You can find a copy of the final exam study guide in the google drive folder for IS2. If you lost your copy, you can print a new copy.
Next week will be busy tying up loose ends. On Monday we will finish the biome presentations. Tuesday through Thursday will be review for the final exam. The final exam is on Friday (special finals schedule). Today you received the study guide for the final. It outlines the topics on the final (genetics, DNA, and ecology). You can earn extra credit if you have the ENTIRE study guide complete at the start of class on Thursday. (Yes, that means EVERY SINGLE QUESTION MUST BE ANSWERED to get extra credit.)
On Tuesday you should finish your ecology packet and make sure your biome presentation is ready to go for Wednesday! Solutions to the ecology packet are available in google drive.
Yesterday we talked about the biome research project. Each group picked a biome that they will research and present to the class. The project is due Tuesday 5/29. Make sure you are ready to present on 5/29, the order of presentations will be randomly chosen.
Friday you did a quick vocab review to make sure you weren't forgetting all of our vocab words. Yesterday we talked about food webs and trophic levels. Today we did an activity to show how toxins are passed along and accumulated in a food web. Then we talked about Rachel Carson and her book "Silent Spring". The assignment was to read the background information(under supporting materials on the video page at the link that follows) on Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and watch the video (if you weren't in class).
Yesterday we talked about the 3 main types of symbiotic relationships among organisms - commensalism, mutualism, and parasitism. Today we played a card sort game to match organisms according to their needs, and sort by the type of symbiotic relationship. We have covered the material up to slide 49 in the poswerpoint.
Today we watched a video on Easter Island. We will finish and discuss the video tomorrow.
Today we talked about the 3 main types of feeding relationships in ecology and added some words to our vocab list: producer, consumer, predator, prey, parasite, host, autotroph, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, decomposer/detritivore, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer, scavenger,
Today we began talking about what is ecology, and the different levels of organization. Vocab that you should know: ecology, environment, biotic factors, abiotic factors, organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere. Then you worked on showing how an organism fits into an ecosystem.
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