Some day, you may need surgery at a hospital. Imagine, that nobody has ever gotten surgery,and you are the first experiment. Would you accept to be tested on or would you rather wait for someone to go before you? If you have ever dissected a frog, then maybe you would know what to choose. Surgeons would imagine you as a frog, and they would try to experiment on you. 
      That is why the scientists and surgeons study on lab rats and other animals, before they can try the effects on an actual human body. Before, you can get near any type of chemicals and things they use to test on the rats, you have to pass as a testing subject. You can't possibly be a testing subject, if you're a human, you have to wait till after it is testing on the mice and rats that are up for experimenting. 

Yesterday, we went to the zoo, and some of us got to see our animal, but others of us didn't. Our group didn't get to see our animal. We looked all over for it, even where it was supposed to be at, but we couldn't find it. We didn't get to learn much more of our animal, but we did see some other birds and ducks. 
     There was a duck that had a blue beak! That was interesting to see, there was also a fish, that had a huge head! I didn't know that fish could have a head bigger than there body, or a duck could have a blue beak, instead of yellow, or green. There were many more animals that we saw, but those were the most interesting to see. 

How do rainbows form? Rainbows form when light enters the water. The water of course has to reflect something. Each droplet could reflect a different color. You might ask why are they a different color, if the same light is all reflected into the water. The light that gets reflected is going to be a different color because of the different wavelengths and how they are all scattered all over the place.
     Once the water reflects everything, then the rainbow form. You might know the colors of the rainbow by ROYGBIV, meaning red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, the colors of the rainbow. There is another color that goes along with that even though it is not on there it is ultraviolet, which comes after violet.

Why is the sky blue? Last week, we had to blog about this and here it is again. Maybe this time it is explained more clearly. The sky is blue because of the light that reflects on it. The sky takes in all colors, but it probably will only reflect blue.The colors that the sky take in are always the same. The colors are always taken in by an angle, so if the colors would scatter, then the sky could be a different color.
     The sky is actually blue because of the scattering. Just like I said above if the colors would scatter then the sky could be a different color. Scattering makes the colors go straight in one direction, and then the sky absorbs the colors and reflects only the blue. That is why we see the sky as blue.

In science our group is currently working on the zoo project. In this project we were assigned an animal, and we have to learn all about it. We have to know things like what it eats, does it get eaten, where does it live, where it's from, and many other things like that. Each person in the group got assigned part of the work, and they each had to complete with their part. Each person got something different to research or look up. Once we are finished with the project, we will all have put together all of our information and have different documents describing about the animal.
     At one point we will be able to see our animal at zoo. While we are at the zoo we will put up a poster that has a link and a QR code. That link and QR code will take visitors and other people who see and scan that, to the animal page where the whole seventh grade has been posting all of their work for their animal. Maybe the website won't be complete by then, but it should be.

Many people might wonder, why is the sky blue? You might have asked this when you were a kid or when you were younger. Maybe, you might even know why it is blue. The sky is blue, just like grass is green. For example, the grass absorbs colors, once the colors are absorbed, they are reflected to where are eyes see the color as green.
     The same would go for the sky, that is blue. The sky absorbs color, it takes in the color blue and then it reflects it back where we see the color as green. The colors that the grass and sky, and everything else take in are the colors of the rainbow, also known as ROYGBIV. That stands for red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

How would you explain why temperate climate plant fossils are found in Antarctica? Before humans were alive, Antartica used to be a warm place. That is why you can find temperate climate plant fossils there. Even though you may not believe it plants and animals that would live in the warm once lived there. This comes to show that the continents used to be one big continent by the name of Pangea.
      Over time, the continents slowly started drifting apart to which now they have become different continents. Now there are seven continents, but before there was only one called Pangea. The continent of Antartica moved down to where the South Pole is and that turned the once warm continent into a cold continent. Some animals like penguins and polar bears, and other kinds, still live in Antartica. People of course travel over there to find that there are fossils and other things showing that Antartica used to be a warm continent at one point.

What do you think is the best scientific discovery? I think that the best scientific discovery was Rosalind Franklin's discoveries about DNA and how its structure is formed. I think that it's the best because without that discovery we could still be believe that our DNA was formed by itself and whatever you were born with you are left with. 

Temperate climate is the climate or the weather of a certain place. The temperate in the temperate climate means that its only temperate or which is a short period of time. Temperate means that it's only there for a period of time and then it goes away, it could come back, or it may not. 
     That brings me to the temperate climate animals that live or lived in Antartica. Not all animals can survive in every type of habitat. There are certain characteristics that help it live in their own habitat. That is why the temperate animals have fossils in Antartica. Antartica is slowly getting warmer which causes the animals that had to much fur or that were heavy to go extinct making them into fossils.

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