Geological Time Presentation

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Orphan Wildlife presentation.

Monday Afternoon, some very special guests will be visiting Gladstone Library:

Their mandate, quoted from their website is:

"Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society is a non-profit organization whose volunteers are dedicated to public education and the rehabilitation and release of injured and orphaned birds. O.W.L. became a Society in January 1985 (Registration No. S-19879). O.W.L. is licensed through Fish and Wildlife, now known as the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations.
O.W.L. is on call seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Public tours are available daily in July and August and every Saturday and Sunday from September to June between 10:00am and 3:00pm.
The facility specializes in raptors (i.e. eagles, falcons, hawks and owls). Birds of prey patients at O.W.L. number over four hundred each year and as O.W.L.’s facilities have expanded, so has the intake. Primary care for injured birds (i.e. fluid injections, tube feeding, and initial treatment of broken bones to stabilize) is administered by staff. Veterinary care (i.e. surgery involving the pinning of fractures, radiographs and amputations) is contributed by local clinics such as Huff Animal Hospital, Richmond Animal Hospital, and Tsawwassen Animal Hospital."

Notes on evolution. Remember to go to the library after lunch for Owls

Quiz on monday

on these notes:
evolution

monday print up the notes on how evolutionary change occurs:

How evolutionary change occurs

also powerpoints on
punctuated equilibrium
natural selection

study questions for test on Oct 22

Biology 11 review question for exam:

Answer these questions using your notes, lab diagrams, and selected text

Notes and handout:

1. What are the criteria of life?
2. How is life organized? What are the levels of organization

Field study at Central park

3. Field Study: Identify plants in a west coast rainforest, describe
   and draw:
   1. trees: vine maple, cedar, hemlock, douglas fir
   2. bushes: salal, huckleberry, salmonberry, red elderberry
   3. ground cover: moss, ferns

be prepared to identify the plants from a picture

You have 2 plant diagrams:

4. Plant diagrams: Summarize the correct order of plant evolution.
5. What are three evolutionary trends of plants?
6. How do land plants adapt to conditions on land?
   1. Identify how plants prevent water loss
   2. How do tracheophyte plants disperse their male gametophyte?
      1. Ferns (use swimming sperm.)
      2. Conifers ( use wind pollination)
      3. angiosperms (use wind AND vector pollination (attract the pollinator))
   3. How do plants move water up from the ground?
7. What is the definition of a plant?
8. See the plant diagrams: Also textbook p. 257 to 274,
   primarily the diagrams. What are the primary characteristics
   and examples of plants classified
   as:
   1. Phylum Bryophyta
   2. Phylum Tracheophyta
   3. phylum Tracheophyta, class pterophyta
   4. Tracheophyta, class sphenophyta
   5. Tracheophyta, gymnosperm class ginkgo
   6. Tracheophyta, gymnosperm class coniferae
   7. Tracheophyta, class angiospermae
9. You drew two reproductive diagrams.  Be prepared to label the reproductive diagrams of
   1. moss
   2. fern
   3. recognize micropic view of sori, sporangium, spores,
      moss gametophyte  

Classification notes (handout) : and the text: p196-199

10. Who invented classification?
11. What is binomial nomenclature and give an example
12. What are the five kingdoms of life? Give a definition and
    an example
13. How do scientists know that some life forms are more
    closely related than others?

a review of the evolutionary history of plants

Welcome to Biology 11

What defines the parameters of life and death?  Why is a rock nonliving and a barnacle alive?  How does a jellyfish function with no brain, no heart? Probe, observe, examine, dissect the three hearts of a squid, the taste buds of a fly, “fangs” on a spider, “breathing” apparatus on leaves, carnivorous plants.  Record your observations in a journal, a sketchbook or blog.  Indulge in a microbial wine and cheese.  Get dirty as stewards of an urban bog, dig in our school community garden. 

This course explores the universal processes of life from the tiniest microbe to a blue whale.  All living things have common traits and interconnections.  These traits can evolve and change in response to a changing environment. Our modern, urban life is accelerating environmental change at a rate that may exceed the ability for organisms to adapt.  There are now 6 billion people on earth.  3 billion are in cities.  By 2050, there will be 9 billion people on earth and 6 billion will be in cities.  If all the cities are exactly like ours, we would need four earths.  Biology 11 provides a biological, ecological context to inform our ability to design a sustainable future -  which you must do within your lifetime.