October+Discoveries+TD

10/14/14

This week I found a newt in my basement. The newt was about the size of my finger and was orange. He was in the corner of the basement in a puddle. My hypothesis was that he came in here seeking coolness from the sun. I think he is cold blooded also. I didn't dare touch him thoe for there was black spots on him. I was fascinated by this newt he stayed in the basement for two more days before the newt dissapeared. I also had second thought on my hypothesis. I then thought it was a potential nest. http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/New_Hampshire/amphibian_spottednewt.html

10/6/14

This weeks discovery is about a trees. At Sizerville National Park there was a small little show near the pool they put on they taught us how to measure trees. How to do it is by counting how many rings are outside the center ring in the center of a tree. And how many rings you counted stand for 100 years. I discovered a tree that was 600 years old after we cut it down. http://www.highlightskids.com/science-questions/what-forms-rings-inside-trees

10/20/14

This is October so I decided to do a little experiment on pumpkins. I wondered if a smaller pumpkin would live longer than a giant pumpkin. So my father bought me a small pumpkin and a big pumpkin. I set up the experiment. By the way I started this the seventh of October. this week the bigger one began to rot as the smaller one was still ok that brought me to my hypothesis. Which was that the smaller pumpkin lasting longer. I am thoe doubting my final results for I did have a control group. A medium size pumpkin. But I feel i could make some improvements. http://augustafreepress.com/specialty-pumpkins-growing-popularity/

10/27/14

I visited a friends house. He had multiple snakes different colors and textures. He showed me a video of one of his Ball pythons eating a mouse. I thought that a snake would tear limbs off and eat and chew up the mouse instantly. Instead the mouse sat at one end of the tank and the snake at the other. It was hours until the snake went after the mouse. When the snake caught the mouse he started to swallow the mouse hole. And the python was so small thoe his head was the size of my thumb and a half, but he swallowed him hole. the owner then said you know how a humans jaw can only open up so far? I said yes. He said well when a snake opens its jaw at its max it can actually open up farther. How you may ask, a snakes jaw can pop out of place and allow the jaw to open wider to consume its prey in one bite. It then after consuming the snake pops its jaw back into place. Its body was just born with that feature that is supposedly is natural to all pythons. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/7872510/Magic-World-Cup-python-seized-in-South-Afric