Definitions

Word list

Antonio Robles

1.) Herbicide - Item used to kill plants.

Sentence: Herbicides should be kept away from the garden as they can harm the soil and the plants.
2.) Compost - A varying number of organic decaying material used to enrich soil.

Sentence: Organic material should be gathered in the compost bin to later be used an nutrients.
3.) Wildlife - Undomesticated animals living out in the wild

Sentence: Whenever you go camping you should be careful of the dangerous wildlife.
4.) High Nitrogen Fertilizer - A fertilizer rich in nitrogen

Sentence: The High Nitrogen Fertilizer is important because nitrogen is an important nutrient for plants
5.) Horticultural - The art or process of cultivating land

Sentence: Horticulture is an important practice that should be kept in mind especially when working with new compact soil.
6.) Hypae - Structure of fungi which goes underground

Sentence: Be careful whenever cultivating the soil, as you may damage the Hypae of some fungi
7.) Aphids - A tiny insect, part of the aphididea

Sentence: Be watchful of aphids as they can damage your plants
8.) Pesticides - Any chemical or sprays used to rid an area of unwanted animals

Sentence: Only use organic pesticides as synthetic ones can damage the soil.
9.) Insecticides - Chemicals used to kill insects

Sentence: Insecticides can be useful when your garden becomes overrun.
10.) Fungicides - Sprays or applicable substamces used to destroy fungi

Sentence: Fungicides aren’t always necessary as some fungi are useful.
11.) Pest - organism that is inconvenient to an area of life

Sentence: Pests can be very annoying when they become too numerous.
12.) Silviculture - Cultivation of forest trees

Sentence: Silvicuture will be useless in our garden because it’s a garden not a forest.
13.) Viniculture - Art of making wines

Sentence: Viniculture will be useless in our garden because we aren’t making wine, right?
14.) Agriculture - Process of gathering livestock or crops

Sentence: Agriculture is a particularly useful practice in a large farm.
15.) Rototilling - Breaking soil with a rototiller

Sentence: Rototilling can be a far more useful tool for cultivation as opposed to a shovel or cultivator.
16.) N-P-K - The three most important nutrients to soil for plants

Sentence: You will always need Potassium, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus in your soil to have a successful garden.
17.) Cation - A positively charged ion.

Sentence: Cations lack electrons because they often donate them. A natural cation might be Hydrogen.
18.) Anion - A negatively charged ion

Sentence: Anions have a negative charge and will often have more electrons than in their regular original state.

19.) Kingdoms - Classification of life, in five major catagories

Sentence: It is important to know the different Kingdoms in order to better identify a species.
20.) Archaebacteria - Microorganisms with RNA and a cell wall that differs from that of other organisms

Sentence: Archaebacteria are one of few single celled bacteria to have cell walls rather than cell membranes.
21.) Eubacteria - Round rod shaped bacteria

Sentence: Eubacteria vary in function but always remember to prevent yourself from ingesting them.
22.) Animal - Members of the family Animalia, is multicellular.

Sentence: Animals rage in size, but all that belong to this family are eukaryotes.
23.) Plants - Multi cellular organism belonging to the family plantae

Sentence: Plants vary but all have a cell wall and vacuoles.
24.) Fungi- A kingdom with different fungus groups

Sentence: Fungi can be useful for breaking down dead matter for a better purpose.
25.) Protists - Single celled organisms within the kingdom protista

Sentence: Protists are small organisms that belong to the kingdom Protista.
26.) Micrometer - A small precise device used to measure small things

Sentence: It’s amazing how much life can be found in soil using a micrometer.
27.) Flora - Any plants that exist in a location during any given time.

Sentence: The flora in any location will likely be different than that of another biome.
28.) Fauna - Animals in any that exist in a location during any given time.

Sentence: The fauna in certain areas are accustomed to their locations and have a high chance of survival.
29.) Protozoa - A large group of the kingdom Protista

Sentence: Protozoa are small bacteria, they have means of moving themselves through consuming energy.
30.) Nematodes - Any elongated non-segmented worm

Sentence: Nematodes can be a huge pest since they can be small and many.
31.) Food web - Different organisms related by consumer-prey relation

Sentence: The food web shows the interactions between different animals or plants. It often involves them eating each other.
32.) Microarthorpods - Microscopic jointed animals (or insects)

Sentence: Microarthropods can fill many roles in the garden ranging from pest eating insects to the pest themselves.
33.) Photosynthesis - The process of plants preforming cellular respiration

Sentence: Photosynthesis is important to plants, just like we need to breathe they need to undergo photosynthesis.
34.) Exudate - Excrete chemicals

Sentence: Most living organisms exudate in some form and those exudates can be used by something else.
35.) Rhizosphere - The layer of ground that goes about 2 mm deep.

Sentence: When working in the garden the rhizosphere is your primary concern when planting.
36.) Amoeba - Any protozoa belonging to the phylum Rhizopoda

Sentence: Amoebas are small single cell organisms that belong the phylum of Rhizopoda

37.) Paramecium - Freshwater protozoan with an oval body and long deep oral groove.

Sentence: You might find Paramecium in the well at the center of the garden.

38.) Flagellates - Filiform branches coming braching off of a plant

Sentence: You should be careful when near strawberries because its flagellates might break off.
39.) Ciliates - A protozoan of the phylum Ciliophora

Sentence: Ciliates are small bacteria that belong to the phylum Ciliophora.
40.) Microbes - A microorganism, mainly any pathogenic life form.

Sentence: Be careful when dealing with microbes as some can be harmful to your health.
41.) Chemosynthesis - Process of synthesising chemicals

Sentence: Chemosynthesis can be useful for human because of what can be produced for our use with little of our own work.
42.) Wax and Wane - To grow strong and then wither away

Sentence: All living things wax and wane.
43.) Fertilizer - Any compounds (in/organic) used to increase the fertility of soil so that plants may grow

Sentence: Fertilizer is important for the maintenance of any garden or plot.
44.) Arthropods - Invertebrates of the family Arthropoda, and consists of segmented worms.

Sentence: Arthropods can be distinguished from Anthropods from the lack of joints.
45.) Aggregates - A cluster of something

Sentence: There are many different aggregates, especially of fungi, around the garden.
46.) Fodder - Raw material, typically used for something other than its original purpose

Sentence: A lot of fruit peels can be used for fodder in the compost bin.
47.) Pathogen - Illness spreading organism

Sentence: Pathogens are very harmful for your health.
48.) Mycorrhiza - Sybiotic relationship between fungi

Sentence: You can find Mycorrhiza all over the garden.
49.) Inhibitory - Pretaining to something that prevents the function of something else

Sentence: You can find all sorts of inhibitory compounds in synthetic fertilizers.
50.) Streptomycin - An antibiotic produced by soil

Sentence: Streptomycin can be useful when dealing with pathogens that hurt plants.
51.) Ammonium - An isotope of ammonia

Sentence: Ammonium can be synthesized from ammonia being put through chemical reactions.
52.) Ecosystem - A system of biotic and abiotic factors interacting with each other within an area.

Sentence: An ecosystem can be harmed when invasive species are introduced.

Blog Response 2

Response to- Chapter 1 and 9 of a place called home

In these two chapters there were a lot of issues brought up concerning the hygiene of different races and how that was used as an excuse to deem them less than human. The strange thing about the accusations thrown at Mexican and Japanese people were that a lot of the causes were because of the lack of hygiene provided in the work place and/or they couldn’t afford it because of a new piece of legislation. It almost seemed like the people from the city of Los Angeles at the time were trying to make their perception of those people a fact. The more striking thing to me was the parallels that existed at the time in LA and the recent story concerning the old trailer park.

In the story about the trailer parks the city of San Diego imposed legislation that increased the amount of money people had to pay to live in the trailer park. In chapter 1 of a place called home the city of L.A charges more money to Japanese people who opened up Laundromats (those who were fortunate enough) as an attempt to drive them out of the area, similar to what San Diego did to the people living in the trailer park. The Mexicans that worked the rail road were labeled as dirty, but they lacked the proper facilities to clean themselves. But once they did get showers they took a shower every day. What astounded me the most about the comparison I made was how the groups in power in both of these stories will label unfortunate events as another group’s own fault when they were the ones that caused it.

Blog Response 1

All societies have laws and all of these laws are enforced through creating the threat of punishment, which is the primary reason people follow particularly oppressive forms of government. Through this threat fear is created which ends up being the supreme authority. Whoever controls this fear not only has the power has to keep people in control but also the potential to create actual loyalty. In Richard Wright’s “Living the Ethics of Jim Crow”, he nearly stares death and only survives by caving in to the system he is faced with. By doing this he is acknowledging to his oppressors that it’s okay to do these things because there is none of that threat of punishment for him to utilize.

An example of fear not just creating control but loyalty to an oppressive system is in Harrison Bergeron. The citizens living in that story had to be handicapped and their best abilities were held back. If they disobeyed they would face severe punishment, but there was only one instance of resistance in the story. In fact the system created a case of mass Stockholm syndrome, a physiological occurrence in which a hostage of sorts not only submits to a captor but empathizes and will vigorously defend their captor, and although this is a fictional story, the principle of loyalty through fear is very much possible.