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AP Biology Semester Project
Biodiversity Scavenger Hunt
Project Requirements
1) Projects are completed in groups of up to 3 students
2) All projects need to be completed in total and brought to class on
__________
3) Students are to collect (in a consistent, organized manner) 25 of the 30
items listed below by the above due date (extra 5 can be done for 2 points
a piece).
4) Create a report (typed, 12 font, Times New Roman) that contains:
a. Title Page
i. “Biodiversity Scavenger Hunt” as the title
ii. Names of all the members
iii. Date project is due
b. Index
i. List the 1 – 30 (even ones you did not find, you will leave
information beside this number blank)
ii. Place common names and scientific names (Label the
phylum, class, order, family and genus of each. If possible,
the species should be labeled as well) in proper format
beside the appropriate #
iii. The date collected, and collection location should also be
labeled.
iv. The member’s name that found this item
5) Label each part of your collection with its corresponding number.
6) Consult your textbook, resource books and people for help classifying your
specimens.
7) Budget your time so that all items are acquired.
8) Do not collect specimens from marine reserves, neighbor’s yards, etc! Be
responsible and think about not disturbing habitat.
9) Think about how you will preserve and/or keep alive various specimens.
a. Leaves and flowers will keep a few days in sealed, misted Ziploc
bags in the refrigerator.
b. Fungi may last a day or two wrapped in paper towels and kept in
dry plastic bags in the refrigerator.
c. Some samples can be pressed and dried and mounted for credit
(flowers/leaves).
10) Figure out a way to keep all of you specimens organised in one place to
hand in.
Scavenger Hunt List
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6)
A shell from a gastropod mollusk
A live insect in a jar (not a butterfly)
A leaf or bunch of leaves with parallel venation
A slice of bread with a healthy growth of mold from Phylum Zygomycota
A sample of the secretory product for which Class Mammalia is named
An edible example of the angiosperm organ, which anchors, absorbs water
and minerals, and stores food for the plant.
7) A fertile fern frond
8) A live specimen from the Phylum Arthropoda, class Malacostraca
9) A food made with the assistance of lactobacillus
10) A news or magazine article about plasmodium and its affects on human
health
11) A package of seeds from Phylum Anthophyta, class Monocots
12) A lock of hair from an ungulate animal
13) A fruit from Phylum Anthophyta, Class Dicots
14) A photograph with your finger and a terrestrial Annelid worm
15) Evidence of a vertebrate from Class Agnatha, Class Chondrichthyes, or
Class Osteichthyes , but not just a picture.
16) A commercial product designed to kill or retard the growth of pathogenic
bacteria
17) A dermal specialization characteristic of the surviving dinosaur
descendants of the Subphylum Vertebrata, Class Aves.
18) A two inch patch of a plant that lacks true vascular tissue.
19) Shed skin from (whole or a piece) from a backboned animal in Class
Reptilia.
20) The ingredients label from a container of food which lists a substance
extracted from red algae
21) A cake or package of an Ascomycete fungus.
22) A skeleton of an animal from Phylum Porifera
23) Either an arachnid molt; or a claw from a crustacean
24) A flower from either the composite family or the orchid family (The two
largest families of flowering plants).
25) Food made with a bivalve mollusk
26) A photograph of a bipedal hominid
27) A fungus with a fruiting body composed of hyphea arranged into gills
28) An Angiosperm seedling that you planted and grew from seed (the
seedling should be about 2 weeks old, NOT a previous planting)
29) The skeleton of an Echinoderm
30) Sample of a material composed of keratin, which is characteristic of the
class mammalia
Good Luck