Webquest 3

A) About horses:

1. What are the 5 most common pathologies of horses? Mention them and give a little description too.

> Colic: are different serious digestive problems. The condition can be caused by a blockage of the intestines, excessive gas in the intestines or the intestines becoming twisted. Colic can also be caused by some gastrointestinal parasites.
> Heaves: is a chronic respiratory inflammation frequently caused by an allergic reaction to airborne particles.
> Laminitis: is an inflammation of certain internal structures of the hoof. There are numerous causes, relating to body stress and another common cause is eating too much grain
> Parasites: A lot of differents parasites can afflict the horse including ticks, lice, pinworms, tapeworms, roundworms, and lungworms.
> Tying up: is a severe damage or degeneration in a muscle. A increase in a horse’s workload is one of the causes.

 

2. Publish a picture of the horse's skeletal system (with names)

3. Publish a picture of the horse's internal system (main organs) (with names)

 

B) Choose one of these farm animals:  sheep, pig or chicken


PIG





1. Choose a good website that refers to your animal. Explain why you like the website. (40 words)

Pig Site 

I like the website because I can find all about pigs: pig health, pig diseases, features, photos of pigs and there are a Online Pig Disease Problem Solver.

Is a very interesting site, visit it!

2. Find a good picture showing (with names) the animal's external anatomy. 

Egypt

I would like to know my beautiful country first, then I'd like to visit Egypt.

My dream is to visit Egypt since I learned about it in the school. Egypt is a country with a lot of mysteries and has the pyramids that were built thousands of years ago and we always wonder who built it. The pyramids get the attention from all tourists and every year thousands of tourists visit Egypt.

The things I know about this country is that the capital of Egypt is The Cairo, one of the main cities of the Islamic world, a religion different from ours and the oldest writing system known was born in Egypt, the hieroglyphic.

The first thing I will do is to visit the pyramids or a tomb of a pharaoh, then visit the Nile or "The Valley of the Kings", learn more about their culture and monuments and to eat their food.

I couldn’t live there because most of the country is desert, just I would like to visit Egypt.

I hope some day to go, and bring a camel to Chile :)

Webquest 2

Go to http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

1. Choose 2 photos that you like and say why you like them or describing them (30 words each). Post the pictures too.

Hummingbird
In this photo we can see a beautiful hummingbird. These birds are very small and can flap 70 times per minute the wings, and some have a very bright colors that make them one of the most lovely animals.

Koala

I really liked this photo, we can see how the veterinary help the koala Harley, who was hit by a car and is lucky to be alive and on the mend. In Australia is very common that these animals are attacked by dogs or hit by cars :(

2. Choose 2 videos that you like and describe each of them in about 40 words. Post their links.

Giant Panda Reserve

This video shows the Wolong Nature Reserve in China where they work to save pandas, one of the endangered species in the world. They care of the reproduction, the breedings, and feeding. The population of pandas has increased from 10 to 102 pandas in a few years.

Rescuing the Endangered Cape Parrot

Steve Boyes work with a team of scientists trying to save one of the most threatened birds in South Africa, the Cape parrots. They are losing their homes because of the destruction of the forest where they live. Steve and his team built small houses for Cape parrots and they treat the sick birds

3. Recommend any other section or subsection of the website. (40 words)

I recommend the Environment section, because it contains a lot of interesting information about the care of our planet, includes subsections such as "Global Warming", "Natural Disasters", "Energy", "The Ocean" and others. And many interesting things we could learn about our environment.