Science6-Variety+of+Life

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Essential Questions for this unit
What do you have in common with these organisms? media type="custom" key="178139" How is your Ipod music library like the classification system used by scientists to organize organisms?

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[|The Sounds of Earth = Voyager Mission]

[|Very Cool Video on a Worldwide effort to combine data on all known organisms].

Documentary of the History of Earth

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__Unit vocabulary__
environment

ecosystem

organism

adaptation [|Examples of many adaptations]

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structures

skills/ abilities

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microorganism

arthropod

natural selection: Peppered Moth Simulation

species

insect

fossil

living

nonliving

extinct

variety

birds

reptiles

fish

mammals

amphibians

vertebrate= has backbone and a skeleton for support and protection of the soft internal organs,

invertebrate - an animal with no backbone, example insects and other arthropods, sponges, flatworms, annelids, molluscs(clams, oysters, etc.)

classification- sorting, organizing in groups that have common characteristics

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fossil

stomatalites

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kingdom

phylum

biologist

Latin

cold-blooded

warm blooded

predators

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inferences

experiment

hypothesis

controlled variable

manipulated variable

fair test

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How to use a microscope, quite detailed.

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Encyclopedia of Life. A worldwide effort to catalogue all of Earth's species. media type="youtube" key="6NwfGA4cxJQ&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425"

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