Scientific Names

All living things living on Earth have their own scientific names. Scientific names have two main parts, the first part is capitalized and identifies the genus that the living thing belongs to, the second part starts from a in small letter and tells the specie that the living thing belongs to. Scientific names determine any relationship between organisms.Scientific names are usually italicized.

Here are some scientific names of living things on Earth :

                                   
Dog                                                                                    
Canis fimiliaris




Crab
Ocypode ceratophthaimus




Peach
Prunus persica




Human beings
Homo sapiens



Frog
Rana tigrina



Giraffe
Giraffa camelopardalis



Leather back turtle
Dermochelys coriacea 



Iguana
Iguana iguana 

Lovely Sayings on Friends

"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness"
- Euripides


"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood"
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca 


"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light"
- Helen Keller 


"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship"
- Thomas Aquinas 


"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me"
- Henry Ford 


"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself"
- Jim Movuison


"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.



"A friend is someone who knows all about you and and still loves"
- Elbert Hubbard


"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out"
- Walter Winchell

Facts About Our Planet

1- It is the only planet that has an atmosphere containing 21 percent oxygen.

2- It is the only planet that has liquid water on its surface.

3-  It is the only planet in the solar system that has life.

4- The Earth is the only inner planet (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) to have one large satellite, the moon.

5- The Earth itself acts like a giant magnet having two magnetic poles. north magnetic pole and south magnetic pole.

6- The Earth is the third planet from the Sun and comes between the planet Venus and the planet Mars.

Echinoderms

Q: What are echinoderms ?
A: Echinoderms are radially symmetrical animals which are only found in the sea. The word 'echinoderms' means "spiny skin'' in Greek. Most, but not all, of them have spiny skin. Starfish, sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, feather stars, sea cucumbers and lamprometra (feather star) are types of echinoderms.





Q: What are sea cucumbers ?
A: Sea cucumbers are creatures which resemble a football. They are generally found on their side at the bottom of the ocean. Sea cucumbers belong to a sub-category of echinoderms known as holothuroidea. They feed upon plankton and other organic matter. Some stay in a current that brings a steady supply of food, and spend hours there. The tentacles open up and gather food in the current of the ocean. The sea cucumber uses some tentacles to eta, while the other tentacles collect food. Most sea cucumbers are poisonous.

Q: How do sea cucumbers protect themselves ?
A: The sea cucumber has an unusual way of defending itself. It throws out all of it's internal organs! This either scares off or satisfies the predators. The sea cucumber has the ability to grow another set of internal organs. Some sea cucumbers even secrete a sticky substance in order to defend themselves against their enemies. If anyone gets this sticky material on its body, it will not be able to remove it unless the skin is shaved off.


Q: What is a starfish ?
A: Sea stars are sometimes called starfish, though they are not really fish as they do not have vertebrae and fins. They are usually two sub-types of sea stars - asteroids which are the true sea stars
and sun stars. Ophiuroideas are brittle stars and basket stars. Each sea star has hundreds of tiny feet at the bottom of each ray. These tube feet are also known as podia. Theses tiny feet are filled with sea water. Apart from this, the vascular system f the sea star is also filled with sea water. By slowly moving water from the vascular system into the tiny feet, the sea star can move its foot by expanding it, and thus it moves around. Star fish eat many things. Their diet consists of barnacles, snails, sea urchins, clams and mussels.


Q: What do brittle stars look like ?
A: The brittle star is also known as the serpent star. It is a spiny, hard-skinned animal having long arms, which lives on he rocky sea floor, in the shallow waters to greater depths. They are of many colours, including shades of brown, red-brown, yellow and cream. If a brittle star's arm is cut off it has the capability to regenerate. Brittle stars which have multiple-forked arms are also known as basket stars. Most brittle stars are less than 1 inch (2.5cm) in diameter having a hard exoskeleton. They don't have a brain; instead have a simple ring of nerve cells which carries out information all around the body. Tube feet located along the arms, sense light. They feed on decaying matter and plankton. Some brittle stars can also kill small animals. Compared to starfish, brittle stars have a much smaller central disc with no anus. Wastes are disposed off through the mouth which is centrally located on the underside.
                                                                                               

Animal Facts

It's mind blowing to think about the multitude of animals that exist in this world. From a tiny flea to the great blue whale, each animal possesses a unique quality that makes it stand out from the rest. Now here are some animal facts you didn't know about and will surprise you.

1- Dog
Dogs nose prints are as unique as human finger prints and can be used to identify them.




2- Sea Horse
The slowest fish is the sea horse, moves along about 0.01 mph.




3- Squirrels
Squirrels plant thousands of new trees every year simply by forgetting where they put their acorns.




4- Turtles
Turtles can breathe through their butts.




5- Cows
Cows have best friends















6- Panda
In China, killing a panda is punishable by death.




7- Dolphins
Dolphins have names for each other.




8- Chicks
Before chicks hatch they can communicate with each other and their mother through a system of sounds.

Marine Invertebrates

Hey everybody! I have some very informative questions and answers about marine invertebrates for you. Lets see if you can answer them. But before that you must know what MARINE INVERTEBRATES are. Marine invertebrates are multi-cellular organism (multi-cellular organisms are living things made up of many cells, elephant etc..) that inhabit a marine environment apart from the vertebrate members. Marine invertebrates comprise in many groups. This group of marine life includes animals such as sponges, jellyfish, clams, crabs, lobsters and sea stars etc etc...


Q: What does "octopus" mean ?
A: The word octopus means eight feet. Octopuses are  solitary, eight armed animals found on the ocean floor. There are more than a 100 different species. The giant octopus is the biggest one. This huge mollusc grows up to 23 ft (7 m)  from arm tip to arm tip, and weights up to 400 pounds (182 kg). The smallest of all is the Californian octopus, which is only 3/8 inch (1 cm) long.





Q: How does an octopus catch its prey ?
A: Octopuses generally eat small crabs. In order to catch prey, they use their arms and kill the prey by biting it with their tough beak. When the prey becomes totally paralyzed, octopuses suck out its flesh. Octopuses hunt mostly during the night.


Q: Why are squids known as the " ice cream con of the sea " ?
A: Squids are found in all the oceans of the world. They are known as the ice cream cone of the sea as they are a favourite food of many ocean dwellers. Female squids lay thousands of eggs in order to support a food chain. Squids have some of the largest eyes in proportion to their bodies. Squids have 10 arms, of which two are tentacles having flattened ends entirely covered with suckers.

Beautiful Sayings on Family

'' You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.''
- Desmond Tutu

'' Love makes a family ''
- Gigi Kaeser

'' I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other ''
- Jet Li

'' Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back.''
- Cassandra Clare

'' Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.''
- Cassia Leo

'' I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.''
- Kim Kardashian

'' My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.''
- Kim Kardashian


                                                                                          

Golden Sayings on Beauty

''A girl should be two things:
classy and fabulous''
- Coco Chanel                                                                                      

''Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.''
- Oscar Wildie                                                                              
                         
''Beauty is power;a smile is its sword.''                                      
- Charles Reade

''Beauty is the eye of the beholder''
- Margaret Hungerford

''All little girls should be told they are pretty'even if they aren't''
- Marilva Monroe

''What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful''
- Scott Westerfeld

''Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy''
- Anne Frank

''It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.''
- Leo Tolstoy

''Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone''
- Dorothy Parker

Books

Books books books and books! That's what I'm always thinking about. They fill up your mind with imagination. Books are a store of knowledge and wisdom. They contain a variety of pleasures. And most important, books never ever misguide us. All they do is build up our character and take away our sadness. I would prefer everybody to read as much books as you can to be more creative, more healthy and also to increase your vocabulary. And once you do you would would never resist a good book. Start with short novels. Just try not to read to many scary books because you really don't want to give yourselves nightmares. My best Author is Enid Blyton. I just love her books so much. They are irresistible. And once you'll start reading books i guess you'll think the same too. Oh and yes, I also totally love The Dork Diaries. They are out of this world (for real).


                               

Effects of Video Games

Are video games good or bad for you? To be honest they can be both.

Some think that these games corrupt the brain. But many scientists and physiologists found out that video games can actually have many benefits -- the main one is making kids smart.
"Video games change your brain". Playing video games changes the brain's physical structure the same way as learning to read, playing a piano, or navigating using a map.

Positive Effects

When kids play a game like angry birds or cut the rope he trains his brain to think of creative ways to solve the puzzle.

While playing some games I have noticed that you have to do many things the same time especially in fighting games. That forces and encourages the kid to think faster and quicker with logical ways. That encourages the kid to make fast analysis and decisions.

Playing video games develops perseverance in the child. Usually in higher levels of games the player loses the first time but he keeps on trying again until he succeeds and moves on to the next level.

Video games sometimes makes  learning fun.

Well that's enough benefits for now. Next are the negative effects.

Negative Effects

In my view kids who play fighting games are very aggressive all the time.

Most of the bad effects of video games are blamed on the violence they contain.
Too much video game playing makes the child socially isolated.

The child will give less time to other activities like doing homework, reading,sports and spending time with family and friends.

Some video games teach kids the wrong value like violent behaviour.

Games can confuse reality and fantasy.

Video games may also have bad effects on the child's health including obesity, muscular and skeletal disorders.

When playing online your kid can pickup bad language and behaviour, from other people.

Tips For Writing Poems

Types of Poetic Devices

Simile: A simile is an easy way to compare two things using the words"as" or "like". For example, Your teeth are like stars, Friends are like chocolate cake or like a diamond in the sky.

Personification: Personification is when you give human qualities to an object or an animal. For example lightning danced across the sky, The wind howled in the night, Traffic slowed to a crawl or time flies and waits for no one.

Metaphor: A Metaphor is the caparison between two unlike things  not using the words "as"or"like". For example the snow is a white blanket, eh is a shining star, time is money, Marie is a chicken, the classroom was a zoo or their home was a prison.

Alliteration: Alliteration is when the first alphabet of every word is repeated. For example Kim kicked Kate, She sells seashells on the sea shore, lily's lizard likes leaping leopards, the turbulent term of tyke Tyler.

Imagery: When you do something using your five senses-smell,touch,taste,sound,sight. For example hard soil, orange sun, the tree bark was smooth against her skin.

Reputation: It consists of repeating a word, phrase, or sentence. For example I am Bella I am Bella or Oh that sight oh that sight.

Tips For Story Writing

                                                Theme

 A theme is something important in a story, like a lesson. It's not really important for every story to have a theme, but it's better if it does. Theme is sometimes defined as the moral of a story, though theme doesn't have to be a moral. A stories theme may not come out as a moral at all. For example in the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the theme is staying good and pure at heart, and then being rewarded because of that. Themes may deal with principles and abstractions rather than people. Usually a writer decides upon the theme before writing the story for example this story will be about jealousy, bravery, hard-work pays off, friendship, loyalty, magic, kindness, love or faith.

                                                              

                                                        Plot

The plot of a story describes the events that make up a story or the main part of the story. Its like the plan or the idea of the story. You can't make up a story without a plot. Here is an example  of the plot of a short story "Todd loses his job".  

                                        

                                   

A plot builds up having five main elements:

EXPOSITION: Part of the work that introduces characters, setting and situation.

RISING ACTION: All the events that lead up to the climax.

CLIMAX: The highest point of interest or suspense in the story.

FALLING ACTION: All the events that come after the climax
RESOLUTION: The end of the story\conflict.

                                                       

                                                  STORY STRUCTURE

Decide about writing either in “present tense” or in “past tense.” Writing in past tense means writing as if the story already happened. Writing in present tense means writing as if the story is happening right now. Stick to one tense at a time. Its also important to decide whether the story is fiction or non-fiction. Figure out the problem in the story and the solution.

                                                                        

                                                                    CHARACTERS

Before you start writing, know your characters well. Your story should have a main character.You don’t have to describe a character completely. It’s enough to say one or two things about how a character looks or moves or speaks. A main character should have at least one flaw or weakness. Perfect characters are not very interesting. For example the main character in the story Alice in the wonderland is Alice and in many other stories there are characters too basically every story has characters. Its not important to have a character as a human, it could even be an animal or your own imagination. 

                                                                    

                                                                          Setting

Set your story in a place and time to make it interesting. Select a place in your story for example the place taken in the book," Charlie and the chocolate factory" is the chocolate factory.