1&6+Geometry+in+Nature

=1&6 Geometry in Nature= Your team will edit this page to teach your concept. Find the best resources (videos, games, quizzes, interactive manipuatives), insert digital pictures, include vocabulary (you may use links), include formulas, and uses of this concept. Give credit to each resource that you use. Resource links are listed on the main page**. ** Geometry is used in nature in many ways, mainly in shapes in nature, like the pentagon, the circle, the triangle, etc. If you look closely you can see lots of shapes in nature. Geometry in nature is are usually found in repeating patterns like leaf veins and many others. - http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_geometry_in_nature

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media type="youtube" key="JCw6HvL-cEY" height="340" width="560" examples of geomatry in nature A fractal is a rough or fragmented geometric that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole. Roots of mathematical interest in fractals can be traced back to the late 19th Century; however, the term "fractal" was coined by Benoit Madlebrot in 1975 and was derived from the Latin //fractus// meaning "broken" or "fractured.- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal

[|Fractal generator] (fractal game)

picture1 pyramid- http://admin.satyacenter.com/item_files/subcategory_15_2.jpg picture2 snowflake-http://www.charlesgilchrist.com/SGEO/Mandalas/PCX4812.gif picture3- weird looking flower-http://www.charlesgilchrist.com/SGEO/Mandalas/PCX4812.gif picture4 leif veins-http://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/007/007khd-17134884.jpg picture5 fractal-http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ark/mandellarge.png picture6 bee hive-http://www.usefilm.com/images/6/2/6/626/160416-medium.jpg picture7- pointy flower thing with a beetle on it-http://www.wunderground.com/data/wximagenew/p/pjpix/125.jpg