Preston's+virtual+field+trip+papter

I personally liked it because he explained it very well, and he also had a good sense of humor.

 He told us about a lot of animals and their adaptions like how an eagle can swim or how a wood toad can freeze and stay alive, or a snow hare has big hind legs and white fur for camouflage. He also told us about how a lynx has padding on its paws and its long fur blocks snow from chilling its body temperature. The soft down fur acts like an insulation and long horn's (or an antelope's) fur is hollow so the dead space where the air is heats up and changes color in different seasons. Also a groundhog's heart only beats four times per minute. They have a layer of fat. Squirrels sleep but don't hibernate. They sleep for about a week or so, but when they wake up they eat a lot and go to the bathroom and then go back to sleep and repeat this routine until winter is over or they run out of food. If they do run out of food they look frantically for their food.

Plants also have adaptions like how rosewood flowers don't reproduce the first year. They only have leaves the first year and flowers and leaves the second year. They produce thousands of seeds because some might be eaten or land in a bad spot. Only a few survive. Also he told us about how buds store a lot of energy. Some trees that are further up north have very tiny buds so that they do not freeze, Some animals eat shrubs because there is a lot of stored energy. If you take a shrub and cut a branch and scratch a piece off the bark, it will look green.

I didn't like it because I knew most of the stuff that he talked about except a lot of the animal adaptions, but beside that I loved it.

Preston