WORLDBIOMES


 * BIOMES OF THE WORLD - BIOLOGY 11 - MRS. FILEK: **

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For this project you will be looking at the interactions and relationships in a specific biome of your choice. You may work in a group of up to (**__and no more than__**) 3 people.
 * I. ASSIGNMENT: **

**1. Select a biome**. **2. Research organisms in that biome.** You will need to find at least 12 organisms in the biome if you hope to get full marks in this area. Remember, while you will find mostly animals, plants and bacteria are organisms too! **3. Select a choice of product**. While I appreciate some of the hard work that goes into posters and presentations, they tend to be somewhat boring Your choice of product could include: If you have another idea that you would like to pursue please speak with Mrs.Filek before you proceed. **4. Design and create your product.** Essentially, you are creating a web of relationships. Your product should include:  i. The trophic level of each organism (producer, primary consumer, secondary  consumer, etc.)  ii. The interactions and/or relationships between organisms (predator/prey,  competition, parasitism, commensalism, mutualism). Again, find at least one  of each and you will earn top marks!
 * Models, a diorama or a mobile (using a simple wire hangar)
 * Song or skit
 * Video
 * a small description of the biome that you selected (including location, climate, and special features)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A minimum of 12 organisms that live in that particular biome
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Your project should display and/or discuss:
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A list of references (the internet is very popular, but please try to use text resources as well!)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Colour, neatness and organization
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Creativity
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The project will be evaluated as follows: **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Content: (35 marks) **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Complete description of biome, temperature, climate, annual precipitation, etc. (6 marks)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Minimum 12 organisms specific to that biome (6 marks)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Organisms with a designated trophic level (6 marks)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Organisms connected through a variety of relationship (12 marks)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Reference list (5 marks)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Presentation (15 marks): **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Neatness and/or organization of information (5 marks)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Creativity of product/presentation (5 marks)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Overall quality and effort put into the product/presentation (5 marks)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|World Book Online] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Britannica School Online] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Canadian Encyclopedia Plus] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Encyclopedia of British Columbia] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Facts on File Science Online]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">II. USEFUL WEBSITES THAT WE SUBSCRIBE TO: **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Introduction to Biomes] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Biomes - Habitats] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|World Builders - Introduction to Biomes] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Earth Floor: Biomes] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|What's It Like Where You Live? Biomes of the World] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Terrestrial Communities - Nature Works] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Blue Planet Biomes - World Biomes] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Worlds' Biomes - UCMP] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Biomes of the World - Radford University]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">III. GENERAL BIOME WEBSITES: (These sites contain links to most of the biomes you are researching) **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Tundra Biome - The Encyclopedia of Earth] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Tundra Biome - Word Biomes] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Tundra Biome - Planet Earth] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Tundra Biome] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Arctic Tundra Biome - Biomes of the World] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Land Biomes: Tundra] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Tundra Animals] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Tundra - The Canadian Encyclopedia] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Tundra Plants] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Tundra Biome] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|World Biomes - Kids Do Ecology] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Plants of the Arctic and Antarctic] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Tundra Animals]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">IV. SPECIFIC BIOMES: **
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A. Tundra: **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Taiga Plains] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Boreal Forests - Taiga Biomes WWF] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Northern Canadian Shield taiga] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Taiga Animals] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Taiga: Boreal Forest - Biomes of the World] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Plants of the Taiga Plains Ecozone] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Taiga Plants] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Taiga Cordillera - Canadian Biodiversity] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Plants and Animals -The Taiga Biome] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Taiga Biome - Bioexpedition]
 * B. Taiga/Temperate Rainforest: **

// [] // <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Temperate Rainforest] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Temperate Rainforest Ecosystems] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Temperate Rain Forest] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|A Food Chain in the Temperate Forest Biome] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Temperate Deciduous Forest - NASA Earth Observatory] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Temperate Deciduous Forest] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Temperate Deciduous Forests - Nature Works] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Temperate Deciduous Forest] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Five Temperate Rainforest Plants to Know in the Pacific Northwest]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">C. Temperate Deciduous Forest: **

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Grassland Biomes] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[| Grasslands: Terrain of Many Names] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Grasslands Ecosystems - Earth On the Edge] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Grassland Biome - UCMP] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Grasslands - Kids Do Ecology] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Grassland Biomes - World Biomes] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Land Biomes: Temperate Grasslands] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Grasslands - Grassland Animals] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Grasslands Biome - Sea of Grass] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Grassland Biome - BioExpedition] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Colours of a Biome: Grassland Edition]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">D. Grassland: **
 * [[image:http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/biogeography/mixed_tall_short_grass_prairie_NRCS.jpg width="101" height="78"]] <**//http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/biogeography/mixed_tall_short_grass_prairie_NRCS.jpg// **>**

<//http://www.thewildclassroom.com/biomes/rainforests/images/rainforestlayers.jpg//> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Tropical Rainforest - Biomes of the World] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Tropical Rain Forest] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Rainforest: Earth Observatory] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Tropical Rain Forests - World Builders] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Tropical Rainforest - Questions and Answers] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Facts About Tropical Rain Forest Biome] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Rainforest - Kids Do Ecology] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Tropical Forest Biome - BioExpedition] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Land Biomes: Tropical Rain Forests] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Animals in the Tropical Dry Forest Biome] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Rainforest Plants]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">E. Tropical Rainforest: **

<//http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/images/biosphere/vegetation/Grand_Erg_Occidental_J_Van_Acker_FAO_17905.jpg//> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Desert Biomes] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Desert Biome(s)] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|What Plants Grow in the Desert Biome] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Desert - NASA Earth Observtory] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Adaptations to A Desert Biome] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Desert Animals - The Blue Planet] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Desert Animals] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|The Desert Biome - UCMP] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Land Biomes: Deserts] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Desert Biome - BioExpedition] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Desert - Kids Do Ecology] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Terrestrial Biome - Desert - Animal Corner]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">F. Desert Biome: **

//<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"><http://www.cttech.org/VINAL/lmc/projects/biome/aquatic2.jpg> // <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Aquatic Biomes] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Aquatic Biome Living Plants & Animals] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Aquatic Biome Living Plants & Animals] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Marine - Kids Do Ecology] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Aquatic Biomes] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Estuaries Biomes] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Intertidal Biomes] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Aquatic Biomes] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Hydrosphere - Geography4Kids] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Unit 4: Ecosystems // Section 2: Major Terrestrial and Aquatic Biomes] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Ocean Biome - BioExpedition] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Stratification of Aquatic Biomes] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Assignment Discovery: Aquatic Biomes] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Biomes of the World - Aquatic Biomes]
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">G. Aquatic Biomes (Freshwater and Marine) **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">V. USEFUL PRINT RESOURCES IN THE LIBRARY: **

551.432 ALL //Mountains// 574.54 MOR //Deserts// 577.22 STE //Biomes of the Future// 577.3 ALL //Temperate Forests// 577.3 MAR //Woods and Forests// 577.3 WOO //Temperate Forests// 577.34 ALL //Tropical Forests// 577.34 CHE //The Tropical Rainforest// 577.34 OLD //Rainforest// 577.4 ALL //Temperate Grasslands// 577.44 MAR //Prairies, Fields, and Meadows// 577.48 ALL //Tropical Grasslands// 577.54 ALL //Deserts// 577.54 ALL //Deserts and Semideserts// 577.54 STE //Deserts// 577.5876 ALL //The Polar Regions// 577.6 LIS //Wetlands// 577.63 HIS //Lakes, Ponds and Temporary Pools// 577.64 MAR //Rivers and Streams// 577.6468 ALL //Wetlands// 577.69 ALL //Oceans//