Monday, October 22, 2007

"What is Adaptation?"

Bellwork:
1) Do unlimited resources limit the growth of a population?
2) Competition will ________________ population size.
3) Algae => minnows =>catfish=>eagles
Eagles are _______-level consumers.

- Create 4-box on page 84 in workbook: 1st box for "Quick-write," 2nd box for "Examples," 3rd box for structural adaptations, 4th box for behavioral adaptations
- Answer quick-write: What does the word adaptation mean to you? Give examples to support your ideas.
- See kelp fish example of an adaptation ==> the kelp fish camouflages with the kelp environment; camouflage is an adaptation
- Draw or write about the kelp fish and its adaptation
- Add adaptation to the glossary, workbook pges 33-35
Adaptation: Any structure or behavior that helps an organism survive and reproduce
- Read "Adaptations," pages 42-45 in FOSS Populations and Ecosystems Resources book as a class AND fill in 3 examples of structural and 3 examples of behavioral adaptations