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The Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven wonders of the World, It is larger than the Great wall of China and is the only living thing that is visible from Space. The Reef is around 2,000 kms long and Australia owns 1/5th of the Earths Coral Reefs mostly all from the Great Barrier Reef.

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30 species of Whales , dolphins and porpoises live in, or visit Great Barrier Reef waters.

Some of the largest populations of Dugongs  in the world live on the Great Barrier Reef.

Over 200 species of birds (including 40 species of seabirds) live on the Great Barrier Reef .

Six breeding species of Sea Turtles live on the Great Barrier Reef.

14 species of sea snakes live on the Great Barrier Reef .

1500 species of fish live on the Great Barrier Reef .

5,000 species of molluscs live on the Great Barrier Reef.

400 species of coral  live on the Great Barrier Reef .

Of some 60 species of seagrass  around the world, there are 30 in Australia and 15 in Queensland waters.

500 species of seaweed or marine algae live on the Great Barrier Reef.

Humming Birds are one of the smallest birds, the ‘Bee Hummingbird’ can hover in mid-air and can flap its wings 12-90 times per second!(depending on the species). The Humming Birds can fly up to 54 kph/34 mph.

Humming Birds drink the nectar from flowers, and like bees the can get the sugar that is in the nectar to eat.

The Humming Birds live for 2-5 years but only 2 years for smaller Birds, The Buff-Bellied Humming Bird can live for 11-12 years

Dragonflies are a type of Insect-’6 legs’, even though Dragonflies have 6 legs they are not capable of walking. Dragonflies are very successful hunters, they usually eat Mosquitos or small insects like bees,flies,ants and butterflies. You will often find Dragonflies around Lakes, Ponds, Streams and Wetlands.

Life Cycle: Female Dragonflies lay their eggs on plants growing out of the water, once the eggs have hatch the babies are call ‘nymphs’, the Dragonflie spends most of its life as a Nymph, the Nymphs eat invertebrates and sometimes even vertibrates like tadpoles and fish. Then it becomes a Larva, when the Larva is ready to metamorphose it climbs up a read or an emergent plant to spread its wings, though it could take up to 5 years for it to go from a larva to a dragonfly.

If you have been wondering were I find out how  to do all the things that are on my blog then just visit->http://his8sorell.edublogs.org/ and for our village blog->http://danvillage.edublogs.org/ we have used a website called->http://medievaleurope.mrdonn.org/index.html  those are just 3 websites we use and there are much more!

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in grade 8 history we have been looking at the Middle ages we were broken  into 3 groups and I was one of the Lords of the village, We have to design a blog  http://danvillage.edublogs.org/ that was all about our village. In our village we have a lord a lady, knights,chefs,jesters,peasants, maids, and others we have to do work on the blog to earn coins so we can pay queen sue at the end of the year.

To keep a positive digital footprint you shouldn’t say anything bad on the internet or put any bad photos on the internet also dont make any bad websites because if you go to a  job interview they won t give you a  job if you did/put something bad on the internet.

I keep a positive footprint by doing this blog it shows that i can be capible of doing all the tasks im asked to do.

If you keep a positive digital footprint you should talk to good people dont be mean and help others then they will like you better and you could get jobs easier.

Last month in History we had to draw a plan view map (birds eye view) of Orford.

For the drawing of the map we had to use main colours like:  red for built in areas, blue for water, green for grass/forest, black for roads and yellow for sand.

It was a fun activity because we got to draw in history.

 But it took a while to draw and we had to get the roads and other bits in the right place which was frustrating.

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The “Shoe Sweat Shop” game is a fun and easy game to play.

The aim of the game is to  put the shoes together, you can run out of energy and you have to use the money you earn to buy food or water.