Welcome to
Distributed
Learning
Biology11
The following
activity is an activation assignment. This must be completed online and e-mailed to your instructor
before you may register in DL Biology 11. It will be worth 5% of your total course mark. This
assignment should take approximately two hours in total. There are links to some recommended websites
where you can learn the concepts as you complete this assignment.You may wish to do a rough copy of
your answers on paper, before completing the online version. If you quit the program, it will be
submitted automatically, even if you have not finished, so be sure to complete all sections during
the same time period and then submit
Learning Outcomes:
Analyse the functional interrelationships of organisms
within an ecosystem
Part I:
Food Chains
Directions:
Your first assignment is to put together a simple food chain and answer the questions
below.
Use this web
link to answer the following questions: CLICK HERE
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What
animals were in your food chain? Place them in the correct order.
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What
5 things happen if you take the frog out of the food chain?
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Part II. FOOD WEBS
Choose one of the three food webs. Put the food web
together!
In one sentence describe the food web you put
together.
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Consumers – are living things that need producers to be their
food (animals and people)
Producers –
living things which take the non living matter from the environment
(plants)
Decomposers
– living things which feed off of dead plants and animals (bacteria,
fungi)
Using the information above answer the following questions about your
food chain:
a) Name a consumer in your food web
b) Name a
producer in your food web
c) Name a decomposer in your food web
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Part III. NUTRIENT CYCLING
A. Carbon
Cycle
Click and complete scene 1.
Name 5 places on
the earth we find carbon:
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Read about the
carbon cycle and fill in the blanks below:
Plants pull carbon (in the form of carbon dioxide) from the atmosphere
to make food, through a process called ____________________.
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Through food chains animals get ____________ from the plants and other animals they
eat.
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When
plants and animals die and ____________, carbon goes back into the ground.
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Some
carbon is buried deep in the ground and forms ________________________.
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When
humans burn fossil fuels, ________________ is released back into the atmosphere.
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When
humans and animals exhale, they release carbon back into the air by a process called
______________________________.
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B. Nitrogen Cycle
and answer the questions below:
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What
are 2 ways nitrogen becomes useable to plants, humans and animals:
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How
do herbivores obtain the nitrogen they need?
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How
is nitrogen returned to the atmosphere?
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What
are two ways humans impact the nitrogen cycle:
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Go to
the following two websites
View the images of the Nitrogen Cycle, as well as skim, through the
descriptions.
Compare/contrast the two images of the Nitrogen
Cycle.
Question: What
do they have in common? Is there anything unique about each image?
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What
absorbs the atmospheric nitrogen?
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How
is nitrogen returned to the atmosphere?
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What
role do nitrogen-fixing bacteria play in the Nitrogen Cycle?
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Part IV. POPULATION
What is population?
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List
two things that increase a population
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List
two
things that decrease a population.
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Click on “here” to estimate the population size of the
dots.
What was your estimation?
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What
was the actual population size?
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Part V: Impact of Human Activity on Ecosystems
Choose and read about one of many impacts that humans have on ecosystems from the list
below:
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List
4 facts you learned about the impact you chose
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Choose a character and continue to answer each question until you
reach the end of the game board.
List 2 things
you learned from the game.
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Part VI: Biomes Around the World
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What are the 6
Biomes of the World?
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What
are the 3 Freshwater Ecosystems?
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What
are the 3 Marine Ecosystems?
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Click
on one of the six biomes. Choose one topic from the left column.
Write 3
sentences describing the information in this topic. Do not copy word for
word!
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Congratulations! You are now finished the Biology 11 DL Activation Assignment. Your
results will be automatically sent for marking and you will then receive further instructions on how
you will be able to access your course work.
Finally, Welcome to
North Vancouver School District Distributed Learning and we look forward to working together to help
you achieve your goals.
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activiation assignment, your upcoming coursework, or any other information that you might want to
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