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 30^th.

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 27^th.

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

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

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 20^th.

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 50^th 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