Transcript Unit 2.2 Warm Ups

UNIT 2.2 WARM UPS
Analyzing Ecosystems 7 th grade
Warm Up Oct. 27-28
Write down the phrase and then complete it with the choices
listed below:
The more links there are in a food chain
◦ The less stable it is
◦ the less variety of species there is
◦ the more stable it is
Warm Up Oct. 29
◦ What are the two main components of an ecosystem?
◦ Give an example of how an organism would interact
with the other type of component?
Warm Up Oct. 30-31
Happy Halloween! Do your best to fill in the blanks – only
write down what word(s) go in the blank.
◦ Bats are flying _______________.
◦ There are over _______________ different bat species.
◦ Bats are _______________ (active at night).
◦ Some bats live by themselves while others live in
__________ with thousands of other bats.
◦ Bats can live for over ________ years.
Warm Up Nov. 3-4
◦Define Biodiversity.
◦Start your sentence with “Biodiversity is…”
Warm Up Nov. 5
1. Which ecoregion is the
“Desert” portion of
Texas?
2. What is the ecoregion
that we live in?
3. Which ecoregion would
most likely experience
weathering by plants roots?
Warm Up Nov. 6-7
1. Explain how weathering and erosion are different.
2. Give one example of mechanical weathering and
one example of chemical weathering.
Warm Up Nov. 10-11
1. What is deposition?
2. How do plants slow down erosion?
Warm Up Nov. 12
1. What is groundwater?
2. How is it formed?
Warm Up Nov. 13-14
1. A healthy ecosystem has an equilibrium within
the populations of organisms that make up the
community. What makes this equilibrium end?
2. What is succession?
Warm Up Nov. 17-18
1. Define Microhabitat
2. List some organisms we found in each
microhabitat we saw during our microhabitat
exploration/observation.
Warm Up Nov. 19
A farmer in the Hill Country is trying to figure
out how to best prevent soil erosion when
planting his crops. He created the
experiment above to help him figure it out.
1. Which flat of crops would most likely
suffer the least amount of erosion?
2. Why?
A
B
Warm Up Nov. 20-21
◦No warm up today – Test day!