Agenda 08/31/00
- Groups a , b
, D
- Class Binder & Lab Notebook
- Test on Class rules will be next Tuesday/Wednesday.
- Biosphere & Biomes
Groups
- a sits in rows 1-2, b
sites in rows 3-4, and D sits in rows 5-6
- Tell absent members about past work (e.g. Tuesday 1 page report)
- Pick group leader, recorder, investigator
- Choose new group name
- Pick up lab notebook handout
- Organize binders
- Progress Report
- Syllabus
- Rules
- Family
- Group
- Seminars
- Lab
- Dividers
- Classnotes
- Homework
- Test/Quizzes
- Formal Lab Reports
- Review Lab Notebook rules
Biosphere:
- Bio means life; sphere refers to the planet.
- Area on the planet that has life.
- Can talk about Mars’ biosphere, Venus’ biosphere.
- We will look at Earth’s biosphere.
- 2 mi above sealevel to 3,000 feet below sealevel.
How are Farms like a Biosphere? What does farms have that is related to Biology?
- Animals and Plants
- Eat
- Reproduce
- Compete for space and food
- Cooperate to get better living space or food
- Nutrients
- Oxygen (O2)
- Nitrogen (N2)
- We get nitrogen from proteins
- Animals and Plants
- Plants have fewer types of proteins than animals per organism.
- Water (H2O)
- Carbon dioxide (CO2)
- We get carbon from sugars and starches
- In plants and animals
- All life is carbon-based.
- Nutrients cycle through the biosphere.
- We breath out CO2, so how do we replace the carbon?
Ecologist
- look at how nutrients move through the biosphere
- look at how animals and plants interact, reproduce, compete, cooperate.
Brainstorm 6-7 Biomes
- Desert
- Rain Forest
- Tundra (Arctic and Alpine)
- Oceans
- Grasslands (Temperate & Savanna)
- Temperate Forest
- Alpine Tundra (Mountains)
- Savanna