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wonder question

Could there be any form of life on Pluto, My question for my wonder project is could there be any form of life on Pluto, I honestly think there is a possibility that there could be but they would have to be able to live in a  very cold climate because it is at least 240 degrees Celsius there, so if any person would want to ever go there to discover anything and to see if there was life, they would need a suite that can keep them very warm because they would otherwise die from the cold. So, if there was any life, they would have to be immune to the cold and they can strive off of it. They could also use their giant 11,000 feet tall frozen glaciers that are made of frozen nitrogen as habitats. And there is probably not a lot of any living things there because the planet is very small, their suite would also need to have more gravity because their gravity is very low on Pluto it is about 0.66m/s. It’s actually very close to the sun even closer than our eight planets so it is surprising that it is as cold as it is.

 

I also feel like this life form might be unhuman like, maybe it’s an animal because there is no way something humanly could live like that in the cold and how icy the surroundings are and I feel like one day we might discover a being but not with a spacecraft because they did get the first spacecraft to pass by Pluto and was a success and it got a few images, if we ever get a person up onto Pluto they could try to go into the glaciers and get the chance to really look around and try discovering it if there are any life forms on it.

 

This is more about us getting our spacecraft there. They Sent a spacecraft that went really close to pluto and it was the first spacecraft to ever get that close to the outermost planet in our solar system, so I’m confident that we could get there in the future where a person can actually go up there and discover everything themselves and that they can. Which will help them to see if there is any form of life or any clues that could help lead to something that’s living on Pluto.

 

They also have giant ice volcanos when they did their fly by spacecraft took a few pictures and in them, you can see that there are also ice volcanoes which would make it harder for any living thing to survive there but there still could be life. This image is Pluto and one of its moon Charon. You can see a lot of its details and is a good image of it. The video I also added I thought it was very interesting because you can see how Pluto’s atmosphere glows and how if there were any living things could use that as a way to hide or they could even live in the atmosphere but were never close enough to see or to tell what’s in Pluto’s atmosphere.

 

 

 

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Beech, Martin, et al. “Pluto.” The Gale Encyclopedia of Science, edited by K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, 5th ed., Gale, 2014. Gale In Context: Science, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CV2644031754/SCIC?u=43sbo&sid=SCIC&xid=3cd9f453. Accessed 6 Nov. 2020.

Cowen, R. “New solar system? Twelve planets and counting.” Science News, vol. 170, no. 8, 19 Aug. 2006, p. 115. Gale In Context: Science, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A150473616/SCIC?u=43sbo&sid=SCIC&xid=9713ed47. Accessed 6 Nov. 2020.

Watson, Traci. “Greetings, Pluto! New Horizons says hello.” USA Today, 15 July 2015, p. 01A. Gale In Context: Science, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A421820000/SCIC?u=43sbo&sid=SCIC&xid=40202be9. Accessed 6 Nov. 2020.

Beatty, J. Kelly. “Pluto: cryogenic volcanoes found on dwarf planet?” Sky & Telescope, vol. 131, no. 2, Feb. 2016, p. 11. Gale In Context: Science, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A439833380/SCIC?u=43sbo&sid=SCIC&xid=2b4ddbd9. Accessed 10 Nov. 2020.

Image – “Pluto and Charon.” Space Sciences, edited by Pat Dasch, Macmillan Reference USA, 2010. Gale In Context: Science, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CV2210047736/SCIC?u=43sbo&sid=SCIC&xid=c76b79a9. Accessed 6 Nov. 2020.

Video- “NASA Releases New Pluto Photos.” AP Video News, 24 July 2015. Gale In Context: Science, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CT3208591042/SCIC?u=43sbo&sid=SCIC&xid=d98d6d67. Accessed 10 Nov. 2020.

 

 

 

science core competencies

I chose to write about our rube gold burg project that we recently did. This demonstrated my strengths because I had to use my critical thinking because this whole project was basically trial and error and I had to do it over a lot because, either the camera angle wasn’t right or something wouldn’t work. Even though my idea was kind of basic it still took me a lot of time for them to actually line up properly and work. I also had to be very patient with this project because of how long it took it also made me very frustrated at times because it wouldn’t work until the fifteenth time of me trying to make it work. This project taught me that you sometimes have to switch things up to get the result you want because I had to switch my idea multiple times for it to actually work. It also taught me that not to procrastinate because you will have to do a lot of work on the last day but luckily I had the time to. And did not leave it until the last moment and organized it very well so there wasn’t that much pressure or a time crunch for me. I also learned that filming is harder than I thought because getting an angle with everything in the frame is quite hard and I still couldn’t get Lola in the frame because it was just too long so that was making me very frustrated because I took so many tries but yet I still couldn’t in the frame so I just left her out even though you can see a little hop at the end. I can further develop my thinking competencies by putting more time into them and thinkings in-depth about them.

 

In the woods

 

One adaption the garden slug or  Arion hortensis have is that lets them survive in their environment is the amount of mucus they make.  They can thrive in their environment because they can produce a lot of mucus which keeps them moist and it keeps them hydrated because its full of water and they need that to do well in an environment, they also need warmth and moisture that’s why they are mainly in gardens and fields/ forests because there warm but not burning for the too loose all their moisture. some structures of the slug that helps them survive in their environment is their mantel it helps protect their inner organs. and their mucus because it keeps them moist when they’re stuck in hotter climates.

 

the sword fern or Polystichum munitum is native to western North America. the species was first introduced to foreign environments by the seeds that were mixed with soil that got moved around and ended up in the foreign habitats, these ferns thrive mainly in places that are close to the water that is humidor  that is mainly moist and here in bc we have a lot of rain which keeps them moist and lets them grow. I think this plant is causing harm because there are so many of them that they are taking over most of the land. They managed to adapt to lots of different types of soils. there are some ways people used to get rid of them and that was by using a  water-soluble foliar herbicide liquid that they would spray on then pull them out.