Download EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY TAKE HOME PACKET

EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY
TAKE HOME PACKET
Hey All,
As you know the end of the semester will be here before we know it. Because of the rigors of
biology and the new demands placed on us by the standards/topics that are covered on the
keystone exam it is almost impossible to get through the material you will need to know without
sacrificing your knowledge of important topics. This take home assignment is to refresh your
mind on topics you should have learned before in a middle school life science class, as well as
for you to understand some important ideas/events in evolutionary studies.
This packet includes 5 worksheets that go along with the five assigned videos which include:
1. Bill Nye the Science Guy: Biodiversity
2. Bill Nye the Science Guy: Populations
3. Bill Nye the Science Guy: Food Webs
4. Bill Nye the Science Guy: Evolution
5. Greatest Discoveries with Bill Nye the Origin and Evolution of Life
-The 4 Bill Nye the Science guy videos can be found on my wikispace under the biology videos
tab. http://balbright18.wikispaces.com/Biology+Videos. Each video is about 20 minutes long and
has a corresponding worksheet that follows along with video. While watching the video,
complete each worksheet.
-The Greatest Discoveries video on evolution can be found in the email which was sent to you
before break. The email also outlines the assignment and will include instructions so you can
watch the video (unfortunately it isn’t completely available on you tube). This video is 40
minutes long and also includes a worksheet that follows along with the video. This assignment
will take you the longest as more detail is covered and the worksheet is more involved.
The overall goal of this assignment is to help prepare you for topics on the keystone exam that
deal with ecology and evolution that we simply cannot get to in class. This packet is for your
benefit, not just busy work. Completion of this packet will at least familiarize you with basic
vocabulary and ideas. When creating this packet the Keystone Standards for Biology were
considered and worksheets were based off the principles.
This assignment will be worth 50 points upon completion, and will be due on Friday January 3,
2014. If you have any questions, if videos do not work, or if you have any trouble with anything
do not hesitate to email me. If something isn’t working we will figure out a way!
Thanks and have a great winter break and holidays!
Mr. Albright
Bill Nye: Biodiversity
As you watch this video, answer the following questions about critical concepts.
1. All environments on Earth are crowded with _________________
2. Ecosystems contain both ____________ and _____________ parts
3. Describe what Bill was trying to demonstrate by removing some of the blocks in his tower of
blocks.
4. What does the expression "you pick a flower without jiggling a stat" say about ecosystems?
5. In I Consider the Following, Bill makes a special request to not spread out our development
projects, WHY?
6. Name at least two species that have gone extinct (four were shown)
7. The "best way to wipe out a species" is to change its _____________________
8. In the area where students were digging out invasive plants, what was on that land originally,
before it was a dump?
9. The largest ecosystem in the world is the _______________, where 2/3 of all species live
10. Name five things you can do to guarantee biodiversity
11. Of the 30,000,000 + species on earth, how many are lost each hour? ____________
12. In conclusion, Bill states that "As more species dissapear, it's harder and harder to keep an
ecosystem in balance because we know what?!
13. To keep our ecosystems healthy we must keep our __________________
Other questions (do some research!)
14. What is a BIOME?
15. What abiotic factors determine the type of biome?
16. What factors made grasslands instead of a forest?
17. Why does a mountain have a series of different biomes even though a mountain can be
located within one geographical area?
Bill Nye: Populations
As you watch this video, answer the following questions about critical concepts.
1. What are all living things (people, plants, insects, etc.) a part of?
2. Do ants, plants, cows, spiders, sharks, and people depend on each other?
3. What is a population?
4. How do populations control each other?
5. Where does bacteria live?
6. What factors affect the survival of a population?
7. Why is the cheetah population on the decline?
8. How do the populations of deer and wolves depend on each other?
9. What is a parasite?
10. What do populations compete for?
11. What are endangered species? Name one species that is endangered.
12. What may happen when environments change?
13. What affect does the human population have on other living organisms and their
populations?
Bill Nye: Food Webs
As you watch this video, answer the following questions about critical concepts.
1. What is the jingle from the drive through?
_____________and ______________and ________________ too. ___________
in a _______ is connected to _______.
2. Plants are ________________
3. All living things depend on ______________
4. If there were no plants, what would there not be any of?
______________________________________________
5. Either you _________ plants, are a _____________ or eat ____________
_________ _____ _______________
6. Name three things that Bill tied his chicken sandwich to.
a.
b.
c.
Alfonso (from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
7. Name 3 different types of animals that are decomposers: _____________,
_____________, ____________
8. All the things that ________ dead stuff
9. Putting important nutrients _________ __________ _____ __________for plants
to use.
10. Hamburger meat __________ from a cow. The cow ate __________. And grass
is a ___________.
Richie, eat your vegetables. Dad, do I have to eat my vegetables? Why dad?
Honey you tell him.
11. Because, _____ _____________ ____________ ____________ ____ plants, and
you are a ____________ ___________.
12. Plants make good food, and good ____________.
Hey, what’s he saying? I think that he’s saying…
Most of the plants on earth live in the ocean.
13. A lot of ________________________takes place down here. A lot of the plants
are ____________________, like algae.
14. There’s plenty of _______________, and no need to worry about ___________or
getting _____________________
So where does our food come from anyway? The grocery store?
15. If we were real ________________, ___________________,
__________________ like ancestors. We would _____________ wheat, grow
veggies, squeeze OJ, and _________for tuna.
16. All living things depend on plants. It’s called the ________ ________
17. Plants, like onions, need _____________to grow.
Consider the following.
18. Plants get their energy from the ____________
19. It’s a process called photosynthesis. The word equation for photosynthesis is:
_________________+ ____________+ ____________
____________+___________
20. Plants breathe in ___________and breathe out _______
Where do the ingredients of a pizza come from?
21. Crust = ___________= ___________
22. Sauce = ___________ ___________
23. Cheese = ___________= ___________ = ___________
24. Pepperoni = ___________= ___________
25. The greenhouse at EPCOT centre uses ______________________ which means
they grow plants without soil.
26. In food pyramids, there are ________________ on bottom, and
_________________on top
27. Farther up the food pyramid, there is less energy from the plants to go around.
Therefore, there needs to be lots of plants.
Bill Nye: Evolution
As you watch this video, answer the following questions about critical concepts.
1. Evolution is _______ changes and _________ changes.
2. Every living thing has been changing for how long?
3. Children are not completely different from their parents. They have the same __________.
4. What are genes made up of?
5. Every time a copy is made, what changes in living things?
6. This change is called ______________.
7. All organisms have the same ___________.
8. Ancient Earth was covered in water. What were the oceans called?
9. Scientists came up with an experiment to recreate the early Earth and try to reproduce the chemicals for
life.
10. What was the ancient atmosphere made up of?
11. The electric spark in the experiment simulated what?
12. What was this experiment able to produce?
13. Giraffes have long necks. Why?
14. What is evolution by selection?
15. What do plant fossils tell us?
16. What is the study of paleontology?
17. What happens to living things when humans change the environment?
18. How does a living thing increase its chance of survival?
19. Where can you find moss?
20. Fossils show how _______ has changed on Earth.
21. The ammonites lived 200 million years ago. What are they related to today?
22. What is some of the evidence that suggests that birds are related to dinosaurs?
23. If the environment changes and a species cannot change quickly enough, what will happen to it?
24. What is artificial selection?
25. What are some examples of artificial selection?
26. What did Charles Darwin study in the Galapagos Islands?
27. What were the differences between the different ones he studied?
28. How many different finches did he find?
29. How many were there originally and why the change?
30. What do humans still have that suggests we evolved from monkeys?
31. The stuff found in your toes is the same as the stuff found ______________.
Greatest Discoveries with Bill Nye
The Origin and Evolution of Life
Introduction
1. ______________, _________________, and _________________ are the major themes of the origin
and evolution of life.
2. Changes in life occur gradual some, however, some llike the extinction of the dinosaurs happen in the
_______________ of an eye.
Understanding the Evolution of Dinosaurs
3. The ______________________ is a geological layer marking the period of time of extinction
4 This boundary contained ______________ a rare element, which told scientists it was a result of an
__________________ impact.
5. The link to this asteroid is missing; however some scientists link it to a crater at the bottom of
____________________
Dinosaurs
6. In the 1800’s scientists began to learn more about the dinosaurs because of _______________
7. Scientist Richard Owen called them Dinosaurs meaning _____________________
8. These discoveries gave birth to the science of _____________________ and created debate about
_____________ on earth.
9. The extinction of the dinosaurs made room for new species to ___________& _____________
STOP!!!!
10. What important role did learning/discovering about the extinction of dinosaurs play in evolution?
Creating the Potential For Life
11. ____________ ____________ created an experimental atmosphere of earth “____________”
12. This artificial atmosphere contained ____________, gases, and ____________
13. The results of his experiments contained ________________ compounds
Hydrothermal Vents
14. A __________________ was discovered in a clams body within a hydrothermal vent
15. It was discovered that the bacterium learned to _____________________ without light
16. This type of photosynthesis is know as ____________________
17. This discovery opened up the __________________ of evolution and origin of species.
Burgess Shale
18. The burgess shale formed __________ million years ago during the cambrian period and is a vast
deposit of ______________ in a quarry
19. The f______________ of this rock layer are well preserved underwater organisms
20. This deposit reveals 170 different species showing an evolutionary explosion of _________________
organisms.
21. This shift of life on earth is referred to as the ____________ ____________ of animal life.
Classification of Species
22. _____________ ______________ developed the first system of classification
24. His system categorized organisms by their ___________ and ___________
25. Today we use a similar system but look at ________ sequences and ____________ data
26. Species are categorized by ________________!
Natural Selection (And the Theory of Evolution)
27. ________________ ________________ a med-student at the time left school to pursue his dream to
be a __________________
28. On board the H.M.S Beagle he examined his ideas on ________________ believing changes on earth
occur slowly over millions of years.
29. He stopped and did research on the _________________ Islands where he asked “what are the laws of
_________?”
30. He studied the beaks of several ____________ species on the islands
31. He determined that the struggle to survive was the ______________ force behind life.
32. Darwin discoved evidence of _____________ _____________
33. His ideas lead to the belief that all life have a ___________ line and _________ that relate to
everything on earth.
34. In 1859 his book “_____________________________” was published detailing his findings on the
islands.
Australopithecus Aferensis
35. In 1974 anthropologists looked to find evidence of _______________ ancestor and found the remains
of an ancestral _______________
36. The scientists names this discover _______________ after an Beatles song.
37. Lucy shook up the family tree, she was ___________ and had a ___________ unlike chimps or apes.
38. Lucy proved that the link is not a simple ____________ progression of evolution but “bush” like
Laetoli Footprints
39. These footprints gave more evidence of human ancestry showing humans walking _____________
and in _____________
Toumai Skull
40. The first major discovery of the ______ century was the Toumai Skull
41. The skull contained an ape like cranium but __________ like teeth, linking the ideas behind ape and
man
42. The skull was found to be _______ million years old
43. Two significant discoveries were found based on the skull:
1. there is a lot of ________________ in human fossil records
2. what does it mean to be a hominid?
- lack the ability to be ____________
- upright habitual ________________
Conclusion
44. An overall fact of life we take for granted ____________________ happens...