Mangrove Biology Mangrove seed are designed to fall into the water and drift or get stuck in the soil and start growing   Organic Chemistry is Based on Carbon Types of Chemical Bonds Mangrove FOrests Are an Example of a Carbon Sink  Mangrove Ecosystems are FOund All Over the World  The continents were Closer Together in the past   Mangrove Leaves Excrete Salt Salt Crosses the Cell Membranes of Cells and goes from the water to the surface of the leaf Mangroves Adapted to Sea WaterOsmosis and DiffusionCell Membrane StructureActive and Passive TransportThe Ecosystem of the Mangrove Forest has Adapted to Salt and Land as Nature Transitions from Sea to SoilPBS Kids Game Suggestion for younger Family Members Prawn and Shrimp Farming is Destroying the Mangroves  SHRIMP IS VALUABLE Shrimp is the most valuable traded marine product in the world today. In 2005, farmed shrimp was a 10.6 billion industry. Today, production is growing at an approximate rate of 10 percent annually—one of the highest growth rates in aquaculture. Mangrove Forests are Destroyed to Build Hotels: Ecocide Mangroves Protect the Coast From Erosion Better than ANy human made Building, |
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Activity:
Select 6 organisms from the food web and learn more about them.
Select 6 organisms from the food web and learn more about them.
For each of them find:
Consider and answer the following:
How can human actions upset the balance of an ocean ecosystem?
- common name of organism
- list of predators, if applicable
- list of prey, if applicable
Consider and answer the following:
- Which species are only predators? Which are only prey? Which are both?
- What would happen to the food web if one species were to become endangered or extinct? Which species would be affected? Which ecosystem would be affected?
- Why is phytoplankton so important to marine food webs?
- What happens to the amount of energy/biomass that is transferred from one trophic level to the next?
- What roles do humans play in marine food webs?
How can human actions upset the balance of an ocean ecosystem?
Parts of the Coral Reef Food Web
Abiotic Factors in a Coral Reef Abiotic factors can impact the health and development of a coral reef
Abiotic Factors in a Coral Reef Abiotic factors can impact the health and development of a coral reef
Coral Reef Food Web Primary Producers The primary producers in a coral reef food web include plants and seaweed
Coral Reef Food Web Primary Producers to First Order Consumers
Energy produced by producers in a coral reef food web flows to first-order consumers.
Coral Reef Food Web First Order Consumers to Intermediate Predators
Intermediate predators prey on first-order consumers in this coral reef food web.
Coral Reef Food Web Intermediate Predators to Top Predators
Top predators prey on intermediate predators in this coral reef food
Coral Reef Food Web: Decomposers
Decomposers are an integral part of food webs.
Article Reading
Human Activity Puts Ocean Ecosystems at Risk
A more stressful environment can lead to less disease resistance
Stem Cells have the DNA Code for the entire starfish and divide through mitosis
Coral Reef Restoration
More Eco-friendly Energy Production
Protein SYnthesis in Coral
Green fluorescent protein, or GFP is used by corals to glow and reflect sunlight and this is a good opportunity to review protein synthesis.
Weather PatTerns
Panel Project Due November 12
Essential Question:
What is Art?
In nature there are patterns that create spirals in all that we see.
Atoms arrange themselves according to polarity and symmetry to create balanced latices of matter. What we are able to see is the result of vibrating molecules that are made up of elements from the Periodic Table of Elements, most of matter is empty space.
What is art in biology? Is it the growth of populations, the arrangement of cells in a flower?
The flow of electricity? Biomimicry in technology?
Choose one way to see biology as art.
Write two sentences answering the question:
“What is art?” using examples from your chosen way to see biology as art.
Create an artifact that represents your way to see biology as art, it may be a poster, presentation, sculpture, video, any mode of expression that you want.
Examples:
Spirals in nature, Fibonacci Sequence Colors in nature
Population growth charts Art in chemical structures
Arrangements of animal communities Ways to expand surface area
Types of dwellings in nature Geometry in storms and weather patterns
Create a 3 minute presentation for class that explains the subject that you chose and how it answers the question What is art?
Presentation dates:
Juniors November 13th
Sophomores will give panel presentations on November 20th
Freshmen will present on December 4th
What is Art?
In nature there are patterns that create spirals in all that we see.
Atoms arrange themselves according to polarity and symmetry to create balanced latices of matter. What we are able to see is the result of vibrating molecules that are made up of elements from the Periodic Table of Elements, most of matter is empty space.
What is art in biology? Is it the growth of populations, the arrangement of cells in a flower?
The flow of electricity? Biomimicry in technology?
Choose one way to see biology as art.
Write two sentences answering the question:
“What is art?” using examples from your chosen way to see biology as art.
Create an artifact that represents your way to see biology as art, it may be a poster, presentation, sculpture, video, any mode of expression that you want.
Examples:
Spirals in nature, Fibonacci Sequence Colors in nature
Population growth charts Art in chemical structures
Arrangements of animal communities Ways to expand surface area
Types of dwellings in nature Geometry in storms and weather patterns
Create a 3 minute presentation for class that explains the subject that you chose and how it answers the question What is art?
Presentation dates:
Juniors November 13th
Sophomores will give panel presentations on November 20th
Freshmen will present on December 4th
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1. Which of the following processes is directly responsible for growth in living organisms?
a. The division of cells into two identical cells
b. The movement of water across a cell membrane
c. The production of reproductive cells called gametes
d. The exchange of the gases oxygen and carbon dioxide
2. DNA replication is an important part of cellular division because correct replication–
a. ensures that identical and complete genetic information is passed to
both daughter cells.
b. produces mutations that usually are advantageous for the survival of the
organism.
c. combines sperm and egg to form a zygote that will develop into a new
organism.
d. communicates information about the cellular environment to adjacent
cells.
3. Which of the following observations would support the claim that DNA determines the
structure of proteins produced by cells?
a. Organisms that produce proteins have different lengths of DNA.
b. Similar DNA sequences are found in organisms that produce the same
protein.
c. Both DNA and the production of proteins was observed in early life
forms.
d. DNA is found in the nucleus of all cells that produce proteins.
4. Albumin is a protein produced in the liver of both pigs and humans. Based on this
information, what other similarity can we predict between these two organisms?
Both organisms–
a. have more complex DNA than organisms that do not produce albumin.
b. have DNA that codes for globulin, another protein found in the liver.
c. produce new sequences of DNA in the same region of their livers.
d. share a similar sequence in one section of their DNA
5. As living systems use energy they also transform matter. All of these matter
transformations are the result of living systems–
a. recombining elements in different ways to form new products.
b. changing inorganic elements into new elements that are useful.
c. removing the electric charge on large molecules to gain energy.
d. using energy to break the bonds of organic compounds.
6. Sugar produced as a result of photosynthesis is made up of which of the following
elements?
a. Hydrogen, Magnesium, Carbon
b. Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen
c. Carbon, Nitrogen, Hydrogen
d. Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Calciu
7. Which of the following provides the best evidence that living things use and recombine
carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen to form molecules for new cells?
a. The elements carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen are among the most common
elements in the universe, but are not the most common elements on Earth.
b. The cells of living things contain molecules made of the elements carbon,
hydrogen, and oxygen, the same elements found in the glucose consumed
by living things.
c. The elements carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen are able to bond with each
other to form complex molecules that are chains of repeating structures.
d. The relative amounts of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen found in the
earth’s atmosphere have changed over the history of the planet.
8. Which of the following statements regarding the energy produced during cellular
respiration is most accurate?
a. The majority of the energy produced is lost to the environment as heat.
b. The energy must be transferred across the cell membrane to be used.
c. The energy produced must be stored in specialized organelles within the
cell.
d. The amount of energy produced is greater than the amount of energy
required.
9.
Which of the following organisms is part of the trophic level with the greatest amount of stored energy?
a. Vulture
b. Wildebeest
c. Termite
d. Red oat grass
a. Vulture
b. Wildebeest
c. Termite
d. Red oat grass
10. As energy is transferred between trophic levels, only a small fraction of the available
energy is transferred. How can this observation be explained, taking into account
the law of conservation of energy?
a. Organic systems do not demonstrate the conservation of energy.
b. Organisms, even after death, continue to store energy in organic molecules.
c. Since biomass increases at higher levels, the concentration of energy is the
same.
d. The unused energy is lost as heat through metabolic processes.
11. Shown here is an incomplete chemical equation for the reaction known
as photosynthesis.
6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy →6O2 + _______
Which of the following substances correctly completes the equation?
a. Water
b. Carbon dioxide
c. Glucose
d. Oxygen
12. Which of the following statements is true?
a. Heterotrophs produce their own food.
b. Autotrophs take in nutrients from outside themselves.
c. Consumers are heterotrophs.
d. Consumers are autotrophs
13. The structure, properties, and transformations of matter can best be explained by
which of the following?
a. The way in which electromagnetic radiation interacts with different
substances
b. Gravitational forces from the environment on subatomic particles
c. The number of atoms of an element in one mole of that substance
d. Attraction and repulsion between electric charges at the atomic level
14. The diagram here is called a trophic pyramid. It shows trophic levels of a grassland
habitat. The size of each trophic level represents biomass, with producers
representing the largest amount of biomass.
energy is transferred. How can this observation be explained, taking into account
the law of conservation of energy?
a. Organic systems do not demonstrate the conservation of energy.
b. Organisms, even after death, continue to store energy in organic molecules.
c. Since biomass increases at higher levels, the concentration of energy is the
same.
d. The unused energy is lost as heat through metabolic processes.
11. Shown here is an incomplete chemical equation for the reaction known
as photosynthesis.
6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy →6O2 + _______
Which of the following substances correctly completes the equation?
a. Water
b. Carbon dioxide
c. Glucose
d. Oxygen
12. Which of the following statements is true?
a. Heterotrophs produce their own food.
b. Autotrophs take in nutrients from outside themselves.
c. Consumers are heterotrophs.
d. Consumers are autotrophs
13. The structure, properties, and transformations of matter can best be explained by
which of the following?
a. The way in which electromagnetic radiation interacts with different
substances
b. Gravitational forces from the environment on subatomic particles
c. The number of atoms of an element in one mole of that substance
d. Attraction and repulsion between electric charges at the atomic level
14. The diagram here is called a trophic pyramid. It shows trophic levels of a grassland
habitat. The size of each trophic level represents biomass, with producers
representing the largest amount of biomass.
Which of the following best explains the unique shape of the trophic pyramid?
a. The higher levels of the pyramid are smaller due to human interference with those
organisms.
b. Decomposers work more rapidly breaking down animal tissue than plant tissue.
c. The organisms on the lower level of the pyramid tend to be smaller in size.
d. The higher levels of the pyramid are smaller due to the inefficiency of energy
transfer
a. The higher levels of the pyramid are smaller due to human interference with those
organisms.
b. Decomposers work more rapidly breaking down animal tissue than plant tissue.
c. The organisms on the lower level of the pyramid tend to be smaller in size.
d. The higher levels of the pyramid are smaller due to the inefficiency of energy
transfer
15. Polymers are substances that are often flexible and durable. These properties are
best explained by the fact that polymers are
a. large molecules synthesized through complex laboratory procedures.
b. made, predominantly, of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
c. molecules consisting of long chains of repeating units of atoms.
d. substances produced by plants that have these properties
16. Are you a eukaryote or a prokaryote?
best explained by the fact that polymers are
a. large molecules synthesized through complex laboratory procedures.
b. made, predominantly, of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
c. molecules consisting of long chains of repeating units of atoms.
d. substances produced by plants that have these properties
16. Are you a eukaryote or a prokaryote?
Author: Jazmin Gannon
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