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Free Journal This week i see plenty of orgainisms like before. There is a chance there might be more because it just rained recently. My hypothesis before was that after it rained the nutrients from the rain would enter and collect into the Stream high in the valley. The current would carry those nutrients down and there would be a burst of life. This week i think i saw more fishes and if im not mistaken more ducks. I wonder if the ducks flew here, realizing the potential of life in Manoa Stream or were produced by parents. In this Journal i will try to conduct an expiriment that i am curious about and will greatly help my education in the organisms of Manoa Stream. My hypothesis is that if there are stagnant areas of manoa stream where the current cant get to that area then there would be little to no organisms in that area because the current of the stream carries nutrients from high in the mountains down into the low valley. My plan is to go to different stagnant areas of the Stream and find all the organisms that live there. I will also go to the areas that have little current and a ton of current and find all the organisms. What i think the reason for no organisms in the fast current is because the current is too fast for them to handle. Most of the organisms don't live in this area because smaller organisms like the tadpoles have no chance of swimming of where they want to go in these currents. I believe they use this areas for transportation purposes. Even the biggest organism here so far, the ducks don't live here. They can swim against the current but they cant swim against the current for their whole life. They do however use these for easy transportation down stream. For example if a hungry predator wants to eat you, you can just go to the fast current and let that current take you down stream.
 * ~ What organisms live where ||~  ||~   ||
 * Stagnant area || Little organisms like tadpoles, little fishes, small tadfrogs. Ducks like to hunt in theses areas. ||  ||
 * Little current area || Bigger and smaller organisms, Huge fishes, bigger tadpoles. Ducks can be seen hunting in these areas. ||  ||
 * Fast current || No organisms(its kind of hard to see organisms in the current but i see none) ||  ||

I think that the smaller organisms live in the stagnant areas because with no or little current they have an easier time to swim. Even some of the places where there is slightly stronger current they still cannot swim. These organisms are the smaller half that live in this habitat that's why. You can see a lot of ducks hunting is these areas because with no current the fish are slower and it is way easier for the ducks to eat them with no current. If the ducks don't notice me i see them all the time in stagnant areas hunting. If they see me they fly away.

There are bigger fish and other organisms in these little current areas because these don't want to be eaten by the predators so they don't stay in the stagnant areas but they are strong enough to endure the slightly tougher current. It might be tougher to live in these places but it is also harder for the predator to get its prey.

Assigned Journal. The carbon cycle could be the animals, plants, and rotting plants that give off Carbon Dioxide and the Plants could be giving off the Oxygen while maybe the water in the Manoa Stream could be absobing some of the Carbon Dioxed. I would think that the carbon cycle in this environment would be very low because there is a ton of Photosyntheseis happening here. There is way more photosynthesizing than cellular respiration in here because there are so many plants compared to animals here. Maybe that's why this place is so lively with organisms. There's plenty of oxygen for the organisms to live on.