Tickling?

          Last Tuesday, my brother and I were playing the tickling game, I usually play with him because he's always complaining about being the little one and having no "brothers" to play with so I decided to be his "brother" and play all kinds of games from cars, dinosaurs, cowboys--and yes I'm the horse and he gets on my back and I have to run with him on top of  until he falls, boxing, and "the tickling game"--we just tickle each other without stopping until we get tired or my mom yells at us; which in this case my mom started yelling at us to stop because we make a lot of noise (yelling) and running around the house, so we went outside to observe the tree and wondered if the tree ever has something that tickles him, something like the wind, birds feet stepping on its branches, kids, or wind. My mom would always tell me that trees had feelings and that if I cut a flower or a leaf out of the the tree he would cry; I believe everything that she says. Probably the tree laughs all the time or when he feels like hes been tickled but we can't see its emotions. I tried to look up and find an answer, but nothing other a book  called "The Tickle Tree" and other pages showed up but none of those pages had an answer to it, so I decided to searched "do trees feel pain" and based on many studies, plants do feel pain and often when we eat vegetables they're still alive (Cohen), when I scrolled down there was many people comments arguing on the topic; some agreed and some others didn't to the "fact."
          A long time I heard from my friend that marijuana plants liked to listen to music, viewzone.com says that the marijuana plants like classical music but they have better results with recording of crickets. Crickets usually chirp before rain which make the plants "act", they open their "stomata's", the breathing pores on the underside of the leaves, which then they start to absorb the water . Below there's a video that shows that plants do have reactions and feelings. 

          This video shows that plants do have feelings and so they feel pain like they showed in the video when the professor burnt a leaf. This video answers the question that we had at the beginning, yes, trees are tickle; if they have feelings than yes that makes the tree feel tickle. 

"Stop Tickling Me"
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"Ticklish Tree"
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Work Cited

"Birds and the Bees" Guardian News and Media. Phil Cohen. 2011.                    Web. 09 Nov. 2014.

"The Amazing and Hidden Life of Plants" Do Plants Have Feelings? N.p.           n.d. Web. 09 Nov. 2014.

What's His Name?

          As my last post I tried to figure out the age of my tree but since I needed the specie of the tree I could't do anything. So I did a investigation about it; I looked up "tree identification" and a bunch of leaves came out, I had to find the one that looked like my tree and it was a  "Acer Sacchaurm"  which were identical to the leaves of my tree. Acer Saccharum are the leaves of  a Silver Maple also know as soft maple, white maple, river maple, swamp maple,  and water maple. At first I wasn't sure that that was my tree since it is originated from Eastern Unites States, but then it said that it could grow anywhere in the Unites States and Canada with certain care while they're on the process  of growing. So I guess that's my tree!

My tree
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Silver Maple Tree
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          You could tell that my tree doesn't have many leaves as the on one the right, the trunk of mine is bigger than the one on the right, and also mine has more branches.

Leaves of My tree        

Silver Maple Leaf
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          Can't really see the picture I took because they're all together , but the leaves are the same as the picture on the right. You can kind of see it from the top right leaf because is the one that shows.    
                    
  



Steps:

1. Circumference divided by 3.14 (pi)                                                                        7.11/3.14= 2.3
2. Diameter X Growth Factor                                                                                     2.3*3.0= 6.9 

          So the tree is 69 years old! Who knew? Last post my dad told me that he was about 63 years old; using the date when the house was built. It came out to be 6 years older than the house. A tree can be over 4000 years old so I guess he is young.  

Silver Maple Tree Seed
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     The silver maple is one of the fastest growing deciduous trees.  The silver maple tree can grow anywhere with moisture, but it's better if in river bottom soils.
          I guess I'm never going to know when is his birthday. Does the birthday of the tree is when the seed was planted? Imagine our world without trees? Would we all be dead? How would the parks look like without shadow? Would we have food/ fruit?  Would we be able to breath? Just imagine, would our world be the same without trees, would we adapt to the fact the we wouldn't have oxygen to breath, not having a simple shadow to cover ourselves from the sun, what about the birds and insects not having a shelter to protect themselves and not having food because if you didn't know the leaves are the food for many animals, a place to have fun like a did with "the tree house" or at a birthday party where the tree plays a big role-where hung up the piñata.
          I'm starting to realize something about my tree that I would've never had if Mrs. Farias wouldn't assign this project. Now that I watch the tree everyday at all times I could tell that I love the way nature amazes us; from the simple things like a spider to the color of the leaves.

Work Cited

          J. Dickerson. " Plant Fact Sheet for Silver Maple: Acer Saccharum L." United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA, RCS). Geyer Wayne A. 29 Nov. 2010. Web. 2 Nov. 2014.