Welcome to APES! 11/4 – 11/5
Daily Objective: Major Terrestrial and Aquatic
Biomes (II.C)
1. Copy the pink chart on your desk into your
journal – make sure to leave space to answer
the questions – you may need two pages. Fill
in the chart using your brain, then your
notes, and when finished grab an orange
sheet from the side to check your work.
Please hand in the aquatic biomes questions to
the box, with your heading.
Welcome to APES! 11/8 – 11/11
Daily Objective: Review 2nd six-weeks concepts
1. How do you count species using a quadrat?
2. What habitat is your lab group going to?
3. Write a general description of how to use the
equation for Simpson’s Diversity Index to
calculate D. What does a bigger value mean?
Welcome to APES 11/12 – 11/13
Daily objective: Population ecology – carrying
capacity, limiting factors
Write six sentences about the picture on your
desk. What do you see and notice about the
family’s positions? What can you infer about
their living conditions, life style, where they
live, what they do, or what might be most
important to the family?
Warm-up 11/14 - 11/15
Daily Objective: Population biology concepts –
Population ecology, carrying capacity,
reproductive strategies, survivorship (III. A)
1. Describe the three types of population
dispersions in nature and which is the most
common?
2. List two examples of characteristics of R and
K selected species. Which type of species has
higher biotic potential?
Warm-up 11/18 – 11/19
DO: Human population dynamics – historic distribution,
fertility, growth rate, doubling time, demographic
transition (III. B)
Item
The CURRENT world’s
population is…
By 2050 the world’s
population is projected to be
about…
The theoretical human
carrying capacity of the earth
ranges from….
The population of the US is…
(round to nearest 100 million)
The ideal replacement fertility
rate for zero growth is…
Number value
Warm-up 11/20 – 11/21
Daily Objective: Impacts of population growth –
hunger, disease, economic effects, resource
use, habitat destruction (III: B.3)
1.
A)
B)
C)
Pick 2 diseases and describe the following:
How is the disease transmitted
How is the disease controlled or treated
Pick 1 of the 2 diseases, and discuss an
environmental contributing factor to an increase in
the disease
Welcome to APES! 12/3/13- 12/4
Please copy down the green energy chart into
your journals – fill in as much as you can in the
chart with what you already know (aka your
background knowledge) about non-renewable
energy sources. Glue the yellow reflection
questions on a different page by your chart.
Turn in your Socratic Seminar sheet to the box,
and pick up all test items from the counter by
the hall window.
Today’s Agenda
1. Grade FRQ from test
2. Non-renewable energy notes
3. Nuclear Socratic Seminar
Homework 12/3
1. Fill in your warm-up chart with what you
learned after today’s notes IN A DIFFERENT
COLOR
2. Yellow energy reflection questions (in
journal)
3. Non-renewable energy quiz
Important Reminders
• Journal Assessment 12/9 – Make sure your
journal is complete for the semester. You are
responsible for having all of the warm-ups we
have done for the semester in the journal in
class on 12/9. All items are in APES Learning
Portfolio on TW
• Semester FRQ test – 12/11. Four FRQ’s over
the semester’s content. Review handed out
today.
• Semester Final – Explain deal.
• Test Corrections – Last test for TC’s. Window…