Ch. 4 QQC

Quote: “The Year of Eating Oat Bran—also known as 1988—served as a kind of coming-out party for the food scientists, who succeeded in getting the material into nearly every processed food sold in America”

Question: Is Oat Bran good or bad?

Comment: The connotation of this quote seems to be that oat bran is bad, but from previous information I have heard about oat bran is that it is actually good for you so that makes me confused as to what the author is trying to get across to the reader.

Ch. 5 QQC

Quote: “It is now increasingly recognized that the low-fat campaign has been based on little scientific evidence and may have caused unintended health consequences.”

Question: Are any food companies being sued for this deadly mistake?

Comment: It seems to me that the “health consequences” are pretty severe considering they have to do with organ such as the heart, so why is it that these products are still being sold and distributed and I haven’t seen any change or affect that this discovery is having on my everyday life?

Ch. 6 QQC

Quote: “Play your cards right and you can even get the American Heart Association to endorse your new breakfast cereal as “heart healthy.””

Question: What information can I believe on food products?

Comment: It seemed that throughout this entire piece of writing like the author was constantly shooting different health food products down and talk all about how they are really bad for you, but he never really seemed to propose any kind of solutions or alternatives to them.

1/2 cup Special K cereal (starch)
2tsp. Almond Butter (protein)
1/2 glass fat free milk (dairy)
1/2 banana (fruit)
1 mug of green tea

3 oz. Turkey lunch meat (protein)
1 slice of whole wheat bread (starch)
1/2 banana (fruit)
1/2 cup steamed broccoli (vegetable)
6 Almonds (fat)

1/2 cup Special K cereal (starch)
2 tsp. Almond butter (protein)
1/4 glass fat free milk (dairy)
1 mug of green tea

4 oz. grilled chicken (protein)
1/3 cup brown rice (starch)
4 dried mango slices (fruit)
1/2 cup steamed broccoli (vegetable)
6 almonds (fat)

Plant #2: Helianthus annulus (“The Joker” Sunflower)

1. Light Green

2. Falcate

3. Comes to a point

4. Serrate

a. One middle finger

b. Half of a hand

5. Cross-Venulate

6. The petiole is one thumb

7. The venation is slightly more distinct

8. Small hairs cover the surface

This is “the joker” sunflower because of its double-bloom, which are the two rings of ray flowers that surround the cluster of disk flowers in the center. The coloring of the petals is ombre as they go from a deep rust color at the center to a bright yellow at the tips. This flower is a vascular plant and it is also a capitulum because of its contracted raceme and its flowers are attached to a thickened stem. An interesting fact about this plant is that Sunflowers are native to the Americas.

Ender-session HW #5:

I hope to ideally gain experience in the field that I hope to go into for my career. Because I do not know for sure what I would like to pursue as a career yet, there are a couple of general ender-session option that I would like to explore. One of the two possible options that I am looking into is, to volunteer at Invisible Children. The other possibility that I am looking at for ender-session is interning with the person in charge of visual marketing at a store at the mall or with a personal stylist.

I would like to volunteer at Invisible Children because I am, at the moment, intending on majoring in International Relations and then possibly pursuing a career that involves working with global philanthropies (particularly ones working to help those affected by the central African genocide going on today). From volunteering with Invisible Children I would hope to gain even more knowledge about the genocide while at the same time giving a significant amount of my time helping the cause in some way.

I would like to intern with the person in charge of visual marketing at a store at the mall because visual marketing is another career that I am considering to pursue. I have already gotten my resume out to four stores at the mall about a possible volunteer internship with their visual marketer and should be hearing back from all of them this Monday. I would hope that if I completed this internship option, that I would not only gain some initial experience in the field that could later help me get a job, but I would also gain some more knowledge about what it takes to succeed in that field and if I truly am interested or not.

The third ender-session option that I would be interested in is interning with a personal stylist. This is another career that I am interested in possibly pursuing and I have a contact in the field whom I met two years ago and still have her business card. I would hope that if I completed this internship option that I would gain knowledge about how to get into the field and what it is like to actually be a personal stylist. I would also hope that I would gain experience in the field that could help me in the future should I choose to pursue this career option.

Plant #1: Petroselinum crispum (Italian Parsley)

1. Light green

2. Palmate

3.Comes to a jagged point

4. Doubly Serrate

5.

a) half of a thumb

b) half of a thumb

6. Palmate

7. The petiole is one thumb in length

8. The venation is slightly more distinct

9. Smooth

This is a "curly-leaved" Italian parsley plant versus the other type of parsley, the Hamburg parsley, because it does not have a taproot and its leaves are not quite as large as the Hamburg. It's scientific name is petroselinum crispum meaning curly parsley and it gives off a very strong smell and is often used in cooking. Because all of it's pedicels come from a common point, it is a simple umbel and an herbaceous plant as it does not have a "woody" stem above ground. It is also a vascular plant which means that it has a vascular system to survive. An interesting fact about Parsley is that supposedly if you pluck a sprig of parsley while saying your enemy's name, it will cause the death of that enemy.

1. Intern with a stylist

Contact: Melissa

Two years ago I participated in the Young Women's Leadership Program and as a part of it we met several women one day who had several different careers. One of them was a personal stylist. I still have her contact and I had mentioned our schools internships before and she had said she would love to have me intern with her then, so I may like to get in contact with her now for a possible endersession internship with her.

2. Store window display designer internship

Contact: Nordstroms and Anthropologie

I have always loved the window display in all of the stores. It involves my love for art project-like work but it also involves my love for fashion and for putting together outfits. I think this internship would be interesting for me to pursue because it could possibly tell me if I might like to pursue a this career instead.

3. Lisella's Boutique

Contact: Lisella Thomas

Jasmine's mom used to be a top supermodel and now she owns her own boutique in La Jolla. I have always been interested in fashion. I would like to explore more into what it is like to actuallywork in the fashion industry and I think that it would be a fun way to end senior year.

1. Invisible Children Volunteer

This is my number one choice for ender-session currently because not only have I volunteered there before and have a contact there already, but I also feel extremely strong about the particular topic of the central African genocide that is currently going on. I have been passionate about this cause since I was a sophomore. The central African genocide is also the reason why I started the global service club at our school because I feel so strongly about helping the cause.

Contact: Cherliza Jimenez cjimenez@invisiblechildren.com, (office manager)

2. Southern Sudanese Center Volunteer Tutor

I volunteered as a tutor at the Southern Sudanese Refugee Center during my sophomore year right after my passion for helping the people who have been affected by the central African genocide first began. I stopped tutoring by the end of that year, but I loved it so much that I would really enjoy volunteering there again.

Contact: Sarah Barnes

3. Habitat For Humanity

I also volunteered here over the past summer through an organization that I am a part of called Mother's And Daughters Club Assisting Philanthropy Services. I really enjoyed volunteering with them during their building blitzes and if they have one scheduled during the time that we will be on ender-session, I would love to volunteer with them again on my own.

Contact: Mothers And Daughters Club Assisting Philanthropy Services

My Myers Briggs Test Result: ENFP

The E means that I am a leader, I have a big group of friends, I initiate, and that I am expressive. The N means that I always try to achieve a more overall understanding of things and that I like to make plans in advance. The F means that I am more compassionate, but I can easily be taken advantage of and I am too focused on feelings, and the P means that I am fun, have more experiences, am not controlling, am relaxed, but I am not as organized. These results lead me to believe that a more creative and less strict internship would be best for me. I propose that I try to get an internship with the personal stylist whom I have the contact information for, or that I volunteer with Invisible Children since it goes along with the leadership and more compassionate aspects of my personality according to the Myers Briggs Personality test.

Monday 2/13 Homework:

1. For the final product of this project, I would like to (as simplistic as it sounds) create a tri-fold or some kind of poster that displays my findings and conclusions after completing the research portion of the project. Since we would be tracking all of the life that passes through a cubic foot of land that we will have plotted out at the garden, I would be taking photos of the piece of land for everyday of the project. I would use a selection of these photos for my tri-fold. I would use the photos that showed significant findings of mine made in the process and I would include brief explanations as to why they are significant and some conclusions I have made about them. I would also like to perhaps display some sort of a 3D visual that would aid in the total understandings of the findings made and the knowledge gained from the project. Finally, I would present this tri-fold display at our senior exhibition night at the end of the semester.

2. My expectations for the project are to gain an in depth knowledge about the fairly foreign world that lives beneath us, to build a project that I can be very proud to show to the parents at the senior exhibition night, and to hopefully be able to have something published in the Encyclopedia of Life. I hope that through completing this project I will come away knowing more about the similarities, differences, and overall information about several types of species and more about just how important every aspect of our ecosystem is to its overall survival.

3. I am expecting that I will follow through on my goal to achieve the best possible product that I can achieve for our exhibition and so I therefore also expect that my classmates will do the same. I expect that they will put forth all of their effort even as we come to the end of our high school careers so that we may have the best environmental science exhibition yet. I expect that our final product as a whole will be complete and extremely professional to those who view it.

4. For this project we should have lessons that coincide with the discoveries that we make in the one-foot areas that we are examining at the garden. We should also continue to have days when we will have the opportunity to review what we have been learning from the lectures, individually in our own ways that we learn best because this proved to be extremely helpful when we tried it last week. I think we should have days when we are able to use the microscopes in order to examine the specimens we collect from our one-foot areas of land in class.

Plant #1: Daffodil

Color: Light green, flower is yellow

Shape: Linear

Leaf Tip: Comes to a rounded point

Edge: Entire

Measurements:

a) 1 thumbnail wide

b) About 2 hands long

c) Flower diameter: about 1 pointer finger

Venation: Parallel

Petiole: No petiole

Underside: Venation is slightly more distinct

Surface: Smooth and waxy

Plant #1: Dandylion

Shape: LinearColor: Light Green

Leaf Tip: Rounded, slight point

Leaf Edge: Spiny

Leaf Size:

a) 1.27 centimeters

b) 10.16 centimeters

Venation: Pinnate

Petiole: Not present

Underside: Venation slightly more distinct

Surface: Relatively smooth, slightly bumpy

Plant #2: Sour Grass

Color: Light Green

Shape: Opposite

Leaf Tip: Rounded

Leaf Edge: Entire

Leaf Size:

a) 0.635

b) 0.635

Venation: Arcuate

Petiole: Not Present

Underside: Venation more distinct

Surface: Smooth

Plant #3: Shepards-purse

Color: Light Green

Shape: Cordate

Leaf Tip: Comes to a point

Leaf Edge: Spiny

Leaf Size:

a) 3.81 centimeters

b) 2.54 centimeters

Venation: Cross-Venulate

Petiole: Present, 6.35 centimeters

Underside: Venetion more distinct

Surface: Rough, bumpy

1. Volunteer with Invisible Children

Explanation: I volunteered at Invisible Children at the beginning of this year and really enjoyed it. However, the main time that is available to volunteer there is during school hours. Endersession would therefore be the perfect opportunity to be able to spend a large amount of time volunteering at Invisible Children, a cause I have been extremely passionate about and my main motivation behind starting the Global Service Club.

2. Intern with Jasmine's mom

Jasmine's mom used to be a top supermodel and now she owns her own boutique in La Jolla. I have always been interested in fashion. I would like to explore more into what it is like to actually work in the fashion industry and I think that it would be a fun way to end senior year.

3. Intern with a Personal Stylist.

Two years ago I participated in the Young Women's Leadership Program and as a part of it we met several women one day who had several different careers. One of them was a personal stylist. I still have her contact and I had mentioned our schools internships before and she had said she would love to have me intern with her then, so I may like to get in contact with her now for a possible endersession internship with her.

Lavender (Preferably French):

I would like to grow lavender because I have always wanted to grow lavender at my house because it is one of my favorite scents and so I think that it would be a great addition to the HTHMA garden because it would add to the already overall pleasant environment with not only its nice smell, but its purple beauty as well.

- A flower

- Blooms year-round

- Can plant during any season

- Needs great drainage and a lot of sun

- DO NOT OVER WATER

- Harvesting season is during summer

- The amount you should water it is dependant off of the type of soil it is planted in

o 3 times more water if planted in Sandy than if planted in clay plant on raised mounds “of amended soil to assure sharp drainage”

- Little fertilizing is important because they are used to living in harsh environments

- Use “slow-release 14-14-14 granulated plant food” when starting out, but after that, only feed when they show signs of poor growth or yellowing

- Do not crowd lavenders because air to all sides helps prevent fungus problems

- Harvest when flowers are barely opening

- Shear whole plant back by one-third to one-half its size when its past its peak flowering

- Companion plants: any other heat tolerant plants that can the handle their “Mediterranean” style of care

Fun Fact: Lavender has a long history of healing and is used in medicine. (Stress reliever, pain killer, etc.)

Carrots (Preferably Purple Haze):

I would like to grow carrots because I found this interesting growing technique that I would really love to test and try out to see if it truly does have better results as it claims and it also involves creating a different form of irrigation that I think could be interesting to use. Not only am I curious to try this alternative planting style, but carrots are also my favorite vegetable to eat and I eat a lot of them so organically "home-grown" carrots are said to be even more sweet and tasty than the ones you would buy at a large chain grocery store.

- Plant Carrots in August in San Diego

- Best results if you grow carrots in a wine barrel

- Barrel should have four one-inch drainage holes drilled in the bottom

- At least 6 hours of sunlight each day, but the more the better

- Place four bricks under the barrel for drainage

- Can use commercial potting soil

- Use time-released fertilizer

- Make sure that the fertilizer is moist

- Seedlings should be planted about an inch to 1 ½ inches apart

- Water every two or three days

- Never let soil be dry

- Carrots store well if left in ground

- Harvest when needed

- Companion plants: alliums, rosemary, wormwood, sage, beans, flax

Fun Fact: Carrots were first grown as a medicine not a food and were the first vegetable to be canned commercially.

Tomatoes (Preferably Sungold):

I would like to grow tomatoes mainly because they have recently become one of my favorite foods when I made it my new years resolution to eat more tomatoes because of their amazing health benefits. My newly-sparked interest in tomatoes makes me also curious about how to grow them on my own and if I were to grow tomatoes as my crop I and succeed, I would like to start growing them at home too.

- At least 7 hours of sun daily

- If soil is alkaline, pre-moistened peat moss is useful

- Add a time-release vegetable fertilizer

- At first, light watering once a day

- Use Bt to keep away tomato worms

- Companion plants: carrots, basil, chives, onions, garlic, borage, asparagus, marigold, and more

Fun Fact: Tomato leaves are actually toxic and their name comes from the Aztec “xitomatl,” which means “plump thing with a navel”.

Environmental Science Vocab

Herbicide- used to destroy unwanted vegetation, toxic to plants

Compost- decomposed organic material (EX: DNA and RNA after fungi etc. have processed/pooped it out

Wildlife- wild animals collectively

High Nitrogen Fertilizer- fertilizer that’s high in nitrogen (most common)

Horticulture- practice of garden cultivation/management

Hyphae- body part of fungus

Aphids- insects

Pesticides- a substance used for killing harmful insect or organisms

Insecticides- substance for killing insects

Fungicides- substance for killing fungus

Herbicides- substance for killing unwanted vegetation

Pest- unwanted organisms

Silviculture- the growing/cultivation of trees

Viniculture- wine agriculture

Agriculture- the science/practice of farming

Rototilling- tool that gets up everything/rips up old plants/mixes up dirt/soil

NPK- Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Potassium

Cation- positively charged atom

Anion- negatively charged atom

Archaebacteria (kingdom)- similar to bacteria (size, simplicity) but different (molecular organization)

Eubacteria (kingdom)- a bacterium of a large group

Animals (kingdom)- a living organism that feeds on organic matter

Plants (kingdom)- living organisms that use sunlight as food

Fungi (kingdom)- organisms that feed on organic food

Protists (kingdom)- free-living organisms with diverse reproductive system

Micrometer- a measurement 1/1000m = 10^-3

Flora- plant life

Fauna- animal life

Protozoa- protists (single-celled organisms)

Nematodes- round worms, invertebrates (no spines)

Food Web- break down of who eats who (old lady poem)

Microanthropods- really small arthropod (invertrabrate animal with an exoskeleton)

Photosynthesis- the process by which plants create food from the sun

Exudates- secretion from plants to attract beneficials

Rizosphere- area around the roots to about 2mm respiration is opposite

Amoeba- a protozoa that forms temporary pseudopods for feeding

Paramecia (protists)- single-celled fresh water organisms

Flagellates (protists)- a protozoa that can swim

Ciliates (protists)- a single celled animal that has cilia

Microbes- a micro organism especially bacterium

Chemosynthesis- the synthesis of organic compounds by energy derived from chemical reactions

Wax + Wane- to process through phases

Fertilizer- a substance added to soil to increase fertility

Arthropods- invertebrate with jointed limbs and a segmented body

Aggregates- a whole formed by combining several elements

Fodder- dried hay or feed

Pathogen- a bacterium, virus, or other that can cause disease

Mycorrhizo(e)- a fungus that grows with the roots of a plant

Inhibitory- restriction of action

Streptomycin- an antibiotic produced by bacterium

Ammonium- a cation in solutions and salts derived from ammonia

Ecosystem- a biological community of interacting organisms

SENTENCES

1) The herbicides were used to get rid of the dandylions that were takeing over the rosebed

2) My family has started composting by putting our organic trash in a pile outside to be turned and watered.

3) The wildlife at the national animal reserve was very diverse in colors.

4) I need to go to the store to get come high nitrogen fertilizer for my home garden today.

5) We researched the benefits of horticulture and decided it would be the best decision for us to start our own garden.

6) We were studying bacteria and when we looked at them through the microscope, we saw the hyphae.

7) The aphids were eating the crops so we had to exterminate them.

8) Some people choose to buy organic produce because the loack of pesticides that are used.

9) The insecticides were used to get rid of the unwanted insects.

10) The fungicides were used to get rid of the unwanted funus.

11) The herbicide was used to get rid of the unwanted vegetation.

12) The farmer poisoned the gofers because he saw them as pests

13) I take part in silviculture because I feel that trees are very beneficial to the environment.

14) My uncle has a vineyard and takes part in viniculture.

15) Aggreculture is an impartant part of our economy because it is a huge aspect of the food industry which generates a laerge income.

16) The rototiller was used to dig up the crops.

17) Plants thrive on NPK.

18) Cations are positively charged atoms.

19) Anions ared negatively charged atoms.

20) Archaebacteria is near the bottem of the food web because of its small size.

21) Eubacteria is an important aspect of the food chain as well.

22) Some animals can be found at the zoo even though humans are also animals.

23) Plants are important to have around because of how they produce oxygen.

24) Fungai used to be considered as unwanted for a garden but it has since been discovered to be helpful to plants.

25) Protists are near the bottem of the food chain.

26) Micrometers are used as a unit of measurement.

27) The flora in the rainforest was extremely extensive.

28) The fauna at the desert was few and for between.

29) Protozoa have only one cell.

30) Nematodes ate Spongebobs pineapple house.

31) The food web organizes and lays out hwo eats who and in what order in the wild.

32) The exoskeletons on microanthropods play a vital to their survival.

33) Photosynthesis is what allows plants to get their energy.

34) The exudate from the plants is what makes it so that beneficial are attracted to them.

35) The rizosphere is located around the root.

36) The amoeba forms temporary pseudopods for feeding.

37) Paramecia are bacteria.