Transpiration Homework Help!

1. Students are expected to find a set of leaves and cover them in an air tight clear bag.

2. Record observations of the plants over six set times such as: 0 hr, 15 hr, 30 hr, 45 hr, 60 hr, and 75 hr. Pictures should be drawn or taken.

3. The last observation should include an explanation of transpiration and statements of how you believe transpiration takes place.

4. What is the value of transpiration to living organisms?

Links:

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Transpiration

http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeoglos/t.html View: Transpiration Definition

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hyd/trsp.rxml

Water Homework Help!

Web-links:

1. All about Water

2. Leading types of Water Pollution

3. What can we do? Hamilton Government

4. Kids Site Covering Water EPA

5. Careers in Water

6. Careers: Work in Water

Do you know the pH, temp, and status of bacteria in our creeks? We do!

Mary Beth Sutton of Caribbean SEA join us today! Thanks for your help.

Enrichment students collecting samples from Connor Creek. Ask one of our sixth graders what they learned while testing the waters.

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Ecological Succession

What type of succession is being shown?

Interdependence Review Link

Internet 4 Classrooms

Vocabulary

1. Adaptation (Animals, Birds, Fish, Plants)

2. Succession (Primary & Secondary)

3. Biosphere: Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, and Lithosphere

4. Ecosystem, Population, Community, Habitat, Niche

5. Biology, Ecology

6. Symbiosis: Mutualism, Commensalism, and Parasitism

7. Biotic & Abiotic

8. Interdependent & Interdependence

9. Freshwater & Marine Biomes

10. Organisms: Producers, Consumers, Scavengers, and Decomposers

11. Consumer: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary

12. Energy transformations

13. Extinction

Adaptations

Platypus

Adaptations Definition

Animal Adaptations

Aquatic Adaptations

Why so many kinds of plants and animals?

Basic Marine Adaptation

Adaptation Game

Online Textbook: How to login?

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