1. 9/10/14
Journal
Discussion Questions
1. Using the textbook or your phone...describe the Nitrogen
cycle.
2. Please explain how carrying capacity and limiting factors are related.
study jams nitrogen cycle

2. Reminders References are PAST DUE
Next MONDAY your rough draft of your RESEARCH report is due (don’t discuss your experiment at all in this report). It is background research only!
Ecology Root Quiz on Thurs
Webpage- check if you are absent
HAC/SAC- This is how you check your grades. Not during class.
Read Chapters 2 – 5 in your textbook. Exam on Monday the 15th
Ecology Exam Study Guide Review due Monday.
Science Journals are due on Monday the 15th also

3. Do I stay in PreAP? Drop date is Friday!
Do you plan to do science fair??
Do you plan to turn your work in on or before the due date from here on out?
Late Policy: 1 day late = highest you can get is 70%
2 or more days late = highest you can get is 50%
How did you do on the Root Quiz?
How did you do on the Daily Quizzes?
Daily quiz questions are just like our test questions
Do you plan to study a few minutes every night and go back over the day's discussion questions and/or notes?

4. QUIZ Clear your desks of everything Do NOT write on the quiz please
QUIZ
Clear your desks of everything
Do NOT write on the quiz please
Use CAPITAL letters please
Keep your answers covered
If you need to make up a quiz due to an absence… let me know
Flip it over when you are finished and hang on to it.

5. EcoRegion Project Presentations
Part of your grade will be based on your presentation and your attention during your classmates’ presentations.
Hand me your rubric when you come up to present.

6. EXIT TICKET
Please explain how humans are disrupting the nitrogen cycle.
How do you think events and processes
that occur during ecological succession
change populations and species diversity?

7. EXIT TICKET 1. Give an example of a predator found in Texas.
2. Give an example of an environmental change affecting an ecosystem.

8. EXIT TICKET
1. Give an example of a parasite. Is your example an ectoparasite or endoparasite?
2. Please describe how primary succession is different from secondary succession.

9. EXIT TICKET 1. Where are autotrophs are on the trophic pyramid? Why?
2. Give an example of one abiotic factor found in ecosystems.

10. EXIT TICKET 1. How are ecosystems different from communities?
2. Give an example of mutualism.