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Mr &
Mrs Smiths' Life Science
Unit 3 Ecology
Chapter 22 Ecosystems and Biomes
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Teacher Resources Student Extra Credit
22-1
Energy Flow in Ecosystems |
22-4 Biomes and Aquatic Ecosystems |
22-2
Cycles of Matter |
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22-3
Biogeography |
| Day 1 |
| Topic 22 Ecosystems and Biomes |
| Objectives Name and describe the energy roles that organisms play in an ecosystem. Explain how energy moves through and ecosystem. Describe how much energy is available at each level of an energy pyramid. |
| State Goals |
Classwork-Homework VocabularyProducer: organism that makes its own food Consumer: organism that obtains food by eating other organisms Herbivore: consumer that eats only plants Carnivore: consumer that only eats animals Omnivore: consumer that eats both plants and animals Scavenger: animal that only eats dead organisms Decomposer: organism that breaks down the wastes or remains of other organisms  Producers,
Consumers, and Decomposers
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TEC Food
Webs at Hydrothermal Vents Science Explorer page 115 |
| Resources |
| Day 2 |
| Topic 22-1 Food Chains and Food Webs |
| Objectives Explain and construct food chains and webs to show how organisms are related by and how they get their food. Identify producers and different feeding levels of consumers in an ecosystem. |
| State Goals |
| Classwork-Homework Vocabulary Food Web: way of showing how food webs are related Food Chain: way of showing how the energy from food moves through populations of organisms in a community
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| TEC |
Resources A Food Web Old Prentice-Hall TR 17-18 Galapagos Food Web Introduction
to Food Chains and Food Webs Secondary Fitting Algae Into the Food Web
Food Web Game |
| Day 3 |
| Topic 22-1 Energy Pyramids |
| Objectives Explain and construct an energy pyramid. Show how organisms are related by how they get their food. |
| State Goals |
| Classwork-Homework Vocabulary Energy Pyramid: way of showing how energy moves through a food chain Web
of Life Identify food web species and create
color-coded food web p. 10-12 |
| TEC |
| Resources |
| Day 4 |
| Topic 22-2 The Water Cycle |
| Objectives Name and describe processes involved in the water cycle. Define and describe the nitrogen cycle. |
| State Goals |
| Classwork-Homework Vocabulary Water Cycle: repeated movement of water between Earth's surface and the atmosphere Evaporation: changing of a liquid to a gas Transpiration: process by which plants lose water through the stomata in their leaves Condensation: changing of a gas to a liquid Precipitation: water that falls to Earth from the atmosphere: rain, snow, sleet, Cycles in Nature
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| TECTesting
for Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Science Explorer page 122 |
| Resources Water Cycle color diagram What Do You Know About Water |
| Day 5 |
| Topic 22-2 The Carbon Cycle and Nitrogen Cycle |
| Objectives Explain the carbon cycle. Explain how carbon and oxygen are recycled in an ecosystem. |
| State Goals |
| Classwork-Homework Vocabulary Carbon Cycle: repeated movement of carbon between Earth's atmosphere and organisms Deforestation: excessive cutting of forests Fossil Fuel: energy source formed from the remains of plants and animals that lived and died long ago Nitrogen Fixation: process of combing nitrogen with other elements to make usable compounds Nitrogen Cycle: movements of nitrogen compounds between the atmosphere, the soil, and living organisms
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| TEC |
| Resources |
| Day 6 |
| Topic 22-3 Biogeograhy |
| Objectives Explain how the movements of the continents has affected the distribution of species. Name and describe three ways that dispersal of organisms occurs. Name and describe factors that can limit the dispersal of a species. |
| State Goals |
Classwork-Homework Land & Water Paper Folding Prentice Hall
752-753
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| TEC Organisms
and Continental Drift Science Explorer page 128 |
| Resources |
| Day 7 |
| Topic 22-4 Biomes |
| Objectives Name the six major biomes on Earth. Name and describe the factors that determine the type of biome found in an area. Describe the two major types of aquatic biomes. |
| State Goals |
| Classwork-Homework Vocabulary Climate: average weather of an area over a long period of time Biome: large region with a characteristic climate and plant and animal communities
Prentice Hall 758-769 |
| TEC Biome Project |
| Resources |
| Day 8 |
| Topic 22-4 Biomes and Ecosystems |
| Objectives Read for information on biomes. |
| State Goals |
| Classwork-Homework
Science Explorer pages 134-138 # 1-26 |
| TEC |
| Resources |
| Day 9 | ||||
| Topic Maps | ||||
| Objectives Label a world map showing the locations of the different biomes. |
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| Classwork-Homework Seven
Major Land Biomes Rain Forest Desert Grassland Deciduous Forest Boreal Forest Tundra Mountains and Ice Two
Major Water Biomes
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| TEC | ||||
| Resources Biome
Notes Label the Major Deserts of
the World
Desert
Animals p.24 |
| Day 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Topic African Rain Forests | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Objectives Investigate the Rain Forest |
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| Classwork-Homework
Prentice Hall 696-701
Interdisciplinary Exploration: African Rain Forest Science Explorer pages 18-29
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| Resources |
| Day 11 |
| Topic Evaluation |
| Objectives Identify a food chain. Identify Producers and consumers. Identify herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers. Identify biotic and abiotic factors. Name three biomes. Discuss balance in an ecosystem. Name a symbiotic relationship. Name three scavengers. List the parts of succession. |
| State Goals |
Classwork-Homework The
Lion King: An Ecological Study Watch the movie and take notes about the questions. |
| TEC |
| Resources |
Teacher Resources
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| BIOMES |
| Biomes
Scavenger Hunt St. Louis Zoo activity. Great information on biome
characteristics. Charts on zoo animals to research. |
| All About
Nature: Biomes-Habitats The Earth has many different environments, varying in temperature,
moisture, light, and many other factors. Each of these habitats has distinct life forms
living in it, forming complex communities of interdependent organisms. A complex community
of plants and animals in a region and a climate is called a biome. |
| Introduction to Biomes
Biomes are the major regional groupings of plants and animals discernible at a global
scale. Their distribution patterns are strongly correlated with regional climate patterns
and identified according to the climax vegetation type. However, a biome is composed not
only of the climax vegetation, but also of associated successional communities, persistent
subclimax communities, fauna, and soils. Maps and pictures of
biomes and plants. |
| BIOMES: LAND |
| Intergalactic
Zoo Design an alien environment. |
 Forest
Diorama Make this diorama based on the real Olympic Rain Forest diorama at the
American Museum of Natural History. |
| Wetlands
Diorama Make this diorama based on the real Wading Bird Rookery diorama at
the American Museum of Natural History. |
| The World's Biomes Welcome to the World's Biomes
Page. This is an introduction to the major biomes on Earth. Biomes are defined as
"the world's major communities, classified according to the predominant vegetation
and characterized by adaptations of organisms to that particular environment." |
| BIOMES: WATER |
 Microinvertebrates |
| Ocean Drifters |
| BIOMES: CONIFEROUS FOREST & TAIGA BIOMES |
| Animals of the Taiga/
Coniferous Forest Biomes The Coniferous Forest and Taiga Biome stretches
across a large portion of Canada, Europe and Asia. It is the largest biome in the world.
Winters are cold. Summers are warm. Lots of conifers grow here. |
| Investigate
the Coniferous Forest & Taiga Biomes The Coniferous Forest stretches across
a large portion of Canada, Europe and Asia. It is the largest biome in the world. Winters
are cold. Summers are warm. Lots of conifers grow here. |
| BIOME: DECIDUOUS FOREST |
| Animals of the
Temperate Deciduous Forest Temperate deciduous forests are forests in
cool, rainy areas; they have trees that lose their leaves in Fall and regrow them in
Spring. Temperate deciduous forests are found in the middle latitudes around the globe and
have four distinct seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. In the Northern Hemisphere,
these forests are found in North America, Europe, and Asia. In the Southern Hemisphere,
there are smaller areas of these forests, in South America, Africa, and Australia. The
growing season in these forests is about 6 months long. |
| Investigate
the Deciduous Temperate Forest The Temperate Deciduous Forest has four seasons of winter, spring, summer, and fall. Animals and plants
have special adaptations to cope with these yearly changes. |
| BIOME: DESERT BIOME |
| Creatures
of the Desert Identify a mammal, a reptile, a bird, and an insect that live in
the desert. Research information and draw a picture. |
| Deserts
Word Search Puzzle |
| Label the Major Deserts of
the World |
| Desert
Diorama Make this diorama based on the real Sonoran Desert diorama at the
American Museum of Natural History. |
| Investigate
Desert Biomes Have you ever driven through a Desert on a trip to
anywhere? |
| BIOME: FRESH WATER BIOMES |
| Explore-A-Pond Can you populate the pond in
such a way that by week 18 the creatures in the pond are still healthy and thriving? Click on Virtual
Pond |
| Famous Rivers of
the World In every continent there is a famous river. Here are
some of the famous ones. |
| Investigate
Freshwater Ecosystems You'll find a wide variety of animal life in or
around fresh water ecosystems...aquatic birds... amphibians..mammals and of course, a wide
variety of fish. |
| Pond Animals
Ponds are teeming with both animal and plant life. Some animals live in the water (fish,
crayfish, tadpoles, etc.), some live above the water (ducks, insects, etc.), and others
live in the area surrounding the pond (raccoons, earthworms, etc.). |
| BIOME: GRASSLAND |
| America's
Lost landscape: The Tall Grass Prairie The North American grassland began
about 23-25 million years ago during the Tertiary Period, marking the beginning of the
Miocene Epoch, with the second uplift of the Rocky Mountains. |
| Animals of the Prairie
A prairie is a temperate grassland, plains of grass that get hot in the summer and cold in
the winter. Most of the interior of North America was a prairie before European settlement
radically altered the environment with agriculture. Even now, the prairie is a large area.
The animals that live in prairies have adapted to a semi-arid, windy
environment with few trees or shrubs. They can also withstand a great range in
temperature, from well below freezing in the winter to sweltering heat in the summer. |
| Animals of the Savanna
A savanna is a hot, seasonally dry grassland with scattered trees. This environment is
intermediate between a grassland and a forest. Savannas are located in the dry tropics and
the subtropics, often bordering a rainforest. Savannas have an extended dry season and a
rainy season. The animals that live in savannas have adapted
to a great deal of variability in the food supply throughout the year; there are times of
plenty (during and after the wet season) and times of almost no food or water (during the
dry season). Many savanna animals migrate to deal with this problem. |
| Build A Praire Are you up for the challenge? If you choose the right plants and
animals, you can watch the prairie come to life before your eyes! |
| Grasslands Go and explore an Enchanted Learning Site. A grassland is a grassy, windy,
partly-dry biome, a sea of grass. Almost one-fourth of the Earth's land area is grassland.
In many areas, grasslands separate forests from deserts. Deep-rooted grasses dominate the
flora in a grassland; there are very few trees and shrubs in a grassland, less than one
tree per acre. There are many different words for grassland environments around the world,
including savannas, pampas, campos, plains, steppes, prairies and veldts. |
| Illinois Praire Page
French explorers and trappers, upon viewing the extensive grasslands of
mid-America for the first time, called them "prairie." Their word had the
meaning of a natural meadow. Prairie is a vegetative community dominated by native grasses
and featuring many colorful flowers. |
| Introduction
to Exploring the Praire What was Iowa like 150 years ago? |
| Investigate
Grassland Biomes Did you know that Grasslands are found on every
continent except Antarctica? |
| Northern
Praire Biological Resources Information on the biotic resources of the
Great Plains. |
| Praires: Rediscovering a
Fragile Frontier Contains an overview of the many endangered plants and
animals that once inhabited the tallgrass prairie, the continent's largest connected
ecosystem. |
| Praire
Links The following is a list of some of the resources that are available
to prairie enthusiasts on the Internet. |
| Tall
Grass Praire in Illinois "The Prairie State" is a frequently
used nickname for Illinois, yet few people know what a prairie is or have ever visited
one. At the same time, there is a growing awareness of prairies. Prairies are an important
part of this state's heritage, and in the past few years there have been numerous
conferences, radio programs, popular articles, books and scientific papers on
prairies. This article provides an introduction to the fascinating world of
prairies. |
| BIOME: SALT WATER |
| Oceans of the World
96 page unit |
| Ocean Animal Printouts
Click on an animal to go to a printout. |
| Coral Reef
Animals Coral reefs are warm, clear, shallow ocean habitats that are rich
in life. The reef's massive structure is formed from coral polyps, tiny animals that live
in colonies; when coral polyps die, they leave behind a hard, stony, branching structure
made of limestone. |
| Investigate Marine Ecosystems
Come discover marine creatures from the tiny zooanthellae
that make the coral reefs home to the giant mammals of the vast seas. |
| Life on the Reef
Marine biologists from across the U.S. have gathered in the Bahamas to study creatures
along one of the world's largest barrier reefs. |
| BIOME: TROPICAL RAIN FOREST |
| Animals of the Rain Forest This web site was developed by
the 1999 6th grade class at Midlakes Middle School. It came about as a direct result
of our involvement in the Jason X Project. The kids actually researched up to 50 facts and
wrote papers on their animals. |
| Investigate
Rain Forests of the World Did you know there are two types of rain
forests-- the temperate and the tropical? |
| Journey Into Amazonia
What mysteries does Amazonia hold? That's just what
scientists at the American Museum of Natural History want you, Sam Smith, to find out. If
you're ready to explore the wilds of the Amazon jungle, journey on, adventurer! |
| Zoom
Rain Forests
Zoom Rainforests is a comprehensive on-line hypertext book about tropical and temperate
rainforests. It is designed for students of all ages and levels of comprehension. It has
an easy-to-use structure that allows readers to start at a basic level on each topic, and
then to progress to more advanced information as desired. |
| BIOME: TUNDRA |
| Animals
of the Arctic The world
has many different animals. In the Arctic we have many animals that are unique to the
north that we would like to tell you about. We have chosen some of the most unique
arctic animals there are. |
| Arctic
The Arctic is a very cold, windy, and often snowy biome located around the North Pole.
When referring to the Arctic, people usually mean the part of the earth within the Arctic
Circle (an imaginary circle around the Earth, parallel to the Equator and 23 degrees 28
minutes from the North Pole, that is, above about 75 degrees North Latitude). Although
there is no land at the North Pole, the icy Arctic Ocean is teeming with life ranging from
the microscopic (like zooplankton)
to the huge (like whales). |
| Investigate the Tundra Biome How cold is cold? The Tundra Biome is at the top of the world -- around the North Pole! |
| Tundra
Enchanted Learning Site. The tundra is a cold, treeless area; it is the coldest biome. The
tundra is characterized by very low temperatures, very little precipitation (rain or
snow), a short growing season, few nutrients, and low biological diversity. The word
tundra comes from the Finnish word tunturia, which means "treeless plain."
There are two types of tundras, Arctic tundras and alpine tundras. |
| FOOD CHAINS & WEBS |
| Build a Bermudan Coral
Food Pyramid Students will be able to construct a pyramid of numbers using data
from a Bermudan coral reef. |
| Food Chain
Mania |
| Food
Webs and Trophic Levels |
| Who Am I?
Students work together to determine the role of ocean producers and consumers within the
ocean food chain. |
| Who Eats Whom In a
Bermudan Coral Reef Students will be able to find out about feeding
relationships on a coral reef and develop a food chain and food web using coral
reef animals and plants. |
| Food
Chains/ Nutrition Pupil Factsheet |
| The
Food Chain What is the
difference between the 'Food Chain' and 'Food Web?' A popular
misnomer, the 'food chain' is not actually a linear chain but a complex web. Energy
is passed from one organism to another in a complex network like a spider's web. |
| WATER CYCLE |
| Water Cycle in a 2-Liter Bottle All of the earth's water goes
through a cycle in which the water changes its location or physical state through
different processes. In accordance with the law of conservation of matter, water is not
created or destroyed it just changes form. Water can be found in all three states of
matter during the cycle: solid (ice caps), liquid (lakes) and gas (water vapor). Use
two 2-Liter bottles to create your own water cycle. Neat activity!! |
| The Watershed Game Many things happen in a
watershed that affect the quality of the water we rely upon. What are they? Would
you make the best decisions in managing your watershed? Examine the issues in each
area of the watershed, then see the impacts of your choices! |
| What Do You Know About Water |
Student Extra Credit
|
 Create a Food Web
This is a COOL site! An interactive
worksheet. You know that a food web is made up of two or more interconnected
food chains, and that it shows the food relationships among organisms in a community.
Let's see you create a food web. Click and drag the animals, plants, and arrows
to form a possible food web. Arrows should be drawn from food source to food
consumers. At the end of this activity, you can discard excess pictures into the
Recycle Bin and then right-click to print your food web. If you move your mouse
pointer on the picture the name will pop-up. Bring in
your food web for me to see for extra credit! |
| Food Chains Go to BrainPOP and watch the movie on food chains to
complete the worksheets. |
| Rain Forest Quest |
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