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Quick Question: 1. Last week we watched a few videos that showed the ways that humans live closely with nature around the world. Do you think there is value to watching these videos in class? Explain your response. ~ Yes because they show how different humans values are around the world. Essential Questions: 1. What are some of the major threats to biodiversity? ~ Pollution, global warming, habitat fragmentation 2. What is the evidence for ozone depletion? ~Satellites show holes forming in the ozone 3. What is the evidence for global warming? ~Overall raise in the globes temperature year round Tuesday Quick Questions: 1. Explain why pollution is a bigger problem to organisms at higher trophic levels than those at lower trophic levels. ~Because the higher the trophic level the more concentrated the pollutant gets 2. Please get out your WORKPACKET. Essential Questions: 1. What is habitat fragmentation? ~ When habitat loss causes the division of large chunks of the habitat 2. When do scientists predict the Ozone layer will be repaired? ~When we completely stop emitting carbon 3. What are three things you learned from reading the article "A World Without Water"? Wednesday Quick Question: 1. We've talked about many threats to biodiversity. Which threat do you think is the most severe? Explain your answer with a reason. ~Global warming because it effects every ecosystem all over the Earth Essential Question: 1. What are some of the major threats to our national parks and other protected areas? ~ Deforestation and commercialization Thursday Quick Questions: 1. Use the Google-- why are national parks important? ~ They preserve and protect many species and the country's history 2. Have you ever been to a national park/forest/lakeshore? (There are some here in Michigan!) ~ No Essential Questions: 1. What are three things from the video that you didn't know before. ~National parks weren't a thing not too long ago, specific people tend to bring certain ones to attention, and it takes a while for an area to get approved to be a national park Friday Quick Question: 1. How do you feel yesterday's test went? ~ I think I did pretty good on it Essential Question: 1. Post your pic from the nature center.
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Quick Question: 1. In your daily life, how much thought do you put into your impact on the environment? ~ Not a lot 2. Now that we've surveyed some of the world's biodiversity, we're going to study some of the ways biodiversity is threatened. Google HIPPO threats to biodiversity and record what the HIPPO threats are. ~ Habitat Loss, Invasive Species, Pollution, Human Population, and Overharvesting Essential Questions: 1. Comment on the changes you see between your first nature site photo and the most recent photo. ~ Everything has started to lose more color, the trees are more grey and the ground cover is also more grey Tuesday Quick Questions: 1. Explain the connection between the terms "climate change" and "global warming". ~ Global warming is a subcategory under climate change 2. Do you feel well-informed on the issue of climate change? ~ Yes 3. Do you currently have a firm stance on the issue of climate change? ~ Yes Essential Questions: 1. What writing strategy do you think would be the LEAST effective in terms of trying to convince your audience? Why? ~ Emotional appeal because it is most common and it is usually a backup strategy. 2. What writing strategy do you think would be the MOST effective in terms of trying to convince your audience? Why? ~ Connecting to the audience because if I don't understand or relate to what I'm reading I usually don't care about it or take it seriously. Wednesday Quick Questions: 1. What are the benefits of human agriculture? ~It allowed humans to have their own stable food source 2. What are the costs of human agriculture? ~It made the earths soil less nutrient and caused desertification 3. What is monoculture? ~One area used to grow only one species of plant Essential Question: 1. What are three components of biodiversity? ~Ecosystem, species, and genetic Thursday Quick Questions: 1. What is the difference between renewable and non-renewable resources? ~ Renewable are resources that can be reused and/or have an unlimited supply, whereas non-renewable resources are limited and can't be replenished 2. What are some things that can be done to sustain our freshwater resources? ~ Reduction of pollution and chemical runoff Essential Question: 1. Why are major companies starting to change their approach in managing water? ~ They are trying to conserve water usage Friday Quick Questions: 1. What does biodiversity provide? ~ Biodiversity boosts ecosystem productivity where each species, no matter how small, all have an important role to play. 2. Check your grade. If you currently do NOT have a grade for NOTEPACKET 3, it means I don't have it. A 0 will be entered soon! Essential Questions: 1. Post today's Nature Site Photo 2. Turn in today's learning log link in Google Classroom Monday
Quick Questions: 1. In what ways are reptiles and amphibians similar? ~They both are cold blooded and have endoskeletons 2. In what ways are reptiles and amphibians different? ~Reptiles live on land but amphibians live in water for the first stage of their life Essential Questions: 1. What are the 4 traits that all chordates share? ~ Notochord, hollow nerve cord, pharyngeal pouches, and a tail 2. True or false: all chordates are vertebrates. ~False Tuesday Quick Questions: 1. How old is the earth? ~ 4.5 billion years 2. How long ago did life first appear on earth. ~1 billion years ago 3. How has our species, Homo sapiens, been around? 200,000 years Essential Questions: 1. What is ecological feedback? ~ The effect that change in one part of an ecosystem or social system has on the very same part after passing through a chain of effects in other parts of the system. 2. What are some possible causes of the Cambrian explosion? ~An increase of available oxygen, the development of vision, and recovery of a mass extinction. Wednesday Quick Questions: 1. What is the name of the "biological big bang". ~The Cambrian explosion 2. What are the 8 levels of classification in biology? ~Sponges,cnidarians, flatworms, roundworms, annelids, mollusks, arthropods and echinoderms. Essential Questions: 1. All vertebrates have an amniotic egg. What is the amniotic egg in humans? ~While the fetus is developing in the womb 2. Are humans oviparous, ovoviviparous, or viviparous? ~Viviparous Thursday Quick Question: What is the most interesting thing you saw in the video yesterday? ~ Nothing Essential Questions: What did you accomplish today? ~Nothing Friday Quick Questions: 1. What was one (or more) good thing about creating the animal kingdom web project? ~It was a good learning experience 2. What was one (or more) bad thing about creating the animal kingdom web project? ~It hurt my grades because this class is too fast paced for me. Essential Questions: 1. What was the most interesting thing you saw in today's video? ~Absent 2. Post the picture you took today at the nature site. |
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