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HW Options: Choose 2 optionsExtra credit: Complete more than the required HW and each day any are passed in early. Any incomplete options will not receive extra credit.1.CP Ecology Worksheet Packet2. Vocabulary definitions in your own words, pick any one option below: – You may create your flashcards on and then print them out to show me in class for credit or use the share feature and enter my email address KarenResendes@. Graphic Organizer – You may fill out a graphic organizer for the vocabulary words and definitions. Lined paper – You may write your vocabulary on a lined piece of paper neatly and legibly.Flashcards – You may create flashcards for the words and definitions. These are your words:Must Define all 38 words: ecology, biotic factor, abiotic factor, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere, habitat, autotroph, producer, heterotroph, consumer, biodiversity, population density, niche, predation, symbiotic relationship, parasitism, mutualism, commensalism, introduced species, nitrogen fixation, nitrification, transpiration, deforestation, greenhouse effect, global warming, ammonia, nitrates, nitrites, carrying capacity, ecological succession, primary succession, secondary succession, denitrification, ammonification, photosynthesis, cellular respiration3.Watch the following videos and hand write a 1 paragraph summary for each using complete sentences. Title each paragraph and the assignment itself before handing it in. Abiotic and Biotic Factors: Succession: : Symbiotic Relationships: Webs and Energy flow: Size: Biogeochemical cycles: . Analyze a water quality report from Randolph, MA. Type a one page summary of how clean or polluted the tap water is citing evidence/data from the report. Also, predict pollution sources that contaminate the water citing evidence/data from the report. Copies of older reports can be found in the HWOS bin if you cannot find a recent report, they are mailed out yearly.5.Ecology Web Quest. Get the hardcopy packet hand out from class or download it from and type up your answers.6.Create a 21 question quiz on Ecology (WITH A SEPARATE ANSWER SHEET). Use complete sentences, blooms taxonomy verbs, and a neat organization. Requirements: At least 5 true/false, 5 multiple choices, 5 fill in the blank questions, 5 words to label in a diagram, and 1 interesting open response question.7.Skills Practice: This unit covered graphs. This option will help you practice your graph reading, analyzing, and creation skills. 8.Research and find at least 1 interesting article on Ecology. Any topics are ok as long as you can connect them to the ecology frameworks standards that we have been covering the past weeks. You must email, print out, or hand write the link to the article on your 54321 when you pass it in. You may also choose from articles in class HWOS bin or listed below. Read the article and hand write a 54321:5: Pick 5 words you don’t know from the article, find and write the definition in your own words4: Pick 4 words you do know from the article, write the definitions in your own words3: Write 3 facts you learned in complete sentences and your own words.2: Write 2 questions you had, or still have about the article1: Write a 1 paragraph summary citing a reason you chose to read the article and how it relates to ecology.Examples: 1.) .) .) .) .) .) on/353549.Biome Postcard Choose one of Earth’s biomes and do some research on the characteristics, abiotic and biotic factors. Use the provided instructions in the homework bin in the classroom or on the class website: Change Research Paper. Choose an article from Scientific American journals located in the classroom library or online on climate change. Use the provided instructions in the homework bin in the classroom or on the class website: Species Research Project. See handout in the HWOS bin.EXTRACREDITCreate TWO Posters or TWO 1 minute video/film. 1st - large, colorful poster or video/film that includes all 5 of the symbiotic relationships (mutualism, commensalism, predation, parasitism, competition). You should draw/visualize an example of each relationship, label it, and describe how that relationship is an example of the symbiosis.AND2nd - large, colorful poster or video/film for the nitrogen cycle. You should label these pictures with at least 5 vocabulary words on each poster.You may email all assignments to Mrs. Cartwright at KarenResendes@ except: the packet, webquest, vocabulary parts b-d, video summaries, and the 54321. Reminders: No school Wednesday October 9th 2019Term 1 ends in November 6th 2019Mrs. Cartwright is after school Mondays and Wednesdays for extra helpParent Teacher Conferences are on December 4th 2019Be sure to always pass in classwork or stay after to finish it and earn more points. ................
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