Final Study Guide for Ecology Assessment and AMU Rubric

Quizlet-
Questions
and
Vocabulary


Final Study Guide
Go to the following link. 

Make a copy of the document and answer the questions.  

You may use your notes to answer the questions.  Take your time and be specific.

Here is the link to the AMU Rubric as well to check against your project.
Click here to access

Spear Farm Preserve Nature Walk- Invasives.

Tuesday November 28th we will go to Spear Farm Preserve off of Bayview Street.

Here is a map of the preserve.

Some Pictures from today's trip.

Think about these questions on our field trip and complete them when we return.  Be sure to use complete sentences and proper mechanics.

1. What are some native, non-native and invasives found in Yarmouth Green Spaces?

2. What kinds of things do conservation management specialists need to think about when they deal with invasive species?

3. What current practices are University of Maine systems and Royal River Trust doing to combat invasives in Yarmouth?

4. What kind of impact have humans had in Yarmouth introducing invasive species?  How did they get here?

5. What kind of things can you do to help manage some invasive species?

Ecology Study Guide and Work packet

Click here to the Ecology Study Guide


Click here to access the Ecology Work Packet
You have a hard copy of this.  

Constructed Response - Wolves in Yellowstone

Today you will be given a task to summarize central ideas/key events using key details from a scientific news story.

Click on the below link to access the document and make a copy. 

Be sure to read carefully and provide evidence to support your ideas within your response.  

HINT - Quotations from the text might help state your case.

Access the student document here.

After you have read and responded to the article, check out this video about the wolves in Yellowstone. The views are somewhat opposing between the article and the video. What do you think?

Access the video here.

America's Most Unwanted Project and Ecology Review.

Today students reviewed some ideas in ecology with the following questions.

Four check-in questions:

1. Compare and contrast a food web to a food chain.  Which is more realistic?  Why?

2. How does a modeling program like Ecobeaker help us in science?  What are its limitations (What can't it provide for us)?

3. List three different trophic levels found in an ecosystem.  Give a specific organism that can be linked to each of the levels and what it feeds on (how does it get its energy?).

4. How does the energy in a food chain transfer from one trophic level to another?  How much energy actually passes from one organism to another organism?

We also started to discuss the America's Most Unwanted Project.

Here is the link for the project

Here you will find resources, graphic organizers, and the rubric.

Link to Devil's Project Page - Click Here to Access

Link to Tweetie's Project Page - Click Here to Access

Invasive Species

Here are the links for today's activity on invasive species.
Specifically, we will be looking at the Northern Pike, 
but keep your eye out for other invasive species as well.

Portland Press Herald
and
Bangor Daily News



Questions to answer for Mr. Cuthbert's Science Classes
Click here to access

Link to Ecology Quizlet Vocabulary and Online Food Web Game

Click here to access Quizlet.

Brain Pop's - Food Fight- click here to access

Ecology Food Web Project

Today you will be completing a food web of a habitat you are familiar with.

Have fun and be creative!

Here is an example of an Arctic Food Web to help guide you.

Food Web Project

Directions: Create a food web for an ecosystem that is nearby. For example a

forest, stream, backyard, saltmarsh, or beach. You are encourage to choose an

ecosystem that you are familiar with. You should organize your food web so that

relationships between organisms are demonstrated (like we did in class).

Vocabulary to keep in mind:

organism

ecosystem

decomposer

food web

producer

consumer

trophic level

Required Items

Your food web should:

• have 15 - 20 organisms represented in the food web.
• identify the name of each organism.
• include arrows to indicate the flow of energy.
• have at least 2 of every trophic level represented (decomposer, producer, consumer).
• show many organisms interacting.
• contain a sketch for each organism.
• use a ruler to draw straight lines.
• contain color.
• contain a title (example - A Tidal Pool Food Web).
• contain your name and group.

Ecobeaker Maine Explorer

Students have been introduced to the concepts of modeling and simulations.
Students have access to an amazing technology resource in EcoBeaker Maine Explorer.  This modeling program takes them into a Maine Lake and how the organism interact within it.
Here is an image of the program.

Ecology Introduction

As we begin our new unit on Ecology, here are some important links to get us started:

Link to Sciencesaurus Reading:

Click here to access

Link to Ecology Vocabulary
Click here to access
Make a copy, Replace "Copy of" with your last name, and move to your science folder.

Modeling Slideshow
Click here to access
This is the slideshow we looked at today in class

Final Review - Parts of an Experiment

Click here to access the Lab/ Article Connection Spreadsheet. 

Make a copy and rename it with your last name.

Study Guide for Parts of an Experiment

Click here for the link to the Study Guide.