JR. HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE
2016-2017
KURZGESAGT VIDEOS
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- PROS AND CONS OF BECOMING A VEGETARIAN- 12:20
- CONS: more expensive; more time consuming; more likely to suffer health problems
- PROS: rich in lesser consumed vitamins and minerals; mood increases; might prevent heart attacks
- 5 WAYS YOUR BODY CHANGES WHEN YOU STOP EATING MEAT
- get rid of diabetes in a month
- you could lose your taste buds (due to lack of zinc that meat has)
- decrease risk of cancer
- lose weight
- DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PART 1 - CRASH COURSE BIOLOGY #33
- monomers: fatty acids, amino acids, monosaccharides; nucleotides
- mucosal layer
FRIDAY APRIL 20
- HOW TO LEARN MAJOR PARTS OF THE BRAIN QUICKLY- 5 MINiWTHE AMAZING POWER OF YOUR MIND- A MUST SEE!
MONDAY APRIL 16
- Crash course Nervous system #1
- NEURONS TAKE UP ABOUT 25% OF THE CALORIES THAT YOU TAKE IN
- Most of the neurons are multipolar
- Crash course nervous system #2
- frequency of axon firing matters is what counts
- sodium-potassium pump and ion channels (voltage gated... sodium opens at -55mVolts, the threshhold to cause action potential)
- crash course nervous system #3
- THE BRAIN: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION- 13 MIN
- Brainstem (bottom to top: medula oblongata, pons, midbrain) basic autonomic needs (involuntary) it also routes the sensory and motor nerves; cerebellum- gives you motor memory; thalamus- the router sorts data and sends them where they need to go; hypothalamus is for homeostasis; pituitary gland (anterior and posterior); cerebrum (80% of your brain) whose function is integration ; corpus collosum is a collection of nerves in between the two hemispheres that connect them; below cerebral cortex is the basal ganglia, parietal lobe (sensory input goes here), temporal lobe (memory, language, and hearing, occipital for vision, somatosensory cortex is posterior to motor cortex (on border of parietal and frontal lobes)
- central nervous system
- Peripheral nervous system
- Human brain: Major structures and their function
FRIDAY APRIL 13
- TED ED LESSONS WORTH SHARING
- FOOD FOR THOUGHT HOW YOUR BELLY CONTROLS YOUR BRAIN
- LINKING HUMAN BRAINS: RAMEZ NAAM AT TED EX RAINER
- THE FIRST 20 HOURS: HOW TO LEARN ANYTHING
- HOW TO CONTROL SOMEONE ELSE'S ARM WITH YOUR BRAIN
- CAN WE CREATE NEW SENSES FOR HUMANS
- NEW BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE TECHNOLOGY
- BRAIN MAGIC
- BANNED: TED TALK ABOUT PSYCHIC ABILITIES
- THE BRAIN HALLUCINATES YOUR CONSCIOUS REALITY
- HOW ABUNDANCE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD- ELON MUSK
- STRANGE ANSWERS TO THE PSYCHOPATH TEST
WEDNESDAY APRIL 11
- HANDOUTS FOR NERVOUS SYSTEM- Questions for the test Friday will be taken off of this packet! They can work on this while listening to the crash course videos below- but they would probably rather watch the first one listed. Maybe you could play the documentary first and they can choose which of the crash courses with the remaining time.
- THE HUMAN BRAIN SCIENCE DISCOVERY DOCUMENTARY= 1 HOUR 30 MIM
TUESDAY APRIL 10
- outer 1/8 inch of cerebrum is cerebral cortex
- frontal lobe: personality
- temporal: hearing and other sense; language; reading
- parietal; senses, attention, language
- occipital: vision
- thalamus: relays sensory and motor information and consciousness and alertnerrs
- 12 pairs of cranial nerves
- cerebellum- coordination, spatial navigation (proprioception)
- brainstem
- pons- breathing
- medula oblongata- regulates heart swallowing
- limbic system- pleasure system
- amygdala- emotion processor
- hippocampus - memory indexer
- glands: hypothalamus; pituitary (growth); pineal (sleep)
nociceptors= pain receptors
MONDAY APRIL 9
- BRAINPOP: TOUCH
- VIDEO: LIVING WITHOUT PROPRIOCEPTION- 4:05
- ONLY 15 PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WITHOUT PROPRIOCEPTION
- MAN TRAPPED INSIDE HIS OWN BODY FOR 13 YEARS STARTS TO MOVE AND REVEALS THE TRUTH- 6:22
- LAB: A NERVOUS EXPERIMENT
FRIDAY APRIL 6
- THE SENSORY SYSTEM (There are more than 5 senses)
- vision illusions
- The amazing ways animals see the world- 5 min
- mantis shrimp can see circular polarizing light that no other animals can see
- We have three types of cones (red, green, and blue) and rods for night vision. Birds have four and mantis shrimp have up to 16.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 4
- TOP 5 WEIRD BRAIN DISORDERS
- Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
- Cap Grass Delusion
- Alien Hand Syndrome (often comes about when the two hemispheres have been splito
- Republicative Paramnesia
- Cotard Syndrome (victim believes that they are dead)i
TUESDAY APRIL 3, 2018
- NERVOUS SYSTEM
FRIDAY MARCH 23
- brainpop: The nervous system
- brainpop: spinal cell
- grey matter carry motor nerves
- white matter are axons (information exchange)
- 8, 12, 5, 5, 1
- CK-12 ORGANIC CHEM CRASH COURSE VIDEO- NOMENCLATURED
FRIDAY MARCH 16
- CLASS WILL DECIDE PROJECT BASED LEARNING: HOW DOES SCIENCE RELATE TO THE WORLD?
WEDNESDAY MARCH 14
- MUSCLE & SKELETON RETRY TEST (ANATOMY)
MONDAY MARCH 12
- Crash course Anatomy & Physiology: Part two #7
- 5% of your blood is contained in your skin at any given time
- The difference between apocrine and eccrine sweat glands (they are both exocrine sweat glands.
- apocrine glands secrete substances indirectly whereas the eccrine glands secrete directly through a duct. Eccrine glands are also called as merocrine glands.
- eccrene sweat glands
- apocrine sweat glands (body odor)
- sebaceous glands (less of them)
- Did all sections of integumentary so quiz will be tomorrow
FRIDAY MARCH 9
- Bone & Muscle lab make up/improvement tests
- Mature cartilage cells are called chondrocytes
- Crash course Anatomy & Physiology Part 1: Skin deep
- BONE LAB 2ND TRY
WEDNESDAY MARCH 7
- Medical Terminology Lesson 1
- General anatomy areas quiz (please look at what you learned Tuesday- below-)
- There will be given many opportunities to re-do a quiz that you performed poorly upon.
TUESDAY MARCH 6
- Know anatomical direction terms (we saw short 1 minute or less videos explaining most of these pairs)
- anatomical position (standing face forward on both feet between 1 to 2 feet, hands by side palms facing in front
- medial vs lateral (closer to midline of body/farther from midline)
- flexion vs extension (angles decrease to contract muscles/angles increase)
- anterior vs posterior (in front of body (front) / in back of body (back)
- distal vs proximal (farther from point of attachment to body usually legs or arms/ closer to point of attachment)
- dorsiflexion vs plantarflexion (toes pointing up w/all weight on heel/ standing on tiptoes)
- eversion vs inversion (soles of feet facing outward/ soles facing inwards
- superficial vs deep (the more under the skin/ the more towards the surface of the body aka the skin)
- superior vs inferior (above/below)
- insertion vs origin (the area that gives the force
- supination vs pronation
- supine vs prone
- circumduction vs rotation
- The muscular system explained in 6 minutes
- Quiz of muscles tomorrow
MONDAY MARCH 5
- To best study for these I would highly recommend going to the ck12.org site and go through their free biology flexbooks (text). The chapter we are studying is Human Organ Systems.
- Tomorrow we will have our quiz on muscles and then go through the INtegumentary system very quick and have a test on Tissues, skeletons, muscles, and integumentary system (skin, hair, and nails) on Friday.
- Hamstrings = one of the three posterior thigh muscles in between the hip and the knee (from medial to lateral: semimembranosus, semitendinosus and biceps femoris)
- Quadriceps = Quadriceps femoris muscle, large fleshy muscle group covering the front and sides of the thigh. It has four parts: rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, and vastus intermedius.
- What are the three type of muscle tissue? Which one is voluntary?
- What is axial / appendicular skeleton?
- Know the sarcomere unit: z-lines; myosin (thick filament); and actin (thin filament) these are what gives the striations in skeletal muscle
- Know that the muscle cell is called a myofiber and within that are many myofibrils which contain many sarcomere units.
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 28
- BRAINPOP: JOINTS
- Arthritis is "inflammation of the joints"
- 80% of people will exhibit signs of osteoarthritis by the age of 65
- DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
- IT IS THE most common muscular dystrophy
MONDAY FEBRUARY 26
- REVIEWING THE SKELETAL SYSTEM
- THE SKELETAL SYSTEM CRASH COURSE #19
- Osteons are your bone cells
- Osteoblasts build bone using collagen with calcium phosphate (bone makers)
- Osteoclasts (bone breakers)
- Osteoc ytes sends out message when there is a break in the bone and the osteoclasts come
- In space astronauts experience bone degradation so they must exercise
- slightly breaking your bones through exercises actually makes them stronger through resorption
- Types of joints: hinge, condular, ball and socket, pivot, plane joints between toe bones (gliding), saddle joiny (ankle),
- Movable joints are synnovial joints which have synovial fluid inside.
- mini-TEST Skeletal System
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 20
- CK12.ORG - You can download or read online the textbook we are going by on this site
- MUSCULAR SYSTEM
- START studying either bones or muscles
- 1ST time students with me do the bones (& Daniel)
- 2nd time students will do the muscles
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 13
- mini- TEST HOMEOSTASIS
- SKELETAL SYSTEM
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 6
NEOK12 SKELETAL SYSTEM
MONDAY FEBRUARY 12
- CK12.COM skeletal system
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 9
- Cartilage science explained- 4:17
- is a type of connective tissue
- made of chondrocytes
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 6
- Went through homeostasis and homeostasis imbalance
- video: Homeostatic disruption
MONDAY FEBRUARY 5
- ASTRONOMY TEST
- CLASS VOTED AND HUMAN BIOLOGY WAS THE MAJORITY TOPIC OF STUDY
- Went through Human Body, body cells, body tissues, and human organs
- Handout 21.1 Maintaining Homeostasis; Failure of Homeostasis
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 2
- ASTRONOMY WRITTEN TEST
TUESDAY JANUARY 30
MONDAY JANUARY 29
- History and Science of ancient archaeoastronomy- 30 min youtube
- Understanding the Universe- up to 30 min
- The closest star is 25 trillion miles away and it would take 4.4 LY to get there (Proxima Centauri)
FRIDAY JANUARY 26
- The biggest stars in the galaxy- youtube
- VY Canis Majoris (diameter is 1420 larger than our sun)
- NML Cygni (1600x diameter than sun) UY Scuti (1700x bigger than sun) - both would go out to orbit of Saturn
- The Gamma ray Burst of 775 - youtube
- lasts for 30 second
- when 2 neutron stars or a neutron star and blackhole collide cause GRBs (Gamma ray bursts). Happen once every million years. In tree rings of Japan trees and in antarctic ice is evidence of 2 places on earth that may have been hit with GRB.
- What would happen if a massive solar storm hit earth?
- CMEs (coronal mass ejections)
- Animated Infographic Video & Data visualisation using After Effects CC
THURSDAY JANUARY 25
- NEOK12.
- Planet size comparison
- Virtual dating (carbon dating)
- nhii biological labs
- star life lab
- The world in 2050
- The secrets of quantum physics
- The parallel universe another you
- Geordie Rose and AI coming to earth
- We are living in a simulation
- List of quantum computing documentaries
- What really is magnetism?
TUESDAY JANUARY 23
- Tycho Brahe's Life and Death- 7:51
- Dwarf planets interesting facts: 11:20
- Ceres- is 33% of the asteroid belt and the smallest dwarf planet
- Haumea- it is an elongated object which is strange for a dwarf planet and a large red spot and two moons. Namaka is the smaller moon, and the larger moon is hi'iaka
- Makemake
- Pluto is the brightest planet in the sky
- ERIS- has one small moon called dysnomia, is the largest dwarf planet and orbits not in the flat plane but outside like Ni biru
- A plutoid is a trans-neptunian body in orbit
- The lost secrets of Nikola Tesla- 46:25
- CK12 Star formations
- oldest star in milky way and oldest known star known the universe is the Methuselah star 190 LY measured 14.5 billion years
- Temperature of stars in order:
MONDAY JANUARY 22
- CK-12 - DWARF PLANETS
THURSDAY JANUARY 18
- Ck12- gas giants
TUESDAY JANUARY 16
- ck12- Jupiter
- ck12- mars
FRIDAY JANUARY 12
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THURSDAY JANUARY 11
- CAN STARS BE SEEN FROM SPACE - 2 HRS
TUESDAY JANUARY 9
- NEOK12- comets, meteroids, meteorites, asteroids
- Mark Twain was born with Halley's comet and died with it
- Hale Bopp comet in 1995-1996 followed by Heaven's Gate cult
SEMESTER TWO
MONDAY JANUARY 8
MONDAY DECEMBER 18
WHAT ELSE TO STUDY BESIDES THE HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS WEBSITE
- Planets in order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
- 5 dwarf planets: Pluto, Ceres, Eris, MakeMake, Haumea
- How many circumpolar constellations are there? 8 5 in Northern and 3 in Southern
- King, Queen Cassiopeia, Northern cross, Draco, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor
- 13 zodiac constellations that travel the ecliptic
- Polaris is our north star and it resides in Ursa Minor
- Our sun is a G2 yellow dwarf
- What is an AU?
- Other questions I will pick from the Astronomy notes in my website below so study below....
WEEK OF MONDAY DECEMBER 11
- The life cycle of stars- 5 min
- All the elements are made from the stars
- The age of a star is determined by its beginning mass
- Our Sun is a G2 yellow dwarf
- Our universe a little over 13 billion years old
- The circumpolar constellations- 5 min
- Circumpolar constellation are the ones that remain in sight from the earth, 5 in northern hemisphere and 3 in the southern hemisphere
- Ursa major, Ursa minor (Polaris is at one end), Cassiopeia (The Queen), Chepheus (The King), Draco (The Dragon) -Thuban is in it)
- Asterisms are parts of constellations that by themselves or with other asterisms form other patterns
- Big Dipper is part of Ursa Major.
- Video: Red Dwarf
- Video; GAmma rays
- BRAINGENIE CK12: CHEMISTRY: MEASUREMENTS AND CALCULATIONS
- BRAINPOP: COPERNICUS
- CONTINUE WATCHING GALILEO
- 864 RELATES TO ALMOST EVERYTHING
- 864,000 MILES is diameter of sun
- 86,400 seconds in a day
- DIVIDE 864 BY 8 AND YOU GET 108 WHICH also relates to many things:
- the radius of the moon is 1080 miles
- Moon is represented by silver (Ag) whose molar mass in chemistry is 108 grams per mole
- there are also 108 beads in a rosary
- Northern hemisphere circumpolar constellations (constellations that are always there)
- Cassiopiea (looks like "W"), URSA Major or the Big Dipper, URSA minor or the Little Dipper, Cepheus, Draco, Polaris (6)
- Northern hemisphere constellations during winter:
- Orion the Hunter (Looks like an "H" with triple star across his belt , Taurus (looks like "V"), Cetus, Canis Major, Eridanus, the Geminis, Perseus (7)
FRIDAY DECEMBER 8
- Constellations
- Galileo Nova documentary 1 hour 48 min
THURSDAY DECEMBER 7
- BRAINPOP: CONSTELLATIONS:
- The Pleiades is in constellation Taurus (In northern hemisphere you see Pleiades in winter)
- Polaris in the last star in handle of little dipper
- The ecliptic is actually the apparent path of the Sun throughout the course of a year.
- scientists use a factor known as "eccentricity", which is expressed in the form of a number between zero and one. If a planet's eccentricity is close to zero, then the ellipse is nearly a circle. If it is close to one, the ellipse is long and slender.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2014-11-earth-orbit-sun.html#jCp - Brainpop constellations
- The stories of the zodiac signs to remember night sky
- According to sumerians earth used to be Tiamat aka Phaeton, Maldek
- BRAINPOP: SIZE OF UNIVERSE
- EARTH HAS diameter of 8000 miles. it is 4 times bigger than moon
- Sun diameter is 100 times larger than earth's
- distance from earth to sun 93 million miles.
- we are called the "goldilocks" planet
- Jupiter is 466 million miles away
- it takes light 8 minutes to get to earth
- nearest star Proxima centauri = 4 LY
- nearest galaxy is AndromedaB
- BRAINPOP: SOLAR SYSTEM
- Ptolemy founded the "geocentric" model where earth was that which was revolved around by the other planets. Nicholas Copernicus proposed the "heliocentric" model where the planets, including earth, revolved around the sun. Galileo Galilei made efforts to prove that Copernicus was right.
- way back in 1655 a moon was located orbiting Saturn.
- First names for our moon was "Huygen's moon" and then "Titan"
- Zeus and Ganymede: The story of Aquarius- 9 min
- Eastern + Western astrology sign- given by Connor
TUESDAY DECEMBER 5
- BRAINPOP: CONSTELLATIONS
- celestial sphere has 88 constellations
- pictures associated with myths
- If you went towards a constellation it would drift apart since the stars aren't really close to one another
- circumpolar constellations are the exception
- stories that you see all the time (Ursa minor or "little bear" contains Polaris)
- Other brainpops: milky way, galaxies, telescope, life cycle of stars
- The earth is wobbling: The Precession of the Equinoxes
- The rotation of the earth causes gravity at the equator to be 1 percent lighter and 1 percent greater at the poles
- Sidereal year takes into effect the movement of the earth
- Julius Caesar named the month of July after himself. Made year 365 days.
- Pope Gregory XIII based calendar on Tropical year and made 365.25..... year. But in the year 15,000 the sun will be on the other side of the sun.
- Precession of the earth's axis:
- Almost all stars and galaxies are moving farther away from each other. l
- The earth is wobbling: The precession of the equinoxes: 5 min 49 sec
MONDAY DECEMBER 4
- ASTRONOMY
- The ecliptic and the seasons- solstice and equinox- 9 min
- The great year
- The precession of the equinox- 7:15
- universe size comparison 3d- 10 min
- Travel inside a blackhole- 10 min
- INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY CRASH COURSE #1: 12:11
- DEATH FROM SPACE- GAMMA RAYS EXPLAINED
- Where is the center of the universe? Everywhere
FRIDAY DECEMBER 1
- Understanding about allergens- 2 min
- body makes antibodies to allergens which can cause things like hayfever followed by congestion and swelling in effected areas.
- Are GMOs good or bad? Genetic engineering and our food- 10 minutes
- Anaphylactic allergic reaction- 40 seconds (from neok12.com "allergies")
- swelling, symptoms of shock
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 29
- WHAT fingerprints can reveal about you - 5 min
- What fingerprint says about you- 4 min
- Top ten traits you didn't know were genetic:
- laziness, dealing with stress (can be seen in the brain), willingness to travel drd4-7r (wanderlust gene) found in 20% of the population, driving skills, susceptibility to addiction (accounts for more than environment), violence (2 genes linked with violent crimes, eat exactly what you should eat, musical taste, mate selection (MHC major histocompatibility index- we are attracted to those who have different genes from us and not so attracted to those with similar genes), phobias
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 28
- When science fiction becomes science fact- 8 min
- Exercise your mind: make some prediction about the near future
- Introduction to physics: Physics in everyday life- 12 min
- Inertia: the more mass you have the more inertia you have: the harder it is to start something moving or start slowing it down
- increased altitude lessens the atmospheric pressure upon you and this reduces the boiling point. However one must cook longer at a lower boiling point to make sure
Monday November 27
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 17
- OCEANOGRAPY TEST
- Earth's Greatest Bizarre Mysteries- Paranormal Supernatural Documentary- 45 min
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 7
- 7 things we don't know about the ocean Sci show- 10 min
- neok12.com Oceans
- Octopuses are ridiculously smart- 5 min
- TOP 9 BODIES OF WATER:
- 9 GULF OF MEXICO
- 8 BERING SEA BETWEEN ALASKA AND SIBERIA
- 7 MEDITERRANEAN SEA
- 6 CARIBBEAN SEA
- 5 SOUTH CHINA SEA- BIGGEST SEA IN THE WORLD
- 4 ARCTIC OCEAN
MONDAY NOVEMBER 6
- The California current brings cool water to Hawaii
- OCEANOGRAPHY 24 EPISODES
- Ocean currents- 10 min
- Explore more: Water quality- 30 min
- Currents can be over 1000 km and 200 km wide
- REVIEW QUESTIONS
- Because of its _____ water dissolves many substances
- Ocean currents are powered by the ____ systems of the world.
- In the southern hemisphere the currents go in a(n) ______ circle.
- Permanent streams of water which flow in a definite direction from one part of the ocean to the other are called ocean _____
- Currents that originate near the _____ and flow towards the poles are called (warm/cold) currents.
- Ocean currents in the _____ hemisphere deflect to the right of the wind direction.
- 20% of the earth's freshwater is located in the _____ Lakes.
- Nitrogen and phophorus are found in manure and will lower oxygen levels
- antibiotics, pathogens contaminate water
- The mississippi river collects 40% of run off from the united states
polarity
equator/warm |
wind
northern |
counterclockwise
Great |
currents
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3
- HUMAN ANATOMY: Went over internal organs and the heart
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1
- Brainpop: Corals
- corals are polyps. Their mouth is their excretory organ as well
- They live on rocks or shells in colonies
- they use calcium in seawater to build protective skeletons (hard corals)
- CK12.ORG Review of oceans
- PRACTICE ANATOMY "MUSCLES"
TUESDAY OCTOBER 31
- OCEANOGRAPHY 24 EPISODES
- Brainpop : Underwater world
- The waters of the earth (Pelagic habitats) are divided into 3 zones:
- Euphotic (down to 100m) or "photic"
- Bathyal zone (down to 6000m) little or no light
- Abyssal zone (down to 6000m) no light
- Benthic (ocean floor) covers:
- Coral reefs (made up of shells) to continental shelves to trenches to underwater mountain ranges
- Australia's great Barrier reef is 1 of the 7 great wonders of the world (93% of it is now bleached)
- the acidity of oceans are also on the rise
- world record for scuba depth is over 1,000 ft (Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus)
- Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invented the 1943 aqua lung
- Oceans are home to 80% of all life on earth
- average depth of ocean is 12,000ft but light doesn't pass beyond 200ft
- Less than 5% of underwater space has been explored
- The sailfish can swim faster than a cheetah can run at 70mph
- The waters of the earth (Pelagic habitats) are divided into 3 zones:
MONDAY OCTOBER 30
- CK12.ORG- WATER PLANET-
- States of water
- Ocean life
FRIDAY OCTOBER 27
- Free anatomy quizess ANATOMY PRACTICE (BONES AND MUSCLES)
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 25
- BRAINPOP: TSUNAMIS
- Mostly caused by subduction plates (undersea earthquakes)
- more than 7.5 can cause massive damage
- It means harbor wave in japanese
- 80% occur in pacific ocean
- over 200 just in japan
TUESDAY OCTOBER 24
MONDAY OCTOBER 23
FRIDAY OCTOBER 20
- Biology crash course about water
- Laboratory: Water experiment demonstrations
- HOW ARE TIDES AFFECTED BY THE MOON
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 18
- KAHOOT.IT- OCEANOGRAPHY 71 QUESTIONS
TUESDAY OCTOBER 17
- SUBSTITUTE (WORK ON SECTION REVIEW QUESTIONS)
MONDAY OCTOBER 16
- Brainpop: The Ocean Floor (quiz)
- The Anglerfish- so weird looking and its mating so will find a video
- The male's sole purpose in life is to find a mate. When he reaches sexual maturity his digestive system starts to deteriorate. He bites the lady and fuses the two of them together and he without his digestive organs relies entirely on the female to sustain him.
- The Anglerfish- so weird looking and its mating so will find a video
- 5 Strange deep sea creatures part 1
- Stoplight loosejar, barreleye fish, cookie cutter shark, giant isopod, wolftrap anglerfish
FRIDAY OCTOBER 13
- KAHOOT: OCEANOGRAPHY (IN GENERAL)
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 11
- Water is the only substance on earth that can be found as a solid, liquid, or a gas? (true or false)
TUESDAY OCTOBER 10
TEST: OPEN BOOK PAGE 340-341
PACKET
PACKET
MONDAY OCTOBER 9
Brainpop: water cycle
Brainpop: Earth
Brainpop: Earth
FRIDAY OCTOBER 5
- HANDOUT (Chapter 15 of Earth science text)
- HANDOUT (CHAPTER 16 OF EARTH SCIENCE TEXT- THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT) QUESTIONS
- A _____ (or simply head) is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends out into a body of water.
- Wave _____ bend towards the headlands causing it to experience severe erosion and the eroded material is swept into the bays .
- The result of questions 1 and 2 is that the _____ are straightened by wave action
- A _____ is a sloping band of sand, pebbles, gravel, or mud at the edge of the sea.
- A longshore current is (parallel/perpendicular) to the shore
- Rip currents flow out to the ea through gaps in the _____
headland
parallel |
crests
longshore bar |
shorelines
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beach
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THURSDAY OCTOBER 5
- Ck12.org -
- NAME THE FOUR TISSUES OF THE HUMAN BODY? (EPITHELIAL; CONNECTIVE; NERVOUS; MUSCLE)
- LIST ORGANIZATIONAL HIERARCHY FROM SMALLEST TO LARGE
- cell; tissue; organ; organ system; organism
- Different names for some organ systems:
- Circulatory System & Cardiovascular system
- Excretory System & Urinary System
- Human Body
Body Cell
TUESDAY OCTOBER 3
- Time given in class to read and answer Section review questions for 15.2 and 15.3 on Marine ecosystems.
MONDAY OCTOBER 2
- FINISHED UP FOSSIL HOMINID
- Reading and doing questions from 15.2 and 15.3
- did ck12.com questions of freshwater ecosystems
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 29
- COMPARING HOMINOID SKULLS- LABORATORY
- Skulls (from left to right): Pan Troglodytes (chimp); Australopithecus Afarensis; Homo Sapiens; Homo erectus; unknown fossil
- Supra orbital height (cm): front or rear? typically the supraorbital ridge is more pronounced in males
- shape of braincase: more round or oval? edges squared off or pointed?
- forehead: Does it extend above the eyes?
- browridge: Is it small, medium, or large?
- face: slope or flattened?
- canines: long or short; sharp or dull
- foramen magnum: rear or center? (connects the skull with the brainstem)
- Skulls (from left to right): Pan Troglodytes (chimp); Australopithecus Afarensis; Homo Sapiens; Homo erectus; unknown fossil
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 27
- Brainpop: Fish
- Pufferfish are the most poisonous fish with poison tetrodoxin.
- Pacific salmon are anadromous fish (born in freshwater and migrate to ocean to live.
- have gills to get oxygen and have fins
- bony: 95 percent (have skeletons) have swim bladder
- cartilaginous (sharks, rays)- made
- jawless fish (no jaws just a round sucker with teeth)
- 25 percent of all protein consumed come from fish
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 26
- Wynfrey still needs to make up Test #1 (Biome)
- Isaiah biome poster?
- BRAINPOP: VERTEBRATA
- Only vertebrate without a backbone/spinal-column is the hagfish
- about 1/2 of all vertebrates are fish
- vertebrates have endoskeletons
- fish, amphibians, and reptiles are ectotherms. Mammals are endotherms
- Fill-in practice for 4.1 "Climate"
- Carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor and a few other atmospheric gases trap heat energy of sun. They cause the _____ effect.
- The distance north/south of the equator is determined by the _____
- The three main climate zones are the polar zones (66.5º to 90º, the tropical zones (23.5º North to 23.5º South), and the _____ zones in between.
- Because earth is _____ solar radiation strikes different parts of the earth at different angles. This accounts for seasons .
- The line at 23.5º North is called the _____ while the line at 23.5º South is called the _____.
- The line at 66.5º North is called the _____ while the line at 66.5º South is called the _____.
- Which climate zone contains the United States?
- The upward movement of (warm/cold) air and the downward movement of (warm/cold) air create air currents (winds).
- Like air currents, ocean currents transport _____ energy
- _____ ocean currents warm or cool the air above them, affecting the climate of the near landmasses
- The curved paths of most currents and winds are the result of earth's _____
- Ocean currents move in a (clockwise/counterclockwise) direction in the northern hemisphere and the opposite in the southern hemisphere.
greenhouse
Tropic of Cancer/ Capricorn surface |
latitude
Arctic/Antarctic Circle rotation |
temperate
warm/cold clockwise |
tilted
heat |
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 25
- Brainpop: Monotreme (single opening in greek)
- Only 5 living species, the platypus and 4 types of anteaters (echidna = spiny anteater)
- Only mammals that lay eggs
- They don't have nipples but sweat the milk through their skin
- cloaca- eat pee and defecate out of the same hole
- found in australia and new guniea
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 25
- Handed out packet (in-class assignment) to be used for "classification" study guide
- Test Thursday on classification +k
- Know what categories human beings (Homo sapiens) fit into in each of the taxons
- Know the categories of the Domains as well as the Kingdoms
- Know all 8 taxons and in the correct order
Friday September 22
- Brainpop: Dolphin
- Their class is Cetacen
- An orca (killer whale) is one of the more than 40 odifferent species of dolphins
- Brainpop: Panda
- They are bearsbi
- Brainpop: Penguin
- Do penguins only live at south pole? Answer NO.
- Brainpop: Birds
- warm blooded (endothermic)
- bones are hollow
- brightly colored birds are usually males
- a "hawk" is a predatory bird (260 species)
- Birds can fly 70% farther in a "V" formation than they can by themselvesj
- two legs, wings, feathers
- CLASSIFICATION QUESTIONS
- Name the 3 domains
- What are the two taxons used in binomial nomenclature?
- Name the order to which humans belong.
- A _____ is a grouping of organisms in a classification system?
Wednesday September 20
- Brainpop: 6 Kingdoms animals (multi-celled that need food to survive) 2) plants (trees and flowers with cell walls made of cellulose and can make their own food through photosynthesis) 3) fungi (feed off dead) 4) bacteria 5) archaea Brainpop: Fungi Cell wall made out of chitin hypahes secret enzymes to break down food the hyphaes produce spores that are either asexual or sexual) yeast rely on budding they are decomposers that break down dead organiss they break down plants into soil most antibiotics are made by fugi
- Brainpop: Carniverous plants Venus flytrap lives in swampy areas where soil lacks nutrients such as nitrogen
Tuesday September 19
- Biggest animal EVER recorded in the ocean's depth
- IS THe blue whale the biggest animal on earth?
- Blue whale is 110 ft. 170 tonnes.
- Argentinosaurus is 130 ft and 100.
Monday September 18
- Taboos of science- 10 min
- Hungarian doctor that said that doctors should wash hands before delivering babys
- now we put human genes into animals
- cloning is illegal in only 13 states in United statessda
- The worst nobel prize ever awarded
- a neuroscientist was working with the brains of monkeys (fulton) He removed part of their frontal lobe their personality changed. But when the entire frontal lobe was removed then they became docile and quiet. Moniz destroyed the nerve fibers that went from frontal lobe to the thalamus. They no longer seemed stress but they also no longer seemed human. The patients were fundamentally impaired afterwards and these "lobotomies" . They had no motivation, no concentration, no emotions. Today "lobotomies" are considered archaic and dangerous. Today things like depression are battled with medications and psychotherapy.
- Brainpop: Mammals
- mammals reproduce sexually
- 3 different ways in how children are grown (monotremes use eggs, marsupials use a pouch for premature baby, placental mammals are the biggest group and is where starts out grown inside the mother)
- have mammary glands (produce milk for baby to be provided) and fur
- are endothermic (internal body temperature remains the same)
Friday September 15
- CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
- The discipline known as _____ is where scientists classify organisms and assign them a universally accepted name.
- The genus and species names together is referred to as _____
- One reason to assign these names is so that common names will not confuse. For example _____ is the scientific name for the animal known as either a mountain lion, a puma, a cougar, or a panther.
- The groundhog is also called a _____ (common name). The tulip tree is also called a _____.
- Each level of Linnaeus's classification kingdom are called _____
- The term _____ refers to a domesticated variety of an organism that is a subgroup of a species. They can all mate with one another and produce fertile offspring.
- Organisms determine who belongs to their species by choosing with whom they will _____.
- In Linnaeus's original classification system _____ and _____ were the only two kingdoms. Scientists soon agreed that microorganisms merite their own kingdom which was named _____. Then mushrooms and molds were given the kingdom _____
- The higher the level of the taxon, the further back in time is the common _____ of all the organisms in the taxon.
- The study and classification of evolutionary relationships among organisms is called _____
- _____ structures have similar structure and development patterns however the functioning may be different.
- _____ structures appear to perform the same functions however their structure and developmental patterns are quite different.
taxonomy
taxons ancestor |
binomial nomenclature
breed phylogeny |
woodchuck
mate analagous |
yellow poplar tree
plants/animals/Protista |
- SECTION 15.3 "FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS" FILL-INS
- What are all of the freshwater ecosystems that you can think of? A: streams, rivers, lake, marshes, ponds, swamps, bogs, and creeks.
- A place on the earth's surface that water flows to from underground?
- A stream of water that joins another larger stream?
- A very strong and wise stream is called a what?
- Ecosystems are characterized by their _____ factors.
- Springs, melting snow, melting ice, and _____ are sources for river water.
- The shallow zone of a lake or pond where light reaches the bottom and nurtures plants?
- The _____ extends from the littoral one and goes as deep as sunlight can reach.
- The _____ lies beneath the open-water zone.
- An area of land that is sometimes underwater or whose soil contains a great deal of moisture is called a _____
- A treeless one (of the above) is called a _____. The former plus trees and vines is called a _____.
- Plants need nutrients such as _____ which are found in detergents and _____ which are found in animal waste or fertilizer.
spring
rainfall wetland |
tributary
littoral zone marsh |
river
open-water zone phosphates |
abiotic
deep-water zone |
Wednesday September 13
- Laboratory: Cladogram
Tuesday September 12
- CLASSIFYING ANIMALS- 5 MIN
- Carolus Linnaeus- Binomial nomenclature
- binomial nomenclature (genus & species)
- Domain: Eukarya (humans), Achaea (chemotrophs), Bacteria (chemotrophs) ------ Monera used to be both Archae
- Kingdom: Animalia (heterotrophs) many cells, is the only phyla with a, can move and have 16 phyla, Plantae (autotroph), fungi (molds, yeast, mildew), protista (single-celled organisms and both hetero and autotrophs such as algae and paramecium)
- Phylum: (Invertebrates have 15 phyla) Poriphera; Echinoderma; Mammals: 3 bones in ear, have fur, mammary glands
- Phylum: (Vertebrata) have 5 different classes.
- FELIS Concolor- Cougar
- RATTLEsnake- Reptil
- FROG- Amphibian
- Phylogenetic tree or Tree of Life
- Currently there are around 2 million species
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Monday September 11
- 15 objects in space we cannot explain
- Taxonomy: Life's filing system- crash course biology #19
- Domain: Eukarya, Archaea, bacteria
- Kingdom: Animalia (heterotrophs), Plantae (cells walls), Fungi (cell walls chitin), Protists (heterotrophs and autotrophs)
- Animal Classification for Children
- Most species are invertebrates (95%)
- Vertebrates:
- Fish (Jawless and cartilagenious)
- amphibians (frogs, toads, salamanders) - metamorphosiscold blooded, can live on land and water
- reptiles (turtles, snakes, crocodiles) they have soft leathery shells- cold blooded
- birds- warm blooded- lay hard shell eggs
- mammals- warm blooded, fur, give birth to live young instead of laying eggs, only animals that have ears that stick out
Friday September 8
- List as many biomes as you can?
- Name a biome in the equatorial region?
- Name a biome in the polar region?
- Trees that lose their leaves in the fall are called?
- An ecosystem consists of....
PARENT / TEACHER NIGHT (9/7/17)
- DAILY AGENDA
- PERSONAL WEB PAGE
- COURSE TEXTBOOK AND MATERIALS
- GRADING SCALE AND CATEGORIES
- MISSED CLASS
- LATE WORK
- GENERAL COURSE OUTLINE
Wednesday September 6
- Multiple Choice Bioms quiz (practice)- Spencer- Pirahna - aquatic (some animals below may be on test!)
- Singin- Three - toed sloth
- Daniel- Blue & yellow macaw
- Connor- Fiddler crab- intertidal zone (marine)
- Winnie- Red panda- Forest?
- Jet- Sperm whale- Marine
- Patrick- muskdeer- highlands
- Isaiah- harlequin duck- aquatic
- Finn- Colugos - rainforest mountain regions
- This biome has many types of evergreen trees? Taiga
Tuesday September 5
- Bill Nye Oceanography - 20 min
- Bill Nye Oceanography - Ocean exploration- 25 min
- If remaining time then they can work on their biome posters or classification presentations or read 15.2 & 15.3
- REMEMBER TEST THIS FRIDAY ON SECTION 15.1
Friday September 1
- Work on biome posters and animal classification presentation
Wednesday August 30
- MARINE AND AQUATIC BIOMES - 9 MIN 16 SEC
- Top 5 places more mysterious than the Bermuda Triangle
- Big changes in the Sargasso sea- 3 min
- How do seismic waves help us visualize earth's layers- 5 min
- LABORATORY ONE CHOICES:
- Research and present on decompression sickness aka "The Bends"
- Biome poster: Choose a biome that displays facts, images, where it is found and anything else you can think of that would be relevant.
Tuesday August 29
- MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
- Read Chapter section 15.2 and answer section review questions
- If done then start on the packet
- Practice questions to go along with this section (answers underneath)
- Water temperature, water _____, and the amount of sunlight passing through water are the abiotic factors.
- The largest animals that ever lived on earth are the _____.
- _____ are tiny organisms that float near the surface of the ocean water. Many are producers and use photosynthesis to make their own food. They are the base of the ocean's food chains.
- What organism produces from 1/3 to 1/2 of atmospheric oxygen?
- The three temperate zones of the ocean are the _____ zone, the thermocline (water temperature drops fast here), and _____
- Nori is _____ algae which is often wrapped around rice.
- The _____ zone is the place where the ocean meets the land. Farther out is the _____ zone where the ocean floor starts to slope downwards.
- The sea floor drops sharply in the _____ zone.
- The ____ zone is the sea floor.
- Decompression, or the _____ can occur when someone using SCUBA breathing devices dives very deep, ascends too quickly, or stays under the water for too long of a time.
- An area where fresh water from rivers and streams spills into an ocean is called what?
- These tiny organisms form the base of many of the ocean's food chains.
- Surface zone, the thermocline, and the deep zone are the three ocean _____ zones
- When _____ die, they leave their skeletons behind.
- Plants and animals that live in the _____ must be able to survive the changing concentrations of salt.
- The first reef-building organisms were _____ that lived about 3.5 billion years ago.
- Floating rafts of algae are called _____
- The Sargasso Sea is a(n) _____ in the middle of the Atlantic ocean that contains sargassums.
- Mudflats, sandy beaches and rocky shores are three types of _____ areas.
depth
red "the bends" corals ecosystem |
blue whales
intertidal; neritic estruary estruary intertidal |
plankton (used twice)
oceanic algae cyanobacteria |
phytoplankton
benthic temperature sargassums |
Monday August 28
- A biome contains related _____. It is a large area characterized by _____ and the plants and animals that live in it. For example, in a tropical rain forest there are treetop ecosystems and forest-floor ecosystems
- The three types of forests are temperate ____ , coniferous, and tropical-rain forests.
- Deciduous trees shed their leaves to save _____ during the winter or during the dry season.
- The Tropic of _____ is found in the northern hemisphere and the Tropic of _____ is found in the southern hemisphere.
- _____ ecosystems are found between both the Tropic lines and the _____ ecosystems are found above and below the Tropic lines.
- _____ produce seeds in cones and also have special leaves that are shaped like needles
- Trees that stay green all year and do not lose all of their leaves at once are known as _____ trees.
- Another name for the coniferous forest is the _____ which is the most common biome that can be categorized
- The soil in this type of forest biome is very poor?
- Less than ____ percent of known plants have been tested for their medicinal effectiveness.
- A biome with very cold temperatures and little rainfall is called a tundra. There are two types of tundra, _____ and _____.
- _____ is the layer of soil beneath the surface soil that stays frozen all the time.
- Steppes, praries, and pampas are other names for the _____ biomes talked about in our book which would include animals like bison in North America. They are called _____ in Africa, India and South America.
- In the savannas _____, the movement from one place to another, is a behavioral adaptation
ecosystems; climate
Cancer; Capricorn
Tropical rainforest migration |
conifers
taiga
polar; alpines |
deciduous
tropic; temperate
permafrost |
water
evergreen
grassland; savannas |
Friday August 25, 2017
- Animal presentation:
- Give their taxonomy: Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
- Give their binomial nomenclature
- What biome do they live in
- What adaptations are useful for their biome
- What interesting thing did you learn about this organism?
Thursday August 24, 2017
1. LAND BIOME FILL INS. The portion of earth's surface that is covered with water? 2. The soil and rock on earth's surface is called what? 3. Scientists use the term _____ to describe a large ecosystem. 4. The climate, water, sunlight, wind, rocks, and soil of an ecosystem are the _____ factors. 6. A(n) ____ is an area of dense undergrowth within a tropical rain forest that receive large amounts of sunlight and are near rivers. 7. A tropical rain forest covers ___ % of earth's surface and contains more than 50% of the species that inhabit this planet. It has 4 layers starting from top to bottom: the _____ layer, the canopy, the _____, and the forest floor. 8. A _____ may receive as little rainfall as a desert does but the soil remains wet due to low evaporation. 9. _____ contains about 90% of earth's ice and 70% of earth's fresh water. In winter it expands to twice its size. (hydrosphere; lithosphere; biome; abiotic; jungle; 8; emergent; understory; tundra; Antarctica)
- CLASSIFICATION / TAXONOMY (Linaeus known as father of taxonomy)
- Dear King Philip Comes Over For Good Spaghetti-
- Eukarya, Animalia, Chordata, vertebrata, mammalia, primate, hominidae
- Domain: Archaea, Bacteria, Eukarya
- Kingdom: Protist, Fungi, Plantae, Animalae
- Phylum: Chordata (backbone)
- Sub-Phylum: Vertebrata or Invertebrata (backbone surrounded by bone, brain)
- Class: Mammalia, Reptilia,
Wednesday August 23, 2017
- What happens when a man frees a fox from a tin can- 2 min
- taiga vs tundra: taiga is freezing cold (river otter, red fox, gray wolf, canadian lynx, moose, wolverine) Tundra has less animals and vegetation; layer of permanent soil below the snow called permafrost (caribou, moose, arctic fox, salmon) The northern lights or aurora borealis can only be seen in the arctic
- Shaba: Animal adaptations- Nature: Planet doc full documentaries- 10 min
- Animal adaptations: bears- 4:22
- plantigrade: walks on flat foot like human; layer fat; enlarged nosed
- Brainpop: Tundra (treeless plains)
- 3 types: arctic, antarctic, and alpine. In winter it can get to -90 below zero centigrade. Moss and lichen can grow with certain shrubs on the permafrost here. alpine tundra occurs at higher elevations in mountains.
- One animal packet for each student to read and to tell what biome it would probably be suited for and tell what kind of adaptations this animal has to give it an advantage in its specific biome. Also tell what kind of biome would this animal be unsuited for? What is the most interesting thing about this animal? Try to classify it the best that you can. Domain; Kingdom; Phylum; Class; Order; Family; Genus; Species
Tuesday August 22, 2017
- Brainpop: underwater world:
- fish with jaws and fish without jaws are two types of fish
- There are 21,000 different species of fish
- The most deepest a scuba diver has ever gone is 1000 ft under the surface of the ocean.
- 3 different layers of ocean each supporting different life
- light can't penetrate farther than 200 feet below the surface and average depth is 12,000 feet.
- The lowest point in ocean is called Challenger's Deep and is 32,600 feet below the surface of ocean
- less than 5 percent of the ocean has been explored.
- The blue what is the largest animal to have ever lived reaching 110 feet and 400,000 lbs.
- Flying fox squeaks as it is being petted-
- 25 animals with insane survival adaptations- 5:33
- Biomes our earth's major life zones- 28 min-- prepare for mix and match below
- Tropical rain forests are around the equator. there are no seasons. Colorful birds, frogs, reptiles mammals, and plenty of variety of animals. Canopys at top
- Deserts: Abandoned, forsaken, poor soil, rocks. Annuals are plants that complete a life cycle in less than a year. Perennials which are usually shrubs and cactuses they have large root systems that can get water. They liver more than a year. Little rodents survive well with little water. Bigger animals like bighorn sheep depend on water holes to get water.
- Temperate deciduous forest: At 60 degree latitude. Cold winters and warm summers and abundant rainfall. Deciduous trees are the beach, oak, maple and hickory lose their leaves during the autumn and lie dormant during the winter.
- grassland, steppe, pampas, and prarie... most fertile soil in the world.
- Chaparral- short woody plants with thick leaves. Dry climate. Cool winters and summers are hot with no rain.
- Temperate rain forest: Northwest of North America. foggy coastlines.
- Taiga: Northern carnivorous forest. Up in the mountains. Spruce and pine conifers. Evergreens. Precipitation is much less than the Temperate forest.
- Tundra- constant low and freezing temperatures slow down the decomposition of organic matter.
- Alpine
- Fresh water biome and marine biome (ocean and seas) the five marine biomes are coastal, near shore, coral reefs, opean ocean, and vent communities
Monday August 21, 2017
- LIVE STREAM ECLIPSE 2017
Friday August 18, 2017
- BRAINPOP: OCEANS
- BRAINPOP: OCEAN CURRENTS
- El Nino occurs every 2 to 7 years in north and south america, causing drought in the north and floods in the south
- ships used to have to travel down around the Cape Horn before Panama Canal was built
- In 2006 August 3 fishermen had been missing for 9 months in a small boat were found 8050 km from their homes in Mexico's east coast
- BRAINPOP: TROPICAL FOREST
- Warm and wet all year round and never gets below 25 ℃. Only 7% of the world. Has the most diverse animals.
- 1 species becomes extinct every 15 minutes
Thursday August 17, 2017
- Bill Nye Oceanography- 18 min
- (winds and differences in salt density make ocean currents- thermohaline currents-)
- water acts to stabilize temperature
- The Great Salt lakes has four times as much salt in it than all of the oceans
- clockwise currents in the northern hemisphere- the Gulf Stream is a very powerful current in northern hemisphere
- counterclockwise currents for the Southern hemisphereDeath Valley is lowest area below sea level while Mt. Everest is highest
- An egg will sink in water but float if enough salt is added to the water
- In the biology text it lists 10 different major biomes which are as follows. 1) Tropical rain forest, 2) tropical dry forest, 3) tropical savanna, 4) desert, 5) temperate grassland, 6) temperate woodland and shrubbland, 7) temperate forest, 8) northwestern coniferous forest, 9) boreal forest (or Taiga), and 10) tundra
- In tropical forests, the tops of tall trees form a covering, called the canopy. Shorter trees and vines from another layer ( the "photic" zone which i, called the understory. Marine ecosystems are found in the ocean.
- Seas are salt-water inside and surrounded by land masses
- EXOTIC ANIMALS: Barreleye fish, muskdeer, frogfish, spider crab, saw fish, chinese salamander,
Wednesday August 16, 2017
- A creature that can't be killed- "Water bear" aka "Tardigrade"
- Brainpop: Desert - Deserts can be hot or cold. Sahara desert. There are polar deserts such as the Antarctic desert. Gobi desert is in Asia.
- Brainpop: Taiga- largest biome is the taiga- animals include caribou (reindeer), bald eagle, grizzly bear, moose, wolverine
- Brainpop: Savanna- serengetti in africa- has a lot of rain and has about 8 months of summer. hot dry winters. half of the animals are mammals.
- Marine system and aquatic system both need water
Tuesday August 15, 2017
- READ CHAPTER 12 "THE EARTH'S ECOSYSTEMS" and turn in section review for points due Friday
- Choose two brainpops as classroom quizzes
- Brainpop Land Biomes: tropical rain forests around equator humid and hot numerous species, grasslands or savannas in central africa, temperate forest (moderate rain and 4 seasons), desert, taiga (cool summers and cold winters), arctic tundra,
- Brainpop Ecosystem: Ecosystem: Made of living and nonliving things. A desert is an ecosystem. Organism, population, community. Ponds, lakes, rivers and oceans are ecosystems.
Monday August 14, 2017
- HELLO, FIRST DAY - GIVE SYLLABUS AND BOOKS (5 books not returned last year)
- Solar eclipse (TED) about an umbraphile (eclipse chaser) The area of total eclipse is 100 miles wide.
- We will start off with Chapter 12 in your text Section 1 "LAND BIOMES".
- 6 major biomes of the world- 6 min- desert, grassland, shrubland, temperate deciduous forest, tropical rainforests, tundra
- Brainpop: Land biomes; ecosystems; deserts; tropical rain forests, tundra, taiga, savanna, underwater worlds, food chains, wildfires