IT'S SO SWINTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

        BUM BUM! BUM BUM! IT'S SO SWINTER!!!!!!!!!!! Oh hey guys! I was just watching Phineas and Ferb. Does anyone else wonder when they are going back to school?! Anyways, they were singing a song called Swinter. It was about winter in summer. They made a winter-maker-thingy in summer and called it Swinter...or Wummer. Well, what I hadn't notice before was that it has a secret scientific message. How come I always get blog topics from cartoons? Weird... Anyways, today we'll me talking about autumn! 

It seems so peaceful!

        
         So what's your favorite thing about fall? Is it the beautiful weather? I love the weather outside! Not to hot, not to cold. Ever wonder why it always changes? Why do we have season and why does each season have a different climate? Well it's simple. Earth is tilting on its axis. If it tilts away from the sun, then it's winter. If it tilts closer to the sun, then it's summer. Also, since the earth tilts diagonally when it's summer in the Northern Hemisphere (aka us) then it's winter in the Southern Hemisphere. 




          What else do you love about fall? How about the pretty colors on the leaves? Have you ever wondered why they change colors? Well, they actually never "change" they were always there but couldn't be couldn't be seen because of the chlorophyll. What is chlorophyll you ask? It's this thing inside leaves that takes sunlight and makes it into food and energy. This causes the green color in leaves. In fall and winter we get less hours of daylight, which means less sun. Since it doesn't have enough sunlight the chlorophyll dies and goes away. 





          The colors underneath the chlorophyll go into two different groups. There are carotenoids which have yellow, orange, and brown colors and anthocyanins which have red, purple, and pink colors. As the chlorophyll dies out, those colors finally get a chance to shine! Yay for the colors! Eventually, the leaves all fall off and decompose into the soil. 

This is so pretty!

     Isn't fall so pretty?! It's probably my favorite season. I love all the colors and the weather and the holidays and just everything about it!    Here are some awesome websites! Click here to play a season game! 
Click here to learn about autumn leaves!  Click here to learn about the earth's axis!  


    That's the end of my blog! I'll leave you with some awesome fall pictures! Science Fun:)


        



            

In the spirit of the holidays...a random harry potter picture! 

                                                   

Corny Science Jokes 101

       Hey everyone! You know, I ought to- wait ION to... *sigh* make better jokes. But did you get it? Instead of I ought to, I wrote ion to! As in ionic bonds and stuff? No? Nothing? Ok then I guess I'll tell you what they are so then you can get my awesome, but really corny, joke. Well, ions are atoms that have an electrical charge. Don't be negative, because I will cancel you out with my positivity. Then ION to feel bad. Oh these jokes never end! 




       So everyone should know what electrons and protons are. Just to make sure... SUPER QUICK REVIEW! Electrons are negative particles within an atom. Electrons orbit in shells around the nucleus. Protons are positive particles within an atom. Protons are in the nucleus of an atom. END OF SUPER QUICK REVIEW! Now let's talk about valence shells, SHELL WE?! These jokes are the worst! Anyways, valence shells are basically the last shell that holds an electron in an atom. So, if an atom has 3 different rows of electrons, the 3rd row would be called the valence shell. 




           CATION! WE HAVE AN AWESOME TOPIC AHEAD! Gotta love corny jokes! So, now we're going to talk about cations. Cations are groups of positively charged ions. They're the opposite of anions. Anions are groups of negatively charged ions. Wow, now I'm hungry! I think I'll have some ANION SOUP! Get it?! Anion sounds like onion! Corny jokes never fail to amuse me. 




        Next thing we'll talk about is.... positive and negative valences. Atoms like to have full valence shells. So sometimes they'll have to give up or gain electrons to fill up their valence shells. Positive valences like to give away their electrons. They must be pretty POSITIVE that they want to give them up so easily! That's the probably the worst joke yet. Negative valences are atoms that like to gain electrons. Sometimes atoms share electrons! 

sorry couldn't find a good pic! 

        
















     Do you guys want to learn more? IONIC! Get it? Like I'm on it, but ionic! These jokes can't get cornier. Anyways, our last topic for this blog is something called ionic bonds. Ionic bonds are kinds of chemical bonds. Well we know that negative ions and positive ions are drawn together, right? The thing that makes them stay together is called the ionic bond! They mainly happen between a metal and a nonmetal. 




        If you guys want to LINK together more information you can go to the following websites: 
Click Here For Ions!  Click Here For Positive And Negative Valence!  Click Here For Cations And Anions! Click Here For A Video! 


     That's all for this blog! But before I go, I have one more corny joke for you. OK so what do you call an insect that's good with farewells? A BUMBLE BYE! Like a bumble bee but bumble bye! Oh and just saying, I made these all up. Go me! Well, bumble bye! Science Fun:) 

good bye now!