Antarctic Presentation

Mr. Watts's Presentation...

Mr. Watts gave us a clear and interesting information about the antarctic, and the lives that organisms have to go through. His presentation gave us a physical information (such as Ellissa supporting with wings) which rounds up all the works we did. The organisms in Antarctica usually have a certain habitat they need to adapt in order to live there. In some seasons, they migrate due to severe weathers, the animals travel north and south for example earthworms. One of the reasons they need to migrate is because of nutritions. The animals prepare the nutritions and some of them bring the foods to antarctic (mostly all). Basically they look for a good weather, good timing, and safest place to reproduce. Various weather can depend on any mammal, or others in the antarctic. As always, in antartic there are composers, producers etc, which our class made for food web/chain.

• What adaptations did the animals exhibit in the polar region? (For example: body shape, appendages, wing span, food, coloration, stream-lined bodies, teeth, beaks, blubber, fur, group formations, hooks on tentacles, etc...) In antarctic (example) "emperor penguins" spend up to 80% in water. "They have streamlined, torpedo-shaped bodies for speedy swimming; and to heighten that streamlining, Emperor penguins keep their heads hunched into their shoulders while swimming under water."
• What various (breeding) mating rituals do species have?
• The animals need to come to antarctic to breed in their spot (I mean the place where it is suitable for all of them to breed) Antarctic is where penguins migrate to come here.
• How did this presentation provide examples of what we have been studying?
• He mentioned more about needs of adaption in animals, and interaction among all of them. It particularly gave more information about the biome that I was actually trying to learn about.
• What are you wondering about now? I hope there can be a information a bit more about the biome/location of the place.
• How did Mr. Watts help tie in everything that we have been discussing during this unit? Since I'm not likely to present the ecosystem project on Antarctica, I don't really have connections however he explained the word " interaction" among the animals which gave me a thought, that antarctic animals need to interact usually to be sustain.