1. Absent for Lab
1. Talk to your fellow classmates and ask them to describe how they completed the lab (3-5 sentences)
2. Talk to your fellow classmates and look at their data to see which ones fell the fastest and which ones fell the slowest (3-5 sentences(
3. Complete Diatom questions 1-10

2. Diatom Lab 1. All plankton must avoid ___________.
2. Diatoms need _______ for photosynthesis.
3. Plankton avoid sinking by increasing/decreasing their surface area and/or increasing/decreasing their density.
4. Which one was the slowest and which one was the fastest? What was their movement like? What shape seemed to float the best?
5. They have created ________ to slow the sinking process. (*Evolution)
6. Why is it important that they stay close to the surface?
7. They make up a quarter of our ______.
8. Do you think there is a difference in freshwater vs saltwater? Explain
9. Would you have created yours differently? Explain
10. They are said to live in a ___________ house and what is that house made of?

3. Cicadas Article 1. What color eyes do they have?
2. What do they destroy?
3. How many years have they been in hiding?
4. They are cousins to the _____ cicadas.
5. Are they loud organisms?
6. They will dig themselves out of the ________.
7. What temperature does the soil need to be for them to emerge?
8. A young cicada is called a _____________.
9. How do males attract the female?
10. How do the females damage trees?
11. They don’t like __________ because of the sap.
12. How can you protect your plants?
13. Are they slow or fast? Do they sting or bite?
14. What is no longer considered effective?
15. Should one use insecticides?