Letter to Mr. Cuttatree

Dear Mr. Cuttatree,

I am the Hyacinth Macaw. I am writing to you today to tell you about myself, the role that I play in the rain forest, and why I think that you should reconsider building the Uppity Resort.

My scientific name is the Andorhynchus Hyacinthinus. I am the words largest parrot. My body can be as tall as 33 inches from beak to the tip of my tall. I have dark blue feathers down most of my body. I have yellow on the sides of my face. I have a long gray curved long beak. I have gray feathers underneath my wings and yellow around my eyes. I can have up to 2 babies. I am  a herbivore. I am  also at the top of the food chain.

I love to eat the nuts from the Brazilian nut tree. Along with that I eat nuts, leaves, fruits, berries, and seeds. I eat fruits and berries that are poisonous enough to kill other animals. If you cut down the rain forest that would mean that the nut, berries, fruits, and leaves that I eat will be gone. In other words that means that my food source is gone and  I will begin to die out. Even though I have eaten other animals I have other relationships. In April I can be found by the dead trees and making holes so that I can give birth.

I have no natural predators that means that the other animals in the rain forest don't eat me. Even though other animals don't eat me when I grow old and die I pass my nutrients on to the rain forest for regrowth. But I can be found in Costa Rico being snatched out of their nest and being sold for $200. In the United States I can be found being sold for $4000.

If you were to cut down the rain forest and I were to go extent that would mean that would mean that the rain forest will get less nutrients. With you cutting down the rain forest and me not being their it could destroy the whole rain forest. You might not have known that it would cause this much damage but it might. So I would love for you to reconsider this.

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                                                                          The Hyacinth Macaw
                                                                             

The Macaw 11/9/15-11/13/15

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The Macaw is an herbivore. It eats the nuts from the Brazilian nut tree. Along with that it eat other nuts. It does not only eat nuts it also eats seeds, berries, fruits, and leaves. The macaw is at the top of the food chain. The macaw loves to live up in the tall trees of the rain forest. You may also find them near rivers. They tend to love to live in large noisie groups.
These animals have no natural predators but when they grow old and die they pass their nutrients on to the rain forest so that their can  be regrowth in the plants of the rain forest. Even though they have no natural predators in Costa Rica you can find them being snatched out of their nests by humans and sold for 200$. In the united states they can be found being sold for 4000$.
The macaw relies on the things in the rain forest it relies on the trees to give it shelter. It relies on the Brazilian nut tree and other nuts, seeds, fruits, berries, and leaves. the plants in the rain forest re lie on the macaw for their nutrients. If the rain forest does not get it's nutrients that means that food starts to disappear for the herbivores in the rain forest and some of those are eaten by other animals in the ecosystem. So that is the important  of the rain forest and the macaw in the rain forest.
S&EP
SP7
I used evidence to defend my explanation of the reason why Mr. Cutatree should not be able to cut down the rain forest so he can build the Uppity Resort. We used the evidence of the food web of the rain forest to try to convince him not to do it because of what will happen to the the food chain web if he cuts this rain forest down and why we will not like this to happen. Mr. Cutatree in a kind of crazy man and he only excepts letters from animals and plants. I think that that actually helps us because then that means that he might believe it because it is coming from something that comes from that area.

Food conecctions 11/02/15-11/06/15

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                                                                        Mutualism 

Mutualism is the relationship between organisms that helps both of the organisms. An example of this is the relationship of the rain bird and the alligator. The alligator just simply sits there with it's mouth open and the rain bird comes and eats the stuff off of the alligators teeth and the alligator just sits there and does not eat the bird. This helps the bird because it give it food. It also helps the alligator because then it gets the stuff off his teeth and does not even have to move to have it done.

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commensalism 
Commensalism is the relationship between organisms that helps one and does not harm or help the other organism. An example of this is like a bird in a tree. This is a good example because the bird gets shelter and protection well the tree does not mind at all. This helps the bird because it has a place to stay. It also does not effect the tree in any way the tree does not care what the bird does

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Parasitism

Parasitism is the relationship between organisms that helps one organism and harms the other. A example of one of these relationships is a dog and a flea. Because the dog is just walking along and then a flea lands on it it turns out that the flea starts eating the dog. This helps the flea because it gets food. This harms the flea because you would obviously be harmed if someone started eating you.

S&EP
SP6
I explained food webs in my worksheet about what would happen to food webs if an earthquake came to the forest and destroyed the lake. I also had to put in what would happen if all of the animal in the food chain that lived in the lake got extent then what would happen to the animals in the forest that are on the food chain. This explained the food web because it shows how the animals of a food web rely on each other to survive.

The food chain 10/26/15-10/30/15

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Plants of all kinds are producers. A producer is an organism that gets it's energy from the sun or in other words do photosynthesis. Like the grass in your front yard, or the flowers in your garden. These are all examples of producers. Organisms that eat other organisms for their energy are called consumers. Then you have the things i the earth that break down the dead or dieing organism these are called decomposers.

There are three types of consumers. You have herbivores these animals are the ones that eat organisms without meat. Then you have carnivores these are the ones that eat other organism with meat. Then you have omnivores these are the ones that eat all organisms like us. Then you have decomposers they are like worms, bacteria and those types of things. They break down organisms that are dead. 

S&ep

SP6

I explained what producers and consumers were in science class when I read an artical about the homboltd squid and had to find all of the producers and consumers from the artical well reading through it. This explained producers and consumers because it gave us examples of producers and consumers that live in the sea.