1. Discussion Questions Discussion Questions 1.Explain how are species, populations, communities and ecosystems are different from one another? 2. Organisms interact with one another in ecosystems. This interaction is called symbiosis. There are three MAIN types of symbiosis you have to learn this year: mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism. Please describe each type. youtube interaction is called symbiosis. There are three MAIN types of symbiosis you have to learn this year: mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism. Please describe each type. youtube youtube 9/05/14 Journal

2. Reminders References are due now. Next Friday your rough draft of your RESEARCH report is due (don’t discuss your experiment at all in this report). It is background research only! Get a composition notebook for your science fair project. You will need a TOC in it also. Ecology Root Quiz on Thurs 9-11-14 Remind 101 Lost papers and Lost and Found Webpage- check if you are absent How’s your journal? Safety Lab, Scientific Method ppt. Salsa Lab, Interpreting and Analyzing Scientific Data sheet, TOC updated, Discussion Questions written in complete sentences and dated? HAC/SAC- This is how you check your grades. Read Chapter 2 – 3 in your textbook

3. QUIZ Clear your desks of everything Do NOT write on the quiz please Use CAPITAL letters please Keep your answers covered If you need to make up a quiz due to an absence… let me know Flip it over when you are finished and hang on to it.

4. HW 2 nd -7th Analyzing and Interpreting Scientific Data handout is HW 2 nd -7th This sheet goes in your Science Journals. Be sure to list in your TOC Let’s look at some of the answers NOW

5. EcoRegion Project Hang on to your rubric! Hang on to your rubric! You must turn it in when you present your project Short video clips 2-3 min or less; lots of pictures; climatogram can be written if you can’t find a graph Presentations begin Tuesday, 9-9-14

6. EcoRegion Project You will be assigned to a group of 2-3 to create a Google Doc Presentation over your assigned ecoregion. We will work on these presentations in class each day this week after we complete the discussion questions and reminders. You and your partners also need to work on the project at home. You can all access the project once it has been shared with all group members from any computer with internet. You can even work at the same time. *You will anonymously evaluate your partners! Login is lastname.firstname@mymisd.org Password is First Initial, Last initial and 8 digit bday. Example AB110498 The presentations are due Tuesday, the 9 th. We will present them in class. You will need your rubric

7. EXIT TICKET 1. Where are autotrophs are on the trophic pyramid? Why? 2. Give an example of one abiotic factor found in ecosystems.

8. EXIT TICKET 1. How are ecosystems different from communities? 2. Give an example of mutualism.