AP Biology Practice - Ecology

Unit 7 Practice Questions

Living Environment Review
Exam overview
Online resources
Past Regents Exams
Study Aids
Games!
Live Review

Living Environment Endocrine System Disorders

Use your endocrine system diagram to help you understand the following disorders: 
Type I Diabetes
Type II Diabetes
Osteoporosis
Addison's Disease
Cushing's Disease
Growth Hormone Deficiency
Thyroid Cancer
Graves Disease
Hyperthyroidism
Hypothyroidism
Low Testosterone
Obesity (as related to the endocrine system)
Goiters

Using the following websites to research your disorder:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/endocrinesystem.html
http://www.endocrineweb.com/
http://www.umm.edu/endocrin/index.htm
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/anatomy_of_the_endocrine_system/article_em.htm

On a separate sheet of paper write the following:

Your name, date, and "Endocrine Disorder Research"
Name of your disease
Population type affected by the disease
Glands affected
Hormones affected
Organs affected
Symptoms of the disorder (how does the disorder show itself?)
Prognosis (what will life be like with this disease)

Periodic Table of Elements Poster Project 2012

Gigantic Eighth Grade Periodic Table Poster Project 

The Project Outline (download if you lose yours)

An Example of an "A" level Poster!! - (using an Element I made up)

Please be sure to cite your sources - do not cite our class blog as a source, please give me the name of the website you took information from. Add your sources to the information page of your project.

 Use the LINKS Below to research your element. Be sure to use your rubric as a guide!!

This site will help you find the number of protons, electron and neutrons in your element
Use this site to find some interesting facts regarding your element

Use this site to help you find how your element was discovered, the boiling point, melting point, etc.

This site will give you compounds, mixtures, uses, properties, history and sources of your element

 History and uses of your elements

This site will give you additional environmental and health effects - also some properties

Year of discovery
About.com

Some additional Sites:

http://www.periodicvideos.com/#

http://elements.wlonk.com/

http://www.azuregrackle.com/periodictable/table/

http://periodictable.com/

Lenntech Periodic Table

Biology: Children's Book of Environmental Issues

Here are a few websites t get you started.  

Please feel free to find your own!

Global Climate Change
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/

Ozone Layer Depletion
http://www.epa.gov/sunwise/kids/kids_ozone.html
http://www.research.noaa.gov/climate/t_ozonelayer.html
http://www.un.org/en/events/ozoneday/science.shtml

Acid Rain
http://www.epa.gov/acidrain/
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/acid-rain-overview/

Deforestation
http://greenliving.nationalgeographic.com/deforestation-effects-global-scale-2214.html
http://www.wri.org/publication/content/8368

Potable (safe to drink) Water
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/mdg1/en/index.html
http://blueplanetnetwork.org/water/
http://globalwater.org/whywater.htm

Landfills
http://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Environmental_Problems:_Landfills
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/environmental-problems-associated-with-landfill/1576.html
http://people.hws.edu/halfman/Data/PublicInterestArticles/Landfills.pdf

General/Human Population
http://redpath-museum.mcgill.ca/Qbp/3.Conservation/impacts.htm

8th Grade Honors Consumer Claims Science Project

Judging Rubric

10th grade Living Environment - Biome Project

Please be SURE to follow your rubric (in your notes)! I'll be grading directly from that.
Here are a few sources to get you started.
Be sure to CITE all of your sources and DO NOT use Wikipedia as one of your sources.

Pages 111-115 in your books will give you a breif introduction

PLEASE SAVE YOUR WORK ON THE S DRIVE: if you are not here and your partener needs to work on the slideshow, they will have access to it on the S drive.

S:\High School\Student Shared Files\Ms. Costa\Living Environment Period 1 or 6

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/

https://php.radford.edu/~swoodwar/biomes/

Rube Goldberg Project - Using Simple Machines

Find your rubric and outline here!
Project due June 5th and 6th. Please upload your videos to YouTube or bring them in to me BEFORE the due date. If you want to do a live show, please bring your equipment in by Monday June 4th so we can make sure it is set up.
Thanks!

OK Go Rube Goldberg Machine

Newton's Laws videos. Can you guess where the laws are???

4/16/2012: Simple Machines

http://www.gamequarium.org/cgi-bin/search/linfo.cgi?id=7830

Catapult Simulation
http://www.forgefx.com/casestudies/prenticehall/

Friday April 20th - HONORS Newton's Laws of Motion Comics DUE. Be ready for presentation and KNOW your laws!!

Periodic Table of Elements

Scavenger Hunt

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Gravity

2/6/12

Monday 2/6 - meet in Library to work on project - no HW
Tuesday 2/7 - Finish Conduction lab graph paragraph and diagram - due today in class
                       Homework - Page 7 in white notes packet.
Wednesday 2/8 - Page 9 in the white packet
Quiz on Thursday 2/9/12 - Heat, thermal expansion, three methods of heat transfer and temperature conversions!!

PRESENTATIONS BEGIN MONDAY 2/13/12

1/30/2012

Project presentations due 2/13/12
Monday 1/30/12: Complete pages 109-113 in yellow Temperature packet.
Tuesday 1/31/12: Complete pages 103-107 in yello wpacket
Wednesday 2/1: Complete page 8 in the white packet.
Thursday 2/2/12: Complete p108 in yellow packet - hand in pp103-108
Meet in the library on Monday 2/6/12

Week of 1/17/2012

Tuesday 1/17/2012 - page 18 in the blue packet

Wednesday 1/18/2012-page 25-26 in blue packet

Week of 1/9/12

Monday 1/9: Pages 9-11 in blue packet
Tuesday 1/10: Pages 13 and 23 in blue packet

ENergy Resources Webquest

               

   

Energy Resources Webquest
PRESENTATIONS BEGIN IN SCIENCE CLASS MONDAY, FEBRURARY 13
Access code Costa
Also feel free to use any of the links below to the right, "Science in the News". They will lead you to science magazine articles. Search them for your topic to get the latest and greatest!

January 3-6 2012

Tuesday - Finish Practice test
Wed - Finish Crossword Review
Thursday- Study for unit test

The "elemental" fish

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