Environmental Science 2020 -2021 Mr. Howley 4th-period 4 Assignments

You can earn bonus and make up credit by completing any number of the study sets from our class in quizlet that have not been formally assigned.  The points you can earn correspond to the number of terms in each set you attempt.  To earn full bonus or make up credit for a study set you need to earn a green checkmark in every category except gravity.  To earn 80% credit for a study set you have to repeat Learn, Test, and Flashcards until you earn a green checkmark.  Complete everything else enough times to move the icon from gray to black.

Make sure that you are logged into our class in quizlet when you begin work on this assignment.  For full credit repeat Learn, Test, and Flashcards until you earn a green checkmark.  Complete everything else enough times to move the icon from gray to black.

Make sure that you are logged into our class in quizlet when you begin work on this assignment.  For full credit repeat Learn, Test, and Flashcards until you earn a green checkmark.  Complete everything else enough times to move the icon from gray to black.

Make sure that you are logged into our class in quizlet when you begin work on this assignment.  For full credit repeat Learn, Test, and Flashcards until you earn a green checkmark.  Complete everything else enough times to move the icon from gray to black.

Make sure that you are logged into our class in quizlet when you begin work on this assignment.  For full credit repeat Learn, Test, and Flashcards until you earn a green checkmark.  Complete everything else enough times to move the icon from gray to black.

Sign up to join our new class in quizlet to complete the Biodiversity Study Set.  
Repeat Learn, Test, and Flashcards until you earn a green checkmark.  Complete everything else enough times to move the icon from gray to black.

Open goformative to watch The Beak of the Finch and answer the questions in your own words. Keep the original meaning without using the original wording or sentence construction from the film. You can keep standard terms in your answers.

Watch the film to answer the questions in goformative.  Do your own work.  Answer in your own words.

Watch the film to answer the questions in goformative.  Do your own work.  Answer in your own words. 

Watch the film to answer the questions in goformative.   Rely on the film as your source of information but answer in your own words.  Do your own work.  Don't copy from online sources or classmates.  

Watch the first ten minutes of the film to answer the questions in goformative.   Rely on the film as your source of information but answer in your own words.  Do your own work.  Don't copy from online sources or classmates.

Search through the classwork tab and goformative  to find them.  

Watch the film as often as you need to - to answer the questions in goformative.
Do your own work.  Don't use online answer keys or copy directly from the film transcript.

Watch the film as often as you need to - to answer the questions in goformative.

Do your own work.  Don't use online answer keys or copy directly from the film transcript.

Watch the film Rescuing Species in goformative to answer the questions there. Answer in your own words. Don't stray too close to the film transcript, or closed captioning. Don't use online answer keys or google searches for definitions. Do your own work.

Answer the question above.

Watch the film posted in goformative. Answer each question fully, in your own words. Don't stray too close to the film transcript or closed captioning. Don't copy and paste from online.

Choose an assignment or assignments that you can complete or improve today in class and let me know what it is.

Watch the first lecture from the film as often as you need to, to answer the questions in goformative. Don't copy and paste from online sources. There will be question sets in goformative for lectures two and three before spring break.

I posted this film below and in goformative. Watch the film, take a step back to reflect upon it, then respond to the questions in goformative. Don't copy and paste from online sources.

I posted today's film below and in goformative. Watch the film, take a step back to reflect upon it, then respond to the questions in goformative. Don't copy and paste from online sources.

How many assignments have been assigned in goformative this semester?
How long does it take to complete them?
How many can you complete in one week?
How many can you commit to completing before spring break?

You will need both of the links below to complete this assignment. Don't cut and paste from online sources to answer the questions in goformative.

Are you up to date on assignments in goformative? What are you going to do to catch up if you have gotten behind?

You will need both of the links below to complete this assignment. Don't cut and paste from online sources to answer the questions in goformative.

How do new species form? Open the link to goformative to watch the film again to answer today's questions. Please do your own work. Don't copy or paste from online sources.

Open the link below to goformative to watch the film and answer the questions for part I. Part II next time we meet. Do your own work. Don't copy and paste from online.

Open the link below to study the film and video clips from HHMI in goformative to answer the questions there. Don't copy and paste from online sources. Do your own work.

Open the link below to watch Chapter 3 in Serengeti: Nature's Living Laboratory in goformative to answer the questions there. Answer each question in your own words from what you learn from the film.

Open the link to goformative to watch the film and answer the questions based on Chapter 2: How to Eat More Without Being Eaten. Paraphrase what you learn from the film to answer in your own words.

Open goformative to watch the first part of the film and answer the questions.

Watch the HHMI short film Mystery of the Buffalo Boom in goformative to answer the questions there. For some of the questions you may need the longer version of the video added here.

Work through all of the case studies to answer the questions below. Explain your reasoning and evidence for each response.
1) How did eradication of rinderpest reduce the incidence of fire in Africa? 2) How did the introduction of Artic Foxes in the Aleutian Islands convert the landscape from grasslands to tundra? 3) In the Mid-Western Lake ecosystem case study what happens when bass are removed? How does the phytoplankton population change? Why? How does the visible appearance of the lake change? Why is there an influx of carbon dioxide into the lake? 4) In the case study of the Venezuelan Jungle why was it focused on islands without large predators? How were the small isolated islands created? How did this case study illustrate the Green World Hypothesis? Create a google doc to submit your answers here.

Open the Kelp Example in the click and learn to answer today's questions. 1) Why do healthy kelp forests depend on sea otters?
2) How did the diets of the Glaucous Winged Gull and the Bald Eagle change when otters disappeared? Describe the changes for each bird species individually. 3) What changes in the ecosystem explain these changes in their diets? 4) How could you confirm or verify your explanations? What would you need to know to be sure? What else would you need to know to explain the shifts in their diets? Create a google doc to submit your work here.

What were some of the ways that the reintroduction of Wolves in Yellowstone increased diversity in Yellowstone?

Work through the Click and Learn starting with the Introduction, followed by the Kelp Example, then the Case Studies to answer both sets of questions this week

Open the link below to open goformative. Work through the questions and examples based on this week's film.

Open the link below to open go formative. Work through the questions and examples based on this week's film.

What did you think of the video? What did you think of all the claims made by the narrator? Were they based in science? How could we find out?

Open the link below to watch the short film to answer the questions in go formative. Take notes from the film. Work together in the break out rooms to discuss the questions and formulate your answers. Discuss, write and revise. Don't copy and paste from online sources.

Open the link below to read the questions and watch the video in Goformative. Work together to complete the goformative (discuss your answers together). Replay the video as often as you need to.
Don't use answers you find online. Rely on the video.

Study section 5-1 Energy Flow in Ecosystems to complete the following: 1. Describe the overall process of photosynthesis. What are the starting materials and products? What is the role of chlorophyll?
2. Define the following paired terms: producers or autotrophs, and consumers or heterotrophs.
3. Describe the overall process of cellular respiration What are the starting materials and products?
4. What are the producers in hydrothermal vent communities? What is the energy source?
5. Describe the differences between decomposers, omnivores, herbivores, and carnivores.
6. Why are food webs better models of energy flow in ecosystems than food chains?
7. Why are there always energy losses when moving up from one trophic level to the next? Explain where the energy losses occur.
8. How much energy becomes available to the next higher trophic layer?
9. Why do zebras and other herbivores outnumber lions by about 1000 to 1?
10. Why does a pyramid of numbers correspond to an energy pyramid?

Are you caught up on all of your classes? How are you going to use extended learning time today?

Watch the Amoeba Sisters Classification Video then work together to answer the following questions: 1. What are the three domains of life? 2. What are the four Kingdoms of Eukarya? 3. What are the two parts of the binomial naming system? What are the advantages of using binomial nomenclature?

Study Chapter 4 Section 3 The Diversity of Living Things and work together to answer all of the Objective questions (1-5 on page 102 in the pdf) and the Critical Thinking questions from the section review ( Critical Thinking questions 5 and 6 Analyzing Relationships and Understanding Concepts on page 107 n the pdf). Page numbers may differ in your textbook. Create a google doc to submit your answers.

Objective Questions
Name the six kingdoms of life and identify two characteristics of each of them.

Explain the ecological importance of bacteria and fungi in the environment.
Describe the importance of protists in the ocean environment.
Describe how angiosperms and animals depend on each other.
Explain why insects are such successful animals.
Critical Thinking
Analyzing Relationships 5. A Explain How the large number and wide distribution of angiosperm species is related to the success of insects.

Understanding Concepts 6. write a short paragraph that compares the reproductive structures of gymnosperms and angiosperms.

Open the media tab in the Brittanica Community Ecology web page and watch the first two videos to explore the following questions:
I. What is the role of cleaner fish and remoras in a reef ecosystem?
How do the cleaner wrasse gain the attention of other fish?
II. How do spiders protect plants?
III. Work together to summarize the main ideas from each video and identify the most important information to answer each question.
Explain and elaborate each answer. Due today!

Study chapter 4, section 4.2 Evolution to complete the Review questions 1-6 on page 101 in the pdf.
The page numbers may differ in your textbook but the review questions should be equivalent if not the same.
Due today for full credit.

What is the difference between a population and a species?
Why would an organism become rare if its habitat began to disappear?
Why are all of the living organisms in an ecosystem an incomplete definition of the biotic factors in a ecosystem?
What are four commonly recognized community interactions?

Study Section 4.1 to Define the Key Terms on page 93, complete page 96 1- 6 and the objective questions on page 93.

Complete the assessment questions at 80% or above for bonus points

Work through the H-R Diagram Gizmo to complete the H-R Diagram Student Exploration Sheet below. You can use the free pdf editor at sejda.com to help you enter your answers. Please include screen shots of sorting the stars by color and temperature and arranging them in an HR diagram in a separate document

Work through the Big Bang Theory - Hubble's Law Gizmo in our class at explorelearning.com to complete the assessment questions for it. Like all assessment assignments in explorelearning.com you have to repeat it until you earn 80 percent credit or above. I will reset the assignment to zero whenever a student gets two or more wrong to let you try again.
This assignment is being replaced by two new assignments but remains available as a way to earn up to 10 points bonus credit.

This assignment is intended as an optional way to earn make up credit for any missing work you may still have. Up to 40 points are available for working through the Big Bang - Hubble's Law Gizmo and answering the exploration questions below. Points you earn will be applied to missing assignments. Not intended to replace any assignments from the final project.

What is the Doppler effect? Describe how it behaves for a source of light or a source of sound approaching or moving away from an observer. What is the Red Shift? What is Hubble's Law? Why did Hubble conclude that the universe is expanding?

Like all assessment assignments in explorelearning.com you have to repeat it until you earn 80 percent credit or above. I will reset the assignment to zero whenever a student gets two or more wrong to let you try again.

Like all assessment assignments in explorelearning.com you have to repeat it until you earn 80 percent credit or above. I will reset the assignment to zero whenever a student gets two or more wrong to let you try again.

Work through the H-R Diagram Gizmo in our class at explorelearning.com to complete the assessment questions for it. Like all assessment assignments in explorelearning.com you have to repeat it until you earn 80 percent credit or above. I will reset the assignment to zero whenever a student gets two or more wrong to get you to try again.

What will you work on in class today for the final project? ... or What did you work on during class today for the final project?

Work through the Basic Prism Gizmo in our class at explorelearning.com to complete the assessment questions for it. Like all assessment assignments in explorelearning.com you have to repeat it until you earn 80 percent credit or above. I will reset the assignment to zero whenever a student gets two or more wrong .

What did you work on in class today?

Work through the Solar System Explorer Gizmo to complete the assessment questions for it. Whenever a student misses two or more answers I will reset it to zero so that you can try again until you are able to earn 80% or above.

What is due today? There are two assignments and a deadline. What are they? Due before class ends today.
Which astronomer worked out the laws of planetary motion?

Work through the Orbital Motion - Kepler's Law Gizmo at explorelearning.com to complete the assessment questions for it. If a student misses two or more answers I will reset it to zero so that you can try again until you earn 80% or above.

Study the maps and other information provided below to answer all of the Analyze and Conclude questions on Interpreting Maps (1-3), Inferring (4), Solving Problems (5), Predicting (6), and Communicating (7) in the Google Doc.

After Keeping up with Keppel - Choose one or more of the Gizmos included in the final project and complete the assessment for it. You will earn the exit slip credit with your first attempt as long as you complete five questions.

List four earthquake hazards that may occur here in California.
Due before class ends today

1. Build a multi-flow map table to show the causes and effects or outcomes and descriptions of the following earthquake hazard events: tsunamis, seismic shaking, liquefaction, and landslides.
2. Study the California Tsunami Hazard Map from figure 16 from the slideshow. Based on the map, what is the risk from tsunamis in San Francisco, Crescent City, Monterey, Los Angeles, and San Diego.
3. Study the map in figure 17 Loma Prieta Earthquake from the slideshow to complete a table which shows the Intensity, Shaking and amount of Damage from the Earthquake from the Modified Mercalli Scale for Monterey, Hollister, Merced, and Sacramento.

What causes decompression melting at divergent plate boundaries? Use the term "confining pressure" in your answer. Due before class ends today.

What do you need to work on to be fully caught up? The final deadline for late or missing work to be accepted without penalty will be Friday December 4th. Please work to meet this deadline. Thank you

What is a Tsunami? What causes them? How do they behave when they are in deep water versus when they are in shallow water near shore?

Answer the exploration questions for Earthquakes 1 as you work through the Gizmo at Explorelearning.com Use the free pdf editor at Sejda.com to complete the handout.

Work through the Earthquakes 2 - Determination of Epicenter Gizmo in our class at explorelearning.com to answer the assessment questions there. If you have two or more incorrect answers I will reset the program and you will have to repeat them.

Answer the exploration questions as you work through the Earthquakes 2 - Determination of Epicenter Gizmo in our class at explorelearning.com Use the free pdf editor at Sejda.com to complete the handout.

Work through the Earthquakes 1 - Recording Stations Gizmo at explorelearning.com to complete the assessment questions there.

There are two main types of seismic waves - body waves and surface waves. Describe the two types of body waves: S-waves and p-waves. What materials can they move through? What are their relative speeds? How do they travel? Which waves are described as compressional waves? Which waves are described as transverse waves? Refer to the "How Earthquakes Form and How they are Measured" slide show posted in the stream to help you find the answers. Create a google doc to hand in your answers before class ends today.

What is the elastic rebound hypothesis? How does it explain what causes earthquakes? Use the introduction to earthquakes slideshow posted in the stream to help you find answers. Due before the end of class today. Don't copy and paste online answers.

Work through the Plate Tectonics Gizmo to answer the exploration questions below. sejda.com has a free pdf editor to insert text and answer questions. Most plate boundaries can be shown using simple line drawings with arrows.

Please create a google doc to answer the following questions during class today. Where does new oceanic lithosphere form? How are earth's magnetic field reversals recorded in the ocean floor? How does the banding pattern of magnetic field reversals on the ocean floor provide evidence of seafloor spreading?

Warm up question for engagement and participation - due in class today.

Create a google doc to answer the following questions in class today. Which types of plate boundaries can create volcanic activity? Which types of volcanoes aren't found at plate boundaries? (How did the Hawaiian islands form?) Earthquakes originate at different depths along a fault. Explain why earthquakes usually cannot originate at depths greater than about 700 km.

Please complete the pretest Geode Assessment 2020 this week by Friday at 7:00 pm. Do your best. This assignment will be formative assessment for me to learn what you know already - full credit for completing all the questions.

Where is the youngest part of the ocean floor? Where does new oceanic lithosphere form? Where is the ocean floor the oldest? Which type of plate boundary? Please complete and hand in during class today.

As you work through the Gizmo on the Rock Cycle work through the Exploration Questions posted below. Due Wednesday before 7:00 pm

What assignments do you still need to complete from first quarter?
Start your list with learn.concord.org, assignments from our textbook in the classwork tab, study sets in quizlet, then Gizmos. Hand it in as a google doc before class ends.

There are five sections of this module to complete. After you have completed them answer the following questions in a google doc. What is the plate tectonics theory? What is the evidence for it? How does the plate tectonics theory account for earthquakes and volcanoes? Try to complete at least one section each day (or not more than two days per section). Don't wait until the last minute to get started.

Work through the Building Pangaea Gizmo in our class at explorelearning.com to complete assessment questions 1-5.

What are four forms of evidence that the present day continents were once joined together to form a single immense landmass we call Pangaea? Complete the Building Pangaea Gizmo in our class at explorelearning.com to help you fill out your answers in the google doc below. Due before class ends today. Submit a snapshot of Pangaea from the activity in the google doc.

Open the Conduction and Convection Gizmo in explorelearning.com
and design an experiment to compare two different materials or the same material with a hollow pipe or a solid chunk valve. To compare metals and nonmetals for heat conduction, or conduction versus convection, or other possibilities you can recognize. When you run the experiment take photographs of your results using the embedded camera. Hand in two photos of the comparison you made in a google doc. Explain the experimental set up, the properties you tested, and your results in a google doc.

What do you still need to complete at learn.concord.org? Please complete and hand in a list in a google doc before lunch today.
If you have completed everything in concord, which study sets in quizlet do you still need to work on? Other assignments in the classwork tab?

What is the term for the flow of heat in a fluid substance?
What causes plate movement in the plate tectonic theory?
Plates sometimes move faster than expected what are two possible mechanisms for this phenomenon? Due in class. Please submit your answers in a google doc.

Preview Activity 2: Interpreting Earth's Clues in the Plate Tectonics Module to answer the following question:
How did the Andes Mountains in South America Form? Please hand in your answer in a google doc today during class.

Please respond in a google doc to the following questions:
Has earth always had the same land masses and oceans that it has today? What will happen in the future?

How are people contributing to climate change? What can we do to reduce the rate of climate change? Create a google doc to hand in your answers. Due before the end of class.

Complete the Greenhouse Gases modeling activity by running the model in different ways as directed in the activity and answering all of the questions.

For credit complete flashcards, learn, and test sections to earn a green checkmark and open and work through all the other sections at least once or until it registers at my end that you attempted them.

Read pages 33 through 35 in section 2.1 to create a detailed outline of the experiment the Keene High School students designed to examine the impact of phosphate from fertilizers on dwarf wedge mussel populations. Answer both critical thinking questions from the case study. (Page numbers 31 - 33 in the pdf)

For full credit complete flashcards, learn, and test sections to earn a green checkmark and open and work through all the other sections at least once or until it registers at my end by moving from gray to black to show that you have attempted them.

Once you have completed all six parts of the Hurricane Module I will grade it and be able to report your scores here. Please briefly summarize and discuss the activities in each section and submit as a google doc here.

Complete the Study Set "Science and the Environment" in our class at Quizlet.com. Make sure that your login name includes your actual name. For credit complete flashcards, learn, and test sections to earn a green checkmark and open and work through all the other sections at least once or until it registers at my end that you attempted them. Define sustainability, carbon footprint and the tragedy of the commons here in a google doc when you have completed the study set in Quizlet.

Study Section 1.2 from our book or from the pdf posted in the stream, "The Environment and Society" to define ecological footprint and sustainability. Then complete the reading checks on pages 17 and 21, and section 2 review questions 3 and 5 page 21. Complete and hand in your work as a Google Doc. The reading checks are only in your textbook they don't seem to be in the pdf.

Work to complete the six components of "HASBOT What is the future of Earth's climate?" in our class at learn.concord.org. reply yes here to let me report your scores here - although I will directly report them in powerschool after the due date

Submit your notes / rough draft as a google doc.

Please answer in your own words. This shouldn't be something that you look up online to find an answer.

Once you have signed up for a free account at padlet.com create a padlet with the title, Asking Questions and Defining Problems in Climate Change Research. Choose the shelf organizing pattern. Then create six posts using the titles for the posts I used in our class padlet. Later you'll link your padlet to one I have created and to the padlets created by your breakout room partners. But today you will mainly be working to find examples from the articles and short film to add to the padlet you are building. I posted he class padlet below. We're continuing the process of analyzing the short film and research article about climate change we began last time and two new articles. You will give two examples of each of the six question types I have posted on our class padlet from the short film and the research articles. I should be able to see all of your work in padlet once you have linked to the class padlet, but you should assure me that you have completed everything when you respond to this post or question. Then I can give you your scores here.

Hand in a screen capture or photograph in a pdf or google doc that shows that you have completed the sign up process for authentication with your ausd email at zoom.com

Study the section on Asking Questions and Defining Problems in the NGSS Science and Engineering Practices PDF to review the article and short film posted below. Use the Google Doc provided to turn in your work. Generate at least five types of questions the researchers and writers of the short film and article must have used to bring their work together. Give examples

Please read the syllabus and share it with your parents. Then have everyone sign to show you have read it and agree to follow the rules and procedures outlined there. Then photograph the signature page or a note to me including everyone's signatures to show your agreement with the rules and procedures then convert the image to a pdf or google doc, or insert it into the google doc provided below.

Reply "yes" here when you are done. That way once I have scored them you'll be able to see your score here. You will be credited for attempting each question to let me have an idea of your background knowledge.

What do you know about climate change? What are its main causes? What actions can people take to reduce climate change?
Today in class you will work together in small groups to share what you know about these topics and answer the questions in the google form provided. Next week we'll continue this process with some resources from our textbook to refine our thoughts and generate more questions.

Can you be sure you located a large amount of trapped methane? Were you able to drill without contaminating the aquifer? If not, where did the contaminants come from?

After completing the climate change model in learner.concordia.org
What is the relationship between carbon dioxide and water vapor and atmospheric temperature?

Please complete the survey below

To change your screen name select the three dots in the upper right section of your image then rename with the format
class period underscore last name underscore first name ie. 2_Howley_Daniel