Science anyone?

Thank you so much stxem! Your answers were wonderful! JJ loves life science has a great passion for all things ocean. He has asked these questions before during various activites on St Croix, biodiversity day at Southgate, snorkeling clinics, reef jam and other educational field trips. For the most part the rangers, educators and scientists do a wonderful job answering all the kids questions and I greatly appreciate the wonderful job they do with the educational outreach programs. However, these are the answers he received to those questions.

Why can I not help a baby sea turtle find it's way the the ocean if it is going the wrong way? You don't know what you are doing. You need to call an expert.

JJ very excited, "Guess what Miss____? I swam with a green sea turtle yesterday! It was beautiful and I touched it's flipper!" Miss_____replied, "Don't do that again. It stresses them out.

After witnessing a sea turtle being tagged and seeing it's response he said to me, "that must really hurt and they should just stick the tag on her shell." He asked a park ranger later about it and was told that it doesn't hurt them at all.

Your answers explain things perfectly. Thanks again.

Aussie, we don't know the answer to that question. Trying to find out.

Hi everyone,

I simply had to share; they ARE darling, aren't they?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQU7R-tjiNU

A true wonder...........thanks for sharing Swans...........

G'day everyone,

Interested in a few more questions?:

1. What makes a Green Turtle green?
2. What makes tropical waters so blue?
3. "Up", "Down", "Truth": "?", "?", "?" - Who's missing?
4. On planet Earth, where in the Ocean is the most intense blue color of the ocean surface found?
5. On Earth, where is the deepest part of the Ocean located?

Except for #3, all others are ocean-related. Enjoy! 🙂

(Thank you, Daniel...I'm pleased you enjoyed the video of the Christmas Tree Worms!)

Swan

JJs answers

#1 the things that they eat make them green, sea grass

#2 the things in the water make it look blue

#3 I don't know. It is a riddle of some kind

#4 Easter Island

#5 the Mariana Trench

Tammys answers

#1 their diet of seagrass and algae

#2 The depth, reflection of light and clarity

#3 Six flavors of quarks. Up, down, strange, charm, bottom and top. In the past bottom and top were referred to as beauty and truth.

#4 Easter Island

#5 The Mariana Trench

G'day everyone,

Interested in a few more questions?:

1. What makes a Green Turtle green?
2. What makes tropical waters so blue?
3. "Up", "Down", "Truth": "?", "?", "?" - Who's missing?
4. On planet Earth, where in the Ocean is the most intense blue color of the ocean surface found?
5. On Earth, where is the deepest part of the Ocean located?

Except for #3, all others are ocean-related. Enjoy! 🙂

(Thank you, Daniel...I'm pleased you enjoyed the video of the Christmas Tree Worms!)

Swan

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The answers:

1. Green Turtles are herbivores. Their diet of algae and sea grass plants give them their green color.
2. Depth (shallowness), reflection (scattering of light), clarity - lack of upwelling, which is a stirring up of the nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients that phytoplankton and other organisms require in order for them to live and flourish.
3. The Quarks: (I confess: I staged this one as a riddle, JJ, by using the former name of a Quark called Truth. If I had used 'Top' or 'Bottom,' the answer would have been obvious.) Their names are Up, Down, Strange, Charm, Top, and Bottom. They are sub-atomic particles. 🙂
4. Off of Easter Island http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/education-and-outreach/additional/science-focus/ocean-color/oceanblue.shtml
5. The Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench near Guam and the Philippines (Western Pacific). It is 36,070 feet deep which is deeper than Mt. Everest is tall. The average depth of the ocean is approximately 14,000 feet.

Good job!
Swan

3. I thought Who's Missing was pretty weak - some interesting songs to be sure - but Two's Missing was definitely the better buy.

Wait...what were we talking about?

G'evening everyone,

Approximately one (1) in 4000 baby turtles will make it to adulthood. Because the most dangerous time in their lives (due to predation) occurs when they emerge from their nests and instinctively attempt to cross the sands of the beach to the ocean, National and International law and governments make no issue of a negative nature if one assists the baby in guiding it - should it require help/ assistance - carefully in the right direction toward the sea in order to accomplish the journey. With the kind assistance of caring intervention, many turtles can survive, whereby they otherwise may perish. Many thanks for caring for our precious wildlife.

Swan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy6DVUikTPs

Thanks for the video Swan. Their website is pretty awesome as well.

Good evening everyone,

As we all know, NASA and education go together. I want to share 'Star Child' with you in hopes your children might discover and enjoy learning about Astronomy. It's fun; it's NASA!

Swan
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html

Thanks Swan!!!!!

Good Evening Everyone:
After making a spectacle of himself, do you think he accomplished his goal to get the attention of the lady? The little fellow deserves a bit of credit! 🙂

Swan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_yYC5r8xMI

Speaking of spiders.

I found a dead one on our gallery yesterday.

Looked like a regular spider with the exception of the set small scorpion like pinchers in addition to it's regular set of 8 legs.

I've tried to ID this on line without success.

Anyone know about this guy?

CD

I think we watched this about 5 times. Awesome Miss Swan! from JJ

I think we watched this about 5 times. Awesome Miss Swan! from JJ

Hi JJ!
It's so nice to hear from you. JJ, when I came across this little guy, the Peacock Spider, and when I watched the video, I could not stop laughing! He is soooo cute!

I simply HAD to share it with you and others on the board. I am very pleased you enjoyed it! So did I! Isn't science and exploration of all around us wonderful! Thank you so much.

Your friend,
Miss Swan

Good evening Everyone,

Is anyone interested in some fun facts questions and mind-boggling numbers? Here are a few:

1. 669,600,000 mph?

2. It's core releases the equivalent of 100 billion nuclear bombs per second.

3. What is the core temperature of Earth?

4. It can spin at a rate of 97 million mph and is slowing down at a rate of 3 hundredths of a second per one (1) million years.

5. What four (4) planets in our solar system have rings?

6. What are the three (3) main types of coral reefs?

Have fun!
Swan

Thanks again Swan for my science lesson tomorrow. It would be much more fun however if we had some competition in answering the questions. It doesn't matter though. We learn so much trying to find the answers. Thanks again. We would be happy if you gave us questions every day.

JJs answer to #6. fringe, barrier and atoll. Yes, he is an ocean nerd. Trying to teach him other things. Today he learned to change a water pump on our truck. I told him girls really liked men who knew how to work on cars. LOL! It worked. He spent 3 hours working on that water pump.

Good evening Everyone,

Is anyone interested in some fun facts questions and mind-boggling numbers? Here are a few:

1. 669,600,000 mph?

2. It's core releases the equivalent of 100 billion nuclear bombs per second.

3. What is the core temperature of Earth?

4. It can spin at a rate of 2,520,000 mph and is slowing down at a rate of 3 hundredths of a second per one (1) million years.

5. What four (4) planets in our solar system have rings?

6. What are the three (3) main types of coral reefs?

Have fun!
Swan

#1 the speed of light

#2 the sun's core

#3 the temperature of the earths core is 10,800 degrees F

#4 the first #4 answer is the earths rotation the second #4 we could not find the answer.

#5 Juipter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

#5 fringe, barrier and atoll

#1 the speed of light

#2 the sun's core

#3 the temperature of the earths core is 10,800 degrees F

#4 the first #4 answer is the earths rotation the second #4 we could not find the answer.

#5 Juipter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

#5 fringe, barrier and atoll

Very nice. Well done.

On Question #4 I had to edit to correct the speed of this character ( we've mentioned it in a past question (s).) It isn't the rotational speed of Earth: Earth rotates @ 1070 mph at the equator.

I'm going to leave #4 for a while.... 🙂 Anyone ?

2,520,000? The number of reindeer required to pull Santa's sleigh, of course.

The Physics of Santa Claus

http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.physics/2005-12/msg01752.html

2,520,000? The number of reindeer required to pull Santa's sleigh, of course.

The Physics of Santa Claus

http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.physics/2005-12/msg01752.html

The answer is our friendly pulsar spinning @ about 716 times/ second or approximately 2.5 million times /hour (Misspoke @ mph) PSRJ1748-2446ad. Pulsars are actually rotating neutron stars. They are amazing phenomena!

In the meantime, I'm researching Santa. 🙂
Swan

Oh my! I'm wrong? This has never happened before. There was one time that I thought I might be wrong but it turned out I was mistaken.

Good Evening everyone,
NASA shares the exciting news that Voyager has entered interstellar space. Launched a month apart - in 1977 - from its sister, Voyager 2, Voyager 1 is currently 11 billion miles from Earth and travels approximately 1 million miles per day. It takes about 171/2 hours for a message to reach Earth from Voyager 1.

Aboard, it carries messages from Earth (music, languages, location/ position of the planet Earth, the solar system location, and a host of information) should the craft encounter intelligent life. May I add: Steven Hawking has always maintained a negative opinion regarding the sending of this recording into space since mankind has no knowledge of what may exist 'out there.' (Friendly/ unfriendly entities?)

Congratulations little guy! Enjoy your journey! We bid you farewell...
Swan

For additional information on the Voyager program, please go to www.nasa.gov/voyager

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4hf8HyP0LI&list=PLTiv_XWHnOZq5bv1w9Db2uNJVFiVCkWW5

http://www.upworthy.com/watch-a-musician-give-the-coolest-science-lecture-this-side-of-anywhere-am3-5a-2