Schedule for Holy Week!

Schedules

Between February and March 2012-Ash Wednesday(Miyerkules ng Abo)
April 5,2012-Maundy Thursday(Huwebes Santo)
April 6,2012-Good Friday(Biyernes Santo)
April 7,2012-Black Saturday(Sabado de Gloria)
April 8,2012-Easter Sunday(Pasko ng Pagkakabuhay)

Open Your'e Eyes

Open your eyes and see,
how much I love you,
and what you really mean to me.
I love you but you don't know,
I love you,
but I'm afraid to show.
I need you here with me,
I promise,
I'll never hate you,
and that will never be.
but why can't I just say,
that I love you that way.
I never felt this way before in my life.
And sometimes,
it really hurts like a knife!
cause I don't have the courage to tell you
how I feel.
And to tell you,
that my feelings for you are real.
To tell you that I want you so bad,
and tell you that if I could be with you,
I'd be so glad.
I hope you notice one day how I feel,
and that you will see how I feel is so real.
I hope you will love me some day,
the way that I love you,
and I promise I will always love you,
I'll really do!
so if you'd just take the first step,
you really won't regret it.
and I will love you every day a little more,
bit by bit. I hope these lines can make you see,
what you really mean to me.
What I'm trying to say,
is that I've never loved some one this way!

Chilly*E

Love

Love is something
that you share with your
most loveable lover
your loveable friend to the end

It can't be erased
It can't be retraced
No one can ever stop you from loving
your most loveable lover
your compassionate lover
your significant other

Love is passionate
Love is sacred
Love is what has you
sitting around trying to make it

Love doesn't hurt you
Love is tender
Love is sweet
Love is what makes you wait for that big treat

Love is a 4 letter word
And in 3 words you can express it
I Love You!


Chasity Renee

The Music In My Heart

Many songs have passed my precious time
But none of them have touched this heart of mine
Except one that always plays in the wind
And put melody on my life
You are the music of my heart
The signal that sets my life to start
The melody that illuminate my day
And rhythm that colors my sky
I know this sweet sound wouldn’t last
And this moment will be put into past
Till the music be played with discord strings
Till there’s no more notes that sings
The love fades out and shrivels
Now in this corner I am crying
The sweet sound is still playing
As I listen to my heart singing
And I will always remember
That you are the reason why my heart’s hurting

Reciel Tanaid

Source:

http://www.lovefatedestiny.com/lovepoems.htm

Love Is...

Love is the greatest feeling,
Love is like a play
Love is what I feel for you,

Each and everyday
Love is like a smile
Love is a song
Love is great emotion,
That keeps us going strong

I love you with all my heart
My body and my soul
I love they way I keep loving
Like a love I cant control

So remember when your eyes meet mine
I love you with all my heart
And I have poured my entire soul into you
Right from the very start

Rebecca W.

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On The Departure Platform

We kissed at the barrier, and passing through
She left me, and moment by moment got
Smaller and smaller, until to my view
She was but a spot;

A wee white spot of muslin fluff
That doun the diminishing platform bore
Through hustling crowds of gentle and rough
To the carriage door.

Under the lamplight's fitful glowers,
Behind dark groups from far and near,
Whose interests were apart from ours,
She would disappear,

Then show again, till ceased to see
That flexible from, that nebulous white;
And she who was more then my life to me
Had vanished quite.

We have penned new plans since that fair fond day,
And in season she will appear again -
Perhaps in the same soft white array -
But never as then!

-'And why, young man, must eternally fly
A joy you'll repeat, if you love her well?'
- O friend, nought happens twice thus; why,
I cannot tell!

I Love You Back

I love how you speak to me
Shows me how much you care
I love how you look at me
Positively I feel so loved
I love how you talk
You flatter my soul
I love how you whisper
So assuring I lose all my fear
I love how you laugh at my jokes
Without a doubt I am clever and bright
I love how you express your mind
Hear the sound my own heartbeat
I love how you play your music
A different feeling each time
I love how you hum you tune
Digs deep into my soul
I love how you describe me
A melody I feel in my heart
I love how you miss me
Always brings joy into my life
I love how you want me
You get me so inspired
I love how you share you
Brings you closer to me
I love how you preach love
Sincerity I feel inside
I love how you feel me
Fills every emptiness
I love how you love
And it is so easy to love you back

Kay Barcelon

Forever!

One year has passed
I haven't talked with you since then
You're already at peace with the world
and here I am still struggling for life.

I am missing you
The voice, the care, the love
Where else could I find them
but only in you.

Memories about you are all I have
They make me cry and yearn for you
all the time of my waking life
Even in sleep I dreamed about you.

Sometimes I wish that I should not have been
what I was when we were still together
For I want that our love is forever
It could have been, that's all I could sigh for

Sometimes I wish that you could feel
The beatings of my heart even before I let you you know
You could hear what I think even if you don't hear me
You could dry the tears in my eyes even though you don't see me.

Life's indeed too short
for us to love eternally
But I do believe in forever
That was what you told me...

FOREVER, YOU and ME.

99 Things Guys Look For In Girls

1. Guys don't actually look after good-looking girls. They prefer neat and presentable girls.
2. Guys love flirts.
3. A guy can like you for a minute, and then forget you afterwards.
4. When a guy says he doesn't understand you, it simply means you're not thinking the way he is.
5. "Are you doing something?" or "Have you eaten already?" are the first usual questions a guy asks on the phone just to get out from stammering.
6. Guys may be flirting around all day but before they go to sleep, they always think about the girl they truly care about.
7. When a guy really likes you, he'll disregard all your bad characteristics.
8. Guys go crazy over a girl's smile.
9. Guys will do anything just to get the girl's attention.
10. Guys hate it when you talk about your ex-boyfriend.
11. When guys want to meet your parents. Let them.
12. Guys want to tell you many things but they can't. And they sure have one habit to gain courage and spirit to tell you many things and it is drinking!
13. Guys cry!!!!!!!!
14. Don't provoke the guy to heat up. Believe me. He will.
15. Guys can never dream and hope too much.
16. Guys usually try hard to get the girl who has dumped them, and this makes it harder for them to accept their defeat.
17. When you touch a guy's heart, there's no turning back.
18. Giving a guy a hanging message like "You know what?!..uh...never mind!" would make him jump to a conclusion that is far from what you are thinking.
19. Guys go crazy when girls touch their hands.
20. Guys are good flatterers when courting but they usually stammer when they talk to a girl they really like.
21. When a guy makes a prolonged "umm" or makes any excuses when you're asking him to do you a favor, he's actually saying that he doesn't like you and he can't lay down the card for you.
22. When a girl says "no", a guy hears it as "try again tomorrow."
23. You have to tell a guy what you really want before he gets the message clearly.
24. Guys hate gays!
25. Guys love their moms.
26. A guy would sacrifice his money for lunch just to get you a couple of roses.
27. A guy often thinks about the girl who likes him. But this doesn't mean that the guy likes her.
28. You can never understand him unless you listen to him.
29. If a guy tells you he loves you once in a lifetime. He does.
30. Beware. Guys can make gossips scatter through half of the face of the earth faster than girls can.
31. Like Eve, girls are guys EUR™ weaknesses.
32. Guys are very open about themselves.
33. It's good to test a guy first before you believe him. But don't let him wait that long.
34. No guy is bad when he is courting.
35. Guys hate it when their clothes get dirty. Even a small dot.
36. Guys really admire girls that they like even if they're not that much pretty.
37. Your best friend, whom your boyfriend seeks help from about his problems with you may end up being admired by your boyfriend.
38. If a guy tells you about his problems, he just needs someone to listen to him. You don't need to give advice.
39. A usual act that proves that the guy likes you is when he teases you.
40. A guy finds ways to keep you off from linking with someone else.
41. Guys love girls with brains more than girls in miniskirts.
42. Guys try to find the stuffed toy a girl wants but would unluckily get the wrong one.
43. Guys virtually brag about anything.
44. Guys cannot keep secrets that girls tell them.
45. Guys think too much.
46. Guys' fantasies are unlimited.
47. Girls' height doesn't really matter to a guy but her weight does!
48. Guys tend to get serious with their relationship and become too possessive. So watch out girls!!
49. When a girl makes the boy suffer during courtship, it would be hard for him to let go of that girl.
50. It's not easy for a guy to let go of his girlfriend after they broke up especially when they've been together for 3 years or more.
51. You have to tell a guy what you really want before getting involved with that guy.
52. A guy has to experience rejection, because if he's too-good-never-been-busted, never been in love and hurt, he won't be matured and grow up.
53. When an unlikable circumstance comes, guys blame themselves a lot more than girls do. They could even hurt themselves physically.
54. Guys have strong passion to change but have weak will power.
55. Guys are tigers in their peer groups but become tamed pussycats with their girlfriends.
56. When a guy pretends to be calm, check if he's sweating. You'll probably see that he is nervous.
57. When a guy says he is going crazy about the girl. He really is.
58. When a guy asks you to leave him alone, he's just actually saying, "Please come and listen to me."
59. Guys don't really have final decisions.
60. When a guy loves you, bring out the best in him.
61. If a guy starts to talk seriously, listen to him.
62. If a guy has been kept shut or silent, say something.
63. Guys believe that there's no such thing as love at first sight, but court the girls anyway and then realize at the end that he is wrong.
64. Guys like femininity not feebleness.
65. Guys don't like girls who punch harder than they do.
66. A guy may instantly know if the girl likes him but can never be sure unless the girl tells him.
67. A guy would waste his time over video games and basketball, the way a girl would do over her romance novels and make-ups.
68. Guys love girls who can cook or bake.
69. Guys like girls who are like their moms. No kidding!
70. A guy has more problems than you can see with your naked eyes.
71. A guy's friend knows everything about him. Use this to your advantage.
72. Don't be a snob. Guys may easily give up on the first sign of rejection.
73. Don't be biased. Try loving a guy without prejudice and you'll be surprised.
74. Girls who bathe in their eau de perfumes do more repelling than attracting guys.
75. Guys are more talkative than girls are especially when the topic is about girls.
76. Guys don't comprehend the statement "Get lost" too well.
77. Guys really think that girls are strange and have unpredictable decisions but still love them more.
78. When a guy gives a crooked or pretentious grin at your jokes, he finds them offending and he just tried to be polite.
79. Guys don't care about how shiny their shoes are unlike girls.
80. Guys tend to generalize about girls but once they get to know them, they'll realize they're wrong.
81. Any guy can handle his problems all by his own. He's just too stubborn to deal with it.
82. Guys find it so objectionable when a girl swears.
83. Guys' weakest point is at the knee.
84. When a problem arises, a guy usually keeps himself cool but is already thinking of a way out.
85. When a guy is conscious of his looks, it shows he is not good at fixing things.
86. When a guy looks at you, either he's amazed of you or he's criticizing you.
87. When you catch him cheating on you and he asks for a second chance, give it to him. But when you catch him again and he asks for another chance, ignore him.
88. If a guy lets you go, he really loves you.
89. If you have a boyfriend, and your boy best friend always glances at you and it obviously shows that he is jealous whenever you're with your boyfriend, all I can say is your boy best friend loves you more than your boyfriend does.
90. Guys learn from experience not from the romance books that girls read and take as their basis of experience.
91. You can tell if a guy is really hurt or in pain when he cries in front of you!
92. If a guy suddenly asks you for a date, ask him first why.
93. When a guy says he can't sleep if he doesn't hear your voice even just for one night, hang up. He also tells that to another girl. He only flatters you and sometimes makes fun of you.
94. You can truly say that a guy has good intentions if you see him praying sometimes.
95. Guys seek for advice not from a guy but from a girl.
96. Girls are allowed to touch boys' things. Not their hair!
97. If a guy says you're beautiful, that guy likes you.
98. Guys hate girls who overreact.
99. Guys love you more than you love them if they are serious in your relationships.

CLOSE UP!

Ecah by each by moment closer!

Love's Last Adieu

The roses of Love glad the garden of life,
Though nurtur'd 'mid weeds dropping pestilent dew,
Till Time crops the leaves with unmerciful knife,
Or prunes them for ever, in Love's last adieu!
In vain, with endearments, we soothe the sad heart,
In vain do we vow for an age to be true;
The chance of an hour may command us to part,
Or Death disunite us, in Love's last adieu!
Still Hope, breathing peace, through the grief-swollen breast,
Will whisper, ?Our meeting we yet may renew:?
With this dream of deceit, half our sorrow's represt,
Nor taste we the poison, of Love's last adieu!
Oh! mark you yon pair, in the sunshine of youth,
Love twin'd round their childhood his flow'rs as they grew;
They flourish awhile, in the season of truth,
Till chill'd by the winter of Love's last adieu!
Sweet lady! why thus doth a tear steal its way,
Down a cheek which outrivals thy bosom in hue?
Yet why do I ask?---to distraction a prey,
Thy reason has perish'd, with Love's last adieu!
Oh! who is yon Misanthrope, shunning mankind?
From cities to caves of the forest he flew:
There, raving, he howls his complaint to the wind;
The mountains reverberate Love's last adieu!
Now Hate rules a heart which in Love's easy chains,
Once Passion's tumultuous blandishments knew;
Despair now inflames the dark tide of his veins,
He ponders, in frenzy, on Love's last adieu!
How he envies the wretch, with a soul wrapt in steel!
His pleasures are scarce, yet his troubles are few,
Who laughs at the pang that he never can feel,
And dreads not the anguish of Love's last adieu!
Youth flies, life decays, even hope is o'ercast;
No more, with Love's former devotion, we sue:
He spreads his young wing, he retires with the blast;
The shroud of affection is Love's last adieu!
In this life of probation, for rapture divine,
Astrea declares that some penance is due;
From him, who has worshipp'd at Love's gentle shrine,
The atonement is ample, in Love's last adieu!
Who kneels to the God, on his altar of light
Must myrtle and cypress alternately strew:
His myrtle, an emblem of purest delight,
His cypress, the garland of Love's last adieu!
Lord Byron

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Farewell Party!

Yeheey!

Clearance Day@ADDU HS

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Stone by Stone

I have a wall you cannot see
Because it’s deep inside of me
It blocks my heart on every side
And helps emotions there to hide
You can’t reach in
I can’t reach out
You wonder what it’s all about
The wall I built that you can’t see
Results from insecurity
Each time my tender heart was hurt
The scars within grew worse and worse
So stone by stone
I built a wall
That’s now so thick it will not fall
Please understand that its not you
Continue trying to break through
I want show much to show myself
And love from you will really help
So bit by bit
Chip at my wall
Til stone by stone, it starts to fall
I know the process will be slow
It’s never easy to let go
Of hurts and failures long in grounded
Upon ones heart from years of pain
I’m so afraid
To let you in
I know I might get hurt again
I try so hard to break the wall
But I seem to get nowhere at all
For stone upon each stone ive attacked
And left between them not a crack
The only way
To make it fall is in imperfections in the wall
I did the best I could to build
A perfect wall but there are still
A few small flaws which are the key
To breaking through the wall to me
Please use each flaw
To cause a crack
To knock a stone off of the stack
For just as stone by stone was laid
With every hurt and every pain
So stone by stone the wall will break
As love replaces every ache
Please be the one who cares enough
To find the flaws no matter what.

What About Love?

We think about it,
sing about it,
dream about it,
and lose sleep worrying about it.

When we don't have it,
we search for it;
when we discover it,
we don't know what to do without it,
when we have it,
we fear losing it.

It's a constant source of pleasure and pain
but we can't predict from one minute to the next,
which could be today.

We love our parents,
our brothers and sisters,
our boyfriends and girlfriends,
our cats and dogs,
our comfortable shoes
and our baseball gloves.

Love
- It's a short work,
easy to spell,
difficult to defind,
impossible to live without.

Laag!

Rest Na Pagod!

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March 15,2012
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SS and Math

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March 15-CLE and Filipino

My Angel

The scarred and broken heart of mine
Was healed sweetly by her gentle smile
All the chaos in my life
Was silenced by her bluesy eyes

Her lips are like that of an angel
So beautiful, so red
That if i die of inhumanity
They would wake me up from dead

The words she speaks
Come out like song from heaven
Like symphonic melodies
As holy as number seven

The smile from her face
Just blinds my eyes
It has just become harder day by day
To say to her goodbye

Cyaniditarian

When I Met You

Many times I’ve had my heart broken into pieces.
Making me live a life of mess.
Many times I’ve loved to the fullest,
But still end up crying like the rest.


Then one day you came into my world...
You comforted me with love every time I feel cold.
And with you is where I want to be with till we grow old..
Making our love as the greatest story ever told.


Never thought I’d fall so deep.
Feels like I just woke up from a long sleep.
Never thought I could still be this happy..
Now seeing the world smiling back at me.


You are my love of a lifetime,
And if loving you is a crime,
Then I’m definitely guilty
For loving you with all of me.


I LOVE YOU, JOY, till eternity.

Blueswan

The Water Cycle

Water on Earth is always changing. Its repeating changes make a cycle. As water goes through its cycle, it can be a solid (ice), a liquid (water), or a gas (water vapor). Ice can change to become water or water vapor. Water can change to become ice or water vapor. Water vapor can change to become ice or water.
How do these changes happen? Adding or subtracting heat makes the cycle work. If heat is added to ice, it melts. If heat is added to water, it evaporates. Evaporation turns liquid water into a gas called water vapor.
If heat is taken away from water vapor, it condenses. Condensation turns water vapor into a liquid. If heat is taken away from liquid water, it freezes to become ice.
The water cycle is called the hydrologic cycle. In the hydrologic cycle, water from oceans, lakes, swamps, rivers, plants, and even you, can turn into water vapor. Water vapor condenses into millions of tiny droplets that form clouds. Clouds lose their water as rain or snow, which is called precipitation. Precipitation is either absorbed into the ground or runs off into rivers. Water that was absorbed into the ground is taken up by plants. Plants lose water from their surfaces as vapor back into the atmosphere. Water that runs off into rivers flows into ponds, lakes, or oceans where it evaporates back into the atmosphere.
The cycle continues.

PCycle

Human Inputs to the Phosphorus Cycle:
Human influences on the phosphate cycle come mainly from the introduction and use of commercial synthetic fertilizers. The phosphate is obtained through mining of certain deposits of calcium phosphate called apatite. Huge quantities of sulfuric acid are used in the conversion of the phosphate rock into a fertilizer product called "super phosphate".

 

Plants may not be able to utilize all of the phosphate fertilizer applied, as a consequence, much of it is lost form the land through the water run-off. The phosphate in the water is eventually precipitated as sediments at the bottom of the body of water. In certain lakes and ponds this may be redissolved and recyled as a problem nutrient.

 

Animal wastes or manure may also be applied to the land as fertilizer. If misapplied on frozen ground during the winter, much of it may lost as run-off during the spring thaw. In certain area very large feed lots of animals, may result in excessive run-off of phosphate and nitrate into streams.

 

Other human sources of phosphate are in the out flows from municipal sewage treatment plants. Without an expensive tertiary treatment, the phosphate in sewage is not removed during various treatment operations. Again an extra amount of phosphate enters the water.

The Water Cycle

Run and get a glass of water and put it on the table next to you.  Take a good long look at the water.  Now -- can you guess how old it is?  

The water in your glass may have fallen from the sky as rain just last week, but the water itself has been around pretty much as long as the earth has!   When the first fish crawled out of the ocean onto the land, your glass of water was part of that ocean.  When the Brontosaurus walked through lakes feeding on  plants, your glass of water was part of those lakes.  When kings and princesses, knights and squires took a drink from their wells, your glass of water was part of those wells. And you thought your parents were OLD

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The earth has a limited amount of water.  That water keeps going around and around and around and around and (well, you get the idea) in what we call the "Water Cycle". This cycle is made up of a few main parts: evaporation (and transpiration) condensation precipitation collection

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Evaporation:   Evaporation is when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam. The water vapor or steam leaves the river, lake or ocean and goes into the air.

Do plants sweat? Well, sort of.... people perspire (sweat) and plants transpire.  Transpiration is the process by which plants lose water out of their leaves.  Transpiration gives evaporation a bit of a hand in getting the water vapor back up into the air.

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Condensation:    Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds. This is called condensation. You can see the same sort of thing at home... pour a glass of cold water on a hot day and watch what happens.  Water forms on the outside of the glass.  That water didn't somehow leak through the glass!  It actually came from the air.  Water vapor in the warm air, turns back into liquid when it touches the cold glass.

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Precipitation:  Precipitation occurs when so much water has condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore.  The clouds get heavy and water falls back to the earth in the form of rain, hail, sleet or snow.

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Collection:  When water falls back to earth as precipitation, it may fall back in the oceans, lakes or rivers or it may end up on land.  When it ends up on land, it will either soak into the earth and become part of the “ground water” that plants and animals use to drink or it may run over the soil and collect in the oceans, lakes or rivers where the cycle starts all over again.

Carbon Cycle

The Carbon Cycle is a complex series of processes through which all of the carbon atoms in existence rotate. The same carbon atoms in your body today have been used in countless other molecules since time began. The wood burned just a few decades ago could have produced carbon dioxide which through photosynthesis became part of a plant. When you eat that plant, the same carbon from the wood which was burnt can become part of you. The carbon cycle is the great natural recycler of carbon atoms. Unfortunately, the extent of its importance is rarely stressed enough. Without the proper functioning of the carbon cycle, every aspect of life could be changed dramatically.
We believe that it's vital to understand how the carbon cycle works in order to see the danger of it not working. Therefore, let's look at a sample carbon cycle and explore how carbon atoms move through our natural world. Plants, animals, and soil interact to make up the basic cycles of nature. In the carbon cycle, plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and use it, combined with water they get from the soil, to make the substances they need for growth. The process of photosynthesis incorporates the carbon atoms from carbon dioxide into sugars. Animals, such as the rabbit pictured here, eat the plants and use the carbon to build their own tissues. Other animals, such as the fox, eat the rabbit and then use the carbon for their own needs. These animals return carbon dioxide into the air when they breathe, and when they die, since the carbon is returned to the soil during decomposition. The carbon atoms in soil may then be used in a new plant or small microorganisms. Ultimately, the same carbon atom can move through many organisms and even end in the same place where it began. Herein lies the fascination of the carbon cycle; the same atoms can be recycled for millennia!



Now that you have learned about the cycle, let's go into some specifics.

Nutrient Cycles

Water
Oxygen-Carbon Dioxide
Phosphorus
Nitrogen

Nitrogen Cycle

The main component of the nitrogen cycle starts with the element nitrogen in the air. Two nitrogen oxides are found in the air as a result of interactions with oxygen. Nitrogen will only react with oxygen in the presence of high temperatures and pressures found near lightning bolts and in combustion reactions in power plants or internal combustion engines. Nitric oxide, NO, and nitrogen dioxide, NO2, are formed under these conditions. Eventually nitrogen dioxide may react with water in rain to form nitric acid, HNO3. The nitrates thus formed may be utilized by plants as a nutrient.

 

Nitrogen in the air becomes a part of biological matter mostly through the actions of bacteria and algae in a process known as nitrogen fixation. Legume plants such as clover, alfalfa, and soybeans form nodules on the roots where nitrogen fixing bacteria take nitrogen from the air and convert it into ammonia, NH3. The ammonia is further converted by other bacteria first into nitrite ions, NO2-, and then into nitrate ions, NO3-. Plants utilize the nitrate ions as a nutrient or fertilizer for growth. Nitrogen is incorporate in many amino acids which are further reacted to make proteins.

 

Ammonia is also made through a synthetic process called the Haber Process. Nitrogen and hydrogen are reacted under great pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst to make ammonia. Ammonia may be directly applied to farm fields as fertilizer. Ammonia may be further processed with oxygen to make nitric acid. The reaction of ammonia and nitric acid produces ammonium nitrate which may then be used as a fertilizer. Animal wastes when decomposed also return to the earth as nitrates.

 

To complete the cycle other bacteria in the soil carry out a process known as denitrification which converts nitrates back to nitrogen gas. A side product of this reaction is the production of a gas known as nitrous oxide, N2O. Nitrous oxide, also known as "laughing gas" - mild anesthetic, is also a greenhouse gas which contributes to global warming.

There's A Girl

The road I travel is working
off railroads and gravel,
Fixing ties and losing some time.
There’s a girl in Tulsa
that’s sweet on this fella,
She says that I am
always on her mind.
I should grab my backpack,
hop in my fastback
It’s only a short drive.
If I could reach her
I know I could teach her,
How sweet it is to be mine.
If only I could make up for lost time.
There’s a girl waiting when I have the time.
The rails have come to own me
and time is never on my side
work seems only to slow me
I'm here only for the lonely ride.
The road I travel is working
off back roads and gravel,
Fixing rails but I just keep
falling behind.
There’s a girl in Chama
that’s sweet on this fella,
She says I could easily
make her mine.
I should grab my backpack
hop in my fastback,
It’s only a short drive.
If I could reach her
I know I could teach her,
How easy it is to be mine.
But I just keep falling further behind.
There’s a girl waiting when I’m not behind.
The rails have come to own me
and time is never on my side
work seems only to slow me
I'm here only for the lonely ride.
The road I travel is working
off dirt roads and gravel,
Driving spikes to the end of this line.
There’s a girl in Mesa
that’s sweet on this fella,
She says I should call
and charge it to her dime.
I should grab my backpack
hop in my fastback,
It’s only a short drive.
If I could reach her
I know I could teach her,
How soon she could be mine.
But I can’t find the end of this line.
There’s a girl waiting at the end of this line.
The rails have come to own me
and time is never on my side
work seems only to slow me
I'm here only for the lonely ride.
God I hope there’s a girl still waiting at the end of this line.
Gregory Espy

The Carbon Cycle

All living things are made of carbon. Carbon is also a part of the ocean, air, and even rocks. Because the Earth is a dynamic place, carbon does not stay still. It is on the move!
In the atmosphere, carbon is attached to some oxygen in a gas called carbon dioxide.
Plants use carbon dioxide and sunlight to make their own food and grow. The carbon becomes part of the plant. Plants that die and are buried may turn into fossil fuels made of carbon like coal and oil over millions of years. When humans burn fossil fuels, most of the carbon quickly enters the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.
Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and traps heat in the atmosphere. Without it and other greenhouse gases, Earth would be a frozen world. But humans have burned so much fuel that there is about 30% more carbon dioxide in the air today than there was about 150 years ago, and Earth is becoming a warmer place. In fact, ice cores show us that there is now more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than there has been in the last 420,000 years.

For A Cute Girl

You changed my world with a blink of an eye
That is something that I can not deny
You put my soul from worst to best
That is why I treasure you my dearest Marites

You just don't know what you have done for me
You even pushed me to the best that I can be
You really are an angel sent from above
To take care of me and shower with love

When I'm with you I will not cry even a single a tear
And your touch have chased away all of my fear
You have given me a life that I could live worthwhile
It is even better everytime you smile

It so magical those things you've made
To bring back my faith that almost fade
Now my life is a dream come true
It all began when I was loved by you

Now I have found what I am looking for
It's you and your love and nothing more
Co'z you have given me this feeling of contentment
In my life something I've never felt

I wish I could talk 'til the end of day
But now I'm running out of things to say
So I'll end by the line you already know
"I LOVE YOU" more than what I could show

I Love U

What is it with Love?
That makes me then breaks me?
When in love do I truly love?
Is it really love Or do I think that I love?
Maybe I just love being in love
Or love the idea of being in love?
I spent my whole life chasing love.
In the end the one thing I truly love
Could just be the Meir pursuit of love

I have heard it said
True love comes around only once in life…
I never believed that until I met you.
I now know what true love means,
For never have I loved someone
as I love you…

Because our love is eternal
There's nothing left to say,
Except to say this one last word.
I love you more each day
 
Hassan Alokily

Beauty

Some flowers bloom in fall you know,
At summers end their blossoms show
And as the rose’s beauty falls
The dream of love will haunt us all.
Jewelry, like a portraits frame
Enhances beauty just the same.
A work of art is best by far
That tells the viewer who they are
But just as what I say is true,
A frame cannot change the view.
It cannot show a beauty fair
Where beauty first, was never there.
It cannot change a scowling face
To one that’s fair and full of grace.
It cannot fix a heart that’s blue
Or make a heart forever true.
Their is that beauty of a kind
That knows no boundaries of time
The shining of a soul inside
That none can ever hope to hide.
What ever shall I say to thee
That touches love’s sweet rhapsody
To embrace with time and heart
A truly lovely peace of art.
There is that loyalty of spirit
That one feels whenever near it
That so enthralls the heart of man
And searches then to understand
There is more to life then beauty,
Their is honor, love and duty
As in the heart that it entails,
Beauty wears so many vales.
Robert Browne

A Mask Of Beauty

A sheer smile skips those lips
How I want to hold your dearest mask
To think I am ashamed of thou beauty
Merely of adoration of each sensual amnesty
How fawn I am of your mask
To hide behind your beauty
I am the limp of a child that wonders with a thought
I put my hand on thee
And these hands want to know more
To close my eyes and dew soaks the stars
They shine no more
There beauty is diminished
I shall hide behind this mask as well
You will never be alone
Beauty has the eye of the beholder
Hold me dear love
And we shall look upon thy pupils
And we will make a stream of kisses
To beauty of wilderness we will create our own
To a world that is beauty
To a mask that shades underneath
A more over victory of passion over lust
A passion of beauty oh how I can taste it
Please fade with me from this world
And beauty will prevail
Through all the toils and snares
How I love you dearly
How my beauty shines for you
A red carpet for you to walk on
To follow
A love..
A beauty….
A dream….
Amberlee Spurling

Beautiful Memory

Today will be the past; come tomorrow
Why nothing or no one is above you
Today I will buy, steal, or borrow
So that the past reveals that I love you

I will yearn tomorrow for another today
Anything to strengthen our unity
The past is the map guiding the way
Every new day brings new opportunity

I will awaken knowing my primary goal
Accomplish something big or small
Fresh or increase something old
Deeds that will heighten our castle wall

I shall conduct myself in ways more than suitable
My gifts to the past will make memories beautiful

Tomorrow will deliver more affection and chivalry
I must today, make yesterday a beautiful memory

Yesterday will be the proof I was there
With facts that no one tried more
Applying layers of unwavering care
Flooding you with joy at the final score

It's ignited a passion that I have to vent
To stray from you; I cannot swallow
Necessary and a time well spent
Today will be the past; come tomorrow

Ron Harrell

Bright Star

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou ar t-
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains, and the moors -
No - yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To fed for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
An so live ever-or else swoon to death.

John Keats

Oxygen-Carbon Dioxide Cycle

The Carbon Dioxide- Oxygen Cycle relates to the relationship between Carbon Dioxide [CO₂] breathing plants and Oxygen [O₂] breathing lifeforms. All oxygen-breathing lifeforms take in Oxygen and exhale CO₂. Plants take in the CO₂ and use it in their photosynthesis process and in turn give off oxygen.

A:

The Carbon Dioxide-Oxygen Cycle is a continuously occurring process whereby animals inhale Oxygen and then exhale Carbon Dioxide, and plants use the CO₂ and "exhale" O₂.

A:

Plants and other producers use carbon dioxide in photosynthesis.
They produce oxygen as a waste product. Carbon dioxide moves
from the air into the leaves of plants. Oxygen moves from the
plant into the air through the leaves.

A:

Almost all living things, including plants, get energy from cellular
respiration. This process releases energy from the sugar molecules
in food. Oxygen is used in cellular respiration. Carbon dioxide is
produced as a waste product.

A:

The oxygen produced during photosynthesis is used in cellular
respiration. The carbon dioxide produced in cellular respiration is
used in photosynthesis. carbon dioxide and oxygen move through the ecosystem in this path called the CARBON DIOXIDE-OXYGEN CYCLE.

A:

During photosynthesis, algaet green plants take in CO2 from the air. They use CO2, along with H2O and the sun's energy, to make their own food (respiration). In this process, O2 is released as a waste product. Plants and animals need this oxygen to release energy from food.

A:

During photosynthesis green plants take in CO2 from the air. They use CO2 along with H2O and the sun's energy to make their own food (respiration). In this process O2 is released as a waste product. Plants and Animals need O2 to release energy from food. In the process O2 is taken in and CO2 is released. Carbon is also released as CO2 when organisms die and decay (work of decomposers).

A:

The carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle is the cycle in which living things (such as plants and animals) take in "oxygen" and let out "carbon dioxide."

A:

Humans & plants. Humans inhale oxygen, which is what plants excrete, and then the human excretes carbon dioxide, which the plants take in.

A.
In short plants release oxygen , that animals will take in and animals excrete carbon dioxide for the plants to produce their own food through photosynthesis .

Water Cycle

The Water Cycle (also known as the hydrologic cycle) is the journey water takes as it circulates from the land to the sky and back again.

The Sun's heat provides energy to evaporate water from the Earth's surface (oceans, lakes, etc.). Plants also lose water to the air (this is called transpiration). The water vapor eventually condenses, forming tiny droplets in clouds. When the clouds meet cool air over land, precipitation (rain, sleet, or snow) is triggered, and water returns to the land (or sea). Some of the precipitation soaks into the ground. Some of the underground water is trapped between rock or clay layers; this is called groundwater. But most of the water flows downhill as runoff (above ground or underground), eventually returning to the seas as slightly salty water.

WHY ARE THE OCEANS SALTY?

Oceans cover about 70% of the Earth's surface. The oceans contain roughly 97% of the Earth's water supply.

As water flows through rivers, it picks up small amounts of mineral salts from the rocks and soil of the river beds. This very-slightly salty water flows into the oceans and seas. The water in the oceans only leaves by evaporating (and the freezing of polar ice), but the salt remains dissolved in the ocean - it does not evaporate. So the remaining water gets saltier and saltier as time passes.

Energy Pyramid Part 1

An energy pyramid is a graphical model of energy flow in a community. The different levels represent different groups of organisms that might compose a food chain. From the bottom-up, they are as follows:

• Producers — bring energy from nonliving sources into the community
• Primary consumers — eat the producers, which makes them herbivores in most communities
• Secondary consumers — eat the primary consumers, which makes them carnivores
• Tertiary consumers — eat the secondary consumers

In some food chains, there is a fourth consumer level, and rarely, a fifth. Have you ever wondered why there are limits to the lengths of food chains?

Why are energy pyramids shaped the way they are?

An energy pyramid’s shape shows how the amount of useful energy that enters each level — chemical energy in the form of food — decreases as it is used by the organisms in that level. How does this happen?
Recall that cell respiration “burns” food to release its energy, and in doing so, produces ATP, which carries some of the energy as well as heat, which carries the rest. ATP is then used to fuel countless life processes. The consequence is that even though a lot of energy may be taken in at any level, the energy that ends up being stored there – which is the food available to the next level — is far less. Scientists have calculated that an average of 90% of the energy entering each step of the food chain is “lost” this way (although the total amount in the system remains unchanged).
The consumers at the top of a food pyramid, as a group, thus have much less energy available to support them than those closer to the bottom. That’s why their numbers are relatively few in most communities. Eventually, the amount of useful energy left can’t support another level. That’s why energy flow is depicted in the shape of a pyramid. The energy that enters a community is ultimately lost to the living world as heat.

Food Chain and Food Web Summary

What is the difference between food chain and a food web?

FOOD CHAINS FOLLOW A SINGLE PATH AS ANIMALS EAT EACH OTHER.
EXAMPLE:

• THE SUN provides food for GRASS
• The GRASS is eaten by a GRASSHOPPER
• The GRASSHOPPER is eaten by a FROG
• The FROG is eaten by a SNAKE
• The SNAKE is eaten by a HAWK.
  

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FOOD WEBS SHOW HOW PLANTS & ANIMALS ARE INTERCONNECTED BY DIFFERENT PATHS.
EXAMPLE:

• TREES produce ACORNS which act as food for many MICE and INSECTS.
• Because there are many MICE, WEASELS and SNAKES have food.
• The insects and the acorns also attract BIRDS, SKUNKS, and OPOSSUMS.
• With the SKUNKS, OPPOSUMS, WEASELS and MICE around, HAWKS, FOXES, and OWLS can find food.
• They are all connected! Like a spiders web, if one part is removed, it can affect the whole web.
  

FOOD WEBS show how plants and animals are connected in many ways to help them all survive. FOOD CHAINS follow just one path of energy as animals find food.

In the I.S. Lab

Doing my activity in the wilwebe island.

Nalood na ako sa Energy Pyramid

An energy pyramid is the graphical representation of the trophic levels (nutritional) by which the incoming solar energy is transferred into an ecosystem. The source of energy for living beings on Earth is the Sun. The energy that the Sun emits at present is of 1366.75 W/m^2 (400 years ago, it was of 1363.48 W/m^2). When the studies of the capture of energy by the producer organisms (photosynthetic organisms) were made, the Solar Irradiance (SI) was of 1365.45 W/m^2. The energy usable by photosynthetic organisms is 697.04 W/m^2; nevertheless, the photosynthetic organisms take only 0.65 W/m^2 and the rest of the incident energy on the surface is transferred to the abiotic surroundings (oceans, soil, atmosphere, etc.) and from there, the energy is emitted to the outer space and to the Gravity field (Guth. 1999. Pp. 29-31). The atmosphere absorbs 191.345 W/m^2, maintaining the tropospheric temperature of Earth in the hospitable 35.40 °C (95.72 °F).

On the diagram, the ciphers expressed in the boxes at the left side of the pyramid represent the energy taken by each individual. For example, the amount of energy acquired by the herbivores is equivalent to the ingestion of one gram of organic material from photosynthetic organisms. Each subsequent amount of energy (green rectangle) in the pyramid (towards the peak) is the energy that would be obtained by each gram of organic material originated from the underlying level. Detritivores or detritivorous are organisms that fed on remnants of organic matter, like corpses, excrements, etc. Detritivores take advantage of ca. 57% from the energy stored by the producers.

Results of Junor Master Chef Pinoy Edition

Kyle-1st Place
Philip-2nd Place
Mika-3rd Place
Jobim-4th Place

Food Chain and Food Web

Do you like to play games? If you do, you will need energy. Every time you run or jump, you are using up energy in your body. How do you get the energy to play? You get energy from the food you eat. Similarly, all living things get energy from their food so that they can move and grow. As food passes through the body, some of it is digested. This process of digestion releases energy.

A food chain shows how each living thing gets its food. Some animals eat plants and some animals eat other animals. For example, a simple food chain links the trees & shrubs, the giraffes (that eat trees & shrubs), and the lions (that eat the giraffes). Each link in this chain is food for the next link. A food chain always starts with plant life and ends with an animal.

1. Plants are called producers because they are able to use light energy from the Sun to produce food (sugar) from carbon dioxide and water.
2. Animals cannot make their own food so they must eat plants and/or other animals. They are called consumers. There are three groups of consumers.
   
   
   1. Animals that eat ONLY PLANTS are called herbivores (or primary consumers).
   2. Animals that eat OTHER ANIMALS are called carnivores.
      
      
      • carnivores that eat herbivores are called secondary consumers
      • carnivores that eat other carnivores are called tertiary consumers
        e.g., killer whales in an ocean food web ... phytoplankton → small fishes → seals → killer whales
      
      
3. Animals and people who eat BOTH animals and plants are called omnivores.
4. Then there are decomposers (bacteria and fungi) which feed on decaying matter.
   
   These decomposers speed up the decaying process that releases mineral salts back into the food chain for absorption by plants as nutrients.
   
   Image Map of the Nitrogen Cycle - What happens in the soil?

Do you know why there are more herbivores than carnivores?

In a food chain, energy is passed from one link to another. When a herbivore eats, only a fraction of the energy (that it gets from the plant food) becomes new body mass; the rest of the energy is lost as waste or used up by the herbivore to carry out its life processes (e.g., movement, digestion, reproduction). Therefore, when the herbivore is eaten by a carnivore, it passes only a small amount of total energy (that it has received) to the carnivore. Of the energy transferred from the herbivore to the carnivore, some energy will be "wasted" or "used up" by the carnivore. The carnivore then has to eat many herbivores to get enough energy to grow.

Because of the large amount of energy that is lost at each link, the amount of energy that is transferred gets lesser and lesser ...

1. The further along the food chain you go, the less food (and hence energy) remains available.

2. The above energy pyramid shows many trees & shrubs providing food and energy to giraffes. Note that as we go up, there are fewer giraffes than trees & shrubs and even fewer lions than giraffes ... as we go further along a food chain, there are fewer and fewer consumers. In other words, a large mass of living things at the base is required to support a few at the top ... many herbivores are needed to support a few carnivores

3. Most food chains have no more than four or five links.
   
   There cannot be too many links in a single food chain because the animals at the end of the chain would not get enough food (and hence energy) to stay alive.
   
   Most animals are part of more than one food chain and eat more than one kind of food in order to meet their food and energy requirements. These interconnected food chains form a food web. 
4. A change in the size of one population in a food chain will affect other populations.
   
   This interdependence of the populations within a food chain helps to maintain the balance of plant and animal populations within a community. For example, when there are too many giraffes; there will be insufficient trees and shrubs for all of them to eat. Many giraffes will starve and die. Fewer giraffes means more time for the trees and shrubs to grow to maturity and multiply. Fewer giraffes also means less food is available for the lions to eat and some lions will starve to death. When there are fewer lions, the giraffe population will increase.

Quiz on Biology

Biology

Answer the following multiple choice questions:

1. The _________________ is part of the Earth in which life exists. It includes the land, water, and air/atmosphere.
A. biosphere
B. habitat
C. niche
D. community
2. ________________ are organisms that break down and obtain energy from dead organic matter.
A. Producers
B. Decomposers
C. Autotrophs
D. Herbivores

3. The full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses these conditions is known as a _______________.
A. biosphere
B. habitat
C. niche
D. community

4. A _______________ is a step in the food chain.
A. community
B. biosphere
C. food web
D. trophic level

5. The scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment is _________________.
A. biosphere
B. ecology
C. trophic level
D. community

6. ________________ is/are the ultimate source of energy for all life on Earth.
A. Plants
B. Decomposers
C. Sunlight
D. Water

7. During _______________, autotrophs use light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and energy-rich carbohydrates such as sugars and starches.
A. chemosynthesis
B. photosynthesis
C. evaporation
D. nitrogen fixation

8. The biological influences on organisms within an ecosystem are called _______________.
A. biotic factors
B. abiotic factors
C. nonrenewable resources
D. biomes

9. The energy stored by producers can be passed through an ecosystem along a ________________, a series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten.
A. food web
B. habitat
C. niche
D. food chain

10. A(n) ________________ is a diagram that shows the relative amounts of energy or matter contained within each trophic level in a food chain or food web.
A. ecological pyramid
B. biosphere
C. biome
D. green revolution

11. A _______________ is a group of ecosystems that have the same climate and dominant communities.
A. biosphere
B. biome
C. niche
D. habitat

12. Physical, or nonliving, factors that shape ecosystems are _______________.
A. communities
B. biotic factors
C. abiotic factors
D. trophic levels

13. A group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area is known as a _______________.
A. species
B. population
C. niche
D. community

14. A __________________ is an assemblage of different populations that live together in a defined area.
A. species
B. population
C. niche
D. community

15. An organism that obtains energy by eating animals are known as _______________.
A. carnivore
B. herbivore
C. detritivore
D. producer

16. A network of complex interactions formed by the feeding relationships amoung the various organisms in an ecosystem is a _________________ .
A. food web
B. trophic level
C. food chain
D. community

17. ________________ is the process by which some organisms use chemical energy to produce carbohydrates.
A. Photosynthesis
B. Cell Respiration
C. Chemosynthesis
D. Fermentation

18. A _______________ is an organism that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce food from inorganic compounds.
A. consumer
B. producer
C. decomposer
D. heterotroph

19. The total ammount of living tissue within a given trophic level is known as _______________.
A. biomass
B. biosphere
C. food chain
D. niche

20. _________________ is the process in which elements, chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one part of the biosphere to another.
A. Biosphere
B. Limiting nutrients
C. Biogeochemical cycle
D. Community

21. ________________ is any chemical substance that an organism requires to live.
A. Carbohydrate
B. Nutrient
C. Sunlight
D. Water

22. _________________ is the process of converting nitrogen gas into ammonia.
A. Chemosynthesis
B. Photosynthesis
C. Evaporation
D. Nitrogen fixation

23. In ecology, the term _______________ is used to describe wise management of natural resources, including the preservation of habitats and wildlife.
A. conservation
B. biodiversity
C. invasive species
D. extinction

24. The Sum total of the variety of organisms in the biosphere is called _______________.
A. a biotic factor
B. an abiotic factor
C. biodiversity
D. a population

25. _________________ is the science that seeks to understand the living world.
A. biology
B. ecology
C. chemistry
D. physics

What Makes You Beautiful?

What Makes You Beautiful?
By One Direction

You're insecure, don't know what for
You're turning heads when you walk through the do-o-or
Don't need make-up - to cover up
Being the way that you are is eno-o-ough

Everyone else in the room can see it
Everyone else but yo-ou

Baby you light up my world like nobody else
The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed
But when you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell
You don't know
Oh oh
You don't know you're beautiful!
If only you saw what I can see
You'll understand why I want you so desperatley
Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe
You don't know
Oh oh
You don't know you're beautiful!
Oh oh
That's what makes you beautiful!

So girl come on, you got it wrong
To prove I'm right I put it in a so-o-ong
I don't know why, you're being shy
And turn away when I look in to your eye eye eyes

Everyone else in the room can see it
Everyone else but yo-ou

Baby you light up my world like nobody else
The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed
But when you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell
You don't know
Oh oh
You don't know you're beautiful!

If only you saw what I can see
You'll understand why I want you so desperatley
Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe
You don't know
Oh oh
You don't know you're beautiful!
Oh oh
That's what makes you beautiful!

Na na na na na na naaaa na na,
Na na na na na na.
Na na na na na na naaaa na na,
Na na na na na na.

Baby you light up my world like nobody else
The way that you flip you're hair gets me overwhelmed
But when you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell
You don't know
Oh oh
You don't know you're beautiful!

Baby you light up my world like nobody else
The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed
But when you smile at the ground, it ain't hard to tell
You don't know
No Oh oh
You don't know you're beautiful!
If only you saw what I can see
You'll understand why I want you so desperatley
Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe
You don't know
No Oh oh
You don't know you're beautiful!
No Oh oh
You don't know you're beautiful!
No Oh oh
That's what makes you beautiful!

Interaction Among Organisms(Symbiotic Relationship)

There are 6 different kinds of symbiotic relationships:

1. Mutualism, where both species benefit
2. Commensalism, where one species benefits, the other is unaffected
3. Parasitism, where one species benefits, the other is harmed
4. Competition, where neither species benefits
5. Neutralism, where both species are unaffected
6. Predation, one of the animal is the predator and the other one is the prey.

Examples:
Mutualism- honeybee and flower
Commensalism- arctic fox and caribou
Parasitism- puppy and roundworm

Valentines Day Quotes & Messages

Quotes:

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne

Messages:

 

__________,
I Love You a lot...
These words are not enough to express you how much I Love u.
You come in my life as an angel of the GOD and make my life so brightful, colorful and full of love. I always pray to God to tie us in a sacred knot soon so that we spend each and every moment together. You always support me, care me, love me.. I m always thankful to GOD who gave me such a true & loving heart person in my life...
Happy Valentines Day!! My Love of Life...
Miss U...
Urs Love
_______

Gerund, Participle or Infinitive?

 English

Copy & Answer this in a size 1 paper. Then I will check it afterwards.

1) Facing college standards, the students realized that they hadn't worked hard enough in high school.

2) Swimming in your pool is always fun.

3) The college recommends sending applications early.

4) Mrs. Sears showing more bravery than wisdom invited thirty boys and girls to a party.

5) To be great is to be true to yourself and to the highest principles of honor.

6) He won the game by scoring during the overtime period.

7) Jim is expected to program computers at his new job.

8) Her most important achievement was winning the national championship.

9) Going to work today took all my energy.

10) The student left in charge of the class was unable to keep order.

11) The president wants to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

12) Fighting for a losing cause made them depressed.

13) Getting up at five, we got an early start.

14) Telling your father was a mistake.

15) The crying boy angered by the bully began to fight.

16) Applicants must investigate various colleges learning as much as possible about them before applying for admission.

17) Statistics reported by the National Education Association revealed that seventy percent of American colleges offer remedial English classes emphasizing composition.

18) Gathering my courage, I asked for a temporary loan.

19) Starting out as an army officer Karen's father was frequently transferred.

20) To fight against those odds would be ridiculous.

Basics of Ecology

Ecology (from Greek: οἶκος, "house"; -λογία, "study of") is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount (biomass), number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems. Ecosystems are hierarchical systems that are organized into a graded series of regularly interacting and semi-independent parts (e.g., species) that aggregate into higher orders of complex integrated wholes (e.g., communities). Ecosystems are sustained by the biodiversity within them. Biodiversity is the full-scale of life and its processes, including genes, species and ecosystems forming lineages that integrate into a complex and regenerative spatial arrangement of types, forms, and interactions. Ecosystems create biophysical feedback mechanisms between living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) components of the planet. These feedback loops regulate and sustain local communities, continental climate systems, and global biogeochemical cycles.

Ecological Organization Pyramid:

The study of ecology has many layers, ranging from the individual organism, to the population, to the ecosystem, to the planet. It is important for students to know the levels within this hierarchy and to recognize which level they are focusing on at any one time. For the purposes of this activity, students will learn about the different levels (organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere) by choosing an organism and the illustrating a pyramid about that organism. The result is a colorful display of organizational pyramids.
Objectives
Can define and explain the relationships among: individual organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems, biomes, and the biosphere.
Can explain some of the reasons why different regions of the globe have different climates, and thus support different biomes.
Can describe the characteristics of familiar biomes: tundra, desert, prairie (grassland), deciduous forest, tropical rain forest, ocean.
Vocabulary
Organism
Population
Community
Ecosystem
Biome
Biosphere
Tundra
Desert
Prairie
Deciduous forest
Tropical rain forest
Ocean