Weekly Blog (11/30/18) Carbon Footprint

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Summary

          Transportation of almost any sorts (besides stuff like walking and riding your bike) puts extremely large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. After figuring out the carbon footprint of our product we found out how large of a number it really is. Yes, there are a lot of things being shipped at once so it ends up a much lower number but that is still such a large amount of pollutants overall. This is what is causing a lot of global warming.

S&EP

          We made a model by plotting all the places that all the components in our product have been. Then we thought of what mode of transport was most likely used for that shipping. After that we calculated how much CO2 must have been produced for that journey. Then we added all that together to get our final carbon footprint. This showed us how much co2 out product produced to be made and shipped.

XCC

          The more of a demand there is for an item and the farther away it is the more Co2 is produced. And the more CO2 is produce the more the world heats up. 

Project blog(11/24/18) evolution

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Summary

          There are many types of animals. They have not always been how they are today. But things will also change in the future. And sometimes you just think two animals can combine to make something cool and powerful. But sometimes those things can actually be functional cool animals.

Backward-Looking

          Before this project I knew that evolution was a process that happened naturally that changed a species over time. While working on this project some difficulties included deciding which traits made it to the final species. I ended up solving this by choosing some of the traits that are most prominent and "cool" to add to the final species.While working on this piece I also had to find all my information about these two individual species to combine them and come up with something that worked.

Inward-Looking

          I generally like this piece of work in the end. I think the final product ended up conveying our original vision. I don't like how our creature looks a little unbalanced and awkward. It was satisfying to finish with a piece of work that generally looks like our plans without too much changing.

Outward- Looking

          One thing my group did differently from everyone else is that we only combined two species to make our hybrid. But we did it similar in the sense that we still combined multiple species to make a hybrid. One thing I would like people to notice while looking at this piece of work is that we put a lot of work into making the creature look nice along with the habitat around it.

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Forward-Looking

          If I could do this project again one thing I would do differently is I would incorporate more of the bird into our creature so that it looks less like a narwhal with wings and a beak. I would have liked to make it's features more birdlike. One thing I would like to try that my classmates did is see what would happen if I added more creatures to the mix. Even if that is what makes ours unique.

Weekly Blog(11/4/18) Biodiversity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErATB1aMiSU

Summary

          Everything on earth is at least slightly different in their genetic makeup. Evolution happens when that genetic makeup in species changes over time. An increase in biodiversity in the world happens when a species drifts apart and branches off into two separate species. But there will never be two species on earth with the exact same genes besides twins and clones. Even then we are all different in little ways. Some people read a little too much into this though.

S&EP

         I used tables, graphs, spreadsheets, etc. to display and analyze data in worksheets. We looked at charts to see what species are closer to each other and may have come from a common ancestor. This helps us see how everything came from a few of a certain animal or plant and branched off and evolved.

XCC

          Everything changes over time whether it's mutation or anything else. When things get separated they change over time in different ways because of their surroundings. It is and almost infinitely small chance that two things will be genetically the same unless they are twins. It is impossible in quantum physics to have two of the same thing in our universe. Everything in the universe just like life on earth came from one thing. The universe and everything came from a big mass that exploded as the big bang and turned into what we know now. All life on earth came from one or two bacteria that over time changed, spread and evolved into everything we know today.