Biodiversity

Mrs. Zazzali Room 205

Lesson 1- What are organisms?

• Class consensus-period 1• What are organisms?

Alive Moves

Grows Reproduces

Dies Has to eat

Living things Remove Waste

Respond to changes Respond to changes in environment

Have Cells

Lesson 1-What are organisms?

• Consensus Pd. 2Living Things Eat

Complete life processes Have cells or a cell

Dispose Waste Naturally brought into world

Adapts to surroundings Reproduce

Have to die Different species

Lesson 1-Pd. 3

• What are organisms? Pd. 3 Consensus

Living thing Made of cells

Find it in other living things Reproduce

Smallest particles in a substance***

Grow

die

Lesson 1-Pd. 5

• What are organisms? Consensus p.5

Living Thing/creatures Humans

Humans Plants

Insects Take in nutrients

Adapt Carry out life processes

Require energy

Lesson 1 – Pd. 6

• What are organisms? Class consensus says…

Living Thing Reproduce

Grow Respond to environment

Adapt to changes Need energy

Cells Take in nutrients

Help or destroy habitats Get rid of waste

Get their own food and get energy from other living things

Move

Lesson 1 – Pd. 7

• What are organisms? Class consensus says…

Living thing Reproduce

Let out waste Has at least 1 cell

Need food Need energy/nutrients

Grow

What is a habitat?

• All classes said…• Place where an organism lives depending on the

organism ex. Monkey lives in the jungle• Where a species finds food• Its’ environment and where an organism reproduces,

gets rid of waste (Ha Ha pd. 6 )• Natural home or shelter of an animal• Lives according to their needs• Adapts and responds to environment• And carries out life processes!

What should I know about Taxonomy?

• Taxonomy-the science of naming and classifying organisms (Thank you Linnaeus!)

• All Taxonomic Categories go from the most broad category to the most specific and include:

Taxonomic Category Mnemonic/trick to help you remember

Kingdom KingPhylum PhillipClass CameOrder OverFamily ForGenus Greatspecies Spaghetti

The Scientific Name-Avoid the confusion!

• Scientists refer to organisms with their Scientific Names to avoid confusion, a universal language. Remember all the confusion when I asked you to find the difference between a cougar, puma and mountain lion. You know now that they are really the same organism or animal known Scientifically as Puma concolar!

Scientific Name cont.

• Scientific Name is made of the Genus and species name. The first letter in the Genus is always spelled with an upper case letter and the species first letter is always lower case. The species is the most specific taxonomic category.

• Examples:Genus species

Homo sapien

Canis familiaris

Panthera leo

Lesson 1 Bonus/Challenge Words

• Cellular Respiration-cells turning food into usable energy.

• Cladogram-branching diagram that shows how species have evolved from a common ancestral line

• Digestion-food is broken up physically and chemically and absorbed by the body

• Excretion-substance is excreted/let out from the body

Lesson 2

• Compound Light Microscope- Uses 2 lenses and light to make a specimen visible. *Look over your Microscope worksheet, know the parts*

• Dry-Mount Slide- A microscope slide on which no water is used. (Our WOWBug slides)

Our WOWBug!

• What did we learn? (All Periods-look at blog)• www.zsciencespot.blogspot.com

WOWBug and insect parts

• Head- 1st body segment in insects (contain eyes, antennae and mandibles or jaw)

• Thorax- 2nd body segment in insects, between the head and abdomen

• Abdomen- A segment of the body of many animals, the third body segment in insects

WOWBug

Microscope Views of Specimen-Bonus/Challenge words

• Lateral- side view of a specimen

• Ventral- abdominal view of a specimen

• Dorsal- back view of a specimen

Lesson 3 – Investigating Lumbriculus variegatus or the Blackworm

• What did you learn?• Blackworms can regenerate both head and tail to

break free from predators.• Lives in Ponds, Marshes and Lakes in N. America, and

Europe.• Contain male and female sex organs.• Tail end used for sensing.• Can have 150—250 segments.• Under a microscope, you can monitor their pulse in

bpm’s.

Key Vocabulary

• Anterior – toward the front, or head, of an animal body.

• Posterior – toward the back end of an animal.• Regeneration – process by which organisms

produce new body parts.