Thursday, November 29, 2007

Chapter 6.3 vocab and questiones. Grassland, Desert, and Tundra Biomes


Instructions: Define all vocabulary words and answer all questions.

For Honors Students: Make an outline of the chapter section but make sure it contains the following vocabulary and answers the following questions.


Assigned Tuesday, November 4th, 2007. Due Wednesday, December 5th.


Vocabulary:


Savanna

Temperate grassland

Chaparral

Desert

Succulent

Estivating

Tundra

Permafrost



Questions:


  1. What biomes replace forests when there is less rain?

  2. Figure 16:

    1. When are the rainy seasons in this sananna?

    2. What is the average temperature on this savanna?

  3. When are animals most active on a savanna?

  4. What role does fire play on a savanna?

  5. What are some adaptations plants have made to live on a savanna?

  6. What are some adaptations animals have made to live on a savanna?

  7. What is difference between a tropical and temperate grassland?

  8. What is important about the soil of temperate grasslands?

  9. Figure 18: Temperate grasslands

    1. What is the rain pattern in this grassland?

    2. What is the total rainfall in this temperate grassland?

    3. What is the average temperature November?

  10. Where on continents are temperate grasslands located?

  11. Why are there so few trees on grasslands?

  12. What is the dominant vegetation on grassland?

  13. What are some characteristics of animals in temperate grassland?

  14. How have farming and overgrazing threatened grasslands?

  15. What distinguishes chaparral from grasslands?

  16. Figure 24: chaparral

    1. When is the rainy season for this chaparral?

    2. What is the temperature like throughout the year?

  17. Chaparral typically have a Mediteranean climate. What is a mediterranean climate?

  18. What are adaptations that animals of chaparral have made?

  19. What is the greatest threat to chaparral biomes?

  20. Why are deserts so dry?

  21. Figure 25: Dessert

    1. What is the total rainfall in this dessert?

    2. What is the average high temperature there?

  22. What type of adaptations do plants make to live in the desert?

  23. What type of adaptations do animals make to live in the desert?

  24. When are desert animals most active?

  25. Where is the tundra located?

  26. Figure 27: Tundra

    1. What is the total amount of precipitation here?

    2. Why don’t trees grow here?

  27. Why are plants of the tundra so short?

  28. What adaptations have animals made to live on the tundra?

  29. Why are tundra so sensitive to human disruption?

  30. Do math practice on page 163.





Chapter 6.2 vocab and questions. Forest biomes?


Instructions: Define all vocabulary words and answer all questions.

For Honors Students: Make an outline of the chapter section but make sure it contains the following vocabulary and answers the following questions.


Assigned Friday, November 30, 2007. Due Monday, December 3rd.

Vocabulary:

Tropical rain forest

Hectare

Buttresses

Braces

Emergent layer

Canopy

Epiphytes

Understory

Habitat destruction

Transpiration

Temperate rain forest

Temperate deciduous forest

Taiga

Conifers





Questions:


  1. What is the climate like in a tropical rain forest?

  2. What cycles do tropical rain forests help regulate?

  3. Where are the nutrients located in a tropical rain forest?

  4. Figure 5: tropical rain forest

    1. Which month has the highest rain fall?

    2. How much rain falls is this tropical rain forest?

    3. What is the average temperature in this tropical rain forest?

  5. What are the 4 layers of the tropical rain forest?

  6. Which layer absorbs most of the sunlight?

  7. How are plants of the tropical rain forest important to us?

  8. Which biome has the greatest species diversity?

  9. What percent of earth was covered by tropical rain forests when the book was written?

  10. What percent of earth used to be covered by tropical rain forests?

  11. Why are the tropical rain forests cut down?

  12. How does habitat destruction affect the people that live in rain forests?

  13. How do trees keep us cooler than the shade from buildings?

  14. How could deforestation change the climate?

  15. How could deforestation lead to more erosion?

  16. How could deforestation lead to flooding?

  17. How is a temperate forest different than a tropical rain forest?

  18. Where is the temperate rain forest of North America?

  19. Why does the pacific northwest have such moderate temperatures?

  20. How do deciduous trees change with the seasons?

  21. Figure 10: temperate deciduous forest

    1. What is the total rain fall for this temperate deciduous forest?

    2. What is the temperature range of this forest?

  22. In what kind of biome do you think we live?

  23. How is the understory of a deciduous forest different than that of a tropical rain forest?

  24. How are plants adapted to a temperate climate?

  25. How have animals adapted to life in temperate forests?

  26. Where is the Taiga?

  27. What is the dominant vegetation of the taiga?

  28. How long is the growing season of the taiga?

  29. Figure 13: Taiga

    1. What is the temperature range of the taiga?

    2. When does most of the precipitation occur?

  30. How are conifers adapted to the climate of the taiga?

  31. How are the animals of the taiga adapted to that climate?










Chapter 6.1 vocab and questions. What is a biome?


Instructions: Define all vocabulary words and answer all questions.

For Honors Students: Make an outline of the chapter section but make sure it contains the following vocabulary and answers the following questions.


Assigned Thursday, November 29, 2007. Due Friday, November 30th.

Vocabulary:

Biome

Terrestrial

Climate

Humidity

Sparse

Latitude

Longitude

Altitude





Questions:


  1. What is the difference between a biome and an ecosystem?

  2. Why are biomes described by their vegetation?

  3. What do plants that live in a particular biome have in common?

  4. How do temperature and precipitation determine which plants grow in an area?

  5. Why are plants that grow in the tundra short?

  6. Why don’t cactus have leaves?

  7. What factors determine which plants can grow in a particular area?

  8. How is the amount of vegetation related to temperature?

  9. How is the amount of vegetation related to precipitaion?

  10. How does latitude affect the climate?

  11. How does altitude affect the climate?

  12. Where is the temperate region of the world?

  13. What is our latitude?

  14. What is our altitude?








Week 15, Environmental Science, Mr. Vaught


Objectives:

  1. HFACEnvironmentalScience.blogspot.com

  2. Exam 5, Energy Flow in Ecosystems, cycling of materials.

  3. Continue worm bin/observation

  4. Extra credit: field guide and community garden and news articles.

  5. present energy papers.


Monday: 112607

Observe worms

Write song about cycles

Turn in:

Handouts: Chapter review 5

Homework: chapter 5 review, due Tuesday the 27th.


Tuesday: 112707

Quiz on 5.3 and energy presentations

Handout:

Homework: Study for exam


Wednesday: 112807

Review 5

Exam chapter 5

Homework: correct wrong answers from energy quiz: write complete sentences for each wrong answer for 5 points per question added to quiz grade.


Thursday: 112907

Intro to biomes

Homework: 6.1 vocab and questions, due Friday 11-30-07


Friday: 113007

Observe worm

Handout/homework: 6.2 vocabulary and questions



Environmental Journal Topics

112607 Name five cycles that we studied in this chapter.

112707 How do humans affect the cycling of materials in an ecosystem?

112807 Why are all ecosystems not at the climax community?

112907 Why is it hard for trees to survive at the tops of high mountains?

113007 Coniferous trees are found in both subarctic taiga and warm chaparral regions. What kind of conditions have these trees in these areas adapted to?

Long term project/Lab: Inferring the Effects of Earthworm Activity


Week 14, Environmental Science, Mr. Vaught


Objectives:

  1. HFACEnvironmentalScience.blogspot.com

  2. Exam chapter 4

  3. Begin Chapter 5, Energy Flow in Ecosystems, cycling of materials.

  4. Continue worm bin/observation

  5. Extra credit: field guide and community garden

  6. present energy papers.


Monday: 111207

Observe worms

Exam Chapter 4

Observe worms

Turn in: Lab Report Salt water, saturation.

Handouts:

Homework: List 10 ways you could make your home more efficient. Time after test.


Tuesday: 111307

Presentation on energy paper

Problems with exam

Handout: 5.1 vocabulary and questions.

Homework: 5.1 vocab and questions, due Thursday, 11-15-07.


Wednesday: 111407

Presentations

5.1, Photosynthesis, producers and consumers.

Homework: Finish 5.1 vocab and questions


Thursday: 111507

Energy presentations.

Cellular respiration, energy transfer.

Homework: 5.2 vocab and questions, due Monday 11-19-07.


Friday: 110907

Observe worm

Make posters promoting recycling. Or food web diagram.

Energy presentations

homework: finish 5.2 vocab and questions



Environmental Journal Topics

111207

111307 What is the difference between a vertebrate and an invertebrate? What kingdom do they belong to? List 3 examples of each.

111407 What is needed for photosynthesis? What is produced in photosynthesis? What are the reactants and products of photosynthesis?

111507 What is needed for cellular respiration? What are the products of cellular respiration? What are the reactants and products of cellular respiration?

111607 What is a good slogan to promote recycling?

Long term project/Lab: Inferring the Effects of Earthworm Activity


Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Chapter 5 review Handout Monday 11-26-07. Due Tuesday 11-27-07.

Exam Wednesday 11-28-07.


Energy cycle

What is the ultimate source of energy for most organisms?

What do producers produce?

What are the producers on land?

What are the producers in water?

What do producers need to perform photosynthesis?

How do consumers get energy?

What is the opposite of photosynthesis? What is released?

What do you call consumers that only eat producers?

What do you call consumers that consume other consumers?

How do producers store energy?

How do consumers store energy?

Why is energy lost when we move form one trophic level to another?

What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?


Carbon cycle

In the carbon cycle, where do producers get their carbon?

What are 5 ways that carbon can be stored?

When fossil fuels are burned what is released?

What green house gas is released when fossil fuels are burned?


Nitrogen cycle

Where is most nitrogen stored in a form can not be used by most organisms?

Where would you most likely find nitrogen-fixing-bacteria?

How do we get our nitrogen?

Why do we need nitrogen?


Phosphorus cycle

Where does phosphorus occur naturally?

Why do we need phosphorus?

How do we get phosphorus?

What happens when too much fertilizers, containing nitrogen and phosphorus, are used?


Ecological cycle

What is ecological succession?

How is primary succession different that secondary succession? Where do they occur?

What is the role of lichen in primary succession?

Where does old field succession occur?

How long does it take for old field succession to occur?

What is the climax community in old field succession?









Cycles


Energy

Carbon

photosynthesis





Friday, November 16, 2007

Chapter 5.3 vocabulary and questions. Energy Flow in Ecosystems

Instructions: Define all vocabulary words and answer all questions.

For Honors Students: Make an outline of the chapter section but make sure it contains the following vocabulary and answers the following questions.


4 points each.


Assigned Monday, November 19, 2007. Due Tuesday, November 20th.


Vocabulary:

  1. Ecological succession

  2. Primary succession

  3. Secondary succession

  4. Pioneer species

  5. Climax community

  6. Old field succession

  7. Lichen

  8. Symbiosis




Questions:

  1. How long does ecological succession take?

  2. Where does primary succession occur?

  3. Where does secondary succession occur?

  4. What is the role of the pioneer species?

  5. How does the climax community change?

  6. How are some communities adapted to fires?

  7. What type of trees are adapted to forest fires?

  8. Why would the forest service let a fire burn or even start a fire?

  9. What plants grow the 1, 2, 5, 15, and 50th year of an old field succession?

  10. Why do the pioneer plants quit growing?

  11. Why does primary succession take so much longer than secondary succession?

  12. What are the pioneer species during primary succession?

  13. What does lichen do to rock?

  14. What role might water play in primary succession?

  15. How is soil formed formed where there once was only rock?





Week 13, Environmental Science, Mr. Vaught


Objectives:

  1. HFACEnvironmentalScience.blogspot.com

  2. Exam chapter 4

  3. Begin Chapter 5, Energy Flow in Ecosystems, cycling of materials.

  4. Continue worm bin/observation

  5. Extra credit: field guide and community garden

  6. present energy papers.


Monday: 111207

Observe worms

Exam Chapter 4

Observe worms

Turn in: Lab Report Salt water, saturation.

Handouts:

Homework: List 10 ways you could make your home more efficient. Time after test.


Tuesday: 111307

Presentation on energy paper

Problems with exam

Handout: 5.1 vocabulary and questions.

Homework: 5.1 vocab and questions, due Thursday, 11-15-07.


Wednesday: 111407

Presentations

5.1, Photosynthesis, producers and consumers.

Homework: Finish 5.1 vocab and questions


Thursday: 111507

Energy presentations.

Cellular respiration, energy transfer.

Homework: 5.2 vocab and questions, due Monday 11-19-07.


Friday: 110907

Observe worm

Make posters promoting recycling. Or food web diagram

Energy presentations

Discuss scientific notation?

homework: finish salt-water lab report, study for exam.



Environmental Journal Topics

111207

111307 What is the difference between a vertebrate and an invertebrate? What kingdom do they belong to? List 3 examples of each.

111407 What is needed for photosynthesis? What is produced in photosynthesis?

111507 What is needed for cellular respiration? What are the products of cellular respiration?

111607 What is a good slogan to promote recycling?

Long term project/Lab: Inferring the Effects of Earthworm Activity


Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Chapter 5.2 vocabulary and questions. Energy Flow in Ecosystems

Instructions: Define all vocabulary words and answer all questions.

For Honors Students: Make an outline of the chapter section but make sure it contains the following vocabulary and answers the following questions.

40 items, 2.5 points each.


Assigned Thursdayday, November 15, 2007. Due Monday, November 19th.

Vocabulary:

  1. Carbon cycle

  2. Carbonates

  3. Carbon sinks

  4. Fossil fuels

  5. Nitrogen fixing bacteria

  6. Nitrogen cycle

  7. decomposers

  8. atmospheric

  9. Nodules

  10. legumes

  11. phosphorus cycle

  12. algal bloom



Questions:

Carbon cycle

  1. What does cycle mean to you?

  2. What nutrients are made up of carbon?

  3. What role do plants lay in the carbon cycle?

  4. What is limestone made of?

  5. What takes carbon out of the atmosphere?

  6. How do plants use carbon dioxide?

  7. What role do humans play in the carbon cycle?

  8. Describe the long term carbon cycle.

  9. How much has the concentration of carbon dioxide increased in the last 150 years?

  10. How much is this expected to raise the temperature of earth?

Nitrogen cycle

  1. Why do we need nitrogen?

  2. How is nitrogen fixed?

  3. Why are nodules important?

  4. Where do bacteria get nitrogen?

  5. Where do plants get nitrogen?

  6. Where do animals get nitrogen?

  7. How does nitrogen return to the air?

  8. What are some waste products that contain nitrogen?

  9. What is the chemical formula for nitrogen in the air?

  10. What is the chemical formula for nitrogen after bacteria transform it?

Phosphorus cycle

  1. How do we use phosphorus?

  2. How do plats get phosphorus?

  3. How do animals get phosphorus?

  4. Describe the phosphate cycle.

  5. What is apatite in regard to minerals?

  6. Which of the three cycles are manipulated with fertilizers?

  7. How do algal blooms threaten an environment?

  8. How do humans contribute to acid rain?

  9. Could acid rain occur naturally?








Chapter 5.1 vocab and questions. Energy Flow in Ecosystems

Instructions: Define all vocabulary words and answer all questions.

For Honors Students: Make an outline of the chapter section but make sure it contains the following vocabulary and answers the following questions.


Assigned 11-13-07, due Thursday 11-15-07

Vocabulary:

  1. Photosynthesis

  2. Carbohydrates

  3. Producer

  4. autotroph

  5. Consumer

  6. Heterotrophs

  7. Herbivores

  8. Carnivores

  9. Omnivores

  10. Decomposer

  11. Cellular respiration

  12. Respiration

  13. Chemical equations

  14. Reactants

  15. Products

  16. biological magnification

  17. food chain

  18. food web

  19. trophic level



Questions:

  1. What is the ultimate source of energy for most organisms?

  2. What are the exceptions to this generality?

  3. What are 3 thisngs necessary for photosynthesis to occur?

  4. What are the products of photosynthesis?

  5. __________ is a molecule that stores energy.

  6. How much berries could a 200kg grizzly bear in a day? (p.119)

  7. How is photosynthesis related to cellular respiration?

  8. How do you use energy?

  9. How does our body store energy?

  10. How many calories are in a gram of carbohydrates?

  11. How many calories are in a gram of protein?

  12. How many calories are in a gram of fat?

  13. Does DDT dissolve more in water or fat?

  14. Why did we ban the use of DDT?

  15. If DDT is banned in the United States, how some birds from here exposed to this pesticide?

  16. In a food chain, how is energy transferred from one organism to another?

  17. How much energy is lost each time you move on to another trophic level?

  18. What does an trophic level have to do with an energy pyramid?

  19. What is at the base of every energy pyramid?

  20. Why is each level in an energy pyramid smaller than the level below it?

  21. To what kingdom do producers in the ocean belong?








Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Week 12, Environmental Science, Mr. Vaught


Objectives:

  1. HFACEnvironmentalScience.blogspot.com

  2. review chapter 4, Ecosystems, Evolution, and diversity of life (Kingdoms).

  3. Continue worm bin/observation

  4. Extra credit: field guide and community garden

  5. present energy papers.


Monday: 110507

Observe worms

Environmental Art project, photos

Turn in:

Handouts:

Homework: finish 4.3 vocab and questions


Tuesday: 110607

Observe worms

Turn in 4.3 vocab and questions

Talk about 4.2 and 4.3

Handout: sea water lab guideline, due Monday Nov. 12th.

Homework:


Wednesday: 110707

Go to community garden and answer questions on ecosystems (back of quiz 4.1)

Observe worms

Homework: Review for chapter 4, due Friday Nov 9th.


Thursday: 110807

Quiz 4.2, 4.3, grade in class and turn in.

Energy presentations.

Homework: finish review 4.


Friday: 110907

Observe worm

Turn in review 4, grade in class and return.

Energy presentations

Discuss scientific notation?

homework: finish salt-water lab report, study for exam.



Environmental Journal Topics

110507 In your opinion, what are 3 elements of art.

110607 What is the difference between artificial selection and resistance?

110707 Arrange the following vocabulary words in order from least to most complex. Poulation, organism, biosphere, community, and ecosystem.

110807 If a squirrel nests under your desk, and this allows it to survive and produce more offspring than other squirrels in the area, has the squirrel evolved?

110907 What might hummingbirds have coevolved with? Is this a lower plant, a gymnosperm, or an angiosperm?


Long term project/Lab: Inferring the Effects of Earthworm Activity


Chapter 4 review for exam.

Due on Friday, Nov 9th.

Answer each question and then use it to study for the exam.


General test


  1. What is a trait that increases an organism’s chance of survival called?

  2. A change in the genetic characteristics in a population from one generation to the next is called ___________.

  3. __________ is a trait unintentionally selected by humans.

  4. ­­­___________ is a process that causes the characteristics of a population to change in a way controlled by humans.

  5. A process that causes the characteristics of a population to change without human control is called _______________.

  6. List three examples of vertebrates.

  7. ___________ are invertebrates that are generally small, allowing them to subsist on very little food and to hide from enemies.

  8. What are two things animals do for angiosperms?

  9. What are the six different kingdoms?

  10. Give three examples of lower plants.

  11. List 2 biotic and 2 abiotic components of a desert ecosystem.

  12. True or False. Water, air, and sand are abiotic factors in an ecosystem.

  13. How do you define a population?

  14. Natural selection is the unequal survival that results from the presence or absence of ­­­­_______________.

  15. What is a habitat and what does it provide for an organism?

  16. Which two kingdoms contain organisms that break down dead organisms?

  17. Which two kingdoms use chlorophyll to convert energy from the sun into food?

  18. When bacteria develop a resistance to an antibiotic they are no longer killed by the antibiotic. Is this an example of evolution or the development of unwanted adaptations or both?

  19. To which kingdom does blue-green algae belong?

  20. Which kingdom has single-celled organisms with cell walls but no nuclei?



Honors Students

Chapter 4 review for exam.


At a minimum, mentally review each topic below. If you can not answer it with your notes use the book or ask me. It might be helpful to review this with a fellow honors student.

Honor’s students do not have to turn in a review if you are receiving As or Bs on exams. If you receive less than a B on an exam I may require a written review in the future. Does this sound fair?



Which kingdom

  1. Has a species that causes malaria?

  2. Provides most of the food we eat?

  3. Contains vertebrates?

  4. Contains E.coli?

  5. Can cause athletes foot?


List three examples of and three characteristics of

  1. plants

    1. lower plants

    2. gymnosperms

    3. angiosperms

  2. animals

    1. vertebrates

    2. invertebrates

  3. fungi

  4. archaebacteria

  5. eubacteria

  6. protists


Which kingdom provides most food in the ocean?

Which kingdom provides most food on land?

Why are insects such successful animals?


Define and give three examples of

  1. Organism

  2. Population

  3. Community

  4. Ecosystem

Which of the above four terms are made of biotic components?

What are examples of abiotic components of an ecosystem?

What does a habitat provide for a species?

Describe the process of natural selection.

How is resistance related to adaptation?

Explain coevolution.

What are 5 components a ecosystem must have to survive?




Salt water saturation. Lab guideline.


Handout 11-06-07. Due Monday, 11-12-07.

Your lab report should have six sections. Below are the six sections and some of the questions that should be answered in each section. It should be written as a report of what you did, not as a series of questions and answers. You should answer the questions in complete sentences instead of asking the questions again in your report.

Many students were absent at least one of the two days we worked on the lab. If you were absent on those days or had questions about the lab it was your responsibility to come during advisory or after school to make up the lab or ask questions.


Observation:

Why were we initially interested in the topic?

We made 3.5% salt water and we tried to make 100% salt water. What happened when we mixed 1g of water with 1g of salt?

What does soluble mean?

What does saturated mean?

How much salt can we put in water before we reach the point where it is no longer soluble?


Hypothesis:

A hypothesis is a statement that can be tested by experimentation. Such as:

I think water will be saturated at X% salt.

If we start with a volume of water and slowly add salt while stirring we will eventually get to a point where the salt will no longer dissolve.


Experiment:

The experimental section should tell exactly how you did the experiment. The more details you have here the better. You should have enough details so that someone else could read your procedure and repeat the experiment and get the same results.

Procedure

How much water will we start with?

If we convert this to grams, how much would this weigh?

Why did we use this amount?

What was the salt concentration initially?

We added salt in small increments. How much did we add at a time?

How long did we stir the solution before it was dissolved?

What percentage of salt did this make?

Was it all soluble?

How did the experiment procede after that initial step?

How much salt had we added when we noticed it was no longer soluble?

How long did we stir the solution before we decided that the solution was not soluble?

What was the experimentally determined range of the limit of solubility?

Did we take steps to further narrow this range?

If so, what were they?

Data and experimental observations

What salt concentrations did we attempt to make and which ones were soluble?


Analysis:

Is it possible to graph or chart the data so that it can be seen visually?

Conclusions:

You should express the results here.

Was you hypothesis accepted or rejected?

It is fine if your hypothesis is rejected. This just means that you learned something that you did not anticipate.

You did not find the exact maximum solubility of salt in water but you can express your results as a range. For example, the maximum solubility of salt in water is between X and Y%.


Repeat:

Is it necessary to repeat the experiment?

What could be gained by repeating the experiment?

Are there any related experiments that you can think of?

What temperature was the water in our experiment?

Do you think the solubility would the same at different temperatures?


Friday, November 2, 2007

Week 11, Environmental Science, Mr. Vaught


Objectives:

  1. review chapter 3

  2. exam 3 geosphere and atmosphere and how the biosphere and hydrosphere interact.

  3. Continue worm bin/observation

  4. Extra credit: field guide and community garden

  5. introduction to rounding numbers and scientific notation.


Monday: 102907

Observe worms

Turn in:

Handouts: Vocabulary/questions 4.1

Homework: finish chapter 3 review, 4.1 vocab and questions, finish paper.


Tuesday: 103007

Observe worms

Turn in Energy Paper, chapter 3 review, homework 4.1

Exam chapter 3

Talk about environmental art project, collecting materials for project on Friday.

Handout:

Homework: look up Andy Goldsworthy and bring ideas for environmental art project.


Wednesday: 103107

Discuss 4.2

Talk about presenting paper topics and taking notes.

Observe worms

Homework: gather materials for Environmental art project, 4.2 vocab and questions


Thursday: 110107

Turn in art supplies

Quiz 4.1

Leaf color

Start presentations.

Homework: 4.3 vocab and questions


Friday: 110207

Observe worm

Quiz 4.1

Remind to make up quiz 3.3, exam 3, and make-up lab if you missed last Tues/Thurs

Energy presentations

If time permits, begin 4.3 discussion on Kingdoms.

Environmental Art Project moved to Monday

Discuss scientific notation

homework: 4.3



Environmental Journal Topics

102907 Are members of a community biotic or abiotic members of the ecosystem?

103007 Where is the ionosphere located and why is it important to us? (p69)

103107 How are natural selection and evolution related?

110107 What is the shortest period in which a population of Darwin’s Finches can evolve? (p. 98-99)

110207 Why did the Galapagos finches evolve so rapidly?



Also need to:

  • make new seating charts

  • make salt water handout by tuesday

  • make chapter 3 review by Tuesday

  • make 4.1 vocab and questions by Friday



Vocabulary


Long term project/Lab: Inferring the Effects of Earthworm Activity


Next time I have a substitute need to explain role of journals better. They are sometimes used to introduce topics not yet covered. One paragraph is sufficient.


Chapter 4.3 vocab and questions. The Diversity of living things

Instructions: Define all vocabulary words and answer all questions.

For Honors Students: Make an outline of the chapter section but make sure it contains the following vocabulary and answers the following questions.

Handout on 11-02-07, vocabulary due 11-05-07, questions due 11-06-07.

Friday Monday Tuesday


Vocabulary:

  1. kingdom

  2. cell

  3. nucleus

  4. cell wall

  5. bacteria

  6. nucleus

  7. nuclei

  8. fungus

  9. fungi

  10. chlorophyll

  11. Protists

  12. plants

  13. vascular tissue

  14. lower plants

  15. gymnosperms

  16. conifers

  17. pollen

  18. seeds

  19. angiosperms

  20. Animals

  21. invertebrates

  22. vertebrates

  23. amphibians

  24. Birds

  25. Mammals














Questions: due Tuesday the 6th of November


Bacteria

  1. How many cells do bacteria have?

  2. Do they have a cell wall?

  3. How do bacteria reproduce?

  4. What are the two main kinds of bacteria?

  5. Do bacteria have nuclei?

  6. Identify two important roles that bacteria play in our environment.

  7. Do you have any bacteria in you?

  8. What do E.coli look like?

Fungi

  1. What is the role of the cell wall?

  2. Can fungi make their own food from sunlight?

  3. What is the role of the mushroom?

  4. Draw what a fungus might look like, including the mushroom and the underground structure.

  5. How do fungi get their food?

  6. How do people use fungi?

Protists

  1. What is the most infamous protest and why is it infamous?

  2. What are the most important protests and why are they important?

  3. Are protests single-cellular or multi-cellular?

  4. Do protests contain chlorophyll?

Plants

  1. Where does a plant get its resources?

  2. Why does a plant need chlorophyll?

  3. Why are most cells so small (microscopic)?

  4. How are lower plants different than gymnosperms and angiosperms?

  5. What are 3 adaptations that gymnosperms have made?

  6. What is the reproductive structure of the gymnosperms?

  7. How do we use gymnosperms?

  8. What is the reproductive structure of the angiosperms?

  9. Have you ever seen a grass flower?

  10. How do people use angiosperms?

Animals

  1. Name 3 important ways that animals are different than plants.

  2. What are 5 reasons that insects are such successful animals?

  3. Name 3 advantages of insects.

  4. Name 3 disadvantages of insects.

  5. What were the first vertebrates?

  6. What were the first land vertebrates?

  7. Which animals are warm-blooded?

  8. Do the math practice on page 106. How many insects would reach adulthood?


Name the six kingdoms of life and give 2 characteristics of each.