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BIOLOGY
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NO CLASS TODAY (SEE YESTERDAY'S POST)
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HONORS BIOLOGY
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AGENDA:
TSOTS seedling transplanting Friday
Objectives: Be able to (1) classify examples of factors that limit a population’s growth as either density-independent or density-dependent, (2) predict what will happen to a population’s size based on changes to growth / birth rates, migration in or out, (3) interpret/compare various graphs of population growth
Warm-up: Could the group of plants we are planting in the garden be considered as a population? Why or why not? What are some limiting factors that will affect the growth rates and numbers of plants growing in the garden? [5]
NOTE: Poster Peer Evals on Wednesday
Online population ecology lesson [60]
NOTE: Eco. Quiz 1 corrections opportunity available this week--see Mr. Bursch
Has your Climate Diagram practice been checked and stamped? Is your Ecology Field Day (Parts 1 and 2) sheet turned in? [~60]
Make sure your TSOTS SBPAs #1 and #2 have been scored and recorded by me—if not, present to me ASAP [~60]
OUTSIDE OF CLASS:
Finish online population ecology lesson (DUE FRIDAY)
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AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
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AGENDA:
lab station cleanup reminder / class shirt
Objectives: Complete NPP lab report with all sections done per lab report guidelines (climate, weather, and biomes quiz 2)
Warm-up: What is the major difference between marine and freshwater environments? How are they connected/related? [7]
Finish 1st round scrAPESbook presentations [25]
Unit 3: Lecture 4: Freshwater Life Zones [25]
NPP Lab Report DUE Friday—must submit hard copy no later than 3:30 pm (10/12)
Work on NPP experiment and lab report; check NPP first draft [45]
Last chance to get Biome Graphic Organizer stamped [~20]
Mass, dry, and re-mass optional third NPP sample by 3:30 pm
OUTSIDE OF CLASS:
Work on NPP Lab: introduction, materials and methods (first draft should be finished by 10/10, WHOLE REPORT DUE 10/12)
Read p. 168, 172-181; In a paragraph, summarize threats to coral and coral reefs as well as consequences of reef destruction and possible remedial actions humans could take
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