Science and the novel "Tangerine" (Extra Credit)

Science and the novel Tangerine are related (more specifically ecology and Tangerine)! There are plants/trees and other things from Tangerine that are part of ecology. Ecology is the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms. In Tangerine, there are some good relationships and some bad relationships between characters. As you should already know, humans are animals, more specifically, we are primates. This means that working together is a good relationship and, fighting or calling someone else is a bad relationship.

In Tangerine, there are tangerine groves. These groves are obviously full of tangerines. Tangerine trees are trees which means that they are producers. Producers make their own food while the characters in stories and other humans and animals/creatures need to eat parts of other organisms in order to survive.

Commensalism

Commensalism is when one organism is living with, on, or in another organism without injury to either one of them. The picture above is a picture of the bottom of an oak tree that is behind my house with moss on it. This is an example of commensalism because the moss lives on the tree and takes some water from the tree, but, there is no injury to the tree.

Biotic and Aboitic

Trees, plants, fungus and animals are few examples of organisms which are few times of something Biotic is something living or that once was living. This ranges from organisms themselves t0 things that are made from organisms. Abiotic is something never living and never will be living; like rocks, soil, water, and many man-m ade objects. Other man-made objects are biotic. Man-made objects that are come from something once biotic include wood floors, wooden toys, furniture, and other things made from wood, paper, 100 % cotton clothing, wool clothes, anything made out of leather, and much more. Man-made objects that come from something abiotic include anything with metal in it, houses, plastic, and much mare. There are lots of things that are biotic and, lots of things that are abiotic and they create Earth and everything we see, use, and eat.

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Aquarium

There were many interesting animals to see at Adventure Aquarium. We went through a shark tunnel. In the cage with the sharks (on was a shark ray), there also is a turtle, a manta ray,and lots of fish. I touched a sea cucumber, some starfish, jellyfish, and sting rays. In the shark tunnel, i saw sharks swim by me on my left, my right, and above me. I also saw two hippos not moving around at all and, its' native birds and fish that live with it and clean it. I also saw an octopus and some bioluminisent animals, and two cages outside. In the two cages that are outside i saw a sea lion and a seal, and some penguins.

Even in the Desert, Plants Feel the Heat of Global Warming

"Global warming is a hot topic, and it's causing concern for scientists studying winter annuals in the Sonoran Desert. " Desert winters have become warmer and dryer over years, but still climate changes have forced winter rains to arrive later in the year, forcing winter annual plants like the "curvenut combseed" to come out later when temperatures are colder.In 1982, Larry Venable (an ecologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, started to study at "The Desert Laboratory on nearby Tumamoc Hill" so he could study "bet-hedging" in plants. Part of the studying was studying the arrival of the "Sonoran Desert" winter rains that push the germination of the winter annuals into later in the year (and has affected the types of winter annuals that live there. In wet years, there was a high density of plants and the maps they (the researchers make) get very full. Also, if the winter rains keep on arriving later, the germitation will keep on arriving later and later in the year, and "the plant community will continuously change and favor plants that thrive in colder environments."

http://www.livescience.com/environment/desert-plants-global-warming-bts-100402.html

"Black Holes All Eat The Same Way" by Robert Roy Britt

"Black holes are often described as voracious and monstrous, with sloppy eating habits that cause X-rays to be coughed up and spat out willy nilly." No matter were black holes live, they have a bunch of cooking habitat. Also, giant black holes (also called supermassive black holes) anchor many galaxies, But also "feed just like smaller stellar black holes..." There is a gallaxy called the spiral gallaxy which is about 12 million light years from earth. In the center of this gallaxy called M81 there is a black about 70 million times bigger than the sun! "It pulls gas from the central region of the galaxy inward at high speed." Stellar black holes pull gas from an orbiting companion star."In both cases, when black holes dine, material spirals inward and becomes superheated, giving off X-rays and other forms of radiation. Large black holes are thought to play an important role in galaxy formation and evolution, by learning more about black holes scientists can better understand how galaxies came to be."

http://www.livescience.com/space/080623-mm-black-holes.html

Polar Bears Forced to Land and Water

The Arctic Ocean is melting, and polar bears are moving from what their habitat normally is to land and open water new long term studies say. As ice conditions change, bears are getting spotted in different places. In between 1979 and 1987, around 12% of bear spotting were on land or open water. Later, in 1997-2005, that number was increased to 90%. "Researchers involved in a separate study looking at melting arctic ice" say that: "The Arctic as we know it may be a thing of the past." Bear-human interactions in Native villages and with industry in Alaska have been on the rise in recent years."

http://www.livescience.com/animals/polar-bear-habitat-land-water-100108.html
http://www.livescience.com/animals/polar-bear-habitat-land-water-100108.html