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Warm up for September 27, 2012

Warm up for September 27, 2012. What do plants and animals have in common? What differences are there between plants and animals?. REVIEW. 1 . When working in a group what do you do when you have a question? ANSWER: ask group members first, then raise your hand to ask the teacher.

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Warm up for September 27, 2012

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  1. Warm up for September 27, 2012 What do plants and animals have in common? What differences are there between plants and animals?

  2. REVIEW • 1. When working in a group what do you do when you have a question? • ANSWER: ask group members first, then raise your hand to ask the teacher. • How can you be respectful to other group members? • ANSWER: Listen to their ideas and don’t always have to be the one to talk.

  3. 3. List 8 things that all living things have in common. • ANSWER: • All living things: • Grow • Reproduce • Respond to changes in the environment • Move • Take in nutrients • Use oxygen for cellular respiration • Produce wastes to be eliminated • Are made of cells

  4. 4.Define “organism” in your own words. • ANSWER: they are your words…. • 5. Who is Linnaeus and why is he important? • ANSWER: Linnaeus is the scientist who came up with the system of classification we use today including how we write scientific names. He is known as the “Father of taxonomy”.

  5. 6.What are the levels of classification from most diverse to most similar? • ANSWER: • Kingdom • Phylum • Class • Order • Family • Genus • species • 7. Write the following scientific names correctly: • MELITTOBIA DIGITATA • HOMO SAPIEN • Melittobiadigitata or Melittobia digitat • Homosapien or Homo sapien

  6. 8.Which of the following is most closely related? • A. Acer rubrum • B. Quercusrubrum • C. Acer saccharum • ANSWER: A and C • How do you know they are closely related? • ANSWER: The first part of the name is the genus name. Organisms in the same genus are closely related. Therefore, A and C are closely related.

  7. 9.If 2 organisms are in the same class, what other levels of classification do they share? • ANSWER: Everything above which in this case is the phylum and kingdom. • 10.Study the “Guidelines for Scientific Drawings” on p.22 in your Survival Guide. You will have to identify and correct mistakes in a scientific drawing.

  8. 11.When you look at something under a microscope what happens to the image as you see it? • It is upside-down and backwards. This is called inversion. • 12If you want to see the right side of a slide, how do you move it? Draw a diagram to show it. • ANSWER: to the right

  9. What kingdom? • All multicellular, have a cell wall, and makes its own food • ANSWER: Plantae • All multicellular, do not have a cell wall, usually move freely • ANSWER: Animalia • Unicellular prokaryotes that live in extreme environments • ANSWER: Archaea • Mostly multicellular, have a cell wall, absorb nutrients • ANSWER: Fungi • A very diverse kingdom that has organisms that are plant-like, animal-like and fungus-like • ANSWER: Protista • Unicellular prokaryotes • ANSWER: Bacteria

  10. 14.Which domain is each of the kingdoms in #13 found in? • Plantae is in the domain Eukarya • Animalia is in the domain Eukarya • Archaea is in the domain Archaea • Fungi is in the domain Eukarya • Protista is in the domain Eukarya • Bacteria is in the domain Bacteria • 15.List some of the characteristics of WOWbugs. • Jumps like a flea • Grooms itself • Crawls up objects

  11. 16.How did we recapture the WOWbugs when we observed them at the desk? We inverted an empty cup over them until they crawled up the side. 17.What did WOWbugs do when put on a slide with a bit of flour? It used its legs to clean itself (groomed itself)

  12. 18.What is an entomologist? A scientist who studies insects 19.Why are WOWbugs good organisms for classroom use? They breed quickly They have a short life span They don’t take up much space They cannot harm humans

  13. 20.What are characteristics of insects? • They have 3 body parts • They have 6 jointed legs • They have 4 wings • They have 2 antennae • 21.What benefit do we get from a WOWbug, which is a parasite? • WOWbugs help control the population of harmful insects • 22.Be sure you know the vocabulary we did earlier this week.

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