The Life Levels Book

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The Life Levels Book
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Create your bound book!!

• Take two sheets of paper and separately fold them
  like a hamburger. Place the papers on top of
  each other, leaving 1/16 of an inch between the
  mountain tops.

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Create your bound book!!

• Mark both folds one inch from the outer edges.
• On one of the folded sheets, cut from the top and
  bottom edge to the marked spot on both sides.
• Now unfold this piece of paper and lay it aside.

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Create your bound book!!

• On the second folded sheet, start at one of the
  marked spots and cut the fold between the two
  marks.
• Take the cut sheet from step 3 and now fold it
  like a burrito. Place the burrito through the
  other sheet and then open the burrito. Fold the
  bound pages in half to from an eight-page book.

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Page 1

• Title Organization of Life
• Name and class period
• Illustration that summarized the section

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Page 2

• Title Biospheres
• Define a Biosphere
• Illustration
• Define Biotic and Abiotic Factors
• Give examples of each.

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Page 3

• Title Ecosystem
• Define Ecosystem
• Give an example of a Ecosystem
• Illustrate your example
• Describe the difference between and ecosystem and
  the biosphere.

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Page 4

• Title Food Chain and trophic levels
• Define a food chain
• Give an example of a food chain
• Illustration
• What is a trophic level?
• Provide an example
• Illustration

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Page 5

• Title Food Web
• Define what a food web is
• Give an example of a complete food web
• Illustrate your examples

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Page 6

• Design a food web using the following organisms
  wheat, rat, fox, human, cow, corn, rabbit, hawk,
  and grass.
• Use a colored pencil or marker to outline one
  single food chain. Indicate trophic levels as
  well as omnivores, herbivores, and carnivores.

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Page 7

• Ecological Pyramids
• How does an ecological pyramid work?
• Give an example of an ecological pyramid.

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Page 8

• Title Communities
• Define Community
• Given an example of a community
• Illustrate your example
• Describe the main differences between biosphere,
  ecosystem, and community.

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Page 9

• Title Populations
• Define Populations
• Give and example of a population
• Illustrate your example
• Describe the difference between population,
  community, and ecosystem

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Page 10

• Title Organisms
• What is an organism?
• Illustrate and organism.
• Give examples of several different organisms and
  describe their niche.
• What is the difference between a niche and a
  habitat?

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Page 11

• Title Levels of Organization
• Draw an illustration that demonstrates the
  difference in size and energy of each
  organizational level.

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Page 12

• List the organizational levels that make-up an
  organism.
• Define each level.
• Give two examples of each level.

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Grading Rubric

• Page 1 5 pts
• Pages 2-10 5 pts each
• Pages 7 8 15 pts each
• Major Test Grade
• Project due ?