|
|
 |
|
Monday, June 9th:
1) Complete the Beak Lab Discussion questions plus graph.
2) Vocab.: Darwin and Lamarck's Theories of Evolution
Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection
Quiz, Friday
______________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, June 10th:
1) Write out the theories of:
Darwin Lamarck Natural Selection
2) Study them for Friday's quiz.
_____________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
Monday, June 2nd:
1) Complete Lesson 2 (Adaptations) work.
2) Complete your vocabulary list/definitions for Thursday's quest!!
producer consumer decomposer herbivore
carnivore omnivore scavenger predator prey
community energy web/diagram limiting factor
photosynthesis word equation energy pyramid ("Using the Theme")
(ecological) succession adaptation ecosystem biosphere
Note: Extra Help Wednesday after school Quiz Thursday
_______________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, June 3rd:
1) Complete "Darwin's Finches" front and back.
2) Study vocab. for Thursday's Quest.
Note: add the following vocab.: camouflage mimicry
Extra Help Wednesday after school
_______________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, June 4th:
Study the following terms for tomorrow's quiz:
producer consumer decomposer herbivore
carnivore omnivore scavenger predator prey
community energy web/diagram limiting factor
photosynthesis word equation energy pyramid ("Using the Theme")
(ecological) succession adaptation ecosystem biosphere
camouflage mimicry CO2 O2
________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, May 27th:
Complete p. 84 - 85 on a sheet of lined paper. Title it "Exploration 2 - Animal Diversity"
For each organism, list the following: A.size; B.habitat; C. appearance;
D. feeding habits; E. self-protection.
Extra Help: Wednesday after school
_________________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, May 28th:
1) Complete the Oh, Deer! conclusions.
2) Complete the "Further Reflections" sheet.
Note: Population Changes is NOT due tomorrow!
_________________________________________________________________________
Thursday, May 29th:
1) Complete Population Changes.
2) Do "Biosphere/Energy Pathways."
________________________________________________________________________
Friday, May 30th:
1) Complete Lesson 1: Natural Changes.
2) Define the following vocabulary terms:
biosphere ecosystem energy pathways
_________________________________________________________________________
Monday, May 19th:
1) Complete "Water Needs", p. 20 - 21 ( 3 questions). You do not have to answer in
complete sentences, but you should use phrases in your reponses.
2) Choose three questions from "More Problems to Ponder" to complete.
Note: Friday's quiz will be on the six terrestrial biomes - not the aquatic ones.
Vocabulary for Friday's quiz will include:
interaction environment habitat niche biotic
abiotic biome range of tolerance predator prey
optimum symbiosis commensalism mutualism pa
Extra Help Thursday, Friday - 7:00A.M.
___________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, May 20th:
1) Complete Lesson 1: Energy Flow - all four sides!!
2) Add the following vocabulary to your list. (They will not be included in Friday's quiz.)
producer consumer decomposer herbivore
carnivore omnivore scavenger
__________________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, May 21st:
1) Add the following vocabulary to your list.
community energy web/diagram
photosynthesis word equation limiting factor
(Note: These terms will be on next week's quiz, and Not onFriday's quiz.)
2) Study the six biomes and vocabulary for Friday's quiz.
Extra Help will be Thursday and Friday morning at 7:00.
_________________________________________________________________________
Thursday, May 22nd:
Study for your biomes/vocab. quiz!!
(Remember: Extra Help will be Friday morning at 7:00.)
_________________________________________________________________________
Monday, May 12th:
1) The Nonliving Players (worksheet)
2) Vocabulary: range of tolerance optimum
___________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, May 13th:
1) Complete "Problems to Consider", p. 14.
A. Write out a brief description of the interaction.
B. List what type of interaction it is (mutualism, parasitism, commensalism).
2) Vocabulary: symbiosis, commensalism, mutualism, parasitism
__________________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, May 14th:
No homework!!
Extra Help Thursday after school
__________________________________________________________________________
Thursday, May 15th:
Complete "Biomes" (p S14-S 17). Describe the five lettered items for each of the six
biomes.
__________________________________________________________________________
Friday, May 16th:
Complete Aquatic Biomes in the same format as you used for last night's homework.
____________________________________________________________________________
Monday, "Cinco de Mayo":
1) Complete Follow-up Questions - Geologic Time scale tape.
2) Do a little research on Australian biomes. Try to find an animal from today's
lab which lives in that biome.
Extra Help Wed. 2:15 - 2:45
____________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, May 6th:
If you did not do so already, gather a bit of information on one of the three Australian biomes.
____________________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, May 7th:
Using your printed food web and graphs:
1) Complete the questions/observations in the Australian Biomes packet (both pieces of paper).
2) Complete the Follow-Up questions on the back of the second page of the packet.
These are due on Friday. Bring to class along with the Geologic Time Scale questions.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Thursday, May 8th:
Complete Australian Food Webs work.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Friday, May 9th:
1) Complete "Types of Interactions" - both sides!!
2) Add predator, prey to your vocab. list. Make study list/flashcards for them.
____________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
Monday, April 28th:
1) Complete the "Geologic Time Scale" sheet (p. 411 SciPlus text).
(Note: Do NOT Complete the Model of Geol. Time Scale sheet!!)
2) Vocab: Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic eras - times + 2 events for each.
3) Bring In your Inside Earth (thin) text!!
_____________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, April 29th:
1) Finish filling out the "numbers" opn the Geol. Timescale tape sheet.
2) If you haven't already, do Geol. Timescale Eras sheet.
3) Begin to learn the eras, dates, and events for Friday's quiz.
____________________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, April 30th:
1) Complete Unit I - Lessons 1 & 2 sheet -both sides!!
2) Study for Friday's quiz!! Extra Help tomorrow after school.
____________________________________________________________________________
Thursday, May 1st:
Study for Friday's quiz.
____________________________________________________________________________
Friday, May 2nd:
Lessons 1 & 2 - vocab. Make flashcards/ a list. Start to learn them!
____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
Monday, April 14th:
1) Complete "Chapter 1, Lesson 1 - Rocks Reveal a Story" - both sides!!
2) Study Topo vocab. for Thursday's quiz. (No wordbank!! )
Extra Help: Wednesday 2:15 - 3:00 Quiz Thursday
____________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, April 15th (Tax Day!!):
1) Complete "Clocks in Rocks" (one-sided!!) On the back of the paper, add the following:
"Please complete #1, (a-e) on p. 412 - in c........ s ..........."
2) Learn Topo vocabulary for Thursday's quiz.
Extra Help Wednesday (tomorrow!) after school
___________________________________________________________________________
Monday, April 7th:
1) Continue drawing the Contour picture, top of the page. (Do Lightly, in Pencil!)
2) Look up and define, on your vocabulary list:
elevation relief slope contour
Extra Help: Tuesday, 2:15 - 3:00
____________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, April 8th:
1) Complete both sides of the Topo profiles + ??s.
2) Vocab: topographic map contour interval profile
____________________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, April 9th:
1) Complete Topographic Maps reading + ??s.
2) Finish "Related Questions" work + profiles on the back..
3) Vocab: hilltop ridge line valley line
___________________________________________________________________________
Thursday, April 10th:
1) Complete "Reading a Topographic Map" questions.
2) Vocabulary: index contour
___________________________________________________________________________
Friday, April 11th:
1) Vocabulary: large scale depression
2) Study for Thursday's Topographic Maps quiz!!
Extra Help - Wednesday, April 16th - 2:15 - 3:00
__________________________________________________________________________
Monday, March 31st:
1. Complete Sedimentary Lab Follow-up Questions.
2. Vocabulary - to be check on Wednesday. (Do at least half tonight:
sediments lithification cementation compaction
crystallization drying weathering sedimentation
mechanical/physical weathering
____________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, April 1st:
1. Add erosion and chemical weathering to your vocabulary list.
2. Complete Lesson 4: Changed Rocks for homework.
____________________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, April 2nd:
1. Add Charles Lyell, James Hutton, the rock cycle, metamorphosis, and intrusions
to your vocabulary list/flashcards.
2. Complete The Rock Cycle paper. (Note: You do Not have to write out an explanation
for me. Do one for yourself, to study - but I'm not assigning it for HW. You've
done enough writing for today!! : > )
3. STUDY this new information and your vocabulary terms for Friday's quiz!!
Extra Help Thursday, 2:15 - 3:00
____________________________________________________________________________
Thursday, April 3rd:
Study for Rocks quiz!! - KNOW and be able to SPELL the terms.
____________________________________________________________________________
Friday, April 4th:
NO HOMEWORK!! - Have a Great Weekend!! : > )
Monday, March 24th:
Complete "Igneous Rock Formation" sheet handed out on Thursday after the quiz.
(Volcano sketch on back.)
Extra Help Tuesday after school
________________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, March 25th:
Complete Igneous Rocks Follow-Up questions
________________________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, March 26th:
No School (Project Wellness)
________________________________________________________________________________
Thursday, March 27th:
No Homework!!
_______________________________________________________________________________
Friday, March 28th:
(Me at NSTA Convention) - No Homework - Have a great weekend!!
_______________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
Monday, March 17th:
After a long hiatus (Sorry! : l ), the homework page is back!! For tonight:
1) Complete the Rock ID Lab Conclusion questions and Question #4 on the back
of the sheet.
2) Complete "The History of Rock" from the SciPlus text.
Extra Help: Tuesday after school **Quiz: Thursday
**The quiz will be based on the following vocabulary: viscosity silica content quiet eruptions
explosive eruptions pyroclastic flow magnitude seismologist
Richter scale seismograph tiltmeter creep meter
laser-ranging device GPS satellite "seismo" igneous
sedimentary metamorphic Be able to identify by name and
type any of the rocks in the ID lab.
________________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, March 18th:
Study vocabulary terms and rocks for Thursday's quiz.
________________________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, March 19th:
1) Complete Rock ID Lab Follow-up - BOTH SIDES!! (: l )
2) Study the above vocabulary terms, including extrusive and intrusive igneous rocks,
for tomorrow's vocabulary quiz.
Be able to name and recognize any of the 13 rocks based on your descriptions of the
characteristics. I will provide you with a list of rocks to choose from for the lab
practical part of the quiz.
______________________________________________________________________________
Monday, March 3rd:
Complete Epicenter questions if your circles are drawn.
Extra Help Thursday after school Quiz Friday on volcanoes
__________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, March 4th:
1) Make a vocab list/ flashcards for all volcano terms and information.
2) Begin to study/learn the terms, definitions, and spellings for Friday's quiz.
Reminder: There will be no wordbank for this quiz!!
_________________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, March 5th:
1) Complete "Volcanic Eruptions" sheet.
2) Study flashcards / vocabulary for Friday's quiz.
Extra Help Thursday after school Quiz Friday
_________________________________________________________________________
Thursday, March 6th:
Study for tomorrow's volcanoes vocabulary quiz!!
________________________________________________________________________
Friday, March 8th:
1. Complete vocabulary list or flashcards for the following terms (from the
"Volcanic Eruptions" sheet):
viscosity silica content q uiet eruptions
explosive eruptions pyroclastic flow
2. Have a great weekend!! : > )
________________________________________________________________________
Monday, February 25th:
1) Complete Mountain Types study guide sheet.
2) Study/review sheet several times tonight for Wednesday's quiz!
Extra Help Tuesday after school Quiz Wednesday
______________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, February 26th:
1) Complete plotting earthquakes on your world map;
2) Study for the types of mountains quiz - No Wordbank!!
Extra Help - Briefly, on Wednesday after school
Quiz Thursday
_____________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
Monday, February 11th:
Study for tomorrow's vocabulary quiz. Be sure to include anticline and
syncline, sea-floor spreading, oceanic crust and continental crust
(Note: All vocab. terms for this test are down below, in 2/07 and 2/08.)
______________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, February 12th:
Complete p. 364-365. Complete the Can you help Michael" paragraph.
Explain, using the vocabulary terms in bold, how the elastic rebound theory
illustrates what happened to the stream on p. 364
______________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, February 13th:
1) List the latest vocabulary terms in your binder and define them.
2) Make flashcards for the new terms:
plateau H.F. Reid/1960 San Andreas fault epicenter
elastic rebound theory focus/hypocenter shock/seismic waves
_____________________________________________________________________
Monday, February 4th:
1) Complete "Sea-Floor Spreading" questions.
2) Finish the Discussion Questions for Modeling the Asthenosphere and
the Convection labs.
Extra Help: Tuesday after school
____________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, February 5th:
1) List, on Sea-Floor Spreading sheet, the three pieces of evidence which
support the theory.
2) Complete "Subduction at Trenches" work.
____________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, February 6th:
Complete "Forces in the Earth's Crust" from Inside Earth.
____________________________________________________________________
Thursday, February 7th:
1) Complete "Kinds of Faults", p. 46-48.
2) Make vocabulary flashcards (and labeled sketches) for:
convection transform subduction fault
tension compression shearing
___________________________________________________________________
Friday, February 8th:
1) Complete "Folding Earth's Crust" (p. 48-49; Note - It begins with
"Changing Earth's Surface".)
2) Vocabulary definitions and Flashcards:
Types of faults: normal reverse strike-slip
footwall hanging wall anticline syncline
(Anticline & syncline are in tonight's homework but will be included in Tuesday's
quiz. The quiz will be on the above terms - convection through syncline.
__________________________________________________________________
Monday, January 28th:
1) Make flashcards for the newest terms - lithosphere, continental crust,
oceanic crust
2) Study all Unit VI flashcards for Wednesday's vocabulary quiz!!
Extra help - Tuesday after school.
_________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, January 29th:
Study for the Quiz !! - Multiple flips of the flashcards!!
_________________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, January 30th:
Complete "Tidbits from Inside Earth" homework - both sides.
Leave Both books at home - SciPlus (the thick book) you will keep at home
until June !!
________________________________________________________________________
Thursday, January 31st:
Complete the Convection sheet from the Inside Earth book.
__________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, January 22nd:
1) Complete your Pangaea map.
2) Answer the Discussion Questions.
3) Complete the Modern Day Map if not already done.
Extra Help: Friday after school
__________________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, January 23rd:
1) Complete "An Earth Moving Thought Experiment" sheet on p. 358-359.
2) Look up, write out, and make flashcards for the following Earth Science terms:
Alfred Wegener Continental Drift Pangaea
Panthalassa Laurasia Gondwanaland
J.Tuzo Wilson Theory of Plate Tectonics
__________________________________________________________________________
Thursday, January 24th:
1) Finish putting plate boundaries on the world map.
2) Complete S 109 (both sheets).
3) Add J. Tuzo Wilson and plate tectonics to your vocabulary list and flashcards.
Extra Help - Friday after school
________________________________________________________________________
Friday, January 25th:
1) Define the following terms in the Vocabulary section of your binder:
Formation of Himalayas Convection Currents Convection Cells
Convergent Boundary Divergent Boundary Asthenosphere Mantle
________________________________________________________________________
| |
|
|
|
