Animal mnemonics

New words from reading

 Tuesday 23rd July 2019

Big idea: within each kingdom there are more different groups that classify animals. 

• Prokaryotes - a name of a kingdom 
• Etc means etcetera
• Interbreed - when two different animals have babies together

Mnemonics help us remember hard things, for example NEVER EAT SOGGY WEETBIX helps us remember North East South West. 

This is the mnemonic i learnt to help me remember the order:

Keep Ponds Clean Or Fish Gets Sick

Kingdom

Phylum

Class

Order 

Family

Genus

Species    

Mary Anning

Brainstorm and plan. 

Structure	Topic	Words and ideas to use
Introduction
Paragraph 2	Early life	May 21, 1799 Lightning Dad Poor - sell stuff
Paragraph 3	Discovering fossils	Curios  Lyme Regis Skull of a crocodile - brother - 12 years old Extinction was a new idea 1812 - ichtyosaur 1824 - plesiosaur Georges Cuvie
Paragraph 4	Later	1847 died cancer
Conclusion

 Mary Anning was famous because she was she was a fossil hunter.

Mary Anning born on May the 21 1799. Sudden the storm came and it was raining and then the lighting came. And suddenly a woman came and take her down the tree.Her dad taught her what was it called the name of it is curios. Mary Anning and her family was poor because they had no money so she went and sell her fossils and shells.

Mary Anning called the name of fossil is curios. Lyme Regis that the cliffs where she finds fossils. Mary and her brother joseph went up to the cliffs and then they found and skull of and crocodile. She was 12 years old when she went with her brother at the cliffs. On 1812 Mary and her brother joseph’s discover the first almost complete ichthyosaur.On 1824 Mary Anning finds the first almost complete plesiosaur fossils. George Cuvier suggests that some fossils are thousand of centuries old , which is much older than people had thought.

Mary Anning spent her short life for study the amazing curios in the cliffs. But mary anning never give up on her work , she kept finding some more fossils and shells and she went and sale her fossils and then she died in 1847.      

Joan wiffen

Brainstorm and plan. 

Joan Wiffen

Structure	Topic	Words and ideas to use
Introduction
Paragraph 2	Early life	Born in ?? Lived where?? Married to…?? KIds?? What was her job?? First fossil she ever had was given an Ammonite (fossil of an ancient squid) that made her interested in finding fossils.
Paragraph 3	Discovering fossils	First in NZ. 1975. Mangahouanga Stream in Hawke’s Bay. dinosaur tailbone from a theropod.  From six different species. Joan and family and friends.  Fossils were in rocks, used some special tools to split the rocks open, carried it to her car.
Paragraph 4	Changing ideas about fossils	An Australian paleontologist Dr Ralph Molnar confirmed it was a dinosaur bone in 1980.  Other people started looking for fossils and found some - page 24.
Paragraph 5	Later life	Honorary doctorate in 1994.  Died in ?? She is remembered - her fossils are kept safe. Some are at the University of Auckland, some are at National Paleontological collections at GNS Science in Lower hutt. The first one she found is on display at Te Papa.
Conclusion

Joan wiffen was famous because she was the first one to found a theropod tailbone.

Joan wiffen born on the 4 of February 1922. She lives in Hawkes Bay. She married Pont wiffen and they have two children. Her job was palaeontologist. 

Joan Wiffen was the first person in New Zealand to find a dinosaur fossil. In 1975 they found 4 different kinds of fossils at Mangahouanga  stream in Hawkes Bay. She found some more fossils it is the tailbone from the (theropod) and a wingbone from a (pterosaurs) and a footbo ne from a (theropod) and a tailbone from a (sauropod). She found these fossils from Mangahouanga stream.

An Australian paleontologist Dr Ralph Molnar confirmed it was a dinosaur bone in 1980. Dr Greg Browne found and Dinosaur footprint and it is about 70 million years it is from  Northwest nelson. Brendan Hayes he found a very small fingerbone it is about 150 million years it is from south of port waikato. Dr Jeffrey Stilwell he found a Several dinosaur bones ( theropod and a sauropos) it is about 66-145 million years it is from Tioriori Chatham island. Joan wiffen and her family found six different kinds of dinosaur bone and it is about 70-80 million years it is from Mangahouanga stream inland Hawkes Bay.

Joan wiffen receieved an Honorary Doctorate in 1994. She died on the 30th of June 2009. 

We remember Joan Wiffen because we read books about her. 

dinosaurs history

DINOSAUR HISTORY

By Junefia and Janett

This information report is about dinosaurs that ruled the earth. 

Palaeontologists

A paleontologists are scientists that study ancient things including mammals and dinosaurs. Mary Anning was famous because she was a  fossil hunter and she also finds shell and fossils. Her dad was very clever and he even taught Mary what the fossil were called,she called them “curios”.Mary Anning was much different to another old woman named “Joan Wiffen”,Joan Wiffen was a famous DINOSAUR hunter and she was the first person to find one peice of a dinosaurs tailbone in New Zealand. She proved for the first time that dinosaurs had once been in NZ. One day,Mary’s brother Joseph led her along a cliff,than Mary saw a skull.straight away, Mary could see that this was the skull of no ordinary creature,and it was huge over a metre long.Joan Wiffen was a very smart woman who hunts dinosaurs and see if they are extinct or not extinct.She knew that AMMONITES became extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs,and soon,dinosaurs were at the top of her most wanted list.

Fossils

Fossils are dead animals or plants. They are usually skeletons found embedded in rock. Sometimes fossils are footprints or poo. Small animals or insects get stuck in tree sap which hardens and traps them forever. Large animals can get trapped in ice ,or their carcass gets trapped in layers  of rock. Over thousands of years ,pressure builds up and the ground. Next the mould left is filled with minerals that form rock. This rock shape is the fossils - an exact replica of the dinosaurs. This process takes 10,000 years. Palaeontologists find fossils when the top layer of dirt or rock washes away. When dinosaurs died their skin gets washed off,and then that is when you see the fossil of an dinosaur. 

Age of dinosaurs

The age of dinosaurs when dinosaurs existed. Dinosaurs started existing around 230 million years ago and died 66 million years ago. This time is also called the Mesozoic Era. During this time lots of different animals evolved.  230 mya dinosaurs evolve. 200 mya small mammals appear. 200-146 mya their were no people. 150 mya Birds evolve from dinosaurs. 140 mya first flowering plants appear. 130 mya first snakes evolve from lizard. 65 mya dinosaurs die out.      

What were dinosaurs like?

Some animal eats meat (carnivore), but some animals eat plants (herbivores), some animals eat both (omnivore). Female dinosaurs lay eggs , dinosaurs lives in family’s.  Non avian means dinosaurs that are not birds but avian mean birds. Dinosaur that are warm- blooded because their temperature is always the same. When they eat food they get more energy and then they run fast. But if they don’t eat food they were not have much energy and then they were walk slow. This is called their metabolism. Some dinosaurs had modifications (changes) like horns, spikes, crests or armour. 

Extinction event

Extinction means “DEAD” which means an extinction event is something that all the dinosaurs were dead. The scientist two ideas about how did the dinosaurs die,their ideas were,the dinosaur could have died because of the big meteorite that hit the world and formed earthquakes killed them and it is just like the movie Ice age.

Age of mammals

The Age of Mammals is the period of time after dinosaurs became extinct, and mammals ruled the Earth. It is also called the Cenozoic Era. There are 3 time periods in this Era; palaeogene period-60-58 mya, Neogene period (23-2.6 million years ago) and the Quaternary period (0.25 million years ago). During this time different mammals evolved. Titanoboa becomes one of the predators at the top of the food chain. 55-34 mya:large mammals appear,including horses and camels. 23-2.6 mya: Hominins begin to walk on two legs. 2.6-0 mya:Modern humans evolve.

Dinosaurs were the most powerful creatures to roam the Earth. If they lived now, they would be the dominant species. 

Dinosaurs

Room 7

Dinosaur knowledge

Prior Knowledge	In 2 weeks, we learnt that...
Animal Predator Dino is the root word ‘Saurs’ means something Species  Extinct  Huge Large bones Long necks Eggs  Sharp teeth Long tails Eat people Different kinds Spikes Horns Mammals 4 legs	Bipedal means 2 feet and quadruped means 4 feet. Some dinosaurs are bipedal and some are quadrupeds. Some can change between the two stances. They are sturdy. Theropod is a 3 clawed dinosaurs Dinosaurs are warm-blooded, which means their blood temperature is always the same Carnivore means a meat eater Herbivore means a plant eater Omnivore means it can eat plants and meat Some dinosaurs are huge and some are small. Typically, huge dinosaurs were sluggish (slow).  Dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago. They started existed 230 million years.  They died because of an extinction event, most people think this was because a meteor hit the Earth.  Dinosaurs legs go out the bottom of their hip bones, whereas reptiles bones go to the side of their hips. Reptiles do not have an extra hole in their skull, but dinosaurs do.  Mary Anning found lots of fossils on a cliffside in England in the 19th century. She was born in 1799 and died in 1847. She survived a lightning strike as a baby. In 1824 she found the first fossil.	Non-avian dinosaurs are dinosaurs that are not birds. Avian means birds. Metabolism means how fast or slow your body converts food into energy Diverse means a big range Modifications means changes. Dinosaurs have modifications such as spikes, armour, horns or crests.  Clade means family. Lineage means ancestors/descendants  Paleontologists are scientists that study ancient things including dinosaurs There are 4 main groups of dinosaurs; theropods, sauropods, ankylosaurus and pterosaurs. Titanoboa was top of the food chain after the dinosaurs died. It killed people by constricting people. It spent most of its time in the water because it was super heavy. It was 13m long, as big as a bus.  Hominins existed when 7-6 million years ago, the first humans to walk on 2 feet.  People did not exist when dinosaurs existed.	Adaptation is something that changes over time.  Ecology - how animals relate to each other Fossils are made when dinosaurs die and their bones get trapped in rock or mud. The bones break down over time but leave a mould, which is filled with rock. This becomes the fossil.  Dinosaurs sometimes eat each other.  There were 3 periods of time that have dinosaurs. This is called the ‘age of dinosaurs’ also known as the ‘Mesozoic Era’; Triassic period, Jurassic period, and Cretasous period.  Then there were 3 more periods in time, “Age of mammals”, also known as ‘Cenozoic Era’; Paleogene Period, Neogene period and  Quaternary period. Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. Joan Wiffen found the first dinosaur fossil (a theropods tailbone) in NZ in 1975, in Hawkes Bay. She died in 2009.  Dinosaurs laid eggs and they lived in family groups.