El Nino and La Nina

Easter Island:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hO-vCPuuQQ&safe=active

BBC video from class:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzcKBeW44ao&safe=active


Project 1
Explain the El Nino and La Nina effects to your class.
Start by explaining the following:
 weather vs. climate
prevailing winds
convection currents
horizontal airflow
dew point
precipitation
convection cells
Hadley cells
trade winds
Southern Oscillation

Discuss how global climate change may effect ENSOs
Include a section on the countries most affected by ENSOs 
Back up your explanations with visual aids- these could be old school posters or digital material.
Your presentation should explain wind and ocean currents.

The best project sets the grade!

Due: 3-11-13

APES footprint activities

Due Monday 3-4-13
WATER
Go here, complete the activity and fill out the worksheet:
http://www.waterfootprint.org/?page=cal/WaterFootprintCalculator


Carbon footprint (household) calculator
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/ind-calculator.html

general footprint with avatar
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/

Biology window panes due tomorrow

Just 10 this time!
1. ATP- Adenosine triphosphate- this is your cell's basic unit of chemical energy made from breaking down a glucose molecule.


2. Lysis- to split something open-  in biology it is usually water breaking things down.

3.synthesis- " to make" something, you are building something, usually a compound in your body.

4.Activation energy- least amount of energy required to start a chemical reaction ( happens at the arrow in an equation, it's 2 ATP for Cellular respiration).

5.aerobic-  a reaction that is using oxygen.

6. anaerobic- a reaction that  is not using oxygen.

7. fermentation- a type of bioenergetic reaction that occurs in plants and animals when oxygen is not available- a back-up energy process, there are two types you need to know; lactic acid fermentation (animals and certain bacteria) and alcohol fermentation ( plants and certain bacteria).

8.Respiration- the process of taking in essential materials for life and releasing waste products.

9.photosynthesis- the process of taking in solar energy and converting it to chemical energy.

10. metabolism- an organisms ability to use and transform matter to run life processes.

meiosis overview by Kahn

if you are confused please go here and work it out!

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/cell-division/v/phases-of-meiosis

bozeman, cell cycle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aVnN4RePyI&safe=active

Sub plan for 2-19-13

1st and 4th block biology: watch Bill Nye Greatest Discoveries (cell material) 45 min.
Complete the worksheet that goes with it. Pause when needed to fill in answers.
Collect at the end of class

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9MVuXRNXGM&safe=active

They should then complete the handout on mitosis and meiosis.





AP Environmental 3rd block: students should complete their vocabulary index cards

Term & image on front (images should be colorful and detailed)
3 bullets of information about the term on the back

When finished with index cards they should read the first chapter in "The Future of Life"

They can listen to music while doing index cards but NOT while reading!!

APES Homework for the weekend DUE MONDAY

HOME video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU&wide=1&safe=active

Answer the questions as you watch this and turn it in on Monday 2-18-13

mitosis and meiosis links

mitosis tutorial
http://www.cellsalive.com/mitosis.htm

sketches
http://www.johnkyrk.com/mitosis.html
onion:
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/activities/cell_cycle/activity_description.html

whitefish:
http://www.dmacc.edu/instructors/mitosis.htm

onion pic:
http://www.marric.us/files/images/mitosis.gif

mitosis and meiosis side by side tutorial:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/miracle/divide.html