Organisms+in+Extreme+Temperatures

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thermophile || archaea diatoms || carnobacterium pleistocenium ||  ||
 * [[image:http://english.cri.cn/mmsource/images/2008/09/14/4213waterbear1.jpg width="450" height="270" link="http://english.cri.cn/2906/2008/09/14/65s405292_1.htm"]]water bear
 * [[image:http://serc.carleton.edu/images/microbelife/Dunaliella_100.jpg width="100" height="75" caption="Dunaiella."]]halophile || [[image:https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ5ENzhgZnMve2OxJmlMyG-7HX3oXuapibSq2-DaXu-QKr2Gi44Sw width="251" height="192"]]microbe ||  ||   ||
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**Works Cited** **Sources** : Include the source information for all of the magazine articles, reference sources (encyclopedias) and web site pages that were used to complete your project. The source information for encyclopedias may be found at the end or beginning of each entry in iCONN. When using periodicals, the publication information will be at the beginning or end of the article. This needs to be formatted for MLA standards. If it is not labeled 'Source Citation' it can be formatted appropriately by using EasyBib.com. You should use EasyBib for the web sites. The final Works Cited should be listed in alphabetical order by the first word of the source citation. "Milky Way." //Kids InfoBits Presents: Astronomy//. Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2012. "The Milky Way." //WMAP's Universe//. NASA, 28 June 2010. Web. 06 Mar. 2012. . Vergano, Dan. "Galaxy Bracketed by Big Bubbles." //USA Today// 10 Nov. 2010: 05A. Web. 6 Mar. 2012.
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[|www.scientificamerican.com] "thermophile image"-http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/T/thermophile.html "water bear image"-http://english.cri.cn/2906/2008/09/14/65s405292.htm [|www.nasa.com] "archaea image"-http://www.microbiologyonline.org.uk/about-microbiology/introducing-microbes/archaea [|www.fcps.edu] library.thinkquest.org "halophile image"-http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/extreme/hypersaline/index.html "carnobacterium pleistocenium image"-http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/03/nasa-scientists.html

"microbe image"-http://www.thecombines.com/six/ [|www.nationalgeographic.com] [|www.eduplace.com] hms.stanford.edu "diatom image"- []


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** Topic : Research Focus**
 * What is your topic?**
 * Organisms in extreme temperatures**
 * State the focus of your research:where they were discovered and their names and a little bit about them and how that kind can live in that temperature**

**Notes** Include notes, statistics and facts that you will use to write your final paper. You may want to label sections of your notes to help you be more organized as you write. As you take notes from a source, you should list the source citation in the Works Cited section above. HOT ENVIRONMENTS -Thomas Brock discovered microorganisms (thermophiles) were growing in the boiling hot springs of Yellowstone National Park. Since Brock's discovery thermophiles have been discovered all over the world in the following locations:Iceland, Kamchatka (Russia), New Zealand, Italy, and Mt. Lassen (California) thermophiles-microorganisms that live and grow in extremely hot environments that would kill other microorganisms -Extremophiles were found in boiling hot thermal vents and in toxic stews, based on the genetic analysis, it looks like a type of archaea. archaea-a single-celled organism similar to bacteria extremophiles-microorganisms with the ability to thrive in extreme environments such as hydrothermal vents. -water bears are another type of extremophile that live in mosses, lichens, and liverworts. They have 8 legs with 4 claws on each leg. In their mouths are sharp pointy objects called stylets. They usse their stylets to cut into moss leaves, and algae. Water bears need moisture to survive so if the moss dries up then they will become inactive almost like hibernation. They can survive for many years like this. There are also many different species of water bears that range in color from gray, blue, yellowish brown, red, and brown. -Halophiles are aerobic microorganisms that live and grow in high saline/salty environments. The ares where they live usually contain about 10* the salt of normal ocean water. Environments they live in is the Great Salt Lake in California, the Dead Sea, and even in saltine crackers. They can live in up to 249 degrees fahrenheit -Hoover and his colleagues found carnobacterium pleistocenium in a frozen tunnel deep below the Alaskan tundra-new medicasl breakthroughs with the enzymes and proteins it possesses HOW THEY SURVIVE IN EXTREME TEMPERATURES -varying environment conditions -pressure and temperatures -alkalinity-basic or acidic and based on ph -salt in water microbe-a microorganism COLD ENVIRONMENTS -diatoms-one-celled algae with silica exoskeletons. They multiply in cold ocean water after ice breaks up. One of the most common forms of life in the ocean.Distantly related to giant kelp and other brown algae. They encase themselves in an outer wall called a frustrule whicch is composed of silica or glass. The frustrules have lots of pores,spikes, and spines.They are used as taxonomic features to identify and group diatoms