I would like do say thanks for following along with me about Italy.
I learned about Rome, Venice, Food and drink,
by Ben (6th)
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Study of a Bogland Area ~ An Irish Bog
Hello and welcome back to Study of a Bogland Area, here you’ll be learning about an Irish bog, and what’s in them.
The bog birds that live in the boglands include the hen harrier, which is a bird of prey. Merlin, also a bird of prey. The red grouse which hides from predators with the help of its camouflage. The number of curlews in bogs has decreased by 80%, so Irish boglands won’t have that much anymore. All of these bog birds have built their nests on the ground, as there are no trees for them to nest in.
Hares build their nests on a hummock, which provides them with a shelter and lookout point. The surface of a bog contains hummocks and hollows. Hollows can sometimes contain water that creates bog pools.
Carnivorous plants also live in a bog, these include the sundew and butterwort, that trap mini beasts. The pitcher plants lures in mini beasts with patterns that resemble meat. The mini beasts that are trapped in the plants slowly dissolve and when they do the plants absorb the nutrients.
I hope you liked this and I will be seeing you in the next post.
~ a report by Noah (6th)
Physical Features of Europe and the World ~ Rivers of North and South America
Hello everyone and welcome back!!! Today I’ll be teaching ye about rivers of North and South America.
Two of the greatest rivers are in the Americas (They aren’t the longest rivers but they hold the most water). The Mississippi River in the US is over 3500 km long. (Ireland from north to south is only 500 km long and the River Shannon is less than 400 km long).
The Amazon River is in South America and is the greatest river in the world. When it’s the rainy season it is so wide in some parts of the river, that if you stood on one bank you would not be able to see the other bank. The river carries about 20% of the worlds freshwater that flows into oceans.
Thanks for reading my post and make sure to read the next one!!!
~a report by Tadhg (6th)
Study of a Bogland Area ~ Plants and Animals in a bog
Hello and welcome back to Study of a Bogland Area, here you’ll be learning about the different species of plants and animals that live in a bog. I hope you enjoy it.
Bogs are thought to be a wasteland, with no life that grows, however boglands have a rich biodiversity of different plants and animals. Many of these are rare, as they have adapted to the wet and acidic soil.
Many of these grow on humps, or hummocks, as the lower ground is waterlogged. Low growing plants such as sphagnum moss, deer grass, white beaked sedge and cross leaved heather are the most common plants found in a bogland.
Without larger plants or trees to provide some of the plants with shelter, the wind whips through the bog, causing most of the plants to dry out. The leaves of bog heathers and bog rosemaries, are rolled in on the underside and their pores are protected by white hairs to prevent the loss of too much water.
Botanists have found rare plants in Irish bogs such as marsh saxifrage, slender bog cotton and shining sicklemoss. Lichens can be found living on the stems of plants such as the heather.
I hope you enjoyed this, I’ll see you ink the next post.
~ a report by Noah (6th(
Study of a Bogland Area ~ Types of Bog
Hello and welcome to Study of a Bogland Area, here I’ll be discussing about the different types of boglands in Ireland, this will be long. I hope you enjoy this.
Ireland contains 8% of all blanket bogs on Earth. These types of bog were created on mountainsides and lowlands throughout the country where the chances of rain falling is high. Blanket bog contains a shallow layer of peat spread over a large area.
At the end of the last ice age, glaciers melted and made the soil become waterlogged, because of that the soil became acidic. Dead plants that didn’t fully decay caused the soil to become even more acidic.
Marsh plants grew on the peat and formed more peat as they failed to decay. The climate became more wet and minerals such as iron were washed down through the soil. The minerals formed a hard layer, which stopped water from draining out of the soil. This caused more peat to form.
Ireland contains 50% of all the raised bogs in Western Europe. This type of bog can be mostly found in the midlands. At the end of the last ice age, melted glaciers caused lakes to form in low lying areas. Some of these filled with dead plants over time, and became more acidic. Peat eventually formed and filled up the lakes.
Plants tried to grow on the peat but died, and formed more peat as they failed to decay fully. Over thousands of years, the bogs became raised. Then, new species of plants began to grow in the peat, one of them including sphagnum moss. This is because sphagnum moss grows well in acidic soil.
I hope you liked this, I’ll be seeing you soon, in the next post.
~ a report by Noah (6th)
Weather and Climate ~ an Introduction
Hello, its Mairead and on this site I will be doing posts about weather and climate, weather measurements, Met Eireann, weather symbols, Climate and so much more.
I hope you follow along!!
~an introduction by Mairead (6th)
Geography and Nature ~ Italy
Italy ‘s highest mountain is Monte Bianco in the Alps. The south of Italy hot dryand fertile land. Olives, figs, grapes and lemons grow well in these area’s.
by Ben (6th)
People at Work – An Introduction
Hello I am Cian, I am going to be going to throw my Geography this month. It is about People at Work.
We are going to be going through many different things, it will be fun I hope you will enjoy it as much as I will.
~ an introduction by Cian (6th)
Study of a Bogland Area ~ An Introduction
Hello, and welcome to my Geography topic, Study of a Bogland Area. Here you’re going to learn everything about a bogland.
These will include how boglands form, and what kind of life lives in the boglands.
I hope you will enjoy these, and I will be seeing you in my first post.
~ a report by Noah (6th)