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 TEST OVER CHAPTER 3 POSTPONED UNTIL THURSDAY 3/11    REMIND STUDENTS TO BRING 2-LITER EMPTY BOTTLE(S) BY FRIDAY  3/12
                                                            BIOLOGY

ASSIGNMENT SHEET

CHAPTER  3 THE BIOSPHERE

 

Name __________________________  period ______

 

OBJECTIVES

1)  Name the different levels of organization that ecologists study.

2)  Describe the methods used to study ecology.

3)  Identify the source of energy for life processes.

4)  Trace the flow of energy through living systems.

5)  Evaluate the efficiency of energy transfer among organisms in an ecosystem.

6)  Describe how matter cycles among the living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

7)  Describe the water cycle, carbon cycle, and nitrogen cycle in detail.

8)  Explain why nutrients are important in living systems.

9)  Describe how availability of nutrients affects the productivity of ecosystems.

 

SCHEDULE

Thursday 2/18  Notes on ecology  work on vocabulary list

Friday 2/19  Finish ecology notes  finish vocabulary list

Monday 2/22  Do pages 23, 27-28 in packet

Tuesday 2/23 AIMS WRITING TEST

Wednesday 2/24 AIMS READING TEST

Thursday 2/25 Notes on energy flow  vocabulary list due

Friday 2/26   Vocabulary quiz 1  Finish energy flow DO pages 24, 25, 29 in packet

Monday 3/1 Skills activity 

Tuesday 3/2  Do pages 30-31 in packet

Wednesday  3/3 Notes on water cycle and carbon cycle  Pages 27A and 28 B in packet

Thursday 3/4  Notes on nitrogen cycle and nutrient limitations pages 32-33-34 in packet

Friday  3/5 Vocabulary quiz 2+  Finish any notes pages 29 C and 30 D in packet

Monday  3/8 Review

Tuesday3/9  TEST over chapter 3The Biosphere

 

VOCABULARY LIST

1.  ECOLOGY

 

2.  BIOSPHERE

 

3.  SPECIES

 

4.  POPULATION

 

5.  COMMUNITY

 

6.  ECOSYSTEM

 

7.  BIOME

                                                                                    30.  LIMITING NUTRIENT

8.  AUTOTROPH

                                                                                    31.  ALGAL BLOOM

9.  PRODUCER

 

10  CHEMOSYNTHESIS

 

11.  HETEROTROPH

 

12.  CONSUMER

 

13.  HERBIVORE

 

14.  CARNIVORE

 

15.  OMNIVORE

 

16.  DETRITIVORE

 

17.  DECOMPOSER

 

18.  FOOD CHAIN

 

19.  FOOD WEB

 

20.  TROPHIC LEVEL

 

21.  ECOLOGICAL PYRAMID

 

22   BIOMASS

 

23.  BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE

 

24.  EVAPORATION

 

25.  TRANSPIRATION

 

26.  NUTRIENT

 

27.  NITROGEN FIXATION

 

28.  DENITRIFICATION

 

29.  PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY

 

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 ASSIGNMENT SHEET

 BIOLOGY CHAPTER 11

INTRODUCTION TO GENETICS

Name_________________

Period_____

 

OBJECTIVES

1.  Describe how Mendel studied inheritance in peas.

2.  Summarize Mendel’s conclusion about inheritance.

3.  Explain the principle of dominance.

4.  Describe what happens during segregation.

5.  Explain how geneticists use the principles of probability.

6.  Describe how geneticists use Punnett squares.

SCHEDULE

 

Thursday 11/19 Facts and Fallacies, Read section 11-1 pg 99

Friday 11/20.PAGES 115-116 DUE  Notes

Monday 11/23  notes on Punnett Squares, practice worksheet  Read section11-2 pg 100

Tuesday11/24  vocabulary list due, PAGES 117-118 DUE Notes on Mendelian genetics

Wednesday 11/25  VOCABULARY QUIZ  , practice worksheets

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! (Do extra credit family pedigree)

Monday 11/30  Review worksheets

Tuesday 12/1 Review as a class

Wednesday  12/2   Test over Genetics chapter 11

Thursday12/3  Review cell parts and cell transport

Friday12/4  Review photosynthesis/Cellular Respiration and  Macromolecules, DNA

Monday 12/7  Review genetics and organization

Tuesday 12/8 1st semester CRT/FINAL EXAM

 

                                                      VOCABULARY

 

1.  genetics

                                                           

2.  fertilization  

                                               

3.  true-breeding

                                               

4.  trait

                                                                       

5.  hybrid                                                         

                                                                       

6.  gene

                                                           

7.  allele

                                                           

8.  segregation 

                                               

9.  gamete

                                                           

10. probability 

                                               

11. Punnett square

 

12.  homozygous

13.  heterozygous

14.  phenotype

15.  genotype

16.  dominant

17  recessive

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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