Amphioxus

This organism was the start of all vertebrates. It was living 250 years ago and only was 5 centimeters long. It had little body structures that resembled a spine. Yet had no limbs or anything as such to make it able to do much. This is pretty wild to me to be the start of vertebrates.

Dog Park

I think the dog park is great for the community. I myself went with some friends to help clean it up. If you want your dog to have a safe playful area to just run around and do whatever it wants and somewhat be free without you worrying about it pooping in the house. This would be the place to go. I enjoyed helping to clean it up but we learned while we were there that the water could possible have some contamination in it. This makes it hard to want to let your dog be here. But the dog parks in general is a great place to rest and to enjoy all the dogs that come here. It's a good destresser.

Jackson Springs park

This was a great trip i thoroughly enjoyed hitting rocks with the miniature pickaxe. I found quartz and hurt myself hitting at the feldspar. I never knew how much fun making rocks explode was. I might no have gotten out of this lab what was supposed to be, but i gained a new respect for people who do this for a living and the people who work at a quarry. I would do this again because it was loads of fun. The park was inherited by the community and became an issue because of desegregation. This was also an interesting fact that was learned

Ocmulgee National Park

On our trip to the Ocmulgee national park. We went on a nature walk through the woods. This was cool, saw a snake and other crazy random objects in the woods. Learned about some trees and got to jump in a little ditch that had a cool stream wearing away at the sides of it. Then we went to the meeting mound. This was amazing to think that back then they were able to live underground , somewhat. this mound was amazing however the doorway is tiny even for me and i'm small.

This is from Dr. Rood's blood sugar experiment. He ate candy and drank soda to force his blood sugar to spike. After about 15 minutes the blood sugar did spike but it quickly tried to work it's way back to equilibrium. over the course of 45 minutes the blood sugar went back to normal however it went below the starting point before getting back to the starting point. This was regulated by negative feedback to keep the body in homeostasis.

12 Soil Orders

The 12 soil orders was presented by this great detailed website http://soils.cals.uidaho.edu/soilorders/

The most interesting of the soil orders would have to be the oxisols. This is because of having being on the tropical places which is some of my favorite places to go and the fact that it is not red clay makes it all the better to me. I love the tropical weather and there is nothing wrong with the dirt on the islands

Lab 3 Nature walk

Japanese Privit
Species: Ligustrum japonicum
Family: Oleaceae

Phlox
Species: Polemoniaceae
Family: Phlox

Camellia
Order: Ericales
Family: Theaceae

Mexican Petunia
Family: Acanthaceae
Genus: Ruellia

Azelea
Family: Ericaceae
Genus: Rhododendron

Magnolia Tree

Family: Magnoliaceae

Genus:Magnolia

Oak Tree

Family: Fagaceae

Genus: Quercus

Crepe Myrtle
Family: Lythraceae
Genus: Lagerstroemia