Nicolas Reed Science Blog

Summary:        What we had to do for this project is find and research a certain charity that you are passionate about (we chose the AFSP, or the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Then, as a group, create a website/video for that charity and an ignite presentation (as shown above). On top of this, we also created products (we created Luminary Lanterns) that we sold to raise money, while also creating an instructable for it, a cost and profit document, and carbon footprint map. Lastly, we created a Trifold displaying most of what we completed during the span of the entire project. One thing I learned through creating this project was how collaging certain colors can create an attractive product and how to do just that. I also learned how to create an attractive website through using both powerful words, while also using powerful images and graphics. In addition, I learned that this same idea applies with ignites. That in order to have a high-class ig...

Applet position vs time graph  by  MikeRun Summary:        Velocity has both a direction and a magnitude (therefore making it a vector quantity) whereas speed only has a magnitude (therefore making it a scalar quantity). For example, when driving a car on a freeway your speed could be 50 m/hr (or mph). Although, your velocity could be something like 50 m/hr north. In order to find the magnitude for speed you must follow a simple formula, distance covered divided by time taken. In order to find the magnitude when trying to find the velocity of an object, you must follow the formula of distance from origin (or reference point) divided by time taken. One way to find speed and velocity is to look at a position vs time graph. What a position vs time graph really tells us is where an object is. We can look at the slope of the lines on a position vs time graph to help us to find the speed and velocity of an object by telling us both the position of an object...

Cube  by  DynaBlast Summary:        Motion can be described in two different types of quantities, scalar and vector quantities. Scalar quantities are quantities that only have a magnitude or size. Vector quantities are quantities that have both a magnitude and an associate direction (also known as a magnitude direction). One example of the difference between scalar and vector quantities are distance and displacement. Distance, a scalar quantity describes the amount an object has traveled. Displacement however, is a vector quantity and it expresses the distance between the origin and destination of an object in the shortest interval or distance possible. Displacement also describes the direction of a straight line from the origin to the destination. An example of distance is that the person ran half a lap around circular track that is 400 meters, meaning that they ran 200 meters. An example of displacement would be that the distance from one end of the...

The Carbon Footprint of Our Charity Fair Product, Luminary Lanterns Summary:        Carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide and other carbon compounds emitted due to the consumption of fossil fuels by a particular material. For example, a product that I created, a Luminary Lantern has a carbon footprint of 10411.625g of CO2/kg. I know this due to how I researched and tracked the amount of miles each of the individual materials (that are used to create a Luminary Lantern) traveled. I then multiplied the amount of miles by a certain number regarding the type of transportation each material took. If a product traveled by train, I multiplied the amount of miles it traveled by 0.1g of CO2/kg. If a product traveled by airplane, I multiplied the amount of miles it traveled by 0.8g of CO2/kg. If a product traveled by truck, I multiplied the amount of miles it traveled by 0.17g of CO2/kg. Lastly, if a product traveled by car, I multiplied the amount o...

Evolution and Antibiotic Resistance Project Brochure Summary:        This week in science we finished our evolution project (mine was about evolution and antibiotic resistance) where we first had to research about how evolution affects antibiotic resistance and antibiotic resistance in general. Then communicate our findings through creating a brochure. What I learned from this project was what antibiotic resistance is, how evolution plays a part in antibiotic resistance, how natural selection influences antibiotic resistance, how national and international agencies combat antibiotic resistance, how the public can help combat increased antibiotic resistance, and animals play a part in this whole situation. What one national agency, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does to combat antibiotic resistance is making diagnostics stronger by substantiating lab tests, educate research and development to evolve drugs like antibiotics and antifungals, evol...

Summary:        Antibiotic resistance is when a consumer consumes the antibiotic drugs more than prescripted. This allows bacteria to grow resistant to the antibiotic drug faster than at a regular pace. When the bacteria gains resistant to the antibiotic the only resort is to use a stronger (and more expensive) antibiotic biotic. Bacteria’s resistance towards antibiotics are absurd. Being able to go through versions of antibiotics multiplied, once, ten times, one hundred times, and even one thousand times in less than 11 days. The bacteria evolves and gains resistance of the antibiotics so fast it becomes terrifying. This means that humans can be in severe danger as bacteria are becoming incredibly resistant to antibiotics which is what most humans rely on to fight bacteria, viruses, and diseases. Natural selection influences the effectiveness of antibiotics and the virulence of infectious agents through the most fit bacteria (diseases, and/or viruses) that is res...

Summary:        Cladograms are the type of diagram that scientists use to show how species are related. What the word "species" means in Latin is "kind." We name species through using organisms' binomial name. The two terms used for an organisms' binomial name are their species and genus. Cladograms can tell us certain traits of an organism and they can tell us which organisms are more closely related, and how those organisms are related. Cladograms can tell us about many different traits of certain organisms such as if they contain traits like if they are alive, eukaryotes, symmetrical, have backbones, are tetrapods, vertebrates, lay amniotic egg, hair, and are diapsids. Tetrapods are animals with four limbs and amniotic egg is an egg that can be laid on land due to the presence of a fluid-filled amniotic sac that cushions and protects the developing embryo. Diapsids are animals with two additional openings (besides the eyes and nostrils) on the side of ...