Guppy Information

1. Female guppies are the most attracted to the most brightly colored males, giving those males a more likely opportunity to pass their genes on to the next generation.

2. The guppy I find most interesting is the Poecilia reticulata. Its origin is Brazil, and its average size is 1.4 inches. Its color is mostly black, with yellow orange and green spots and fins.

3. The predator I found to be most interesting was the Dormitator maculatus. It is usually 27.5 inches in size, and its origin is Southern North america, the Bahamas, and Latin america.

4. Guppy habitats near mid sized dams can help keep predators out, by keeping them from moving upstream.

5. John Endler is a Ethologist and evolutionary biologist. He studies adaptation and vertebrates, and does a lot of work on guppies. He got this information from the University of Edinburgh.

6. Pool 1: Brightly multi-colored with large spots.
Pool 2: Medium coloration on body and tail with medium sized spots.
Pool: Drab coloration, very small spots, and concentrated near the tail.

7. Because certain guppies genes from that area, havnt reached other areas yet. So the brightly colored genes may not have reached the drab colored pool.

Simulation:
Trial 1: 37% Brightest, 48% bright, 9% drab, 6% drabbest.
Trial 2: 3% brightest, 35% bright, 63% drab, 0% drabbest.
Trial 3: 11%, brightest, 3% bright, 8% drab, 78% drabbest.
Trial 4: 63% brightest, 31% bright, 6% drab, 0% drabbest.
Trial 5: 0% brightest, 0% bright, 8% drab, 92% drabbest.


8. Bright guppies are more likely to be eaten by predators, so their genes wont be passed on. This means predators affect the brightness of the guppies coloration.

9. Yes, I accept it. Thats why theres not a perfect mix among pools.

10. It means that they have to try to find mates, while avoiding predators at the same time. It is already tough enough to mate, but with predators chasing them around, they are definitely in a crossfire.
11. Explained in Number 7/9.
12. The drab guppies population would rise, because the few predators would have trouble finding them anyway.
13. The brightly colored guppies population would fall, because of all the predators and their bright obviously seen colors.

Conservation for the People

Putting biodiversity and nature up against humans doesn't really make much sense. Many conservationists now argue human well-being and health be the main idea in conservation.
Preserving biodiversity for itself, mainly in areas called hot spots, is not a working conservation strategy. Paying more attension on trying to preserve ecosystems that are vital to humans material needs and health, makes much more sense. These ecosystems are ones such as forests, wetlands, keeping clean water, and protecting mangroves that helps maintain fisheries, and provide a wall of defense against storms and such.
Saving these ecosystems can help ensure that the biodiversity is preserved, and humans are still the main priority.

Biodiversity

1. The loss of biodiversity could have devastating consequences the discovery of new medicines and drugs, which could lead to many diseases and sicknesses going without a cure. To loss of species like pharmacopoeia rich cone snails would be a self destructive act.
2. If a certain area were to be seriously devastated by a loss of biodiversity, it could definitely effect more than one area. For example, if a large community relied on one biotic thing, and that one thing was destroyed, they would have to move to a new place with that resource. This could lead to an overpopulation in that certain place, and that could be a real problem.
3. Preserving biodiversity can enhance the life of people, because in some cases, a chain of events involving messing with the biodiversity, can come around full circle and lead to a loss of jobs. For example, when hunters started killing off whales, killer whales, that usually ate smaller whales, moved onto eating seals. As seals declined, whales moved onto otters. As otters decimated, otter pray such as urchins flourished. This killed off kelp forests where fish larvae grew, so the fish larvae became easy pickings for a variety of other sea life, and obviously, with less fish, fishermen's livelihoods were destroyed.

Gases and Climate Change

1. Combustion
Hypothesis - The rubbing alchohal will light on fire and make smoke.

Conclusion - After the rubbing alcohol was on the inside of the bottle, it was lit on fire and it shot probably 10 or 15 feet to the side. It also made some sort of a windy blast off sound.

Slideshow - Gases are everywhere. They come out of animals, marshes, forests, fire, and more. The most harmful gas to the environment are green house gases, which take in the suns rays, warms it, and sends it out into space. The amount of gases released raised an insane amount after 2000.

2. CO2 gas
Hypothesis - The gas will catch on fire when it touches the candles.

Conclusion - When the gas came into contact with the fire, it put it out. The reason it put it out, was because the baking soda was in it, it got rid of the oxygen for the flame and it put it out.

Article - When the earth was new, about 80 percent of the atmosphere was CO2. About two billion years ago, the percentage dropped to about 20 or 30 percent, which is still unlivable for humans. As of now, the CO2 is lowering as the oxygen is rising. Ocean warming is a cause of higher CO2 levels in the water, not the other way around.

3. Hydrogen Gas
Hypothesis - The gas will catch on fire for a while.

Conclusion - When the flame hit the gas, it lit on fire and made a popping sound, and like I said in the hypothesis, it stayed lit for a while. Also, I think it would make a good fuel source.

Hydro electricpower article - Hydro power is responsible for providing about 1/5 of the worlds energy source, although theres not much room for expansion of the energy it creates. Even though it may be a renewable resource, it has a pretty big affect on the atmosphere through green house gases.

Hyrdogen - hydrogen is an energy source it is an energy carrier.

Bio fuels - Bio fuels are more damaging to the atmosphere in the overall process of abstaining them than regular fuel.

4. Air pressure 1
Hypothesis - Water vapor will be created and the can will expand.
Conclusion - Nothing happened, it just cooled it down.

Air pressure 2
Hypthesis - The can will expand because the vapor cant escape.
Conclusion - The can shrivled up when the heated can filled with vapor came in contact with the cold water.

Chernobyl Article and Questions DNA Change

This article explains how the DNA mutations were much more likely and more damaging, if they were the children of liquidators thAt helped clean up Chernobyl reactor number 4. It has been shown that children that were born from the liquidators, have 7 times as many bands in their DNA than a normal child. There are also many signs pointing towards that the problem is internal due to that there weren't many affects from the bombing of japan.

1. How many times more bands were in the Chernobyl children.
2. Were the effects thought to be internal or external?
3. What reactor number did the liquidators clean up?

Chernobyl Questions

1.How did it blow up?
2.how many times past the normal maximum level was it?
3.how many explosions were there?
4. How many days did the reactor burn?
5.What was the exact date of the incident?

Love Canal Questions

Why is it safe?
If the EPA thinks it's safe why wouldn't you?
Did you know the amount of benzene in love canal is the same level as elsewhere?
How could the waste get out of 4 levels of protection, and a drainage system?
Why wouldn't people want to go there? It's safe, and it near lake Ontario and niagara falls.