prezi link: http://prezi.com/-zu01alv7v7y/first-prompt/
Bibliography:
"warm-blooded - definition of warm-blooded in the Medical dictionary - by the Free Online Medical Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.." Medical Dictionary. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2011.
"Warm-blooded - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary." Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2011. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/warm-blooded.
Second Prompt
Your favorite plant has begun to wilt. You feel the soil in its pot and find that it is very dry. You water your plant and about 20 minutes later you discover that the plant is standing up straight again. The reason for this observation relates a lot to osmosis.
First to understand how this is relating to osmosis it's important to know and understand what osmosis is. Osmosis is the diffusion of water through its concentration inclination, so osmosis is when water can pass through a barrier without letting some or all of the solutes pass through. A basic explanation of an example of osmosis is what would happen if you were to put cell membrane into water. When you do this, the water molecules travel freely through the cell membrane and that process is osmosis.
The term diffusion is used in the definition of osmosis and it's good to know exactly what it means to understand osmosis. Diffusion is when cells break up and they expand. An example of this is when you're cooking something in your oven and then you start to smell it. That happens because of diffusion and the cells start to break apart and expand when they get hot so they fill your house with the smell of the food.
After knowing the definition of osmosis you can put together why the plant stood up straight after being watered. You can also put together how it's related to osmosis. The plant stood up from being wilted after it was watered, because of the water going through it's routes to give the plant nutrients to stay healthy. The process of the water going through the barrier of the routes is osmosis.
Basically osmosis is something traveling through a barrier freely. After knowing this it explains why the plant got healthier after being watered and why it happened. When you look at the definition of osmosis it shows a perfect explanation of the situation with your favorite plant. It's a great example of how osmosis can be applied to our everyday lives.
Bibliography
"Movement across membranes." Biology Mad. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Mar. 2011. <www.biologymad.com/resources/DiffusionRevision.pdf>
"Osmosis." Molecular Physiology & Biophysics / University of Vermont. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Mar. 2011. <http://physioweb.uvm.edu/bodyfluids/osmosis.htm>.
