Here are the powerpoint presentations that you can use to study for the quiz on Wednesday of this week!
12 December 2011
18 September 2011
Internet Research Project 1
Please complete the first part of this assignment in your notes. Make sure to complete each section as the information you find will help you on the test at the end of the Ecology unit. Use the links after each section to help find your answers/notes.
Part I. Characteristics of Life Notes
a. What are the characteristics of life? List the characteristics and a brief explanation of each.
(Characteristics of Life)
PLEASE GET OUT A NEW SHEET OF PAPER FOR THE NEXT FEW SECTIONS, YOU WILL BE TURNING THIS IN!
Part II. Internet Research
a. Take the quiz on the following website : Quiz! If you miss a question, use the internet to find the correct answer and record on your paper what questions you got right, and which ones you missed. For the ones that you missed, please indicate which website you used to find the correct answer.
b. List 4 different places that you can go to research answers to questions that you may have. Use each of the sites to find the answer to the following question: "Who was Louis Pasteur? What contributions did he make to science?" Record your answer on your paper. Which search site offered the best results to find the answer? Which one(s) didn't seem to help much and why?
c. Watch the following YouTube video: Earth at Night! On your paper, answer the following questions; 1) What are the bright yellow spots? 2) What do you think the white flashes are that you can see periodically throughout the video? 3) Where is this video taken from, where does it start at, and at what altitude is it taken from?
d. Use the following graph to answer the questions: Graph 1; 1) What was the approximate temperature of the age of the dinosaurs? 2) Make your best guess when the approximate date of the "little ice age" was, and what was the temperature? Use one of the search sites (from letter b), to find the exact dates and average temperatures. How close did you get? 3) In the last thousand (1000) years, what would you say, based on the graph, has the temperature got colder or warmer? Why?
e. Use the following graph to answer the questions: Graph 2; 1) What data is this graph representing? 2) What percentage of the population is someone like you? Where do you fit in the graph? 3) What percentage of the population are people life your parents? Your grandparents? 4) Why is data like this useful? 5) What year is this graph representing, and do you think the numbers have changed since then? Why or why not? 6) Use one of the sites from part b to find an accurate answer to this question 5.
f. You're done! Please keep the characteristics of life notes and turn in the rest of this assignment to the homework basket.
Whatever you do not finish in class, must be completed at home and turned in by the next class period.
Part I. Characteristics of Life Notes
a. What are the characteristics of life? List the characteristics and a brief explanation of each.
(Characteristics of Life)
PLEASE GET OUT A NEW SHEET OF PAPER FOR THE NEXT FEW SECTIONS, YOU WILL BE TURNING THIS IN!
Part II. Internet Research
a. Take the quiz on the following website : Quiz! If you miss a question, use the internet to find the correct answer and record on your paper what questions you got right, and which ones you missed. For the ones that you missed, please indicate which website you used to find the correct answer.
b. List 4 different places that you can go to research answers to questions that you may have. Use each of the sites to find the answer to the following question: "Who was Louis Pasteur? What contributions did he make to science?" Record your answer on your paper. Which search site offered the best results to find the answer? Which one(s) didn't seem to help much and why?
c. Watch the following YouTube video: Earth at Night! On your paper, answer the following questions; 1) What are the bright yellow spots? 2) What do you think the white flashes are that you can see periodically throughout the video? 3) Where is this video taken from, where does it start at, and at what altitude is it taken from?
d. Use the following graph to answer the questions: Graph 1; 1) What was the approximate temperature of the age of the dinosaurs? 2) Make your best guess when the approximate date of the "little ice age" was, and what was the temperature? Use one of the search sites (from letter b), to find the exact dates and average temperatures. How close did you get? 3) In the last thousand (1000) years, what would you say, based on the graph, has the temperature got colder or warmer? Why?
e. Use the following graph to answer the questions: Graph 2; 1) What data is this graph representing? 2) What percentage of the population is someone like you? Where do you fit in the graph? 3) What percentage of the population are people life your parents? Your grandparents? 4) Why is data like this useful? 5) What year is this graph representing, and do you think the numbers have changed since then? Why or why not? 6) Use one of the sites from part b to find an accurate answer to this question 5.
f. You're done! Please keep the characteristics of life notes and turn in the rest of this assignment to the homework basket.
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