Brooklyn Bridge Park Pre-Lesson

Food Webs (part 1 continued from Thursday)
9-4: Please complete through problem 7 any that you did not finish on thursday. Then we will stop and go over the answers.

1) definitions:
a) Producer
b) Consumer
c) Decomposer
d) Carnivore
e) Herbivore
f) omnivore
g) ecosystem
h) autotroph
i) heterotoph

2) Do a word dissection on the following two words using the links.  Which words from #1 are they synonyms of?

a) Autotroph: http://bioetymology.blogspot.com/2011/07/autotroph.html

b) Heterotroph: http://bioetymology.blogspot.com/2011/07/heterotroph.html

3)  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/foodchain/
Define the term: Trophic Level

4) What does a food chain show?

5) How is a food web different than a food chain?

6) Play the food web game: 

http://www.coolclassroom.org/cool_windows/home.html

7) Game analysis: What is the difference between the 4 levels of consumers?

8) Draw an energy pyramid in your notebooks like in the website: Energy Pyramids

http://www.learner.org/courses/essential/life/session7/closer5.html

a)why is the energy pyramid shaped like a pyramid?

b) What is the relationship between the levels of an energy pyramid

c) Why are there so many fewer organisms in each ascending level of the pyramid?

LESSON PART 2:

1) Read this website, play the game, and answer the 5 questions at the bottom of the page in your notes. Try these without clicking "check answer" first.

http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/learning/player/lesson13/l13la1.html


2) Biomagnification article annotation:
A) Go to this website, and create an account for rap genius. Use your mbhs email and create a nickname with your name in it So i can easily identify you and give you points for making annotations.

Rapgenius is an annotation site that allows you to annotate any text in a cloud.  We will be using this service today and in the future.


B) Go to this article: http://news.rapgenius.com/Mr-post-john-s-grays-biomagnification-in-marine-systems-the-perspective-of-an-ecologist-lyrics

find my nickname on the side and follow me.
Then create two annotations with your partner on the article.

LESSON PART 3:

1) Brooklyn bridge park:

http://www.brooklynbridgepark.org/

check out the website for the park we will be visiting on monday.

a) why do you think we are visiting this park for Biochemistry Class?

b) Write down 2 facts and 2 questions you have about the park