Wednesday, May 1, 2013

auxin producing area of plant


Vocab Word: Auxin producing area of plant
Description: "Auxin is a hormone that is made by plants in areas where a new root or shoot is growing" which is exactly what is happening here. 

Frond


Vocab word: Frond
Type: Fern Frond
Description: Since a frond is normally a leaf or stem consisting of multiple leaflets, this is the best example.

Autotroph


Vocab word: autotroph
Type: bracken fern
Description: "An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide." Which is an autotroph definition. This relates because it is a plant in which does exactly that, since it goes through photosynthesis. 

altruistic behavior

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Vocab word: altruistic behavior
Type: My grandmother and myself.
How it relates: She is helping me to walk to her.

adaptation of a plant


Vocab Word: Adaptation of plant
Type: Boston Fern
Adaptations: can grow outdoors, but with  cool temperatures, indirect light and lots of humidity it can grow indoors, houseplant fertilizer once per month to help it to grow. Plants can become dry in winter. In the picture  the fern is inside with light hitting, and its healthy, showing that plants can grow both inside and out. 

Sunday, April 14, 2013

adaption of an animal


Vocab Word: Adaption of an Animal
Animal: Bengal Cat
Adaption: domesticated enough to be a house cat, fur to stay warm, gentle