1. Biology
BioACTS (9/06/16):
Journal Question:
Vocabulary Builder:
NONE—Have a seat based on your numbered stick. Thank you!
Please get out — your cell phone AND a writing utensil.

2. Biology
BioACTS (9/07/16):
Journal Question:
Vocabulary Builder:
“What makes sciences like biology different than other areas of study?”
Observations: Start of the scientific process in which information is gathered. 2

3. Journal Question Follow up:
Biology
Journal Question Follow up:
JQ: Science—is an organized way of collecting and using evidence to understand more about natural world.
Biology— An organized way of collecting and using evidence to understand living things; use those explanations to make useful predictions.

4. What is the main goal of biology, the study of life?
BioACTS (9/08/16):
Journal Question:
Vocabulary Builder:
What is the main goal of biology, the study of life?
Inference: A logical interpretation, based upon prior knowledge and experiences. 4

5. Journal Question Follow-UP:
Biology
Journal Question Follow-UP:
To investigate, understand, AND explain the natural world; use those explanations to make useful predictions. 5

6. Biology
BioACTS (9/09/16):
Journal Question:
Vocabulary Builder:
Is a candle flame living or not? Support your answer like a good scientist.
Qualitative: Descriptive observations.
Quantitative: Numerical observations. 6

7. Biology What is Living? H.O.G. R.A.C.E.R.! What does it mean???
H: Homeostasis
O: Organized into cells
G: Growth and Development
R: Reproduction
A: Adaptation
C: Code of DNA
E: Energy
R: Response to stimuli.

8. Biology
BioACTS (9/12/16)
Journal Question:
Vocabulary Builder:
Is Iggy the Iguana living or not living. Support your answers like a scientist!
Data: Information gathered from observations during an experiment. 8

9. Biology BioACTS (9/13/16) Response:
Journal Question:
Vocabulary Builder:
Snowshoe rabbits change fur color from brown in the summer to white in the winter: what feature of living things does this represent???
Response:
Single, specific reaction of an organism to a stimulus. 9

10. Biology
JQ Follow UP:
Adaptation—inherited characteristic that increases an organism’s chance for survival.
How is this different than, ‘Response?’ 10

11. Biology Homeostasis: BioACTS (9/14/16)
Journal Question:
Vocabulary Builder:
Look at Figure 1-7 (page 8), a “Recipe for Bees”. Why do you think that reasonable individuals once accepted the ideas behind this 2000 year old recipe?
Homeostasis:
Maintenance of internal conditions by organisms, even as their external conditions change. 11

12. Biology
J.Q. Follow up:
Observations of bees coming out of dead bull carcasses;
A natural inference was that bees came from bulls! 12

13. How do scientists decide whether to accept or reject a hypothesis?
Biology
BioACTS (9/15/16)
Journal Question:
Vocabulary Builder:
How do scientists decide whether to accept or reject a hypothesis?
Reproduction:
Sexual—cells from tow different parents unit to form a new organism.
Asexual—a single parent produces offspring identical to itself. 13

14. Biology
J.Q. Follow up:
Hypothesis: proposed scientific explanation for a set of observations that is testable.
By either testing in controlled experiments and/or by gathering more data. The weight of evidence will rule out a hypothesis or confirm it. 14

15. Biology
BioACTS (9/16/16)
Journal Question:
Vocabulary Builder:
What is your hypothesis of a mealworm response to the presence of an apple piece?
Growth: An increase in the number of cells.
Development: Cells develop different appearances and functions. 15

16. Manipulated vs. Responding Variable.
Biology
BioACTS (9/19/16)
Journal Question:
Vocabulary Builder:
“What is the difference between a control GROUP and controlled VARIABLES?”
Venn Diagram:
Manipulated vs. Responding Variable. 16

17. Biology
JQ Follow UP:
Control GROUP—part of the controlled experiment treated the same; use a reference to the treatment group.
Control VARIABLES—factors that are held the same for both the control group and the treatment group. 17

18. Biology BioACTS (9/20/16) I.D. the type of graph:
Journal Question:
Vocabulary Builder:
I.D. the type of graph:
Speed (cm/min.) for two types of mealworms.
Speed (cm/min.) for two type of mealworms over time.
Validity measure: Parts of experiment procedures in place to insure the most accurate data collection (examples—calibrating and/or cleaning equipment). 18

19. Homeostasis verses Metabolism (hint—use your vocabulary cards).
Biology
BioACTS (9/21/16)
Journal Question:
Vocabulary Builder:
“The mealworms moved to the apple piece because they were curious?” What is this statement (Observation; Inference; Other)?
Venn Diagram:
Homeostasis verses Metabolism (hint—use your vocabulary cards). 19

20. Biology
V.B Follow UP:
Homeostasis: When the external conditions turn drastically, but the organism is able to keep its body conditions constant.
Metabolism: Process that includes chemical reactions that break down materials. Usually associated with energy needs of an organism.
Comparison (SAME): Internal processes that often use chemical reactions.

21. Hypothesis verses Theory (hint—use your vocabulary cards).
Biology
BioACTS (9/22/16)
Journal Question:
Vocabulary Builder:
What would a graph of the Sponge Bob experiment look like: DO IT! [set up ONLY])
Venn Diagram:
Hypothesis verses Theory (hint—use your vocabulary cards). 21

22. Biology
V.B Follow UP:
Hypothesis: What you think's going to happen in a scientific experiment; well-tested explanation.
Theory: Well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations; can still be disproved, evolution is a theory.
Comparison (SAME): Statements made based on scientific experimentation.

23. Identify AND define H.O.G. R.A.C.E.R. for mealworms!!!
Biology
BioACTS (9/23/16)
Journal Question:
Vocabulary Builder:
Identify AND define H.O.G. R.A.C.E.R. for mealworms!!!
Vocabulary BOX:
Review your vocabulary cards: pick ONE term that is the hardest for you! 23

24. Biology
Objective:
H = Homeostasis. Mealworms control their internal conditions even as their environment changes.
O = Organized into cells. Mealworm bodies are organized into cells.
G = Grow AND develop. Mealworms grow by increasing their number of total cells and develop as cells change appearance and function.
R = Reproduction. Mealworms sexually reproduce. 24

25. Biology
Objective:
A = Adaptation. Mealworms have adapted over time to their environment to maximize survival.
C = Code of DNA. Mealworms have DNA in their cells.
E = Energy. Mealworms eat oats and apple to get energy.
R = Respond to stimuli. Mealworms moved toward apple pieces in the petri dish. 25

26. NONE—please get out your lab journal + rubric!!!
Biology
BioACTS (9/26/16):
Journal Question:
Vocabulary Builder:
NONE—please get out your lab journal + rubric!!!
NONE—

27. Biology ‘This and That’: First Unit EXAM Today.
First Lab Notebook Check Today (Elmo corrections and directions).
Skyward grades posting location.
Review graphing Elmo check. 27

28. Biology BioACTS (9/27/16): Ecology Journal Question:
What methods would scientists use to study ecology??
Your answer
Vocabulary Builder:
Ecology
The scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment. 28

29. Biology Journal Question Follow up:
Observing—a normal first step in field studies
Experimenting—artificial environment or in a natural setting
Modeling—understand large, long-term, and/or complex ecology topics. 29

30. Food web verses food chain
Biology
BioACTS (9/29/16):
Journal Question:
Rank the FIVE levels of ecological organization by size/complexity (smallest-largest).
Your answer
Vocabulary Builder:
Food web verses food chain
Venn Diagram 30

31. Biology
JQ Follow UP:
Smallest species (= individual); population; community; ecosystem; biome Largest. 31

32. Biology BioACTS (9/30/16): How does energy flow through an ecosystem?
Journal Question:
How does energy flow through an ecosystem?
Answer
Vocabulary Builder: Photosynthesis verses Chemosynthesis
Venn Diagram 32

33. Biology
‘JQ’: Energy flows through an ecosystem in ONE direction, from an energy source to producers then consumers.
‘VB’: BOTH are sources of energy for producers to support and ecosystem. 33

34. Biology BioACTS (10/03/16): Venn diagram. Journal Question:
‘Pole-to-pole’ video
Your answer
Vocabulary Builder:
NONE.
Venn diagram. 34

35. Compare and contrast, ‘Biome’ verses, ‘Biosphere’.
Biology
BioACTS (10/04/16):
Journal Question:
Why do all the arrows in the hydrothermal vent food web point in the same direction, from bacteria to carnivores???
Your answer
Vocabulary Builder:
Compare and contrast, ‘Biome’ verses, ‘Biosphere’.
Venn diagram. 35

36. Biology ‘JQ Follow UP’:
Biome A group of ecosystems that have the same climate (temperature and precipitation).
Biosphere That part of the earth where life exists, on land, in the air, and in water.
SAME Biomes make up the earth’s biosphere. 36

37. Total amount of living tissue at a give trophic level.
Biology
BioACTS (10/05/16):
Journal Question:
What organisms are usually NOT shown in a food chain or food web?
Your answer
Vocabulary Builder:
Biomass
Total amount of living tissue at a give trophic level. 37

38. Biology ‘JQ Follow UP’:
Detritivores—break down detritus (tend to be visible; crabs; mites; earthworms; snails).
Decomposers—break down detritus (tend to be invisible to the unaided eye; bacteria; fungi). 38

39. Heterotroph verses Autotroph
Biology
BioACTS (10/06/16):
Journal Question: What would a ‘Pyramid of Numbers’ look like for the following temperate rainforest organisms: Roosevelt elk; Mountain lion; Big leaf maple???
Your answer
Vocabulary Builder:
Heterotroph verses Autotroph
Venn diagram 39

40. Numbers Pyramid verses Biomass Pyramid.
Biology
BioACTS (10/07/16):
Journal Question:
WHY is only about 10% of the energy available in a trophic level transferred to organisms at the next trophic level?
Your answer
Vocabulary Builder:
Numbers Pyramid verses Biomass Pyramid.
Venn diagram. 40

41. Pick a Chapter 3 term you want to review
Biology
BioACTS (10/10/16):
Journal Question: Looking at the food label provided, how much energy would you get from eating a whole can of chicken noodle soup?
Vocabulary Builder:
Pick a Chapter 3 term you want to review
Vocabulary BOX. 41

42. 42

43. Hint—us your ecological pyramid) Table team answer in your own words
Biology
BioACTS (10/11/16):
Journal Question:
If autotrophs number 1000 (100m2), how many third-level consumers would you count????
Your answer
Hint—us your ecological pyramid)
Vocabulary Builder:
Trophic level
Table team answer in your own words 43

44. Biology Vocabulary follow up:
Trophic level — a step in a food web/ level in a ecological pyramid. 44

45. Biology BioACTS (10/12/16): Journal Question: Your answer
If autotrophs produce kg of living matter per (100m2), how much living matter would be supported in second-level consumers????
Your answer
Vocabulary Builder: Nutrient
All chemical substances that an organism needs to live. 45

46. Biology BioACTS (10/13/16): Chapter 3 Term Your answer Vocabulary BOX.
Journal Question:
If total energy for top-level carnivores is 100 oC per 100 m2 per year, how much total energy was originally found in the ecosystems producers?
Your answer
Vocabulary Builder:
Chapter 3 Term
Vocabulary BOX. 46

47. Biology BioACTS (10/14/16): Habitat
Journal: What factors affect the ecosystem where YOU live??
Your answer
Vocabulary Builder:
Habitat
The combination of abiotic and biotic factors in the area where an organism lives. 47

48. Biology
JQ Follow-UP:
Biotic factors — other organisms and their interaction with each other.
Abiotic factors — physical or nonliving, such as temperature, precipitation, soil fertility, wind. 48

49. How do biotic and abiotic factors influence an ecosystem????
Biology
BioACTS (10/17/16):
Journal Question:
How do biotic and abiotic factors influence an ecosystem????
Your answer
Vocabulary Builder:
Niche
Physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and how it uses those conditions. 49

50. Biology
JQ Follow UP:
Biotic and abiotic factors determine the survival and growth of an organism and the productivity of the ecosystem in which the organisms lives. 50

51. Biology BioACTS (10/18/16): Habitat verses Niche
Journal Question: A population of ants protects a population of aphids who give the ants food: what type of community interaction is this????
Your answer
Vocabulary Builder:
Habitat verses Niche
Venn Diagram 51

52. Biology BioACTS follow up:
Habitat— like an organisms ‘street address’ (where it lives).
Niche— like an organisms ‘occupation’ (what it does in its habitat).
Common—describe organisms in an ecosystem. 52

53. Biology BioACTS (10/19/16): Predation verses Competition
Journal Question:
What is the difference between primary and secondary succession???
Your answer
Vocabulary Builder:
Predation verses Competition
Venn Diagram 53

54. Biology
JQ Follow-UP:
Primary succession occurs where NO soil is present (after a volcanic eruption; retreating glacier) while secondary succession occurs with soil (wild fire; land slide; logging). 54

55. Biology
VB Follow-UP:
Predation is one organism that captures and feeds on another organism while competition is among organisms trying to use the same resource in the same place at the same time. Both are different types of community interactions. 55

56. Biology BioACTS (10/20/16): Vocabulary BOX. Chapter 4 Section 2
Journal Question:
What is the population density of humans in room 408 this period (room is 300 square meters)?
ANSWER
Vocabulary Builder:
Chapter 4 Section 2
Vocabulary BOX. 56

57. Biology
JQ Follow-UP:
Population density: The number of individuals per unit area.
Practice problem #2: A population survey of the Puget Sound (917 square kilometers) determined that there were 1026 otters: what is the population density??? 57

58. Biology BioACTS (10/21/16): Exponential growth Journal Question:
An introduced bird competes for the same habitat as a native bird: what is going to happen to one of the bird populations?
Vocabulary Builder:
Exponential growth
Population growth pattern in which individual reproduce at a constant rate. 58

59. Biology
JQ Follow UP:
One of the bird populations will decline/go extinct/emigrate.
WHY? Competitive exclusion principle.
Example Northern spotted owl and the Barred owl 59

60. Immigration VERSES emigration
Biology
BioACTS (10/24/16):
Journal Question:
What are THREE factors that affect population size???
ANSWER
Vocabulary Builder:
Immigration VERSES emigration
Venn Diagram. 60

61. Biology The number of deaths.
JQ Follow-UP:
The number of births.
The number of deaths.
The number of individuals entering or leaving. 61

62. Exponential verses Logistic growth
Biology
BioACTS (10/25/16):
Journal Question:
A lab team looks at the effect of 0oC, 2oC, 5oC, and 10oC temperatures on bean germination: what type of graph should they use for the resulting data?
ANSWER
Vocabulary Builder:
Exponential verses Logistic growth
Venn Diagram 62

63. Biology BioACTS Follow UP:
JQ: Line graph because the manipulated variable is numerical and continuous.
Do it again! A lab team experiments with the affects of ABC fungicide and XYZ fungicide (chemical that kills fungi) on bean germination: what type of graph would they use for the resulting data? 63

64. Biology BioACTS Follow UP:
VB: Exponential growth is the rapid increase in population size under favorable conditions as individuals in the population reproduce at a constant rate. Logistic growth is small variations in population size over time around carrying capacity following exponential growth. 64

65. Density-dependent verses density-independent factors
Biology
BioACTS (10/26/16):
Journal Question:
March 22, 2014, the Oso mudslide killed 43 people in Snohomish County (WA):
What type of succession is this?
What type of limiting factor would occur on populations?
Vocabulary Builder:
Density-dependent verses density-independent factors
Venn Diagram 65

66. Biology BioACTS Follow UP:
Whatcom Creek Oil Pipeline Explosion (June 10, 1999) three killed.
What type of succession is this?
What type of limiting factor would occur on populations? 66

67. Biology BioACTS (10/27/16): Sustainability Journal Question: ANSWER
Identify ONE validity measure and ONE reliability measure from the Acid Rain LAB!
ANSWER
Vocabulary Builder:
Sustainability
Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. 67

68. Biology
BioACTS Follow UP:
What are some examples of sustainability that we can practice TODAY!? 68

69. Please get out your lab journal with the completed rubric. Thank you!
Biology
BioACTS (10/28/16):
Journal Question:
NONE
Please get out your lab journal with the completed rubric. Thank you!
Vocabulary Builder: 69

70. Biology
Objective:
You will demonstrate correct and complete understanding of ecology concepts on an exam. 70

71. Biology BioACTS (10/31/16): What 3 subatomic particles make up atoms?
Journal Question:
What 3 subatomic particles make up atoms?
ANSWER
(Draw a atom and label)
Vocabulary Builder:
Covalent bond verses Ionic bond
Venn Diagram. 71

72. Biology BioACTS Follow UP:
JQ—neutrons + protons in the nucleus; electrons outside (electron cloud).
VB—covalent bonds are formed from shared electrons; ionic bonds are formed when electrons are transferred. Both hold atoms together into compounds. 72

73. (Diagram a Carbon atom; see white board)
Biology
BioACTS (11/01/16):
Journal Question:
What properties of the element carbon explain its ability to form many different macromolecules?
ANSWER
(Diagram a Carbon atom; see white board)
Vocabulary Builder:
Polymers
Large and complex molecules found in living things; same as macromolecule. 73

74. Biology
JQ Follow UP:
It’s four valence electrons can be used to form up to four separate covalent bonds.
Bonds with many other elements.
Bonds with itself to form chains and rings. 74

75. Biology BioACTS (11/02/16): Monomer Vocabulary Builder:
Journal Question:
Would a food label help you to understand if a particular item has starch, sugar, lipids, and/or protein?
ANSWER
(Label check on the screen)
Vocabulary Builder:
Monomer
Smaller chemical units that are joined together to form polymers. 75

76. 76

77. Please get your organic compounds lab sheet out. Thank you!
Biology
BioACTS (11/03/16):
Journal Question:
Please get your organic compounds lab sheet out. Thank you!
Vocabulary Builder:
None—lab day 77

78. Please get your organic compounds lab sheet out. Thank you!
Biology
BioACTS (11/04/16):
Journal Question:
Please get your organic compounds lab sheet out. Thank you!
Vocabulary Builder:
None—lab day 78