UNIT+3+-+Evolution+and+Biodiversity

STUDY GUIDE
This UNIT: Chapters 5 and 11

NEW 11/18/12 The study guide above includes both chapters 5 and 6. For this unit, pay attention to the guide for chapter 5 only. We will study chapter 6 next unit.

Chapter 11

CLASS NOTES
this is an overview of chapter 5 which we viewed in class before Thanksgiving







this is an overview of chapter 11, viewed in class beginning 11/27

Some useful websites:
CITESthe Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species IUCN Red List The International Union for the Conservation of Nature list of threatened species

Endangered Species Act resources:
Overview of the Endangered Species Act Overview of CITES A report on the effectiveness of CITES 110 success stories A collection of ESA successes, from the Center for Biological Diversity Are ESA successes inflated? A critical view of ESA successes from the Pacific Legal Foundation More ESA criticism from the PLF and still more ESA criticism A leading environmentalist assesses the ESA A report from the Congressional Research Service (non-partisan and unbiased)

Here is the Simberloff article on the BIODIVERSITY CRISIS

Check out this excellent review on [|plant succession.]

[|Giovanni]

[|Instructions for Giovanni]

Use this website for the Dead Zone graphing lab: [|Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity (NECOP)]

__**Here are some websites with background material on biomes:**__


 * 1) [|University of California: The world's biomes]
 * 2) [|Introduction to biomes]
 * 3) [|World biomes]

After learning about biomes and making some notes using a graphic organizer, try your hand at this [|biome game.]

This is the assignment due 11/29/10 to profile three species: one invasive, one endangered/threatened, one keystone.

Invasive species: The Global Invasive Species Database has a page devoted to the [|100 worst invasive species]. Lots of information here.

 UNIT REVIEW:



Check out this presentation from Ohio State University on the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone

 EVOLUTION, BIODIVERSITY, AND POPULATION BIOLOGY

Here's the University of California page on [|EVOLUTION] that I mentioned in class. It has answers to probably everything you would want to know about evolution, from evidence, to mechanism, to current research, to controversies.

Here's a powerpoint from another APES teacher: [|Intro to Evolution] It's much more comprehensive than what I show in class. Could be helpful to review concepts.

===>> Here's a great interactive timeline of the [|**HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE**]**!!!!** How old is the Universe? How old is the Earth? When did life first appear on Earth? =

SPECIES INTERACTIONS AND COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/exotics/exotics.html

Watch a [|10-minute video] on invasive species in San Francisco Bay

Visit this University of Michigan website on [|energy flow and trophic webs] for an excellent overview of community ecology and trophic pyramids

==> Test your biome and climatogram knowledge with this online activity, [|match the biome]

Here's an extensive powerpoint on community ecology. I'll show part in class. media type="custom" key="4870743"