Animal Evolution ProjectIDEAS: ELEPHANT HORSE TIGER WHALE CROCODILE DOG BEAR SLOTH BIRDS SHARK RHINOCEROS GIRAFFE DOLPHIN FISH KANGAROO PEACOCK MONKEY GORILLA CHIMP .....
You must at least type up your an answers and provide pictures in your google drive. You must "share" document with Mr. Tomlin ([email protected]). A typed document with minimal answers and no pictues will get you a 60% D.
1. Animals Name
2. Appearance/Anatomy
3. Locomotion
4. Diet
5. Habitat/Range
6. ****Adaptations****
7. Life Cycle and Reproduction
8. Behavior
9. Defense/Offense
10. Enemies
11. Species Survival Status
12. Cool Facts
13. Classification
These sites will help...
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/
http://eol.org/
http://tolweb.org/tree/
http://www.nhs.us/Content.aspx?topic=Animal_Projects
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/mammals/cetaceans/seiwhale.htm
Citing Your References: When you write your bibliography, list all of your references. Formats for each type of publication follows (there are different formats for different media):
You must at least type up your an answers and provide pictures in your google drive. You must "share" document with Mr. Tomlin ([email protected]). A typed document with minimal answers and no pictues will get you a 60% D.
1. Animals Name
2. Appearance/Anatomy
3. Locomotion
4. Diet
5. Habitat/Range
6. ****Adaptations****
7. Life Cycle and Reproduction
8. Behavior
9. Defense/Offense
10. Enemies
11. Species Survival Status
12. Cool Facts
13. Classification
These sites will help...
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/
http://eol.org/
http://tolweb.org/tree/
http://www.nhs.us/Content.aspx?topic=Animal_Projects
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/mammals/cetaceans/seiwhale.htm
- The Animal's Name: What does its name mean? Sometimes this will tell you something important or interesting about the animal. For example, platypus means "flat-footed." For some animals, there are special names for a baby, a male, a female, or a group. Also, list your animal's scientific name; this should consist of a capitalized genus name and a lower-case species name. For example, the platypus is Ornithorhynchus anatinus.
- Anatomy/Appearance: What does your animal look like? How big is it? What shape is its body? What does an average one weigh? Does it have horns, antlers, fur, crests or claws? Describe the teeth, head, neck, tail, etc. How many legs does it have? Are its legs long or short? How many eyes and how many body parts does it have? Does it molt as it grows? Draw a picture if you can.
- Locomotion: Can your animal move? If so, how does your animal move (does it walk, fly, jump, burrow, etc.)? Is it slow-moving or fast-moving? Why is this important to its survival? For example, most fast-moving animals are fast so that they can catch dinner (like the cheetah) or avoid becoming dinner (like the deer).
- Diet: What does your animal eat and how does it get its food? Is it an herbivore (plant eater), carnivore (meat eater), omnivore (eating meat and plants), or something else? Is there something unusual in the way your animal eats? (For example, the flamingo sieves its food from mud while its head is upside down under the water.) Where is your animal in the food web (is it a top predator, like the grizzly bear, is it at the base of the food web, like krill, or is it somewhere in the middle)?
- Habitat and Range: What type of biome does this animal prefer (does it live in the desert, swamp, tundra, deep sea, coral reef, tropical rainforest, pond, or other habitat)? Where in the world does it live? List the continent(s), country/countries, and/or smaller areas that it lives in. What is the weather like?
- Adaptations: What are the obvious adaptations of your animal to its environment? For example, the giraffe's neck is an adaptation for obtaining leaves that are high off the ground. It also has tough lips to avoid thorns on its main food source.
- Life Cycle/Reproduction: Give information on the animal's life cycle and reproduction. For example, in the case of insects, list and describe each stage in the process of their metamorphosis. For a species of shark, describe whether it bears live young or lays eggs.
- Behavior: Describe interesting features of your animal's behavior. For example: Is there evidence of herding or is it a solitary animal? Does it burrow underground? Does it hibernate, estivate, or migrate in cold weather? Is it nocturnal (most active at night)?
- Defense/Offense: How does it defend itself (and/or attack other animals)? Does it use teeth, fangs, claws, armor, horns, antlers, pincers, poison, a stinger, muscles, a strong smell, and/or something else?
- Enemies: What animals eat or otherwise kill your animal? For example, for caterpillars, birds eat caterpillars, but wasps also lay their eggs in the caterpillars (and this eventually kills the wasp's unwilling host).
- Species Survival Status: Is this animal species in danger of extinction? If so, why? Has it lost habitat, lost a food source, or has it been overhunted?
- Something Special: Is there anything special about this animal? This can often be the best part of the report, taking you off on interesting topics. For example, are there legends about the animal?
- Classification: How is this animal classified and what animals is it closely related to? In the Linnean system of classification, organisms are classified into a Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and species. For example, elk are classified as follows: Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata, Class Mammalia (mammals), Order Artiodactyla, Suborder Ruminantia (ruminants), Family Cervidae (the deer family), Genus Cervus, species C. elaphus (species names are often italicized and written in lower-case; the C. here refers to the genus Cervus).
Citing Your References: When you write your bibliography, list all of your references. Formats for each type of publication follows (there are different formats for different media):
- Web Site: Author(s) if appropriate. Title of Site or web page. URL of site, date of publication (the earliest copyright year listed).
- Book: Author(s). Title of book. Edition. Location of publisher: Name of Publisher, year of publication.
- Encyclopedia: Title of encyclopedia, volume of encyclopedia used. Location of publisher: Name of Publisher, year of publication, pages where the article is located.
- Magazine or Journal: Author(s). "Title of article." Name of magazine, Volume.issue (date): pages where the article is located.
What came first the chicken or the egg?
1. What is your answer to the above riddle?
What the below videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QO5yITChro
2. What does this guy say is the name of the mathematical shape that eggs are?
3. How many bricks do his 2 hollow eggs support?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4nDoi7qxb8
4. Give two reasons why eggs are shaped the way they are?
5. What do you think came first the evolution of birds into modern day chickens, or the evolution of the egg? Why do you think this? Do you know of any other animals that lay eggs...?
What the below videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QO5yITChro
2. What does this guy say is the name of the mathematical shape that eggs are?
3. How many bricks do his 2 hollow eggs support?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4nDoi7qxb8
4. Give two reasons why eggs are shaped the way they are?
5. What do you think came first the evolution of birds into modern day chickens, or the evolution of the egg? Why do you think this? Do you know of any other animals that lay eggs...?
natural Selection Webquest
Visit the below websitehttp://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/pepperedmoth.html
1. What was one of Charles Darwin's biggest difficulties in demonstrating his theory of evolution by natural selection?
2. What is Biston betularia?
Click on the yellow peppered moth simulation game picture link or visit http://www.techapps.net/interactives/pepperMoths.swf
Play the game then answer the questions below...
Go to the life cycle button...
3. Where can you find peppered moths and how big are they?
4. Peppered moths' wings are camouflaged for what organism on tree bark?
5. Describe the larvae of the peppered moths.
6. How are some of the moths different from others?
Go to the "Impact of Pollution" button
7. What did the scientist start noticing about the moths in the late 1800's.
8. What was going on in England's economy at this time?
9. What happened to the trees?
10. What did they actually find out about the color of the moths?
Click on "Kettlewell's Experiment"
11. What was Kettlewell's hypothesis?
12. With the help of amateur bug collectors (entomologists), what did Kettlewell find?
13. Kettlewell moved light moths to dark trees and dark moths to white trees...What did he find?
14. What id Kettlewell find after capturing, marking, and recapturing the moths?
15. What happened to every prediction Kettlewell made based off Darwin's theory of natural selection?
Go to http://science.discovery.com/games-and-interactives/charles-darwin-game.htm
16. What is your high score (year/credit in the top right corner)? HINT : USE THE LIFE PRESERVES WHEN THE ENVIRONMENT CHANGES
17. How did you get to your high score...what did you have to do?
17. Describe some of the environmental challenges you face if you can make it far enough in the game.
18. Why did you have to change your animals?
19. What are the answers to the quiz? (only give the letter A, B, C, D for each numbered question. Example #1 A, #2 C, #3 A
1. What was one of Charles Darwin's biggest difficulties in demonstrating his theory of evolution by natural selection?
2. What is Biston betularia?
Click on the yellow peppered moth simulation game picture link or visit http://www.techapps.net/interactives/pepperMoths.swf
Play the game then answer the questions below...
Go to the life cycle button...
3. Where can you find peppered moths and how big are they?
4. Peppered moths' wings are camouflaged for what organism on tree bark?
5. Describe the larvae of the peppered moths.
6. How are some of the moths different from others?
Go to the "Impact of Pollution" button
7. What did the scientist start noticing about the moths in the late 1800's.
8. What was going on in England's economy at this time?
9. What happened to the trees?
10. What did they actually find out about the color of the moths?
Click on "Kettlewell's Experiment"
11. What was Kettlewell's hypothesis?
12. With the help of amateur bug collectors (entomologists), what did Kettlewell find?
13. Kettlewell moved light moths to dark trees and dark moths to white trees...What did he find?
14. What id Kettlewell find after capturing, marking, and recapturing the moths?
15. What happened to every prediction Kettlewell made based off Darwin's theory of natural selection?
Go to http://science.discovery.com/games-and-interactives/charles-darwin-game.htm
16. What is your high score (year/credit in the top right corner)? HINT : USE THE LIFE PRESERVES WHEN THE ENVIRONMENT CHANGES
17. How did you get to your high score...what did you have to do?
17. Describe some of the environmental challenges you face if you can make it far enough in the game.
18. Why did you have to change your animals?
19. What are the answers to the quiz? (only give the letter A, B, C, D for each numbered question. Example #1 A, #2 C, #3 A
Classification
Go to http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/animalclassgame.htm
1. Which group do mammals have something in common with? What is it that they both have?
2. What is one difference between reptiles and amphibians?
Print out this http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/printableworksheet4.html
Use this site http://jabernethy.com/portfolio/AnimalClass4.htm to complete the worksheet
Finish your animal project or if your for extra credit get an animal from Mr. Tomlin and use this website to find out what it is http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/critter/watercritter/aquatict.htm
Visit this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqqMhxaoEcI&feature=youtu.be&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active and tell me what your favorite invention is.
1. Which group do mammals have something in common with? What is it that they both have?
2. What is one difference between reptiles and amphibians?
Print out this http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/printableworksheet4.html
Use this site http://jabernethy.com/portfolio/AnimalClass4.htm to complete the worksheet
Finish your animal project or if your for extra credit get an animal from Mr. Tomlin and use this website to find out what it is http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/critter/watercritter/aquatict.htm
Visit this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqqMhxaoEcI&feature=youtu.be&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active and tell me what your favorite invention is.