Rainforest Biome

     Mostly, I would like to visit rainforest biome. Since I was a little kid, rainforest biome had always been my favourite biome. Since I was a little kid, zoo and botanical garden had always been an interesting for me to visit. What I like about rainforest are its uncountable variety of species, either plants and animals. I was born in Indonesia, a country in equator that consist of rainforest biome.

     In Indonesia, you can find kangaroos, komodo dragons, rhinoceros, sunbear, sumatran tiger, and many other kinds. In Indonesia you can also find thousands of different orchids, hibiscus, wax ginger flower, rhododendrons, rafflesian arnoldi, and many other kinds. I can see all of that species in Indonesian's zoo and safari park, and I very very love it. Therefore, rainforest biomes are the most interesting biome to visit for me.

 

Organism Relationships on Campus

As there are a lot of organisms live in Alhambra High School, there are also a lot of relationships happened between them. Those relationships are mutualism, commensalism, parasitism, predation, & competitiion.

Symbiosis mutualism, both organisms partner get benefit. Example :

1. butterflies and flowers, butterflies help the pollination & flowers provide nectar.

2. bees and flowers, bees help the pollination & flowers provide nectar.

3. hummingbirds and flowers, hummingbirds help the pollination & flowers provide nectar. 

Symbiosis commensalism, one organism get benefit, another one is neither harmed nor helped. Example :

1. bird and trees, birds build their nest on tree, the tree is neither harmed nor helped

2. moss and trees, some moss live and grow on trees, they like tropical trees and its epiphytes 

3. beetles and trees, some beetles use tree as their house, the tree is neither harmed nor helped

Symbiosis parasitism, one get benefit and the other is adversely affected. Example :

1. tracheal mites with honeybees

2. weeds and vegetables, weeds take the nutrients that supposed to be had by vegetables

3. weeds and flowers, weeds take the nutrients that supposed to be had by flowers

Predation, consumption of one species by another. Example :

1. birds and worms, birds eat worms

2. worm and vegetables, worm eats vegetables' leaves

3. snail and vegetables, snail eats vegetables' leaves

Competition, 2 or more individuals compete in collecting resources :

1. worm and snail compete in eating plants' leaves

2. butterflies and bees compete in sucking flowers' nectar

3. skunk and cat compete in collecting students' trash at night

The Most & The Least

My favourite activity is planting vegetables. The reason why I like it the most is practice how to do it is far more important than just studying about it. Planting plants is very interesting for me, so I was very used to it. The benefits of plants are very significant as well, one of the benefits is make the school greener. Then, the instructions are very clear as well. My group is very harmonic as well ^^

Everything is okay and undercontrol. This is the best activity I've ever had, like it very much ^^

Actually there is no such things or activities that I don't like in this semester for Environment Science. I like everything we've had this semester. I can't even pick one.

If I could change something, it will be students' attention. I hope students can be more cooperative in this class. I hope students can limit their talking activity. My hope for the second semester is we can do more a lot of fun activities next semester and relation between student and teacher can be a lot better.

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Coming Global Superstorm ??

In my opinion yes, we will have a coming global superstorm. One of the causes of the Global Superstorm is the uncontrolled raising temperature on earth. As we produce a lot of Carbondioxide on earth, the ocean is having a problem in maintaining the temperature. By the uncontrolled temperature, the possibility of dramatically different air pressure on earth is bigger. That can caused tornado and hurricane, and if it is still continued, not a long of time after that we will have a global superstorm. So, what can we do right now ? We can't stay with nothing to do. We can try to do thrift in our life. Take for example, try to limit the pollution. If we are going to a near places. We should not use a car. Car can help produce gas that help to destroy the ozone layer. And if it is not necessary, we should not use Air Conditioner. Do you know why ? Air conditioner release a set of gases called CFC which consist of Chloro Fluoro Carbon. Those gases if they were release to the atmosphere, they can cause greenhouse effect to the earth. Those gases can make us have global superstorm after a period with global warming.

Previous Global Superstorm ??

In my opinion, we have had a previous Global Superstorm. One of the proof is that the monument in Yonaguni Island that located 75 miles Southwest of Okinawa sank to the bottom of the sea. The only reason why the monument sank to the bottom of the sea is that the previous Global Superstorm cause increasing temperature in the universe that cause ices in both poles were melting. Of course as the ice melt, the lowlands along the coast are going to sank to the sea. I believe that this monument was built along the coast at that time, so by the ices were melting, this monument also sank to the bottom of the sea.



Water Treatment

Yeah, we have to spend some of our money to water treatment. Water treatment is very important since we need water a lot each day. Without water, there will be no live. For our health, we do really need clean water. Unclean water is bad for our health. The worst thing is we can be poisoned by water we drink every day. If we take a look at population that happened in China, they were horrible. Water is not clean anymore. The water color is red or kinda brown. By that, a lot of Chinese people that live within the pollution area are suffered, some of them languished cancer. Therefor, we have to spend some our money to water treatment, for our health and our child and grandchild in the future.

Planting !! Keep Them Flourishing !!

In this time, I will focused on lettuce, since I am in vegetables groups. Our lettuce grown very well. Here is the materilas we need and steps we have to do.

Materials we need :

• shovel
• lettuce
• original land as place
• sunlight
• humus
• water

Steps we need to do :

• Get rid of other plants that could be disturb our lettuce's growth rate.Make a hole with shovel for the lettuce.
• Pour some humus into the hole.
• Pour some water and wait until the water get illuviated.
• Put the lettuce on the hole we just made.
• Keep the root under ground.

Things we need to be aware off :

• keep it from bugs.
• the cold weather.
• our responsible to water it everyday, so that it wouldn't face any deficiency