Happy Monday!!
I'm sure everyone is ready for the holidays!! We do have a bunch of school work to finish up before that can happen! My science class will have their last test on Wednesday and my Math class will begin the test on Tuesday and complete it on Thursday. Both classes have the study guides and need to complete them this evening. We will go over all of the answers in math before starting the unit test. I will be keeping homework to a minimum this week. My Reading class will still have to read 25 minutes each night, but there will not be a response due this week.
Homework:
Reading: Read for 25 minutes
Spelling #8: 1 choice board assignment, if necessary
Math: Finish study guide/Study
Science: Finish study guide/Work on the paragraphs (#11 and 12)
Unit 2
Study Guide
Know what the following terms mean and give examples of each.
1.
Vertebrate A living thing that has a backbone Human
2.
Invertebrate A living thing
that does not have a backbone Sponge
3.
Vascular Plants with inner tubes that carry nutrients Tree
4.
Nonvascular A plant that
doesn’t have tubes to carry nutrients moss
5.
Dichotomous Key A chart used to classify organisms
6.
A scientist is trying to classify
the following animals: snake, lizard, and turtle. What two
ways can they be classified? Vertebrate because they have a backbone and Reptiles
because they are cold blooded.
7.
A group is making a dichotomous key from the following
chart. What might their dichotomous key
look like?
Does it produce seeds?
Does
it have
flowers? Does it have roots?
8.
Describe what makes each of these classifications
unique, then list at least three animals that fall into the following
categories:
a.
Mammals Have live young, hair /fur, warm blooded; horse, lion, dog
b.
Reptiles Lay eggs, scales,
cold blooded; turtle, alligator, lizards
c.
Amphibians Both on land
and in water, cold blooded; frog, toad, salamander,
newt
d.
Fish Lives in
water, has gills, has fins; bass, salmon, catfish
e.
Insects Has 6 legs, exoskeleton, invertebrate; ant, mosquito, cockroach
9.
Explain how the organisms are
related to each other as they continue down the classification levels. The organisms become more and more alike as you move down
the chart. There are less things in each
group.
10. How are
plants classified? What would be the
next classification of plants after that? Vascular and nonvascular;
Seed bearing or non seed bearing
11. How would
you classify a pine tree? A fern? A pine tree
would be vascular and seed bearing. A fern
would be vascular and non seed bearing
Essay: Be able to write
a paragraph on the following two questions:
12. How are vascular and non-vascular
plants similar? What are the main
differences between vascular plants and non-vascular plants?
13. Emma’s class was studying
vertebrates and invertebrates. What are
vertebrates? What are some examples of
vertebrates and invertebrates?
Have a great evening!
