12/16 Warm up: Describe things that help people increase their performance on tests. Today’s activities: Revisit major concepts to be covered on the OAKS test. Practice test

Advanced Biology 12/4 Warm up: Which two cell parts were added to ancient protists resulting in endosymbiosis? Today’s activities: Group text research: Protist groups presentations

Advanced Biology 12/3 Warm up: How are protists different from bacteria? (don’t look in a book..we will brainstorm) Today’s activities: Video clips : Protists Group text research: Protist groups presentations

Advanced Biology 11/27 Warm up: Why is it important to document each step of an experiment? Today’s activities: Data collection of bacteria plates. Complete reading work samples Video : Seven wonders of the microbe world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj29nFnD4Ok

Advanced Biology 11/25 Warm up: Describe some procedures that can minimize contamination of your bacteria samples. Today’s activities: Data collection rules/procedures Group members collect bacteria We will let them grow for 48 hours.

Advanced Biology 11/20 Warm up: Why is it important to change only one variable in a scientific experiment? Today’s activities: Group rough drafts : Framing the Investigation Designing the Investigation Thursday/Friday: Typed drafts of experimental design with step by step instructions printed for each team member. Monday: start experiment data collection

Adv. Biology 11/19 Warm up: No warm up Today’s activities: Read articles #1 and 2 and write a ½ page summary of each article. Due today Groups formalize procedures. Groups with procedure formalized will learn how to make agar medium.

Adv. Biology 11/18 Warm up: No warm up Today’s activities: Read articles #1 and 2 and write a ½ page summary of each article. Due Tuesday Nov 19th

Adv. Biology 11/15 Warm up: No warm up Today’s activities: Work (research) time on background report

Adv. Biology 11/14 Warm up: No warm up Today’s activities: Work (research) time on background report

Adv. Biology 11/13 Warm up: No warm up Today’s activities: Work (research) time on background report

Adv. Biology 11/12 Warm up: How could you test to see if bacteria is resistant to a chemical? Today’s activities: Introduction to bacteria experiment. Work time on background report

Adv. Biology 11/6 Warm up: What are some ways to slow the rate antibiotic resistance? Today’s activities: Presentation sharing

Adv. Biology 11/5 Warm up: Why is it so dangerous that many types of bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics? Today’s activities: Presentation work time

Adv. Biology 11/4 Warm up: What causes bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics? Today’s activities: Discussion of antibiotic resistant bacteria Research in computer lab…presentations to share Tues.

Adv. Biology 10/31 Warm up: How is the human body like an ecosystem? Today’s activities: Revisit old test Video: Mythbusters “Fright Night” episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YwPngnOyUE

Adv. Biology 10/30 Warm up: Why do diseases emerge? (see reading packet) Today’s activities: Revisit old standards test Discuss biodiversity/ human diseases Biodiversity project

Adv. Biology 10/25 Warm up: What are some utilitarian reasons for preserving biodiversity? (see reading packet pages 1 and 2) Today’s activities: Video Biodiversity Work time on assignments

Adv Bio video outline 1. How many species are known to exist? 2.)What is species richness? 3.)What is relative abundance? 4.)Why is genetic diversity important? 5.)What is ecological diversity? 6.) What is ecological stability?

Adv. Biology Assignments due 10/25/13 Warm up questions /score sheet Read pages 844-848 and write a summary of each subsection Practice test/study guide Biodiversity essay

Adv. Biology 10/24 Warm up: What are 3 things that humans can do to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere? Today’s activities: Standards test After test: -Read Pages 1-2 of the “Biodiversity” chapter printout and write a ½ page essay that discuss the utilitarian and non-utilitarian reasons for preserving biodiversity in ecosystems. (Due Friday)

Adv. Biology Assignments due 10/25/13 Warm up questions /score sheet Read pages 844-848 and write a summary of each subsection Practice test/study guide Biodiversity essay Read Pages 1-2 of the “Biodiversity” chapter printout and write a ½ page essay that discuss the utilitarian and non-utilitarian reasons for preserving biodiversity in ecosystems. (Due Friday)

Adv. Biology 10/23 Warm up: In ecosystems, why does just a small percentage of plant biomass get converted into animal biomass? Today’s activities: Practice test (mini-quiz) Yesterday:Work time on study guide (you can use this on the test)

Practice question #1 Which organisms are : Grass Grass Hopper Woodpecker Hawk Which organisms are : Primary Consumers (1st order) Primary producers Tertiary Consumers (3rd order) Secondary Consumers (2nd order)

Practice question #2 Grass Grass Hopper Woodpecker Hawk Label each organism as one of the following categories: herbivore autotroph carnivore

Practice Question #3 How much energy/biomass is available at each level compared to the producers? Explain why there is less energy/biomass stored in each trophic level as you move “up” the energy/biomass pyramid. Hint: Why isn’t it all converted into new biomass?

Practice Question #4 -carnivores -herbivores -omnivores -parasite From the food web above, place each organism into the correct category: -carnivores -herbivores -omnivores -parasite -autotrophs

Practice question #5

Practice question #6 5.)   Describe 1 example (from nature) of each of the following relationships (discuss which organism(s) gain benefit/harm)  Mutualism: Commensalism: Parasitism: Competition Predation

Practice question #7 Humans affecting ecosystems: Choose one organism in this ecosystem to be harmed by a human action. (hunting, pollution, habitat destruction, etc.) Explain how other organisms will be affected by lack of competition, lack of predation, etc. Which organisms are helped, which are hurt? (include discussion of at least 2 other organisms in this ecosystem)

Practice question #8 Using the information in the diagram, explain 3 things humans could do to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere.

Practice question #9 Using the information from the diagram, describe 2 natural ways to add nitrogen in the soil without using man-made fertilizer.

Adv. Biology 10/22 Warm up: Describe how bio-magnification works to transfer pollutants up the food web. Today’s activities: Practice test /study guide review

Advanced Biology 10/21 Warm up: Choose a biological cycle and explain at least 5 parts of the cycle and how they are connected in the cycle. (you may draw/label this if you wish) Today’s activities: Work time on reading assignment: Read pp.844-848 Write a paragraph summary about each subsection

Advanced Biology 10/18 Warm up: Explain one way that humans are affecting ecosystems. Today’s activities: Video clips (cycles, carrying capacity, etc.)

Adv. Biology 10/17 Warm up: no warm up Today’s activities: Work time on project

Adv. Biology 10/16 Warm up: no warm up Today’s activities: Work time on project

Adv. Biology 10/15 Warm up: no warm up Today’s activities: Work time on project

Adv. Biology 10/14 Warm up: Why does the energy in food webs become reduced in higher trophic levels? (Why doesn’t it all get converted into biomass?) Today’s activities: Mini-quiz: review of last week’s topics Notes + practice mini-quiz Read pages 842-843 and write a ½ page summary explaining how bio-magnification causes toxic substances to pass through trophic levels.

Review Mini-Quiz 10/14 1. Define “primary producer” 2. Define “omnivore” 3. Define “detritivore” 4.Which level of the energy/biomass pyramid contains the most energy/biomass? 5.) Which level of the energy/biomass pyramid contains the least energy/biomass?

Community interactions

Community Interactions: Symbiosis A close and permanent association between organisms of different species Commensalism – a relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is not affected Example: Barnacles on a whale

Community interactions Mutualism – a relationship in which both organisms benefit from each other Example: Birds eating pest off a rhino’s back Parasitism – A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed Example: Ticks on a dog

Community interactions Competition - a relationship where both organisms compete for the same energy source Example: a rabbit and a deer competing for grass, plants competing for light Predation - a relationship where one organism preys upon another Example: a wolf hunting a rabbit

Community interactions summary Table 53.1

Notes Mini-Quiz 10/14 1. Give an example of organisms who engage in mutualism. 2. Give an example of organisms who engage in commensalism. 3. Give an example of organisms who engage in parasitism. 4. Give an example of organisms who engage in competition. 5. Give an example of organisms who engage in predation.

Adv. Biology 10/10 Warm up: In ecology, what does it mean if an organism is a consumer? Today’s activities: Notes + practice mini-quiz Food web posters due Today

ECOLOGICAL PYRAMIDS and the Transfer of Energy in Ecosystems Which animals are at each level? What type of ecological niche do they each belong to?

Ecological Pyramids: graphs which illustrate the trophic levels in a community.

Most ecological pyramids are large at the base and narrow at the top. This is because every time that an organism is eaten by the next trophic level, some of the energy is lost as heat. More Energy Less Energy

3 TYPES OF PYRAMIDS: Pyramid of Biomass Pyramid of Energy Pyramid of Numbers

Pyramid of Biomass: Illustrates the amount of biomass in each trophic level Biomass weight is determined after dehydration Shows the amount of matter lost between trophic levels. Measured in Kg, grams or pounds

Pyramid of Biomass Pyramid of Biomass

Pyramid of Energy: Shows the energy available at each trophic level. The size of the blocks represents the proportion of productivity Measured in Joules or Calories

Pyramid of Energy: Most of the energy available to the community is in the 1st trophic level. Only 10-20% of the energy is available to the next trophic level (≈ 90% lost)

Pyramid of Numbers: Illustration of the number of organisms at each level

What kind of Pyramid is this? Energy, the trophic levels are measured in Kilocalories

Human Population Growth How can more people be supported on Earth when there is a limited supply of resources? It depends on what they are eating…

Mini-Quiz 10/10 1. What does a biomass pyramid illustrate? 2. If a 150 pound animal ate nothing but plants, estimate how many pounds of plant material it takes to build 150 pounds of animal biomass. 3. If a 150 carnivore ate nothing but herbivores, estimate how many pounds of plant material it takes to build 150 pounds of carnivore biomass. 4. Which category of organisms contain the most biomass on a biomass pyramid? 5. Which category of organisms contain the least biomass on a biomass pyramid?

Adv. Biology 10/9 Warm up: In ecology, what does it mean if an organism is a producer? Today’s activities: Notes + practice mini-quiz Read page 63-73 Food web posters due Thursday

Food Chains and Food Webs

What is a food chain? A food chain is “a sequence of organisms, each of which uses the next, lower member of the sequence as a food source”

Important facts about food chains In a food chain each organism obtains energy from the one at the level below. Plants are called producers because they create their own food through photosynthesis

Primary Producers Primary producers are “organisms capable of producing their own food” We can also say that they are photosynthetic, use light energy.

Primary Producers Examples of primary producers include algae, phytoplankton, and large plants. Primary producers are eaten by primary consumers (herbivores)

Important facts about food chains Animals are consumers because they cannot create their own food, they must eat plants or other animals to get the energy that they need.

Four types of consumer Herbivores: animals that eat only plants. Carnivores: animals that eat only other animals. Omnivores: animals that eat animals and plants. Detritivores: Animals that eat dead materials and organic wastes

Other Ways to Classify Consumers Primary Consumers: Herbivores3. Secondary Consumers: Carnivores that eat herbivores3. Tertiary Consumers: Carnivores that eat other carnivores3.

Mini-Quiz 10/9 1. 2 examples of producers 2. 2 examples of herbivores 3. 2 examples of carnivores 4. 2 examples of omnivores 5. 2 examples of detritivores

Adv. Biology 10/8 Warm up: What is the definition of ecology? Today’s activities: 2nd attempt: Standards Test “Biological Molecules” Read page 63-73 Food web posters due Thursday

Adv. Biology 10/7 Warm up: What is the most difficult thing about tests? Today’s activities: Revisit Standards Test “Biological Molecules” Video notes/ Ecosystem poster

Negative feedback loops : Response in which just the right amount of correction is applied in the most timely manner can be very stable, accurate, and responsive

Adv. Biology 10/4 Warm up: What is the definition of a biological population? Today’s activities: Assembly assignment packet Presentations/ Notes / Video: Oceans . Resource Link about organ systems: http://education-portal.com/academy/topic/physiology-i-the-circulatory-respiratory-digestive-excretory-and-musculoskeletal-systems.html

Biology Assignment Packet due 10/4/13 Warm up 9/30-10/4 Warm up 9/23-27 “Organization of Living Things” worksheet packet p.63 define vocabulary words p.65 #1-5 Worksheet Packet (chapter 3)