mass: the amount of matter in an object.

3. Volume: the amount of space an object takes up.

4. Density: the amount of mass in a certain volume of material.

5. Physical Property: a property that can be observed without changing the identity of a substance.



6. Physical Change: a change in size, shape, or state without forming a new substance.

7. Solution: a mixture of one substance dissolved in another so that the properties are the same throughout.

8. Chemical Change: A change in matter that produces a new substances with different properties from the original.

NEW YEAR 2011

A NEW YEAR FOR BLOGGER AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES OF LEARN SCIENCE. I HOPE THIS YEAR MY BLOG WOULD BE BETTER THAN LAST YEAR.

domingo, 28 de noviembre de 2010

Summary #8 "Blood System" in other words the "Circulatory System"

The function of the circulatory system is to transport nutrients and oxygen to all the humans´ body. The blood have three types of cells and its function :
  • Red Blood Cells: transport nutrients and oxygen.


  •  White Blood Cells: Fight diseases( infections )
  • Platelets:  Stop bleeding and cover injuries from bleed.


The most important organ on the Circulatory System  is the heart; is the only organ that pumps blood to all our body. There are three types of blood vessels in our body here is with each function are:
  1. Arteries: Carry blood from the heart to the body.
  2. Capillaries: Connect veins and arteries.
  3. Veins: Bring the blood back to the heart.
The circulatory system isn´t only the heart and the three blood vessels; it is the lungs, the small intestine and the kidneys.

Summary #7 "How Ecosystems Change"

What happens when people abandon a city? Natures takes over; one example is the cities and the temples of Angkor in Camboidia (they were built between 820 and about 1150. Lest me explain you; the gradual replacement of one monnunityby another is called Ecological Succesion. The ecological succesion takes places in five steps:
  1. Abandoned Farm---First Year: A comunity of crabgrass, insects, and mice invades the fields where corn or another crop once grew.
  2. Second and Third Years: Tall weeds, such as asters, ragweed, and goldenrod, and tall grasses grow among the crabgrass. The crabgrass can´t easily survive in the shade cast by the taller weeds. It begins to die out. Rabbits and seed-eating birds move in.
  3. Four to six Years: The comunity is growing it have stunks, birds and others mammals like the mouse.
  4. Twenty five years later: Pines agrew up there are much kinds of mammals like the fox, racoons,birds etc.
  5. One hundred years later: know the forest is an decidious forest with deers,more trees etc.

Summary #6 "Places to Live Around the World"

    One of Earth´s large ecosystem, with its climate, soil, plant and animals is called biome. Each person live in 1 biome it could be : 
 1. Taiga: A cool, forest biome of conifers in the upper Northern Hemisphere.
 
 2. Tundra: a cold, forest biome of the farnorth, marked by spongy topsoil.


3. Desert: A sandy or rocky biome, with a little precipitation and a little plant life.

4. Deciduous Forest: a forest biome with many kinds of trees that lose their leaves each Autumn.

5. Tropical Rain Forest: a hot, humid biome near the equator, with much rainfall and a wide variety of life.

Each biome have characteristics:
  • Location
  • Climate( how much rains in that biome?)
  • Soil
  • Plants
  • Animals
But do you know about a Water Biome? There are two types of  Water Biome:                                 
  • Fresh Water:
  1. Plankton: Biotic factors that floats in the water.
  2. Neckton: Biotics factors that swim throught water.
  3. Bethos: Bottom-dweling organism.
  • Salt Water:
  1. Upper Region: 100-200meters deapht
  2. Lower Region: 200-1000meters deapht