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Fluxx Mod Project Blog: 11/19/17

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Summary:  Fluxx is a complex game in which the goals are rules are always changing. While creating my very own Fluxx deck my partner and I set out to use this platform to educate others about the Water Cycle. Some main concepts of we included were accumulation, condensation, evaporation, precipitation, etc. Accumulation is when water gathers in large bodies such as lakes, seas, and oceans. We should this through a goal in which you needed lake and rain because the rainwater accumulated into the lake. Precipitation is when water drops onto the earth in ways like snow, sleet, hail, and rain. We incorporated this into our Fluxx deck by having the goal of 'Package Arrived' which required hail and atmosphere because hail precipitated atmospheric water to earth. When liquid water vaporizes into a gas is known as evaporation and the goal that explained this was 'Love is in the air.' In this goal, the connection was water vapor was in the atmosph...

Evolution Mastery Quest 2 Regrade: 11/13/1 7

Question:  All of the following are reasonable reasons that explain why is the fossil record incomplete, EXCEPT.... Wrong Answer: Scavengers and decomposers eat dead organisms too quickly. Correct Answer: Organisms that are alive today cannot become fossils. Reasoning: The correct answer is, 'Organisms that are alive today cannot become fossils' because organisms that are alive today can be fossils. This is so because certain organisms that exist today have roamed the Earth for many, many years giving them time to die and create fossils. Just because an organism is currently in existence doesn't mean that one of these individuals couldn't have become a fossil. 

Fluxx: Water Cycle 11/12/17

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Image: Summary:  The water cycle is the process in which water travels through various steps such as accumulation, condensation, evaporation, precipitation, etc. Accumulation is when water gathers in large bodies such as lakes, seas, and oceans. Condensation is when water vapor "condenses" into the liquid form of water.  Condensing water forms clouds in the sky.  The so-called ingredients for clouds include humidity, condensation and sudden change in air pressure.  When liquid water vaporizes into a gas is known as evaporation.  Water vaporizes from the surfaces of oceans and lakes or from the surface of the land.  Precipitation is when water drops onto the earth in ways like snow, sleet, hail, and rain. A subsurface runoff is when a form of water flows underground into sewers or drains, whereas a surface runoff is when water flows into rivers and streams located on the surface. Transpiration is when plants absorb water through its roots...

Designer Species Project Blog 11/5/17

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Summary: The bezeus is a marine animal that lives in the lakes of tropical rainforests located on planet C. Its shape and structure is almost identical to a seal except for the fact that its tail does not part in the ends. It stays cool by living in the water, for one, and its seal-like skin is designed to keep it cool. Not only does it absorb water, but it doesn't have blubber or a furry texture. The climate of planet C is very warm so it doesn't need to worry about the cold, but it does move to the top of the water if it does become cold. The bezeus gets its water from the lakes it resides in and eats algae, seaweed, and small fish. As well as that, it uses its two front limbs to eat the vegetation that surrounds the lakes. It will sneak up on its prey because it's the same murky color as the water. In addition to camouflage, the bezeus can use its tail to inject poison into both birds and bigger fish that try to consume it. The first few months,...