Carnivorous plants

                          Carnivorous Plants

Hey guys and welcome back to my latest post. Today we are gonna be talking about carnivorous plants. Evil beware! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Carnivorous plants live in swampy areas and bogs in southern United States. Plants eat insects because the soil in the swamps are poor in nutrients. The carnivorous plants have to eat insects in order to get nutrients like we get from eating food, and then using it as energy.



The lobster pot trap looks like several tubes sticking from the surface and the string like passageways underground. How they catch insects is that the insects that live underground goes in the string like passage ways and that leads into the digesting chamber inside there then they digest the insect.

The dewy pine plant looks like a plant with long leaves that curl up that have sticky substances on the leaves. they attract the insects by the honey smell and they get stuck by the sticky substances in the plant then curls up. then they decompose by the plant.

The pitfall trap looks like a long tube. They attract insects with their nectar smell on the plant. the insect falls into the tube and in the digestive juice. Then it drowns and rots.

The bladder trap looks like a skinny stem sticking up from the water and little passage ways below the water. They attract the aquatic insects because the insects are trying to get something from the plant. The water comes rushing in the plant and digests the insect.

Sundews look like a stem that has sticky substances on them like fireworks. They attract insects by the sweet smell on the sticky substances. The insect gets stuck on the plant then decomposes the insect.

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Finally the Venus flytrap looks like a plant like mouth coming out on the stem. They attract insects with their nectar in the "mouth". The insect gets in there and the trap snaps shut. Then it digests the insect with its digestive juices.





























How carnivorous plants reproduce is by being propagated by seed reproduction. But they often eat there own pollinators which causes them to reproduce vegetively.

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Photosynthesis and the Leaf

                                       Photosynthesis and the Leaf

                           Hello guys and welcome back to my lastest post. www.phschool.com/science/biology/_place/biocoachToday we are gonna be talking about how the leaf works and photosynthesis.

First we have off is how photosynthesis works. All living things like us need nourishment to grow, but plants on the other hand make their own food through photosynthesis. There would be no plants without the sun to provide them sunlight. Plants collect sunlight to make a sugary ingredient called glucose. It is the main source of nutrition for plants, fueling their cells for growth and development.
It's definetly no secret that plants use their roots to drink up water from the soil and its nutrients. Water travels from the roots to the plants leaves through a transport tissue called xylem which is wood in trees. Another fact is, leaves absorb CO2 from the air through the openings called the stomata. The equation for photosynthesis is CO2 + H2O + Energy = CH2O + O2.

The water and carbon dioxide spread through the leaves into cells called the palisades and spongy cells. These cells contain rigid and squiggly structures called chloroplasts, which are filled with chlorophyll.
























  
Chlorophyll is what makes plants green. In photosynthesis chlorophyll catches energy from sunlight and using it as chemical energy. This process splits water molecules into H2O. This kind of energy can produce a sugar called glucose. The sugar is way different from the sugar that we take in. Sugar can make us really hyper if we take too much in. The sugar glucose can dissolve into extra water molecules and makes the plant grow.

The leaves release oxygen as a waste product the one we breath in. Without the plants their would be no life on earth. We breath in oxygen and exhale CO2 and plants breath in CO2 and they leave out oxygen.




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The Six Kingdoms

                                                 The Six Kingdoms 


                              Hey guys welcome back, today were gonna be talking about what the six  kingdoms are and what their characteristics are including you.

Scientists like to classify everything to help them understand what they are studying. In fact, the  greek philosophor and scientist Aristotle classified the organisms by plants and animals. He observed the animals and plants that he saw all over Greece. Just to give you a fact about the six kingdoms, the animal kingdom was further divided based on physical characteristics and habitats. The amazing thing is, that system held up for more than 2,000 years! pretty cool right? But eventually, scientists learned that the system isn't accurate anymore. So in modern times they came up with the six kingdoms by phylogeny- how organisms are classified through evolution. Using phylogeny can tell them which organism can fit into certain kingdoms.


First we have up is bacteria. They come in many shapes and sizes which are rods, spheres, spirals, and party streamers. Most bacteria aren't pathogenic, which makes you very sick, for example, salmonella.bacteria are everywhere! You can find them in air, water, even inside you, usually in your intestines. Speaking of intestines, they help you break down food in there.all bacteria are prokaryotic, meaning they have no nucleus.



              Next, we have the archea kingdom. They are similar to bacteria in a cellwise way. They are some of the oldest lifeforms on earth. Some even go back to billions of years ago. But people didn't know them until the 70s. Even though they are found in different habitats, they can survive in dangerous places like deep sea trenches, hot springs and volcanoes.

This is the protist kingdom. Like the two microorganisms above, most protists are unicellular creatures that are microscopic. The difference is their cells have a nucleus. protists are divided up by how they get their food. Animal like protists, such as amoebas, capture food to eat. plant like protists, such as plankton make foo by using photosynthesis.












This is the fungi kingdom. They live by sucking up the nutrients of organisms which is their life force. They are often found on dead matter, decaying the remains. Most fungi like mushrooms attach themselves to their food with clumps of tiny roots called hyphae.









Then, we have the plant kingdom. Unlike fungi, they make their own food through the process photosynthesis, which is the conversion of carbon dioxide and sunlight into food. Plant cells have a rigid walls made of a substance called cellulose.














Finally, we have the animal kingdom. They are multi celled organisms that have to eat food to survive. Animals always move around, but some stationary animals are coral.






















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