Site Observations Day 4 (kingdoms)

Yesterday, my classmates and i went outside to the woods to serch for the six kingdoms. As we wer walking through the woods, we got to the pond and seen are first kingdom. It was the Animal kingdom.  There was the bus garage in the back ground, and a black bird flying over head. You could here the train in a distance.There were some geese in the pond on the far side. Right in front of us conner ad i found some Cat tails.(Typhceae)

That was the first start off to the Plant kingdom. The Cat Tails are very interesting plant. They are found near ponds. I have never seen them near a creek only at ponds/ near ponds. As we continued to walk through the woods we came up on a few small creeks. We looked for a sign of life in the creeks but i couldnt find any. It was hard to look through the greenish water. The bottoms of the creeks were some leaves and sticks witch made it hahrd to see the bottoms of the creeks. Up a few ways we found a log. It looked like it was roting away. This is what we found


Slime mold.(Dictyostelium discoideum) It was all over the roting log. There was a small spot of witch looked like it was a growing mushroom. You can barely see it in the picture but its there. The bark on the tree, was falling off in big chunks. I pulled some of the bark off and so did Conner and he found a Centipede. It was a small one but as soon as he seen the bark being peeled off he took off across the log.



If you look you can see the legs of the Centipede(varies). A Centipede is very interesting to look at. The way they look is pretty neat. They live mainly in the ground or on something that is decaying like the log this picture is taking on. As we continued to pull the bark off we found our next kingdom. Kingdom bacteria or Eubacteria.

After we found are next kingdom and after we pulled sime of the bark off this is what we found. As you can see thre is some of the bark under and infront of the log. i beleive by the end of the summer this year there will not be much of the log left. The weather yesterday, was pretty warm id say it was about 65 out there in the woods and near the pond. It was feeling pretty good but the only thing was is that it would have been better if i has some shorts on. Ihad some long pants on and boots. But over all yasterday was a pretty nice day ouside. I wil be glad the next day we go out an take a long walk through the woods with the class and looking at some neat stuff. I had fun walking through and looking at the wild life thats out in the woods behind the school.Theres a lot of land out there that would be good for hunting. We found a lot of tracks and fresh paths where something walked.