My work using only the ten hundred most-used words. Idea by up-goer five, made with this. 

 How do green things use many ways to fight off animals?

One of the big things I want to know is how green things (the ones that turn sun into food) fight off animals (especially the small, hard-skinned, six-legged ones). Most green things have more than one way of fighting off animals. Why? There are many possible reasons. But many green things use one of a few groups of ways-of-fighting, which suggests that some ways-of-fighting work well together, and others do not. However, we do not know much about how ways-of-fight might work together or not; we know that they work against animals, but not how they help or hurt each other.

This summer I looked at how the ways-of-fighting of green things (called baby-drink bad-green-thing) work together to hurt flying butter animals (that are almost-red and have a name like they should sit on a huge, pretty chair). I did this by putting babies of the animal onto different green things, looked at how the animals grew and if they died, and looked at the ways-of-fighting the green things had. The ways-of-fighting I looked at: hairs, white blood-like stuff that gets hard and makes animals not move, stuff that makes animals sick, and how hard the parts of the green thing were. When I am done turning what I did into facts, I will look for how those different ways-of-fighting might help or hurt each other.

New way to use not-straight lines to understand how green things fight

I am interested in how green things that make food from the sun fight with one another for things. Not long ago I worked with my teacher and some other people, finding a new way to figure out how far-away green things fight less than near-by green things. We wanted to be able to take facts other people found, and draw the not-straight line between how far green things are, and how much they fight. Our key idea was to use a not-straight line that could do lots of things, and was very free. We found a new way to use this free line, without it being too free. Our new way worked for the green things we studied, and the way works well for facts that people have already found for all kinds of living things, not just green things. It’s good any time you want to draw the line between how far things are from each other, and how much they do something.

Small, hard, six-legged animal paper:

I studied how small, hard-skinned, six-legged animals move through food-growing places. Work by other people found that sometimes putting fields next to each other (making fewer bigger fields) in the food-growing places would lead to fewer animals instead of more; this doesn’t make sense to everyone. I wanted to know what could make it work that way (fields together = fewer animals). I used a computer to make pretend animals and pretend food-growing places with fields. It’s important to know that in most food-growing places, and in my pretend computer world, fields go in different places every year. If the animals (like my pretend animals and many real animals) start life in the field from last year, that means they must find and move to a new field before they can eat and make babies.

My pretend computer world found that when you put fields together to make fewer bigger fields, the animals have to move further when they want to find a new field. If the animals can’t move far enough, they die. Also, if you have fewer bigger fields, animals won’t find the fields as easily. Both of these things cause cause fewer animals in pretend worlds with fewer, larger fields (even though there is the same area of fields in all the pretend worlds).

This work is in a paper that I am going to send to people who make things with lots of papers (not books)