Name some of the different types of environments where animals live:

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Name some of the different types of environments
where animals live

• Forest
• Oceans
• Fresh water (streams, lakes, rivers, ponds)
• Desert
• Arctic
• Tundra

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Do animals have special characteristics/adaptation
s that enable them to survive?

• Fish swim
• Squirrels climb
• Antelope run fast
• Snakes scales
• Roach exoskeleton
• Birds - feathers

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Charting Diversity
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Activity

• Draw a characteristic from each bag (what it
  wears, how it moves, where it lives).
• Record your answer in the appropriate square.
• Try to identify an animal that fits into that
  category. If you get an animal that does not
  fit, then redraw all of them.
• After each round, replace your characteristics in
  the appropriate bag.
• Hint use technology to check your answer or to
  find an answer.

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Home Sweet Home

• What is an exotic plant or animal?
• List ways exotic species are introduced into an
  area.
• Describe the effects of exotic species (both
  beneficial and harmful) on an ecosystem or other
  animals.

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You will address the following questions
regarding your speciesHint Use technology to
find the answers

• Why or how was your plant/animal brought here?
• Has the plant or animal thrived? If yes, how and
  why? If no, why?
• What part of the local ecosystem has benefited
  from the exotic species? What part has been
  harmed?
• Draw a web of life for this exotic species
  showing its place in the ecosystem. Ex. Rabbit
  in Australia. Rabbit is herbivore
• Which connections are stressing the system? Ex.
  Rabbit is eating the vegetation and there is not
  a predator to control the rabbit population.
• Determine what issues about your exotic
  plant/animal would be subject to public debate
  concerning how to deal with the presence of that
  species in the local ecosystem. If the species
  is causing financial hardship for a community,
  what remedies or actions does the community
  suggest?

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Web of Life
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/student/Biology/Foodweb.htm
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Poetic Forms

• Haiku - first line has five syllables, second has
  seven, third has five again.
• Example The snow-covered tree
• Sparkles in the soft moonlight.
• The wind rushes by.
• Cinquain - five lines, each has a mandatory
  purpose and number of syllables (1) the title in
  two syllables, (2) a description of the title in
  four syllables, (3) a description of action in
  six syllables, (4) a description of feeling in
  eight syllables, (5) another word for the title
  in two syllables
• Example Forests
• Graceful, growing
• Climbing among the clouds
• Calmly awaiting the sunrise
• Alive.
• Acrostic - first letter in each line, when read
  vertically, spells out the name of something or
  conveys some other kind of message.
• Example Towering
• Reaching
• Extending
• Embracing the sky.

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• Windspark - has five lines with the following
  pattern (1) I dreamed, (2) I was (something
  or someone), (3) where, (4) an action, and (5)
  how.
• Example I dreamed
• I was a tree
• On a hillside
• Playing with the wind
• Joyfully
• Free verse - has no set formula or style
• Example I am
• the tree
• that overcomes
• all.
• I am
• the one
• that laughs
• at the wind.
• I am
• one with
• the wilderness.

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• Picture Poetry - form a picture of what is
  happening in the poem
• I dreamed
• I was a cloud
• High in the sky
• Floating by
• Quickly
• Diamante - poems are diamond-shaped and consist
  of seven lines that follow the pattern
• noun seed
• adj adj small
  buried
• participle, part, part
  growing breathing living
• noun, noun, noun, noun protection
  oxygen shade habitat
• part, part, part
  dying rotting crumbling
• adj, adj
  moist rich