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

Immune System!

Todays Agenda:
-Got Stamps for Tree Map and UP 22-25
-Star and Wish
-DOD #7
-Begin Immune System Divisions
-"Flu Fiction"


Today in class we learned about the Disease of the Day #7 which was Pneumonia what you need to know for your chart is...
Agent of Disease: Bacteria, Fungi, and Virus
-Transmitted by casual contact (mucus and saliva)
-It is a Lung infection(inflammation of Lungs)
-treated by antibiotics

Next we worked on going over the Tree Map we completed for homework, here is a basic example of what the outline should look like, also what we covered in class.


(sorry it is a bit blurry)
Homework:
1. UP 28-31 due Friday November 5 (use your book for help!)
2. Post Card due November 8
REMEMBER:
BIO DAY TOMORROW meet in Auditorium
also Test on November 9

Our next scribe is Josh Just

Fishermen at Fault- The Oil Spills Impact On Them

Day of the Pyramids!

Today in class we focused a lot on pyramids of energy. When we first walked into class we got a diagram which was very similar to the one on p.77 and p.78 in the Biology textbook or the one right on the blog.
<-- We talked about how in each tropic level 90% of the energy is lost therefore only 10% is passed on to the next level. We also learned that primary producers always make up the first trophic level, then other consumers take up every other level. On Wednesday we also talked about Biomass. Biomass: The amount of living tissue within a given trophic level. Typically the greatest Biomass is at the base of a pyramid.
If you want more practice on energy pyramids just go to p.20 in your Issues in Ecology packet. Again p.77-78 also have further explanations on energy pyramids.
To finish off the end of the day we received the oil spill video project rubric and chose our partners for the project, also decided which point of view we will be presenting our project in. We also formed groups and discussed/ worked on p.21 in out Issues of Ecology Packet.

Homework:
-Read 4.3 in textbook with double bubble map due friday. (template of double bubble map on moodle) "primary and secondary"
-10 images of oil spill due Tuesday, you and your partner must have 10 separate pictures!

Our next scribe is Josh