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The Earth as Home...
What is the "environment"? What is it made of, how does it function, why does it change around the planet, and how do humans impact it? 
In this unit we will unpack: 1) What is the Environment: biotic and abiotic factors, levels in an environment, matter and energy ~ food webs, ecology pyramids, and the cycles of matter. 2) The Influence of Climate & Earth's Biomes. 3) Interactions Among Living Things: population growth, limiting factors, carrying capacity, predation, competition, and symbiosis...and finally what impacts humans have on the Earth.
Assignments
NOTES Ecology
Ecology WebQuest: Energy Connection
​*Part 1 : energy flow & pp
HONORS: Food Web Table handout
HONORS ​Energy Flow Article
​​Energy Flow worksheet
Ecology Interactions - video worksheet
​Video for worksheet: Planet Earth 2 Deserts
Ecology Drawings ~ Holden Creek
Ecological interactions: vocab & scav hunt
Honors HW: Spruce Forest; article link
Honors HW - habitat and niche; article link
Ecology Webquest: Interactions 
​part 1 video; part 2 video (video notes); part 4 video 
Homework: Sand Dollar article - Sand Dollar video​
Ecology FINAL STUDY GUIDE
Student Survey

BiomeViewer HHMI
Ecology Intro Activity 
Map Activity: Ecology of Oregon (redo this)
​Symbiosis Video Worksheet; ​Video link
Video Links: Clip 1, Clip 2, Clip 3
Quiz #552320
Kahoot Review
Ecology Scavenger Hunt - sit somewhere quietly for 5 min, find and describe the following interactions (table), follow-up questions and summary paragraph.
Unit Materials
NOTES Ecology
Ecology Presentation
Ecology Organization Chapter
Ecology Energy Flow Chapter
Ecology Producers Chapter
Ecology Consumers Chapter
Ecology Competition & Symbiosis Chapter
​Habitat, Niche, & Biodiversity Presentation
​Ecology QUIZLET
​HONORS Root Word list
Oregon Natural History 
​Daily Warm-up

Additional Resources
Videos
Private Life of Plants BBC series
PBS - Shark Ecology Videos
Websites
Earth: global map of wind and weather
NOAA: weather systems and patterns
do a webquest on the NOAA weather systems 
Climate Interactives
​NASA Biomes Page
​Stop Shark Finning
SharkWater - shark education
Shark Finning Facts and Action
Articles
A trip to the Galapagos
Predation, herbivory, and parasitism article
Ecosystems - Natureworks article
Swallow evolution results from road deaths
Upwelling - National Geographic
Upwelling _ NOAA
Upwelling - Homework Article (page 1 only)

Online Biology Textbook

Extra Credit: Overtime Slips
Read or watch one of the Videos, Links and Resources on your right and fill out an overtime slip for some extra points.  OR - look something up your own, do a little research, and share with me what you discover!
​​Ecology Prezi 
​Ecology Presentation old to update

    Email Mr.Sapora

Ecology of Oregon - final project
Ecologic Provinces of Oregon - select a single region from this site to do your project on.  Use to locate information on main producer communities (ex: Sagebrush Steppe)
Ecoregions of Oregon MAP - zoom in to read
Oregon GoogleMaps
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Oregon Wildlife Viewer  - select species by ecoregion, watershed, county, etc.
Animals (Fauna) of Oregon - Oregon Depart of Fish and Wildlife
Fish Species in Oregon - species list
Fire Ecology of the Pac NW - an overview of the role of fire in our ecosystems
Examples of Student Greatness: Blue Mountains; Columbia Plateau; Blue Mountains 2; Basin and Range
Willamette Valley
Nature Conservancy fact sheet
Oregon Conservation fact sheet
WWF overview
Fire history of the Willamette Valley

Cascade Mountains
Cascade Mountains: Oregon Encyclopedia
Producers and Consumers of the Cascade Mtns
Cascades overview: Oregon Conservation
Cascades overview: WWF
Old Growth Forests of the Pac NW
Mushroom/Decomposes of the Cascade Mountains
Fire and Vegetation history of the Eastern Cascade Mtns 

Columbia Plateau
Columbia overview: Oregon Conservation
Columbia Plateau: LandScope America
Producers - grasses - listed in the Umatilla Plateau

Coast Range
Coast Range overview: Oregon Conservation
Coastal Vegetation and Plant Ecology
Sand Dune ecology
Forest and Steam ecology
Biodiversity in the coast range
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Northern Basin and Range
USGS overview​
​Oregon Conservation fact sheet
USFS overview of region

​Klamath Mountains
Klamath Mountains (excellent) - ODFW
Klamath Mountains Bioregion - detailed paper
Klamath Mtn overview: plant species listed throughout
Klamath overview
​Klamath Mountains overview - KS Wild

Blue and Wallowa Mountains
Blue Mountains overview: Oregon Conservation
Producers and Consumers of the Blue Mtns
Blue Mountain overview: WWF
Plant Communities of the Blues
Blue Mountains: fire ecology
Fire in the Blue Mountains - paper
Wallowa Mountains overview - Wikipedia
Wallowa Mountains: Oregon conservation​

Finals???  You cho-cho-choose your own adventure!

​Option 1
Ecology Study Guide

​Option 2
Final Project: Your Year ~ Your Review

Option 3
Ecology of Oregon - final project
Ecologic Provinces of Oregon - select a single region from this site to do your project on.  Use to locate information on main producer communities (ex: Sagebrush Steppe)
Oregon Wildlife Viewer  - select species by ecoregion, watershed, county, etc.
Animals (Fauna) of Oregon - Oregon Depart of Fish and Wildlife
Fish Species in Oregon - species list
Fire Ecology of the Pac NW - an overview of the role of fire in our ecosystems

NOTES and SUMMARY - DUE BEFORE YOU START PROJECT 2/28
Citation Guide

​Map of Ecoregions
​Sapopo eastern OR​
Eastern OR map
Old Assignments
Ecology WebQuest 1.0
Yellowstone Wolves and Ecosystems
Some Animals Are More Equal than Others: Keystone Species and Trophic Cascades
Ecological Interactions WS; Journal Article
Biome Activity thingy 
BIOMES click here
Biome Activity
Homework part 1 instructions
Homework part 2 Article (pgs 2-3 or 516-517)
Ecology Coastal Organisms Activity
Marine Food Web drawing sheet 
Marine Food Web Quick Sheet 
Ecology of Oregon MAP activity handout 
Oregon 3D Google Map
Ecology of Oregon - final project
Blooms Gone Wild lesson
Coastal Upwelling case study lesson
Ecology Data Worksheet
Ecology WebQuest: Energy Connection
​*Part 1 : energy flow & pp
Honors: Ocean Food Web Table​

​Cape Kruzenstern
Cape Kruzenstern Bird Work
Cape K camp life
Long Walks...

Part 2 - Ocean Food Web Diagram  (15 pts)
Create a marine (ocean) food web on the back page of your WebQuest or on a larger, separate sheet of paper.  It needs to contain the following organisms and factors: (use the links I provided to read-up) 
  1. Sunlight, water, temperature (look up the ocean temperature for our area),  and nutrients (small bits of silt/sand/sediment in the water); phytoplankton / algae; zooplankton (shrimp, copepods); Pacific sardine (or small forage fish); larger fish (tuna and salmon); Steller sea lion; and salmon shark.  Also add in a dead gray whale, dungeness crabs and hagfish at the bottom.  
  2. Be sure that your arrows are pointing in the direction that the energy flows (from the producers to the various consumers).  Label each organism by its name and trophic type/level (primary producer, herbivore, omnivore, carnivore, scavenger/decomposer). 
  3. If the gray whale fed on zooplankton, and the zooplankton (shrimp and copepods) fed on phytoplankton / algae, how many pounds of hagfish would that support if there were a net gain of 1,500,000 pounds of phytoplankton in the ecosystem to start off this food chain? Draw a small energy pyramid and fill it in...show work.

​Energy Flow worksheet: In-Class on Tues

Ecology Presentation take NOTES up to slide 43
​BiomeViewer HHMI​
Earth: global map of wind and weather

Textbook pages: 145-153