Unit 8 Study Guide: Populations and Human Effects on the Environment

Below is a link for the Unit 8 study packet.  This packet was assigned on Dec 13th and is due on Thursday December 21st at the beginning of your class period.

In order to receive a grade for this assignment, students must receive a score of 80% or higher.  Students can submit a response for this study packet once a day until the due date.  STUDENTS WHO DO NOT RECEIVE A SCORE OF 80% ON THIS PACKET BY THE DUE DATE WILL RECEIVE A ZERO FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT.

Once a student has passed this packet with a score of 80% or higher, they may continue to take the packet to try and improve their score up until the due date.

This study packet is an open-book, open resource assignment. Students can use whatever resources they wish to answer the questions in this packet.

Tip 1:  If you have an email address, and enter your email address into the form you will receive an email with your score.

Tip 2:  If you take the packet and your score remains a zero, that means you did not score 80% or higher and you need to try the packet again.

LINK TO STUDY PACKET

Unit 7 Test

Below is a link for the Unit 7 test.  This test was given in class on Dec 8th.

LINK TO TEST

Unit 7 Test Review

Below is a link for the Unit 7 test review that was done in class on December 7th.

LINK TO TEST REVIEW

Unit 7 Powerpoint slides

Below is a link to all of the Powerpoint slides that were used to make the lesson videos for Unit 7.

LINK TO UNIT 7 POWERPOINTS

Biomass pyramid activity

In this activity students will us data from trail cameras to build a biomass pyramid from Gorongosa National Park in Africa.

1.  Sign up for a Zooinverse account:  LINK TO SIGN UP

2.  After you have signed up, go to the Wildlife Cam and click start: LINK TO WILDLIFE CAM

3.  The Gorongosa field guide can help you find information on the animals in this activity.  LINK TO GORONGOSA FIELD GUIDE

4.  View the 25 assigned pictures from the trail cameras.  For each picture you should do the following

• Identify and list each species of animal in that picture (use the field guide)
• Record how many of each species of animal you count in that picture

5.  Classify each species of animal that you saw in the trail cam pictures as a primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer, etc.  (Use the field guide for information on what each species eats)  Use the most commonly eaten source of food to classify each animal.

6.  Group the animals together by consumer type (i.e all the primary consumers together, all the secondary consumers together, etc).

7.  Calculate the total weight of each of the groups of consumers.  To do this:

• Calculate the total weight of each species in that group by multiplying the total number of each species counted by the average weight of that species
• Add the total weights of all the animals in a consumer group together

8.  Calculate the total weight of ALL the animals seen in the trail cam pictures.  To do this:

• Add the total weights of the primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers

9.  Calculate what % of the total weight each consumer group represents.  To do this:

• Divide the total weight of each consumer group by the total weight of all the animals.  Example: (total weight of primary consumers)/(total weight of all animals)

10.  Construct a biomass pyramid.

11.  Enter you results using this form:  LINK TO FORM

Shark Tank Reaction Question

Below is a form where you can enter your reactions to the Shark Tank episode and answer the main question.

LINK TO FORM

Food chain activity data

Below is a link to a form where you can input your info from the food chain activity.

LINK TO FORM