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Unit 3: Chapters 7 & 11 (Environmental Systems and Biodiversity)
Assignment
CH 11: TYC 1-10, SS2, IGD 1-3
Field Trip to Kobayashi Park (Water Quality testing)
Dress for outside field work (boots, jackets…)
Gray Wolf Reintroduction Case study
Biodiversity charts – threats, benefits, conservation
Modified Molnar 18 protocol
Dress for outside field work
Biodiversity Lab (modified Molnar 18)
M&A Issue 22 (#1-11)
CH 7: TYC 1-10, SS1, IGD 1-3
Primary Productivity analysis
Molnar 16, #1-11 (use food log for #10)
Invasive/Endangered/Extinct Species Posters
Biogeochemical Cycle Presentations
Plate tectonics map, PhET simulation, rock cycle
diagram
Unit 3 Test
Unit 3 Vocabulary
Chapter 11
background rate of extinction
biodiversity hotspots
biological diversity
biophilia
captive breeding
community-based conservation
conservation biology
Convention on Biological Diversity
Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna
and Flora (CITES)
Endangered Species Act (ESA)
equilibrium theory of island biogeography
extirpation
genetic diversity
mass extinction
Red List
species diversity
umbrella species
Due Date
Wednesday, 10/19
10/21 (permission slips due 10/18)
Individual assignment due Monday, 10/24
Tuesday, 10/25
Wednesday, 10/26
Thursday, 10/27
Friday, 10/28
Monday, 10/31
Tuesday, 11/1
Thursday, 11/03
Monday, 11/07
Tuesday, 11/08
Wednesday, 11/09
Thursday, 10/10
Chapter 7
aquifer
atmosphere
biogeochemical cycles
biomass
carbon cycle
closed cycle
convergent plate boundary
core
crust
denitrifying bacteria
divergent plate boundary
dynamic equilibrium
ecotone
emergent properties
eutrophication
evaporation
feedback loop
gross primary production
groundwater
Haber-Bosch process
homeostasis
hydrologic cycle
hydrosphere
hypoxia
igneous rock
landscape ecology
lava
lithification
lithosphere
magma
mantle
metamorphic rock
negative feedback loop
net primary production
net primary productivity
nitrification
nitrogen cycle
nitrogen fixation
nitrogen-fixing bacteria
nutrient cycles
nutrients
open system
phosphorus cycle
plate tectonics
positive feedback loop
precipitation
productivity
rock cycle
runoff
secondary production
sediment
sedimentary rock
subduction
system
transform plate boundary
transpiration
water table