Simulation questions

What happens when you add a proton? 
We get a + ion and a stable atom.


What does it mean when an atom is stable?  What does it mean when an atom is unstable? 
When there is at least one proton, more protons than neutrons or the equal number of neutrons and protons, the atom is stable. Otherwise (only neutron or more neutrons than protons) it is unstable.


How do you make an atom stable?  What do you need to do? 
We add protons and keep them equal with or more than neutrons.


What is the valence electron pattern as you move across the periodic table?   
When it comes to valence, every period starts with one and ends with eighteen,  increasing by one from left to right.

What happens to the atom when there is more protons, more neutrons, or more electrons?  
If there are more protons the atom is stable, if there are more neutrons atoms are unstable, and if there are more electrons we get a -ion.

What's the difference between a positive and a negative ion? 
With +ions there are no electrons and in -ion there are more electrons than protons.


How do you make a neutral ion (charge of 0)? 
You put an equal number of protons and electrons.

Current event "New Zealand oil spill"

New Zealand fears oil spill disaster

Aljazeera

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/10/201110735810164278.html

7 october 2011

So this article talks about an oil disaster it happened in New Zealand on Wednesday last week a ship that it is stranded inside reef, and it can break in half and spill 1700 tons of oil. Lot of animals were affected by this and a lot of fishes died.  The government is doing the best to clean up the oil from the sea. They are sending helicopters to spray some chemicals around the area where the oil spilled. They said that the boat might break in half because it was taking too much weight or that it can flip over because of its weight. The rescue teams are trying to save every animal that in that area that was exposed to the oil. The oil already has spilled more than 5km long. New Zealand officials not optimistic but are preparing for the worst case scenario.

Before reading it I watched teh video and then I talk about it with my tutor. The video made me more interested in reading the text. This current event made sense to use for our report, because it was understandable, easy to read and it mostly talked about animals and what is being done to get this problem solved. All the info on the article was valid and it was credible.

I really like this article. At first I thought it would be boring but then when I saw the video I thought it would be interesting. However, I’m sad for the animals that live there, the people and for the nature. It was a really not expected situation. In the article I read that the boat was old so it is not the fault of anyone, but it is the fault of who chose the boat and decided to put so much stuff on it and knew that was old.  I wouldn’t like that this situation happens to Serbia because we already have enough pollution from the garbage and the smoke in here.

Current event 3 "can animals be gay"

Can animal be gay

Minette Layne

website 

10.5.2011

bibiliography:http://www.popsci.com/science/gallery/2011-09/gallery-gay-animals

This article is saying that they experimented on these squids and there was sacs of sperm on other squids they found out of sexes mating behavior from 1,600 to 2,600 undersea  this is what a scientist said about it: Apparently, the costs involved in losing sperm to another male are smaller than the costs of developing sex discrimination and courtship, or of not mating at all,” what they actually found was same sexes mating behaviors’ but an opposite - sexes mating.

This current vent took place in the sea it talk abut squids mating under the sea but mating whit their own sex race like girl whit girl and boy whit boy it really actually made sense but the article was a little too short’s had some questions before i read it I did not think it had the word "sex" so,many times in the article i thought it would talk why they were gay and how did they become gay or lesbian.

i chose this article because i really wanted to know if animals could and not only humans but then i said it might be inappropriate but it was ok what grabbed my attention was the gay and animal part in the title i found this article looking at topics i know it is not about what we were studying but I think it is still ok i learned that some species can be gay I think that squids can and cats and dogs’ totally agree whit the author maybe he could cut out a little whit the word "sex" but it is ok.

The Periodic Table and the diagrams