Here is a diagram of the nervous system.
We are studying the Nervous System. The main function of the nervous system is to transmit signals from one part of you body to the brain. There are two different parts of the system, first is the somatic, which transmits signals from the skin to the brain. The second is the Autonomic, it regulates body processes that are involuntary like: blood pressure and the rate of breathing.
Something interesting fact that we learned is that there are 100 billion neurons in just your brain itself. Another thing that we learned was that there are two kinds of nervous system. There is one part that controls the voluntary movements, and the involuntary ones. Some questions we have are:
- What part of the brain does receives the signals that the nervous system transmits?
- How does the nervous system control senses other than touch?
- How many axons are there in your body?
We hope to figure out more about the nervous system.
What would happen if humans vanished?
I think that if humans just vanished, at first it would be a disaster. There would be lots of fires from car crashes, and our gas plants would leak. We would loose power. It would make explosions and the gas would get into the air. Once it gets into the air, the wild animals would be in danger. I think some would survive, but most would die. The ones that survive would reproduce, and the gasses would eventually go away. Maybe the animals would evolve. After thousands of years, I think that the whole world would look like a bunch of abandoned houses. They would be covered in vines, and there would be plants all over. Lots of things would crumble. Maybe the Brooklyn Bridge would crumble. Millions of years after, I think there will be no man made structures whatsoever. The world will be like it was before we evolved.
The Battery Of The Future May Be Made Of Paper!
By Sarah Benton Feitlinger on February 26, 2016
Linköping University in Sweden has been working on a paper battery. They started by blasting cellulose with water until strand measures a mere 20 strand measures a mere 20 nano meters in diameter. The paper battery can be recharged hundreds of times, it is waterproof, it can hold up to 1 Faraday, it is environment friendly, and it takes only a few seconds to charge. This article is connected to the rule There is no such place as away. It is connected to this because instead of using a non-rechargeable battery that has toxic chemicals, or heavy metals to manufacture, you use 1 battery for a long time that is even made of paper and cardboard. When the batteries that we have now, get thrown out, the toxic chemicals pollute the Earth. This is an example of humans not following the rules, but then people are trying to follow the rules, and fix it by helping the environment. In the future, there should be none of the batteries that we have now, and only use the Paper Battery. It would be a better world, and we would still have batteries.
THERE IS NO SUCH PLACE AS AWAY
Fresh Kills Landfill took up around 2,200 acres!
Have you ever thought about what happens when you throw your trash ‘away?’ Think… Where is away? The answer is NOWHERE. Your trash is put in the garbage can, it goes into the garbage truck. Then what? It actually goes all the way to Pennsylvania or Virginia. It goes to landfills. Fresh Kills landfill closed in 2001. Now there are no landfills in New York. Even if it is processed and decomposed it doesn’t go away. The Big Bang created all the atoms in the universe. Even if an atom turns into something else, it is still there. If I compost a banana peel, it will decompose. Then it does not just ‘poof’ out of thin air. No, it turns into soil! Even though it is in a different form, it is still there. So, about the title, no, ‘away’ should not be a word. If you think of it as ‘putting something away’ where is away? Just think about it.
We had three starting populations. Sharks, Minnows, and Seaweed. To survive, the sharks had to eat 2 minnows. Minnows had to eat 1 seaweed to survive. It starts with 1 shark, 4 minnows, and 14 seaweeds. Our goal was to get each species to either multiply or stay the same. Our strategy was for the minnows ate 2 seaweed, and the sharks eat 2 minnows. That way, seaweed went up, minnows stayed the same, and sharks stayed the same. Once we had enough seaweed, each minnow ate 3 seaweeds so they reproduced, and the shark still ate 2 minnows. Since then we had 6 minnows, the shark at 4 minnows, and that added one more shark. At the end our results were:
Seaweed:92
Minnow:8
Shark:2
If we kept going on, I think each population would go up, and the seaweed would be the highest.
This is my Helium atom. It is the second on the periodic table. This means it has 2 protons and 2 neutrons. On the bottom of the box, it has 4.00 so that is 4 electrons! The parts of an atom are neutrons, protons, and electrons. In my model, the red spheres are the electrons. The circle around the nucleus in a dust cloud. The nucleus is the middle of the atom. In the middle, there are the protons and neutrons. The protons are +1, the neutrons are neutral, and the electrons are -1. So therefor the this atom is an even atom. There is +1 and -1 so it is like this: +1-1=0.
