Arthropoda notes

Some notes on arthropoda with an assignment at the end of it.
And Dr. Wayne Maddison's jumping spider video:  click on the picture below

And for the wolf spiders, take a look below:

test on tuesday, Feb 21 lab on thursday 23

Next week there will be a test on

molluska notes
flatworms and roundworms
kingdom animalia
cnidaria and porifera

Loligo lab on feb 21. That's a squid dissection.

flatworms and roundworms

Notes from today's lesson may be downloaded here

animalia intro

intro to kingdom animalia
intro to cnidaria and porifera

homework:  read and make notes on the bolded words and illustrations in section 26-1, 26-2 and 30-1 of your text

field trip in January to Stanley Park

Download the consent form here:

FIELD TRIP FORM: Stanley Park Field Study and Vancouver Aquarium Marine Sciences Centre

Kingdom Protista

Today we went over Kingdom protista.  Notes are here.   10 mark quiz next period on the notes.  Welcome back and Happy New Year.

Link for disease vectors:

Next day we will be doing the CDC activity.  Here are useful links:

Airborne Diseases

            Preventing airborne diseases (SARS)

            http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/factsheets/respsars.html

Managing an airborne disease (TB)

            http://www.cdc.gov/tb/pubs/slidesets/InfectionGuidelines/airborne.htm

STI: 

http://www.cdc.gov/std/default.htm

Foodborne: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/foodborneinfections_g.htm#mostcommon

Animal vector:

            Vertebrates mainly :

http://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/browse_by_diseases.htm

Insect vector: note only the ones caused by virus and bacteria:

http://www.capitalhealth.ca/EspeciallyFor/TravellersHealth/InsectTransmittedDiseases/default.htm

Waterborne:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/water/index.htm