Joseph's Spot

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

A great civilization.

By Joseph

About 7,000 years ago farmers began to move and live into the area between the Tigris and

Euphrates rivers which the ancient Greeks called Mesopotamia which means the “land between the

Rivers” in modern times is roughly in the same area as Iraq. Life has very hard work there. The

Weather was hot and dry and the rivers would flood but the land was fertile when looked after

Properly. Gradually in the south in the land of Sumer: a great civilization grew.

Many people worldwide own ATV’s (All-Terrain Vehicles) which has many uses. ATV’s help with many chores from checking fences to helping hunters retrieve slain deer and elk. Even children get the enjoyment of ATVs so safety is extremely important. ATVs get their name because they can go almost travel anywhere, rocks, snow and deserts. They eat very little fuel. Many people enjoy ATVs.

Outcome of labour

By J.A.K Murray

Once upon a time in the future at 1800’s A.D. a farmer was deceivingly shot in the head and wished that after he died his family would keep on being prosperous but he was afraid because his sons were lazy and also careless. He yodeled them to his bedside “there is a great treasure in the fields” he gasped his last breath. After his death his sons carefully dug everywhere in the fields. They found no treasure which made them frustrated but since they “plowed” so much they had an extraordinary crop that year that they survived comfortably. Then they realized that the treasure is the outcome of their own labour.

Japanese beetles

By Joseph

Japanese beetles are nasty pests that plague U.S.A gardens and in Canadian places which were accidentally imported in a root of a plant in a nursery in the 1916. Females lay eggs in midsummer. Grubs hatch in about two weeks and they have a comma-shaped body. They eat plants and then enter the pupa in late May or early June. Adults come out of the soil near the end of June then eat plants. Gardeners try to control them with baited traps. U.S.D.O.A (United States Department of agriculture) has released several parasites to attack Japanese beetles before they grow into adults.

Japanese beetle

Cottong cushion scale

By Joseph

In the late 1,800 disaster struck California’s lemon and orange groves. An Australian insect called “cottong cushion scale” which almost destroyed the groves. In desperation the Californian’s fruit growers brought a special ladybug from Australia. It worked. In less than two years the destructive scale was checked and the grove were saved. Biological Control of pests continued to grow using predators, parasites and diseases which were used to control the pest. Radiation and chemicals which are used so that they are not able to reproduce. Successfully used in the 1950’s biological control on screwworms this saved many livestock in the southeastern UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Leaves Losing Their Green Colour:

Leaves Losing their green colour:

By Joseph

Leaves are like little solar panels. Just like solar cells can use light to produce energy or electricity, leaves use light from the sun to make food for the tree.

This process is called photosynthesis which means “to be put together with light”. When the light enters a leaf a special part called the chloroplast (klo-ro-plast), uses the light to change carbon dioxide and water into breathable oxygen and a type of sugar called glucose. Inside a chloroplast is a chemical called chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is very important, because it is the chemical that will allow photosynthesis to take place and it also gives the leaves their nice green colour.

When autumn has come and winter is almost here you’ll figure out that that the days are getting shorter and shorter, much shorter than during the summer. That will mean the leaves won’t get as much light as they used to get in summer, which means the amount of chlorophyll decreases.

Chlorophyll keeps the leaves green so that when the leaves lose chlorophyll so they lose their green colour. Eventually they die for the lack of enough chlorophyll and so they become useless and we see the resultant brown dead leaves lying on the ground.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Brisbane: Views from the Brisbane River:

People on the top of Story Bridge

Story bridge

Story bridge. Here is some information I got from Wiki about Story Bridge: Do you know why it is called Story Bridge? The bridge is named after John DOUglas Story.

Official name	Story Bridge
Carries	Motor vehicles and pedestrians
Crosses	Brisbane River
Locale	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Design	Steel cantilever
Total length	777 metres (2,549 ft)
Width	24 metres (79 ft)
Height	74 metres (243 ft)
Longest span	282 metres (925 ft)
Clearance below	30.4 metres (99.7 ft) at mid-span
Opened	6 July 1940
Coordinates	27.463752°S 153.035699°E

An old paddle boat

An old fashioned paddle boat.

It has two or three entertaining decks and can handle up to 350 guests. It has a restaurant as well. There are actually two boats; they are called the Kookaburra Queens.