Eyes(How do we see)

The eye, a complex organ, is responsible for sensing light and enabling the intricate process of vision. It consists of various specialized structures such as the cornea, iris, lens, retina, and optic nerve, all working together to capture, focus, and transmit visual information to the brain for interpretation.

Here’s a breakdown of how we see it:
1) Light first enters the cornea.
2) The cornea refracts the light and directs it into the pupil.
3) The iris, which is pigmented, regulates the amount of light that enters the eye.
4) Light enters the lens.
5) The light is focused on the retina.
6) The retina creates an image and converts it into a signal.
7) The optic nerve translates the signal to the brain, where it is converted into an image that we can see.

Part Description Function Part Description Function
Cornea The front part of the eye. It is tough, transparent, and convex. Reflects light as it enters the eye. Lens The lens is a bi-convex it’s a transparent flexible disc Focuses light on the retina
Pupil The pupil is a dark hole in the middle of our eye Allows light into the eye Retina The retina is connected to our optic nerve which is just a bundle of nerve fibers Creates an image and converts it to a signal
Iris The colored ring around the pupil It controls the amount of light going into the pupil. Optic nerve A bundle of nerves connected to the brain. Transports the signal to the brain where it is made into an image.

 

Heart Dissection

Aim: 
The aim of this experiment was to identify all the parts of a heart.

Hypophosis:
My hypophosis is that the heart will be squishy and it will be layed out just like the photos.

Method:
First we found the soft side of the heart
Then we cut it straight down the soft side of the heart
Opening it up we layed it flat in the dissecting tray to examine

Results:
 

Explanation:
At the top of the heart is the aorta. In the middle is all the heart strings that connect everything together.

Conclution:
Everything did work the way that I expected it to. The only thing that I wasn't expecting was the way it smelt
and how squishy and meat like it was.

Arthritis Research

What is it:

Arthritis is a medical condition characterized by inflammation, pain, and stiffness in the joints. It is a condition that affects millions of individuals worldwide and can significantly impact a person’s quality of life.  Various types of arthritis exist, such as osteoarthritis(Wear and tear arthritis), rheumatoid arthritis(Arthritis that happens when your immune system mistakenly damages your joints.), and psoriatic arthritis(Arthritis that affects people who have psoriasis), each with unique causes and symptoms.

How is it caused:

Arthritis is caused by the breakdown of cartilage in the joints, which can occur as a result of wear and tear, injury, or infection. Genetics and environmental factors also play a role in the development of arthritis.

Symptoms:

There are six main symptoms of arthritis such as:

  • Joint pain.
  • Stiffness or reduced range of motion (how far you can move a joint).
  • Swelling (inflammation).
  • Skin discoloration.
  • Tenderness or sensitivity to touch around a joint.
  • A feeling of heat or warmth near your joints.

Treatment:

There’s no cure for arthritis, but a healthcare provider will help you find treatments that manage your symptoms. Which treatments you’ll need depends on what’s causing arthritis, which type you have, and which joints it affects. Surgery is an option if you have severe arthritis and other treatments don’t work. The two most common types of arthritis surgery are joint fusion and joint replacement.

Is cracking your fingers good for you?

Although cracking your knuckles regularly can be harmless, it can also cause damage if it’s done incorrectly/too frequently. If you crack your knuckles incorrectly, you can actually cause a ligament injury or dislocate your fingers

Chicken Leg Dissection

Monday the 8th of May

Why:
We are dissecting a chicken leg to compare its structure to that of a human leg. The disection is also taking 
place because in bioligy we are looking at the musculoskeletal.The bones of the chicken leg are arranged 
similarly to those of a human leg. This will enable us to visually observe and compare the positions of bones, 
tendons, and ligaments in both types of legs. Doing this also helps us visulise how our body works. 

Image:

A chicken leg quarter with the meat removed, showing the femur, knee, tibia, and fibula

Aim:
The aim of dissecting a chicken leg is to identify different parts and systems of the chicken leg to see how 
a human leg work.

Research:

Equipment:
The equipment we used were scissors, Tweezers, a Dissecting tray, Paper, Gloves and Dissenfectant. 

Method:
1)First we put gloves on so that we could touch the chicken safely 
2)Next we skinned the chicken exposing the muscles, tendons, and ligaments. 
3)After we skinned the chicken leg we began cutting the muscle off the fibula to expose the bone and ligaments. 
4)Next we began cutting the rest of the muscle of the Tibia to expose that bone. 
5)After all the muscles were off we examined the ligaments and how they connected the bones to the muscles. 
6)For the tendon examination we foled back the knee cap to see all the tendon tunnels that it protected.
Results:
Unfortunatly our video didn't save since it was to long and we didn't take any photos due to our video.
Discussion:
The chicken moves by the the muscles tendons and all the ligaments working together to move the bones.ligaments
 connect the bone to the muscles while tendons connevt muscles to muscles.Muscles are responsible for our 
movement tendons attach our muscles to our bones. We move because the muscles attached to our bones pull on the
 tendons. When our muscles contract the muscles pull the bone. Muscles work by contraction and 
relaxation/extension. All muscles work in pairs when one is contracting the other is relaxing. Muscles give us 
heat by rapid contraction and relaxation also known as shivering. 200 muscles make us walk, 650 muscles in 
general
Conclusion:
Yes it did work but I think our group could have cut the muscle off more cleanly so that we could properly see 
all the ligaments and tendons.

Science

Heat can have many different effects on different elements such as:
-Conduction
-Expansion
-Contraction
-Convention
These are all ways that heat effects different elements.

Conduction:
Conduction is when thermal energy travels through certain objects.
A way of seeing conduction is doing the Dropping pins experiment where you watch heat conduct thermal
energy(heat) down a metal rod dropping pins as it does.
Expansion:
Expansion is when an object expands because the heat is too much and the particles in the object want to
get away from each other so the object expands.


Different States Of Matter:
Gas:
  • Particles are free moving
  • Particles spread out
  • No fixed shape
  • No fixed volume
Liquid:
  • Particles can move together
  • No fixed shape
  • Has a fixed volume
Solid:
  • Particles can not move only vibrate
  • Particles packed tightly together
  • Has a fixed shape
  • Has a fixed volume

Science Book 2024

Introduction to Chem:
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The Difference between mass and volume:
There are three different types of matter and how the particles move determines the state 
of matter.
Gas:
  • Particles are free moving
  • Particles spread out
  • No fixed shape
  • No fixed volume
Liquid:
  • Particles can move together
  • No fixed shape
  • Has a fixed volume
Solid:
  • Particles can not move only vibrate
  • Particles packed tightly together
  • Has a fixed shape
  • Has a fixed volume
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Mass:
Mass is the amount of force gravity has on an object.

Volume: 
Volume is the amount of space the object takes up.

The three states of matter:
1, Solid
2, Liquid
3, Gass
Solids
Ice
Table
Rock
Liquids
 Water
 Blood
 Oil
 Gases
  Neon
 Carbon Dioxide
 Helium 
Defusion:
Part of the theory 
One way we can observe how the particles move
It's the gradual way that the particles move/mix together
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Experiment 1-Diffusion:
…………………………………………
Method:
We took two petri dishes and filled one with hot water and the other with cold water. 
We then used a spatula to put a pinch of Potassium Permanganate in each of them. 
Observations:
The Potassium Permanganate turned purple in the water. The hot water had cooled down 
before we put the Potassium Permanganate in so it spread at the same rate as the cold
water.
Should have happened:
The hot water dish should have spread a lot further and faster than the cold water dish 
because of the high concentration gradients in the hot water compared to the low 
concentration in the cold water. 
Experiment 2-Revisiting defusion:
…………………………………………………………………
Aim:
The aim was to get the hot water patriot dish to defuse a lot further and faster.
Method:
We took two petri dishes and filled one with boiling water and the other with cold water. 
We then used a spatula to put a pinch of Potassium Permanganate in each of them. 
Observations:
The Potassium Permanganate turned purple in the water. The hot water had cooled down 
before we put the Potassium Permanganate in so it spread at the same rate as the cold water. 
Mrs Bedford also put more Potassium Permanganate in the cold water and just a small amount 
in the hot water. So our cold water petri dish spread further.
Explanation:
The hot water dish should have spread a lot further and faster than the cold water dish 
because diffusion speeds up in heat. 

Different bases:
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Milk:
The milk petri dish did defuse but at a very slow rate and underneath not on top because 
it is more vissics than water. The Potassium Permanganate also went brown because there 
are a lot of other sugars and it is more viscous than water. It sank to the bottom because 
of the high surface tension and KMn04 is heavier than the milk.
Canola Oil:
The Canola oil petri dish did not diffuse at all; it just sat on top of the oil because of
the high amount of viscous in the oil.
Essential Oil:
The essential oil did not spread either because of the high amount of viscous in the oil 
but if we heated the oil up iit would have defused because oil gets thinner as it heats up. 
Questions From Diffusion Video:
1.Diffusion is when the smell of something mixes with air molecules.
2.The molecules move by mixing in with the air molecules so they can then spread out with 
the wind and air.
3.You can speed up diffusion by using heat and you can slow it down by cooling it down.
4.Some examples of diffusion are coffee, tea and hairspray. 
Ice melting:
.............
Method:
We placed ice in glass bowls, plastic petri dishes and in a cold aluminium tray. 
Observations:
The aluminium tray melted the ice quicker because of the energy transferred from the room 
temperature air (21 Degrees) & the aluminium tray combined with the larger surface area 
than the bowl or the dish this made the ice melt faster. The plastic and glass also don't 
transfer energy as fast as the aluminium tray/cant conduct heat.. 
Ice Melting 2, With bunsen burner:
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 Observations:
In the beginning the ice measured in at 5 degrees but as it started to melt it heated up 
very quickly. After about 10-15 minutes it was at 22*. 
This is a table of our results. 
Time (min)
Temp
Time (min)
Temp
Time (min)
Temp
3
30*
6
62*
9
96*
4
35*
7
70*
10
103*
5
52*
8
87*
11
104*
Substances:

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Different substances have different properties.Pure substances only contain one 
substance while a mixture contains as many as you want. Most of the materials around us are
mixtures not very many pure substances exist.


Examples:
Coffee, tea, fizzy drinks, hair gel, condiments, 
Properties:
Properties are how we identify substances.
Questions:
1. The features by which material can be identified are called properties.
2. Materials which always have the same properties are called pure substances.
3. Materials which are made up of different substances are called mixtures.
4. Orange juice is a mixture not a substance because in the juice there are many different
substances such as, sugar, Vitim C/ abscorbic acid, citric acid, juice, sweetener, water,
hydrogen, and orange pulp.
Solutions:
When you stir sugar into water it seems to disappear. We say it has dissolved into 
the water. Sugar and water have mixed to form a solution Coffee and water also form 
a solution. When you dissolve coffee in hot water the substance that dissolves 
(the coffee) is called a Solute. The substance that does the dissolving (the hot water) 
is called the solvent.
Suspension:
A suspension is when a salute is suspended in a solvent. it doesn't dissolve it just sits
there.
E.g: Snow in a snow globe.
Experimenter #3 Imploding.
Cans.
When we put the can with 50 m of water in it onto the Bunsen Burner it took about 7 minutes
to start steaming.We then put it upside down in cold water as soon as the can opening was
submerged it imploded suddenly. 

Ball & Ring.
Mrs Bennett heated up a brass ring over the Bunsen Burner so that when the ring expanded
due to thermal heat it could fit over the brass ball. But as soon as she submerged the
ring in cold water it could no longer fit over the brass ball.

Dropping Pins Experiment:
Aim:
The aim of this experiment was to watch conduction as the heat transferred down the metal rod dropping 
the pins as the glue heated up and melted.
Equipment:
We used a Bunsen Burner and the equipment that came with it,retort stand,6 pins,petroleum jelly and a 
metal rod.
Method:
First we glued the pins at even intervals along the metal rod with petroleum jelly, then we set up the
bunsen burner with the retort stand beside it with the metal rod attached to it.
Result:
The pins dropped as the heat transferred along the metal rod therefore melting the jelly that stuck the 
pins on causing them to drop.
Conclusion:
Because of the conduction of thermal energy transferring down the rod the thermal energy melted the 
petroleum jelly jelly releasing the pins causing them to fall off the metal rod.

Tea Bag Rocket
What happened was pretty much what me and Liv were expecting once the tea bag had been lit on fire it
launched its self up into the air as carbon and ash before floating back down. This happens because of 
the change in the air density inside the tea bag is different to the air density from out side the tea
bag.This is because the cold air rushes into the tea bag pushing it up into the air.

Chromatography
Chroma is greek for colour  Graphy means words or pitchers. 
Chromatography is the scientific technique for seperating 2 or more coloured pigments(inks & dyes).
Questions:
1) Chroma is greek for colour and Graphy means words or pitchers in greek.
2) Inks and dyes
3) The pigments seperate because 
4) Lighter pigments are carrieded further than darker pigments in a solvent.
5) The "start line" should always be drawn in pencil because pencil is graphite which doesn't seperate.
6) The solvent level must be lower than the sample spots because

Saturation
A saturated solution is when no more solvent can be dissolved in it. If some of the solvent evaporates from a 
saturated solution, the remaining solution becomes supersaturated. The remaining solute will then begin to form 
crystals.

Epsen Salt Crystals
When we were making our crystals we tried to saturate water with epsen salts but we couldn't get the liquid 
saturated. Because of this crystals grew in the solution but coudn't hold their form in tthe liquid. We then
tried to grow the cyristals in the same solution but on a pipe cleaner but with no success.