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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Technology Section:
This course will require that you use some of the many educational
tools available on the internet and that you are comfortable in sharing your ideas in a virtual
world. Fostering a sense of community is one of my goals for this year and to begin this process you
are asked to complete the activity explained below.
Follow the link below and watch the video clips on the virtual
bulletin board. You will be asked to respond to the 2 questions and post your response on
the virtual bulletin board. This maybe your first experience posting your thoughts in this type
of collaborative setting and so it is important to remember that your posting should be appropriate
for a learning environment and is focused on the questions that are being asked.
A notification e-mail will automatically be sent when you post your
response and so in order to receive credit for this part of the activation assignment, you MUST
include in your posting, your FIRST NAME, FIRST INITIAL of your LAST NAME as well as the COURSE(s)
you are going to be taking.
In the space below,
please indicate with a simple YES or NO whether you have posted onto the virtual bulletin
board.
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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