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. 

Sustainability and third term

In April and May our focus will be sustainability.  We will embark on a
SUSTAINABILITY UNIT  learning outcome:  create working models and learning materials relating to sustainability in our region. Due end of April

BOG BUDDY PROJECT Program.  Due mid may

Finally, we will conduct a long term observation of the biodiversity in an area by
creating a transect and observing an area such as the Kerrisdale Ravine, or observing wildlife, or creating a species inventory of a trail in Pacific Spirit Park.   Due in mid June.

In June we will have  a final exam.

Animalia Assignment

create a table describing the life processes (like feeding, respiration, circulation, response to env, getting rid of waste, interacting with other organisms, habitat, etc)

platyhelminthese:  tapeworm planaria
cnidaria:  obelia, hydra, scyphozoa, sea anemone
nematoda:  hookworm, ascaris
molluska:  squid, clam/oyster/scallop, snail

arthropoda:  horseshoe crab, spider, crab, grasshopper
echinodermata:  sea urchin, sea star

This is due second last day of class before spring break

select animalia notes

molluska notes
flatworms and roundworms
kingdom animalia
cnidaria and porifera
Some notes on arthropoda

And Dr. Wayne Maddison's jumping spider video:  click on the picture below

You Animal!

intro to kingdom animalia.  there will be a 10 mark quiz next period on the contents of these notes up to the section on endoderm, ectoderm and mesoderm

intro to cnidaria and porifera
Today we will review key concepts in kingdom Animalia and look at sections of earthworm and ascaris to compare the body plans of these animals.  You will discover whether you are a protostome or deuterstome.