Thursday, June 11, 2009

Awww...

About almost half of the school holidays are over.

Time passes so quickly when we are enjoying.

Time passes slowly when we are not enjoying.*___*

Heredity

  • Heredity is the passing on of characteristics to their offspring
  • Some characteristics are widow's peak hairline, eye colour, earlobes
  • Heredity can be in human, animals and plants
  • A sunflowere seed will grow up to have large yellow flowers and huge green leaves like its parents

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Heart Rate Calculator Resting Heart Rate




  • The heart is a muscle

  • Its located in at the middle-lift of your body

  • Its about the size of a fist

  • The heart provides your body with the oxygen and nutrients it needs

  • It collects waste, such as carbon dioxide

  • The right side of a heart receives blood from the body and pumps it to the lungs

  • The left side of your heart receives blood from the lungs and pumps it out to the body

  • The heart is made of four chambers, two on each side of the heart

  • The two chambers at the top are called atria (ay-tree-uh)

  • The two chambers at the bottom are called ventricles

  • There is a thick wall of muscle called the septum running down the middle of the heart to seperate the left and right side of the heart

  • Arteries carry blood away from the heart

  • Veins carry blood back to the blood the heart


Heat

In physics, heat is the process of energy transfer from one body or system to another due to a difference in temperature.
A related term is thermal energy, loosely defined as the energy of a body that increases with its temperature. Heat is also loosely referred to as thermal energy, although many definitions require this thermal energy to actually be in the process of movement between one body and another to be technically called heat (otherwise, many sources prefer to continue to refer to the static quantity as "thermal energy"). Heat is also known as "Energy".
Energy transfer by heat can occur between objects by radiation, conduction and convection. Temperature is used as a measure of the internal energy or enthalpy, that is the level of elementary motion giving rise to heat transfer. Energy can only be transferred by heat between objects - or areas within an object - with different temperatures (as given by the zeroth law of thermodynamics). This transfer happens spontaneously only in the direction of the colder body (as per the second law of thermodynamics). The transfer of energy by heat from one object to another object with an equal or higher temperature can happen only with the aid of a heat pump, which does work.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Cells in the Human Body for Kids

Everybody in the world is made up of cells.

Cells are basically the building blocks of life!

Human cells contain three main parts: Cytoplasm, Nucleus and the cell membrane.

Cell membrane: controls the stuff that goes in and out of the cell(carbon dioxide, oxygen...etc)

Nucleus: Controls the activities of the cell

Cytoplasm: A jelly-like substance which contains the other parts of the cell with other functions

The biggest cell in the human body is the egg cell.
There are about three hundred to five hundred trillions of cells in our body!

An average cell is about three-hundredth of a millimeter wide!

A plant cell however, has a cell membrane, a nucleus, cytoplasm and a cell wall and chloropolasts.

Cell wall: Protects the cell and gives it a regular shape

Chloroplast: Contains chlorophyll and helps the plant to photosynthesise

Cells undergo cell division, also known as mitosis.


When cells undergo this process, it copies its nucleus and splits into two identical cells with the same DNA.

As they multiply, you would grow bigger.

Many cells form a tissue.

Many tissues form an organ.

Several organs form an organ system.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Famous FIve on the Case-The Case of the Plot to Pull the Plug/The Case of the Thief who Drinks Form the Toilet( Book Review)

Title: Famous Five on the Case- The case of the Thief Who Drinks From the Toilet/ The case of the Plot to Pull the Plug

Author: Enid Blyton

Characters: Allie, Tim, Max, Timmy the dog, Dylan, Jo, Constable Stubblefield.

Summery:
In The Case of the Thief Who Drinks From the Toilet( I have no idea why this is the title!), evil Dr Prudelock installs mini cameras in adorable animals. His motive is to observe when their owners(victims) go out. He then goes to their house and steal. I find this story very captivating as I do not know what is going to happen next. In the other story, The Case of the Plot to Pull the Plug, ex-criminal Danny and his assistant Rufus tries to blackout the whole contry on Christmas eve's night!! Find out how Constable Stubblefield and the Five catch the evil Danny!