Thursday!

In Class:

Today in class we worked on a classification lab for vertebrates in our unit packet that was on pages 41 and 42. When people were finished with that, we worked on a yellow vertebrate comparison chart.

Animal of the Day:

#7 was a Blobfish.

This animal is the class, Osteichthyes

The blobfish is native to Australia

Found at the depths where the pressure is 30 times higher than at sea level

Homework:

• Finish yellow "Comparison of Vertebrate" chart
• Tv add due 2/28
• Study for test 3/1

The next scribe is Lucija! :)

Wooot Wednesday

In Class:

We watched a movie about all different kinds of animals and how they survive in their surroundings. We wrote down 20 facts, thoughts, or questions about the movie and handed it in.

Facts from the movie:

• Antarctica can reach temperatures of 40 below
• the seal is the only animal that can live there permanently
• seals keep warm by generating heat within the body, while the fur keeps it trapped inside
• the flies can drain a pint of blood per day, in order to avoid these flies, reindeer go to higher grounds
• fruit bats live in the congo, their wings are one meter across
• 10 million fruit bats fly hundreds of kilometers to a huge swamp with a large supply of mangos
• the ice that the polar bears live and hunt is melting, causing many problems for the species

ANIMAL OF THE DAY #6

-Narwhal

(found in the arctic, type of white whale, 4-5 meters, 680-1590 kg)

Homework:

1. UP 54-55
2. TV ad 2/28
3. Test 3/1

the next scribe is JCLOUDDD <---- happy wednesdayy;)

Tuesday!

Agenda

1)Hand in UP 19-27

Hand in profile

2) Discuss invertebrates + AOD

3)Arthropod lab UP 28-31

Homework

1) Finish UP 29-31

2) see moodle for reading assignments

3)TV ad- 2/2

4) Test 3/1

Animal of the Day

The Frill-Necked Lizard

• Class: Reptilia
• a.k.a. "Frilled Dragon"
• 1 meter in length
• large ruff of skin supported by spines of cartilage, exposed when scared
• frill might help with thermoregulation
• runs bipedally, often climbs trees to avoid predators
• status: endangered

Arthropod Lab

We observed 3 different arthropods at our lab benches with our assigned lab groups. We looked at a grasshopper, crayfish, and a spider.

There was a chart we filled out about the characteristics of these arthropods.

Mrs.Stein will be gone Wednesday and Thursday

The next scribe is Olivia.

FR!D@Y.

AGENDA:

1) Take out green chart with stampsheet.
2) Animal of the Day.
3) Lab!

HOMEWORK:
1) UP pages 14 and 19-27
2) Profile due 2/22
3) Video due 2/28

Animal of the Day:
Dumbo Octopus

• Phylum: Mollusca
• Grow up to 20 cm
• Have ear-like fins at the top of their bodies
• Lives in the benthic zone, living at extreme depths
• Status: not considered to be endangered

Lab:

We had to go around to different stations and observe animals and answer questions about them.

We also had to look at jars and figure out what phylum they belong in according to a chart that was given. (Look below for example)

Example of a taxonomic key.

The next scribe is Josh.

Another Tuesday

ANIMAL OF THE DAY

Star Nosed Mole

-class mammalia

-uses sense of touch to find food

6 KINGDOM SYSTEM NOTES

Kingdom Archeabacteria

-formally called kingdom Monera

-single celled and prokaryotic

- no peptidoglycan

Kingdom Eubacteria

-formally called kingdom Monera

-single celled and prokaryotic

-peptidoglycan

-most bacteria was encountered

Kingdom "Protista"

-all eukaryoric

-most are unicellular some multicellular

-heterotrophic or autotrophic(photosynthesis)

-very diverse kingdom

ex. amoeba, paramecia

Kingdom Fungi

-eukaryotic

-single celled or multicellular

-cell wall made of chitin

-heterotrophs, decomposers

ex. yeast, mushrooms, mold

Kingdom plantae

-eakaryoric

-multicellular

-autotrophic

-cell wall made of cellulose

Kingdom Animalia

-eukaryoric

-multicellular

-heterotrophic

-no cell wall

SHARK LAB

Today we did a biological key lab. Classification is a way to separate large groups of closely related organisms into smaller subgroups. The key to making a biological key is listing specific characteristics, such as structure and behavior, in a way the organism can be identified.

In this lab we...

(a) used key to identify 14 shark families

(b) study how to make a key

(c) constructs our own key for the fish and leaves(needles)

HOMEWORK

finish UP 9-12(shark lab)

read 26.1

REMINDERS

T.V. add due 2/28

invertebrate project due 2/22

Sam is our next scribe

New Unit!! Animal Diversity

In the beginning of the class we picked up a new calendar, unit packet, and animal of the day slide.

Agenda:
1) Grade Reports!
2) Reading check 18.1
3) Introduction to Profile Project- UP p.3
4)Discuss Taxonomy
5) Aliens!

Homework:
1)Read 18.3- Cornell notes
2) Profile Project- due February 22
3) TV Ad- due February 28

**Note... be sure to make the drawing on profile project in COLOR

Notes taken in class

Taxonomy

• The study of organizing and classifying organisms

• Based on..

-Evolutionary relationships
-Biochemical & DNA similarities

• Taxa-the grouping

-examples of taxon:
~Kingdom- broadest
~Phylum
~Class
~Order
~Family
~Genus
~Species- most specific

Naming System

• Binomial Nomenclature- genus + species name
• uses Latin
• Developed by Carolus Linnaeus "father of taxonomy"
• Examples: Homo Sapien and Felis domesticus
• Scientific names must be italicized, if handwritten underlined. Also the Genus is Capitalized and species is lower case

Animal of the Day #1 : Hagfish

• Class: Agnatha
• 17.7-23.6in (45-60cm)
• Found in deep water
• Jawless fish with unusual feeding habits
• Avoid predators by "sliming" and tying self into overhand to scrap slime off after escape
• Used for meat and skin
• Status: populations are plentiful

Our next scribe is Brittany