Thursday, March 29, 2012 Please remember the expectations for entering the room. Copy today’s “I can” statement. Fill out your agenda. Start on your Quick Read! Thank you! C: 0 (after bell rings) H: quietly ask a neighbor; after bell, raise hand A: independent work M: 0 (after bell rings) P: complete bellringer

Quick Read—Antarctica: Frozen Desert Please do not write on the article! Answer all questions on your gold sheet. If you finish early, try the paragraph (posed after the comprehension questions) on a separate sheet of paper. Then study your vocabulary terms. Dry Valleys Photograph by Maria Stenzel The windswept ice of Victoria Land in Antarctica stretches for hundreds of desolate miles. This area receives less precipitation than most of the world's hot deserts

Ecosystem Stations Biome Descriptions Biome Map Ecosystem Relationships Gallery walk to view all biomes and descriptions. In your notebook, record at least 3 things you learned about that biome. Use the iPad picture of biomes to color and label the biomes of the world. Make sure you have a key/legend! Use your knowledge of the types of species interactions to complete the first page in your packet. Check your answers in the green folder. Start on the Venn diagram.

Biome Characteristics The climate conditions (temperature and rainfall) in an area that determine the biome. Climate limits plants; plants determine types of animals. Hot in daytime, cool or cold at night; very dry; organisms are adapted to extreme temperatures and dry conditions = ________ Extremely cold winters, warmer summers; windy; very dry; no trees, only low-growing plants = __________ Warm temperatures do not vary much throughout the year; very wet and humid; greater variety of species than any other biome = _________ Populated by grasses and many large herbivores = _________

Commensalism relationship in which one species benefits One organism benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed Competition struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources   *considered on an individual level* One species benefits No organisms harmed relationship in which both species benefit Mutualism All Four Involve species in an ecosystem One organism could be harmed or die Types of relationships Have at least 2 organisms interacting One organism/individual benefits involves one organism living on or inside another organism and harming it Parasitism

Tundra is farthest north. Taiga is south of the tundra. Tropical Rainforest is around the equator. Grasslands and deserts are both north and south of the equator. We live in the temperate deciduous forest.

Ender Gauge your understanding of today’s “I can” statement. On the lines underneath, list three things you learned today.