Nova Scotia and Minnesota: Seperated at Birth?
I've been listening and reading to your comments on the blog and in class. It is becoming clearer and clearer to me that our home state of Minnesota and my expedition destination of Nova Scotia have many things in common.
I was wondering what are the most important things Minnesota and Nova Scotia have in common? Why are these important? What do you think I will encounter in NS that I could just as easily encounter in MN?
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posted by Mr. Gasteazoro @ 11:05 AM
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Greetings Miss Beeman and welcome to my blog!
An I-I Comment is one that posts Information as well as an Inquiry (I-I). In setting expectations for what good blog responses should look like we agreed in my class that the I-I format would reflect what we do as scientists everyday. In following the Scientific Method we are seeking answers/information to our hypotheses. In discovering that information we should also be discovering new questions that lead us to still more hypotheses to investigate. This blog is a nice platform to put that knowledge to good practice.
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Here are some mammal similarities that Minnesota and Nova Scotia have in common: Beavers, white tailed deer, lynx, voles, loons and skunks ect. We think why they have these mammals in common is that they are on the same line of Latitude. That line of Latitude is the 44th degree north Latitude. Listing off those mammals made us think beside mammals what other animals does Minnesota and Nova Scotia have in common?
Our source is: The earth watch expedition Landing page
We think that by what is in the droppings you can tell what that animal eats, like here, you can tell what your pet eats when you need to pick up their droppings after they go to the bathroom. So one of the things possible that "MN and NS could have been separated at birth" to tell what the animal ate by what is in their droppings.
What animals' droppings will you see?
We think that one of the most important things that Nova Scotia and Minnesota have in common is that they are on the same line of latitude. We think that this is the most important/ helpful because,you'll kind of be able to predict the weather and you'll be able to see some of the same stars at night and you'll even be able to know what to wear because, you'll know the weather is.Could suverer things in NS change this?
What did you find was the most striking difference between NS and MN when you arrived? Was it the temperature? Humidity? Landscape?
I've noticed in the past several years that opossums have been more and more common in Minnesota and they used to only live further south than us. I'm wondering if you'll see an opossums or signs of them in Nova Scotia. I'm also wondering what effect new animals would have on an environment?
We think the most important thing is that they are are on the same line of latitude,Because it may mean some of the same spices are being extinct and may include climate change in both places.
I researched Minnesota on Net Trekker and found that our state has Red Spruce Trees so I tried seeing if Nova Scotia had any Red Spruce too but came up with nothing, but then I heard Maren and Jaclyn talking about the Red Spruce and they were trying to find out if it was in Minnesota because they found that it's in Nova Scotia! Will you see any Red Spruce? If you do what does it's Needles look like?
I think that thing in the water was a beaver case a muskrat has a long tail and in is not flat but if you looked at the tail really heard it also looks like it could be a muskrat too.But because my first thought was a beaver i think it is a beaver.
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