Test Postponed Until Monday

Test Postponed Until Monday

Test Postponed Until Monday

Athropods Study Blog at END

Athropods Study Blog at END

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Fiction Story Homework Blog

Test Postponed Until Monday

by Mr. Carrison

Gates Intermediate School

Scituate, MA

Ok, by now you should have a pretty good idea of what to do for the project. See me ASAP should you have any questions. June 9th will be here before you know it! START EARLY!!!

Due no later than June 9th

Your Mission: Fabricate a fun fictional 350-450 word story using 20 science vocab words or more. You may choose to use 15 words from the list below and 5 review words from previous chapters or voacb lists. Details are as follows:

ˆ At least 15 words MUST be from the list below.
ˆ 5 can be from previous chapters but you must include a word bank for these words.
ˆ All total you should have 20 total science vocabulary words.
ˆ You need 12 fill in the blank spots for 12 of the vocab words (Flash’s _____ is also my home.)
ˆ You may choose to include a word bank for the required words from the list below but that is your choice.
ˆ Should be all on one page but DEFIATELY not more than 1½ pages.
ˆ Must have two pictures – one of these MUST be formatted to wrap around the picture.
ˆ Make sure your name is typed and on the paper at the top.
ˆ You should have a cool title in an ultra cool font. (Check out flamingtext.com for some great fonts!)
ˆ Should be very neat and professional looking.
ˆ I used 14.5 & 16 font size for my stories. You might want to do something similar but definitely > 13 font size.
ˆ Late work will be marked down 100 points.
ˆ You may choose to give the first or last letter --- h________ (habitat) or __________m (ecosystem)
ˆ Use a text box or table for student’s name, period and date. A one row 3 column table works well and is very easy to make.
ˆ Must turn in 8 copies, have answer key filled out and 1 copy to turn in for grading.

-10 points per missing word
-10 points per missing picture
-10 points per clip art bossing you around
-20 points unprofessional looking
-100 points un-typed
-5 points your name not typed
-10 points no answer key
-10 points no table or text box for name
-10 points font to small
-10 points no title or “uncool” title font
-10 points per missing 10 words of 350 minimum required
-10 points per missing fill in the blank
-10 points per page of required pages for students
-10 missing word bank for words not on given list below

Science Words Bank to Choose From – Any 15 + 5 other science words from old vocab lists or use all 20 words from below
Habitat
Biotic Factor
Limiting Factor
Abiotic Factor
Species
Photosynthesis
Population
Community
Niche
Ecosystem
Ecologist
Ecology
Immigration
Emigrated
Population Density
Carrying Capacity
Producer
Direct Action
Indirect Action
Natural Selection
Adaptations
Prey
Predator
Symbiosis
Parasite
Host
Herbivore

Tip of the hat and thanks to Ryan D! YES.... you can use different tenses of the above words.

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(453 Words)

Name
Date
Period

Tiki Adopts/Dominates a Family in Scituate
Fill in the missing words using the word bank below.

Tiki snuck out of a castle in Romania where he lived with an anemic vampire who was extremely grumpy and a staunch liberal democrat. In sneaking out, Tiki essentially ________________ from Romania and _______________________ into our lovely town of Scituate. Once on the South Shore he quickly adapted to his new ____________________ and loved chasing seagulls and henweighs. This was a major change as his old home was in the Transylvanian alpine plateau which was part of a boreal, not boring, forest _________________ or biome and Scituate was a _____________ ________________ biome. Tiki quickly learned to avoid Scituate’s many _________________. These included Flash, coyotes, hawks and owls. He loved hunting in the many wetland ___________________ of his new found town. While hunting in the tall f______________ grass for a variety of _______ that included, mice, grasshoppers and various _________ of birds he chanced upon an extraordinary lady that just intrigued him to no end. What caught his eye was that she was wondering around her yard holding a __________ book and talking to no one? This seemed more that odd and demanded further investigation. Tiki’s first _____________ was that she must be nuts, on a Twinkie high or a victim of an excessive group hug but upon further __________________ it was obvious she was practicing and fine tuning a math lesson about the wonders of algebraic equations and something about Pie? Odd combination, algebra and pie??? As this female ________________ ___________ went on and on and on and on and on he became _____________d with the wondrous world of math. Now also noteworthy was the abundance of liverwurst sandwiches, bottled water, Ms. Sabonis’ husband’s anchovies breakfast cereal and several other people available to be trained to wait on him and foot. This place has definite possibilities he thought! Tiki quickly decided this was the _______ of his dreams and proceeded to move in and immediately started training his new servants. ____________________g to his new in house e__________________ was VERY easy.

Ha,Ha! Mr. Carrison lost 10 points! Why???So as to not be a __________________ on his new found family, Tiki took up entertaining them by shedding all over their furniture, clawing up all the moldings in the home, manipulating their lives and annoying all the _______________ ______________________in the neighborhood. To show off his abilities as a second order _______________ he every once in a while shared with them a delicious dead mouse every not and then. To protect his new family from early morning attacks he wakes up his servants around 5:00am each and every morning.

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Name
Date
Period

(352 words)

Flamingo Mania
by Mr. Carrison – Gates Intermediate School
Fill in the missing word – You might want to check out your vocab sheet! – Hint: Some words are used more than once.

A team of three professional __________________________________ came to Scituate to investigate the flamingo problem in the third floor of the B wing at Gates. They wanted to investigate how the birds were doing in such a different __________________________ and why they choose to join the Scituate ________________________. You see most _______________ of flamingos are found living in very large colonies in alkaline or saline places like salt marshes, salt lakes, soda lakes and shallow lagoons. (http://www.wwtlearn.org.uk/index0.html?factfile/in-the-pink.htm&2) Several pink flamingos have been seen _________________________________ from Mr. Carrison’s room in the A wing and _________________________________ to various Team D teacher’s room in the penthouse section of the B wing. Mr. Carrison had a _________________ that the birds left due to a drastic drop in available Almond Joys to feed upon in this habitat. Rumor has it that Ms. Morrissey has been enticing them to her locality using salty Pepperidge Farms gold fish, pseudo-promises of sharing with them the fascinating secrets of algebra, low priced pencils and autographed pictures of the Count from Sesame Street. One of the professional _________________ hypothesized that the birds may have been lured to the upper B wing by their interest in the ever so exhilarating concept of the five ________________ of ______________________ that Ms. McLaughlin is always crowing about. The A wing _________________ of flamingos could also be leaving Mr. Carrison’s wing due to Ms. Yasin’s intriguing poetry, lessons on contractions and instruction in ever so exhilarating skill of proper citing of written work taken from various sources.

The female ____________________________ visiting Gates wondered if the lack of any natural ________________________ or other natural ______________________ ___________________ (two words) had any justification in the flamingos invading our schools rather dry and sparsely vegetated _____________________.

All of the ________________________ visiting our school to study the flamingo problem agreed that they were fast approaching the __________________________ _______________ (two words) of Mr. Carrison’s classroom and had to seek an ______________ with room to grow. Fortunately the flamingos have never approached their full ____________________ __________________ (two words) or else our school and town would be over run with flocks of hundreds of thousands of roving half starved wild pink flamingos.

What a great story!

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Bonus Word - For a measly 3 points extra use my favorite cool cell organelle name as a word in your fun story in addition to the 20 assigned words.

Arthropods Study Blog

OK, here is the final Arthropod study guide info:

1. Lobsters belong to what taxa of arthropods?
2. What characteristics do insects and arachnids share?
3. List 8 arthropods
4. What comes after the egg in the life cycle of a grasshopper?
5. List two common myriapods members found in Scituate.
6. Cats, moths, grasshoppers, Ms. McLaughlin, goats, sharks and starfish are all members of what taxa?
7. List the three body sections of an insect.
8. What section has the wings and legs on an insect?
9. Where are the legs found on a spider?
10. What is the body plan for an arachnid?
11. Molt, yea OK, what is that?
12. List 4 characteristics of an arthropod
13. Oysters and clams belong to what phylum?
14. What type of myriapod is a herbivore?
15. What type of myrapod is a carnivore?
16. Are spiders myriapods?
17. Does the exoskeleton of arthropods offer the organism protection?
18. What is a symbiotic relationship?
19. What parasitic that is an arachnid might your dog get in the late spring and summer months?
20. List 8 different appendages found on arthropods.
21. What is another name for incomplete metamorphosis?
22. What is a spinneret? What group of arthropod has them?
23. To what body section do a spider's legs connect?
24. What group or taxa or class of arthropod has the most legs?
25. What do consumers eat? Do they eat producers or other consumers or possible both?
26. Do insects spread diseases all over the world?
27. What group of arthropods have 2 large compound eyes?

Good luck on the 33 question test. 13 questions are true/false. Easy test if you used your time wisely in groups. Tough test if you only pretended to work when I was watching and yacked the entire time about mascots and other nonsense.

1. Review worksheets and crossword puzzle
2. Re read your assigned pages of 47-59
3. Organize your notes

Check out the appropriate questions below. I used only a couple of these questions:

1. Which arthropods have no antennae?
   a. crustaceans
   b. arachnids
   c. insects
   d. centipedes
2. Where do most crustaceans live?
   a. in water
   b. on mountains
   c. in the desert
   d. underground
3. Which of these is NOT an arthropod?
   a. centipede
   b. grasshopper
   c. snail
   d. lobster
4. Which of these is NOT an insect?
   a. bee
   b. beetle
   c. mite
   d. grasshopper
5. How does a grasshopper get oxygen?
   a. through gills
   b. through a system of tubes
   c. through its skin
   d. by breathing through its mouth
6. Insect mouth parts are adapted for
   a. eating only plants.
   b. eating specific foods.
   c. eating only books.
   d. eating any available food.
7. What types of foods do insects eat?
   a. only plants
   b. only animals
   c. only paper and books
   d. anything living or once-living
8. An echinoderm with long slender arms and flexible joints is a
   a. sea star.
   b. brittle star.
   c. sea urchin.
   d. sea cucumber.
9. An organism that eats wastes and dead organisms is a
   a. consumer.
   b. decomposer.
   c. pollinator.
   d. producer.
   

Modified True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false. If false, change the identified word or phrase to make the statement true.

1. An arthropod’s body is protected by a(n) exoskeleton. _________________________
2. Arachnids have six legs but no antennae. _________________________
3. Insects have three body parts and six legs. _________________________
4. An insect that looks like a small adult when it hatches goes through gradual metamorphosis. _________________________
5. A butterfly’s mouth parts are adapted to lapping up nectar. _________________________
6. One role insects play in food chains is as food for birds. _________________________
   
   

Completion
Complete each statement.

1. Many arthropods have appendages called ____________________ that help them sense their environment.
2. Spiders, mites, and ticks belong to the group of arthropods known as ____________________.
3. The kind of arthropod known as a(n) ____________________ has more legs than any other kind of arthropod.
4. An insect’s wings and legs are attached to the section of its body called the ____________________.
5. Insects usually have two large ____________________ eyes, which contain many lenses.
6. Some insects can spread ____________________, such as malaria.
7. An example of a(n) ____________________ control is introducing ladybugs to fields where aphids are eating crops.
8. During complete metamorphosis, a larva becomes a(n) ____________________ before it becomes an adult.
9. Butterflies and beetles develop from egg to adult in the type of metamorphosis known as ____________________ metamorphosis.
10. Looking like a twig, or ____________________, may help an insect blend in with its surroundings.
11. In some arthropods, several body ____________________ have become joined into distinct sections.
12. Crustacean larvae develop into adults by a process called ____________________.
13. The ____________________ of insects are adapted for a specific way of getting food.
14. Consumers either eat other consumers, or they eat ____________________.

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Cheesy/Measly Point Coupon - Print out (no copies allowed!) a web site showing 3 endangered Massachusetts Arthropods. Not valid in Utah or redeemable for cash value. Liberal Democrats in or using polka-dot clotting-footware-housing-cars-pets-unbrellas-dinnerware-jewerly-motorcycles-folders-pens-pencils-braces-tatoos-etc need not apply.

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