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 * Quarter 1 Assignments:**

Vocabulary assignment #1: due Tuesday, 9/29** Part A) Define the following terms. Part B) Either use them in a paragraph or create a drawing that shows what each word means. //You may use your glossary, index, or a dictionary to find and define the terms.// //If the word is not found in the glossary, I have provided a page number where you can find the word. You should also be able to find a sentence that says what the word means.//
 * 1: Chief Seattle speech and questions
 * 2: Food chains
 * 3: Notes on populations with graphs
 * 4: Homework: p. 89 #1-6 due Friday, 9/18
 * 5: Classification Handout with questions
 * 6: Homework: p. 107 #1-4 due Thursday, 9/24
 * 7: Rachel Carson reading - underline three ideas
 * [[file:excerpts_silent_spring.doc]]

Words: algae (p. 497), classification (p. 425), decomposer/decomposition, food web, fungus/fungi (p. 521), producer, consumer, food chain, population, and competition (p. 113)


 * 8: "The DDT Story"

Upcoming assignments: Part A) First, construct a food web using the organisms found in the student's notebook. Part B) Then identify a producer, a primary consumer, a secondary consumer, and a tertiary (higher order) consumer from your food web.
 * 9: Notes on ecosystems
 * 10: Homework found on assignment #8: "Antarctic Ecosystem"


 * 11: Reading on Malaria
 * 12: Notes about the film: "Deadly Messengers"
 * 13: Microscope - Label
 * 14: Homework handout - Deer Question (See Below)
 * 15: Homework TBD

"ANTARCTIC ECOSYSTEM" A biology student doing research collects the following information about feeding relationships in an Antarctic ecosystem. > > ELK QUESTION > Read the information below and use it to answer the four multiple-choice questions and one open-response question that follow. || > || || > || A partial food web for organisms in Yellowstone National Park is shown below. || > || || Assume the elk population in Yellowstone National Park increases. Discuss how this increase in elk will most likely affect each of the following populations: Be sure to include specific reasons to support each of your responses.
 * 1) Use these notes to construct a food web of this ecosystem in your Student Answer Booklet.
 * 2) In your food web, identify one organism at each of the following trophic levels: producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, and higher-order consumer.
 * The following section focuses on the interactions of organisms in a food web.
 * Idaho fescue
 * migratory grasshopper
 * grizzly bear

DEER QUESTION The graph below shows changes in the birthrate and death rate for a large population of deer over a 20-year study period.
 * 1) Describe and explain two factors that can affect the birthrate in the deer population.
 * 2) Describe and explain two factors that can affect the death rate in the deer population.
 * 3) Identify one time period on the graph during which the deer population was increasing. Explain your answer.