Add to name tent:
Top Left - Current Favorite Band/Artist/Song
Bottom Left - Favorite holiday
Top right - Something you're proud of
Bottom Right - How you're feeling right now
Meet your new table partners: share your answers
Quarter 1 Environmental Science Reflection
1. Something I did well in quarter 1 was...
2. Something I can improve in quarter 2 is...
3. Ways I can contribute more positively to our classroom culture are...
10 minute quiet reflection writing
Review from last class: Ecosystems (write in notebook)
1. Define 'ecosystem' in your own words
2. What is the end goal of photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
3. Which organisms do photosynthesis? Cellular respiration?
4. An organism that obtains energy by consuming other organisms is called a "___troph," while "___trophs" make their own food.
5. At the bottom level of all food webs are ___.
Heading: Biogeochemical Cycles
Learning Objective: I can describe the major biogeochemical cycles and the steps involved in each cycle.
WARM UP: Using what you already know, draw the water cycle. Use arrows to indicate the flow of water through the cycle and label with appropriate terms. Do this on a small white board with your table partners.
Water Cycle
Matter, in the form of nutrients, cycles within and among ecosystems and the biosphere.
Biogeochemical Cycles - natural processes that recycle nutrients in various chemical forms from the nonliving (abiotic) to living (biotic) organisms and then back to the abiotic environment
Bio - living
Geo - relating to the earth
Chemical - organic matter returns to chemical matter
These cycles are driven directly or indirectly by incoming solar energy and the earth's gravity
Examples of the biogeochemical (or nutrient) cycles:
water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, & sulfur
Nutrient cycles connect past, present, & future forms of life. Some of the carbon atoms in your skin may have once been a part of an oak leaf, a dinosaur's skin, or a layer of limestone rock. A person living 25,000 years ago may have inhaled some of the nitrogen molecules you just inhaled!
Answer the following questions as you watch:
1. What are the three 'abiotic' types of matter?
2. Name the 5 biogeochemical cycles discussed in the video.
3. Limiting nutrients lead to _____, or overly enriched water due to runoff.
Next Time: Introduce Poster Project
Rubric, requirements, due date
Happy Halloween! Vampire Bat video (8 mins)
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