This blog post may be inaccurate because we were not allowed to do any research. Mr. Kimbley just wanted to see what we knew off the top of our heads about why the sky is blue. I really have no idea, except from what I learned on SpongeBob, on why the sky is blue. 
     I think maybe the sky is reflecting off the oceans and the sky absorbs all other colors, so we see blue. I'm not very good at this kind of stuff. Maybe the atmosphere acts like a prism bending light? I have no idea. Outer space is dark when the sun is on the opposite side of the world, so all we see is moonlight. That's the only thing that keeps the sky from going completely black to where the point where we can't see anything. 
     Stars aren't much help when it comes to lighting up the night sky. They're very far away, therefore making them dim. That doesn't help much, does it? I was in the country one time and we couldn't see our hands in front of our faces; that's how dark it was. It was very different from the city where street lights light up the entire town. 
     

     The big question is how did they get there? Well, back billio of years ago, all continents were together, creating Pangaea. Pangaea Was just a huge land mass that was all stuck together. The animals lived in different regions, but then the regions were split apart. The fossilized remains remained in those areas. 

     Our group's research project is about the American Alligator. The American Alligator lives anywhere between North Carolina and Texas. They live in water, such as marshes, lakes, rivers, etc. They are carnivorous, meaning they eat only meat. Their diet consists of mammals, amphibians, and other animals that share the same habitat.
     The American Alligator reproduces in a strange way. Their ritual is bizarre. The female is the caregiver to the babies for a year, then she sets them free. The male mates and leaves, which is kind of messed up, but it's nature. 
     The American Alligator is in a habitat in the Chaffee Zoo. It's near the rainforest exhibit in case you were going to visit it there. It is amazing!! It has to be at least 10 feet long. It's a whitish color as are all American Alligators. I just stayed there at that exhibit for a few minutes because it was past Isabella's nap-time and we had to get home. It is my second favorite animal (besides the zebras).

     In my opinion, the most important discovery in science is the aging of rocks. How else would we know what the earth was like before us? We have to use fossils of either imprints of bodies of ancient animals. We know about dinosaurs, trilobites, and other things that would have been a complete mystery. All of the things about ancient animals and plants was before any sort of documentation, so it would have been left unknown without rocks containing fossils.