This Week in Science #9

This week in science I dissected a cricket and a skate. Both dissection were sickening yet incredibly fun. I learned a lot about those animals during the dissection. I think that this was something we benefited from and learned a lot from. I would to for there to be more hands-on extreme experiments like this.

This week in science we learned a lot about dissection. IWe learned new terms that would help us during the dissection. For example, ventral, dorsal, proximal, and distal. My parenter, Alexa, and I learned about the parts of the skate. We found organs such as the liver. I think this is an experience I will never forgot.

This Week in Science #8

My partner and I dissected a cricket. We thought about whether to cut it from a dorsal or ventral view. We decided to put it on the ventral view since we thought it would be easier too. Once it was on a ventral view we cut it from the anterior to the posterior. The giant cricket has specific features that help it survive in its environment. The crickets special features are because of adaption. Animals have special features that relate to their environment. Those features help the animal obtain food, and survive in the type of weather there is. The cricket has features like their long legs that help it jump for one place to another quicker.

During this dissection I observed very interesting things. Inside of a cricket it was completely different. The  I learned about the crickets physical features like his antennas, forelegs, hind-legs, and etc. I learned new vocabulary words that are relevant to dissection. Words such as dorsal view, ventral view, proximal, distal, anterior, and posterior. I learned how to use utensils to cut a cricket.