APES POLLUTION Assignment

APES

Here is the report you are assigned to read, it is 62 pages long. You need to read about two toxins a day- you'll be quizzed on each section.

You will then create a poster on your assigned pollutant that you will present to the class.
The poster must have diagrams, illustrations, data, causes, regional and global effects and remediation potential.

READ ABOUT Lead for Wednesday! If you take notes you can use them on the quiz. 

http://www.worstpolluted.org/files/FileUpload/files/2010/WWPP-Report-2010-Top-Six-Toxic-Threats-Web.pdf

The poster and test on this subject (Pollution) will be on December 11th.

Evolution window panes due Wednesday Nov. 20th. This is also for your project grade so fix any missed window panes by then!!!

window pane terms:

1. evolution- the concept that organisms change over time.

2.Abiogenesis- the concept that life arises from non-living organisms

3.Biogenesis- the concept that living things can only come from other living things.

4.biochemical evidence- using an organisms chemical make-up ( genetic code and proteins) to show how related they are to other organisms.

5.Vestigial organs- structures in our body that do not serve a purpose, remnants of our ancestors. ex. appendix and tailbone

6.acquired traits- traits that you obtain in your lifetime- these are not evolved traits- learning to play an instrument, or losing a limb.

7. natural selection- when organisms evolve as a result of who they chose to reproduce with, over time (millions of years) this results in a new species.

8. adaptive radiation (syn= divergent evolution) - When new species develop from one common ancestor as a result of some sort of isolation.

9.convergent evolution (ant= divergent evolution) - when organisms from different ancestors evolve to look similar because they are adapting to a similar habitat.

10.coevolution- when organisms evolve together, flowers and pollinators do this.

11.speciation - the process of developing into a new species

12.reproductive isolation- when two similar organisms cannot reproduce together due to physiological reasons or having different mating seasons

13. behavioral isolation - when two similar organisms don't reproduce together because of one having an inappropriate or different behavior.

14.Geographical isolation - when two similar organisms don't reproduce together because they are separated by some geological barrier.

15.disruptive selection (use the graph for your drawing)

16. stabilizing selection (use the graph for your drawing)

17. directional selection (use the graph for your drawing)

18.Gradualism- Evolution that occurs slowly over a long period of time.

19.Punctuated Equilibrium-Evolution that occurs rapidly due to some sort of natural disaster or other environmental reason

20.Vestigial structures- structures found in an organism that no longer serve a purpose. ( our appendix, our tail bone)

21.Homologous structures- characteristics which are shared by related species because they have been inherited in some way from a common ancestor. For example, the bones on the front fins of a whale are homologous to the bones in a human arm and both are homologous to the bones in a chimpanzee arm.

22.Analogous structures- characteristics are analogous (also called "convergent"), which means that they serve the same function in different species but they evolved independently rather than from the same embryological material or from the same structures in a common ancestor. An example of an analogous structure would be the wings on butterflies, bats, and birds

APES TED videos we watched and will watch this week- just in case you are out.

Here's the TED we watched yesterday:

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mackay_a_reality_check_on_renewables.html


Here's the TED we watched Today:

http://www.ted.com/talks/donald_sadoway_the_missing_link_to_renewable_energy.html

Here's the TED we'll watch tomorrow:

http://www.ted.com/talks/amory_lovins_a_50_year_plan_for_energy.html