Field Guide Project
Jordan:
Fungi phyla http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/tlw3/eBridge/Chp15/15_2.pdf
Plantae:
http://imgarcade.com/1/taxonomy-of-plants-kingdom-plantae/
Monera:
Protista:
http://faculty.southwest.tn.edu/rburkett/classi32.jpg
Animalia:
http://bio.fsu.edu/~bsc2011l/figures_to_know/chordata_ftk.jpg
Sophia:
http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/classification_group_expla.htm
Reasons for separation:
Chordate Phylum: Is all the animals which have a backbone. Includes: Fish, Reptiles, Birds, Amphibians, and Mammals.
Arthropod Phylum: This is all the "jointed legged" animals. All of these animals have an exoskeleton, meaning the skeleton is on the outside of the body. Include: Insects, Arachnids, and Crustaceans.
Mollusca Phylum: These are soft-bodied animals that sometimes have a hard shell. Includes: Snails, Slugs, Octopus, Squid, Clams, Oysters, and Mussels.
Annelida Phylum: The segmented worms. Includes: Earthworms and Leeches.
Rotifer Phylum: The tiny, microscopic animals with a wheel-shaped mouth and tiny hairs.
Nematode Phylum: Very tiny worms with no segments in their bodies. Also called Roundworms.
Tardigrade Phylum: Tiny, slow-moving animals with four body segments and eight legs. Includes Water Bears.
Cnidaria Phylum: Soft-bodied, jelly-like animals with tentacles and venom glands. Includes: Hydra, Jellyfish, Anemones, and Coral.
Echinoderm Phylum: Often spiny animals, with several "arms" reaching out from the center of its body. Includes: Starfish and Sea Urchins.
Platyhelminthes Phylum: Soft, flat-bodied worms. Includes: Planarians and Tapeworms.
3 Animals: Green Sea Turtle (Chelonioidea Mydas)
Characteristics: The green sea turtles body is nearly oval and is more flattened compared to Pacific green turtles. All flippers have 1 visible claw. The carapace color varies from pale to very dark green and plain to very brilliant yellow, brown and green tones with radiating stripes. The plastron varies from white, dirty white or yellowish in the Atlantic populations to dark grey-bluish-green in the Pacific populations. Hatchlings are dark-brown or nearly black with a white underneath and white flipper margins, change color once they’re older.
Size: Adults are 3 to 4 feet in carapace length (83 - 114 cm). The green turtle is the largest of the Cheloniidae family. The largest green turtle ever found was 5 feet (152 cm) in length and 871 pounds (395 kg).
Weight: Adults weigh between 240 and 420 pounds (110 - 190 kg).
Population: There are between 85,000 and 90,000 nesting females.
Habitat/Niche: Mainly stay near the coastline and around islands and live in bays and protected shores, especially in areas with seagrass beds. Rarely are they observed in the open ocean. The turtles eat plant vegetation and aquatic insects.
Predators: Humans and birds are huge predators, because birds kill baby turtles going to the sea and humans catch them in fishing nets.
Reproduction: The turtles hatch out of eggs and make their way to the sea.
Diversity: Green Sea Turtles come in several colors depending on age. They nest all over the world, but are the most diverse near Mexico and northern South America.
They impact humans by controlling aquatic insects and are very important in their niche.
Evergreen (Maytenus Boaria)
Characteristics: Small, light green leaves about 2.5-5 cm long. Small yellow or green flowers and red colored seeds. It germinates easily. Straight trunk, often around 65 feet tall.
Numbers: The evergreen is plentiful in South America.
Predators: The trees can be cut down by humans or destroyed by other animals, but have relatively few predators.
Reproduction: The trees pollinate using the wind, insects like bees and the birds
Impacts/Niche: The evergreen provides a home for many animals and spread seeds using gravity and other animals.
White Dish Mushroom (Agaricus Bisporus)
Characteristics: White with a rounded top and a short trunk. While immature, it has 2 color states: white and brown.
Population: These mushrooms is cultivated on over 70 countries.
Reproduction: These are fungi, so they reproduce accordingly.
Habitat/Niche: Mushrooms grow all over the world, and do best in moist environments.
Importance/Human Impacts: Mushrooms are most commonly used to cook with (if they aren’t poisonous). Therefore, humans cultivate them to use them in cooking, making these mushrooms very impacted.
Predators: These mushrooms are preyed on by humans and all kinds of insects.
Derrick
In the animal kingdom, there are many separate Phyla. One phylum is the chordate phylum. All animals have a backbone and also known as vertebrae. This phylum is split up into separate classes such as: mammal, bird, amphibian, reptile and bony fish class. The mammal is a warm blooded species, usually has hair or fur, they birth their children and feed them with milk. There many mammals such as: dogs, cats, and humans. Next is the bird class. The bird class usually can fly and has feathers, their children are hatched from eggs and they have hollow bones and warm blooded just like the mammal. Different types of birds are: seagull, chicken, and parrot. The amphibian is a very unique class. This class is made up of cold blooded animals that are usually slippery, live on land and in water, and are also hatched from eggs that change from larvae to adult. Some amphibians are; poison dart frogs, and bullfrog. In the reptile class, there skin is rough, dry and scaly. They lay soft eggs but sometimes held. So reptiles are: salt water crocodile and bearded dragon. Lastly there are the bony fish, and they are basically any fish with
In the plant kingdom, there are many separate phyla for separate classes. The two separate classes are liliopsida class and magnoliopsida class. The liliopsida class is made up of a single seed leaf. These plants are grass and lilies. The magnoliopsida class is made up of two seed leaves and are known having plants that blossom. Some magnoliopsida class plants are red roses, douglas fir, or California live oak.
2 Animals
Crystal Jelly also known as an Aequorea victoria, disappears mid autumn each year. Graceful and nearly transparent, these jellies have long, delicate tentacles. They have a bell diameter can grow to 10 inches (25 cm), but usually no larger than 3 inches (8 cm). They also give off a green-blue glow under special lighting because of more than 100 tiny, light-producing organs surrounding their outer bell. They are found off the west Coast of North America from central California to Vancouver, mainly near Washington and British Columbia. They often eat plankton and get eaten by sea turtles. They are on the second level of the food pyramid. They are asexual so that means there isn’t much diversity.Scientists have created "green mice"that glow green when hit by blue light by inserting the GFP gene from the crystal jelly into the mice. The glowing protein is a widely used biological highlighter that helps scientists find and study genes more quickly.
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animalguide/invertebrates/crystaljelly http://creationwiki.org/Crystal_jelly
The green sea turtle or Chelonia mydas, is a sea animal often found in open waters often found in tropical and subtropical waters. It is up to 5 feet long and 7oo pounds with a smooth shell and can live past 80 years. They are sexual and not asexual. They eat jellies, invertebrates, sea grasses, seaweeds and hunt by sharks and humans. They have a high status in the food chain because they are right below the apex predators. Green sea turtles are in the same family as the loggerhead, hawksbill, Kemp's or Atlantic ridley, olive or Pacific ridley and the Australian flatback.
Green turtles are listed as an endangered species, and a subpopulation in the Mediterranean is listed as critically endangered. Despite this, they are still killed for their meat and eggs. Their numbers are also reduced by boat propeller accidents, fishnetcaused drowning, and the destruction of their nesting grounds by human encroachment.
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animalguide/reptiles/greenseaturtle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_sea_turtle http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/greenturtle/
Sarah
Monera (includes Eubacteria and Archeobacteria)
In the monera kingdom they also include eubacteria and archeobactria. Monera are usually tiny and they look like algae. Monera absorb the nutrients through the cell wall. Monera also can produce their own photosynthesis.
Protista
In the protista kingdom the protista are single-celled. They usually move by cilia, flagella, or by amoeboid mechanism. For most of the time they don’t have cell wall, but it rare that some form cell wall. They are small, but when you use a microscope or a magnifying glass you could recognize it. Nutrients are acquired through photosynthesis and or ingestion of other organism.
Fungi
In the fungi kingdom fungi are multicellular and they contain cell walls. Fungi size are microscope to very large. The fungi does not have mechanisms for locomotion. They acquired nutrients by absorption and from decaying material.
Plantae
In the plantae kingdom contains plants. Plants need sunlight to grow. These organelles include nucleus, chloroplast, and cell walls. Most of them does not move, but some using cilia or flagella to move.
Animalia
In the animalia kingdom animal are multicellular. They move with the aid of cilia, flagella or muscular organs bose one the contractile proteins. They have organelles include the nucleus, but with none chloroplasts or cell walls. Animals acquire nutrients by ingestion.
Biblography: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/studies/invertebrates/kingdoms.html
Group:
Field Guide of Bay Area Project
Background:
What is the importance of labeling?
What are some dangers of labeling?
How can we classify things?
We can classify things into groups and categories.
Why do we classify living things?
We classify living things because it to help us stay organized, keep track of things, and be able to compare different things.
Question: What is the biodiversity of the Bay Area like?
Claim: The Bay Area is very biodiverse.
Evidence: They bay area is very biodiverse because it fill with lots of different plants and animal. In each kingdom there different species.
Reasoning/Rationale: With many animals in the animalia kingdom it make the bay area diverse and different plants in plantae kingdom. With the different kingdom it makes the Bay Area biodiverse.
Rebuttal:
Further question:
Summary of the Project Field Guide:
Another project that we did was the field guide. The purpose of the field guide project was to understand about which living thing below to which kingdom. In the project my part was to explain the five kingdom classification. There are five kingdoms. The five kingdoms are monera, protista, fungi, plantae, and animalia. In the monera kingdom it contains eubacteria and archeobactira. In the protista kingdom protista are the single celled. In the fungi kingdom fungi contains cell wall. In the plantae kingdom it contains plants. In the animalia kingdom they contain animals. In the project I have use picture from the Oakland Zoo of the animals. The animals are part of the animalia kingdom. The picture of my corn is part of the plantae kingdom. Our group have thought of the Bay Area is very diverse. The Bay Area is very diverse because it contains all five kingdoms. For example, there are plants and animals in the Bay Area. From one of my group mate, I learn that in the animalia kingdom there are many separate Phyla. All animals contain backbone, which is also known as vertebrae. In the plant kingdom, there are many separate phyla for many separate classes. There are two classes one is liliopsida and magnoliopsida. Through this project I have learn that everything in the world are separated into different kingdoms and in some kingdom they are separated into different classes. Before, this project I did not know that they were five kingdoms. In this project I learn more about biodiversity. Human hurt biodiversity by the increase of population. As human we are consuming more and more natural resources. Driving and using energy hurt biodiversity. One thing in this project that did not go well was the CERR part because we did not complete it. I was trying to work on it, but some part of it I did not know the answer and my group mates did not work on the CERR part. I think the biggest problem was the work was not split clear enough. One thing that went well is that at least everyone did something better than nothing.
Fungi phyla http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/tlw3/eBridge/Chp15/15_2.pdf
Plantae:
http://imgarcade.com/1/taxonomy-of-plants-kingdom-plantae/
Monera:
Protista:
http://faculty.southwest.tn.edu/rburkett/classi32.jpg
Animalia:
http://bio.fsu.edu/~bsc2011l/figures_to_know/chordata_ftk.jpg
Sophia:
http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/classification_group_expla.htm
Reasons for separation:
Chordate Phylum: Is all the animals which have a backbone. Includes: Fish, Reptiles, Birds, Amphibians, and Mammals.
Arthropod Phylum: This is all the "jointed legged" animals. All of these animals have an exoskeleton, meaning the skeleton is on the outside of the body. Include: Insects, Arachnids, and Crustaceans.
Mollusca Phylum: These are soft-bodied animals that sometimes have a hard shell. Includes: Snails, Slugs, Octopus, Squid, Clams, Oysters, and Mussels.
Annelida Phylum: The segmented worms. Includes: Earthworms and Leeches.
Rotifer Phylum: The tiny, microscopic animals with a wheel-shaped mouth and tiny hairs.
Nematode Phylum: Very tiny worms with no segments in their bodies. Also called Roundworms.
Tardigrade Phylum: Tiny, slow-moving animals with four body segments and eight legs. Includes Water Bears.
Cnidaria Phylum: Soft-bodied, jelly-like animals with tentacles and venom glands. Includes: Hydra, Jellyfish, Anemones, and Coral.
Echinoderm Phylum: Often spiny animals, with several "arms" reaching out from the center of its body. Includes: Starfish and Sea Urchins.
Platyhelminthes Phylum: Soft, flat-bodied worms. Includes: Planarians and Tapeworms.
3 Animals: Green Sea Turtle (Chelonioidea Mydas)
Characteristics: The green sea turtles body is nearly oval and is more flattened compared to Pacific green turtles. All flippers have 1 visible claw. The carapace color varies from pale to very dark green and plain to very brilliant yellow, brown and green tones with radiating stripes. The plastron varies from white, dirty white or yellowish in the Atlantic populations to dark grey-bluish-green in the Pacific populations. Hatchlings are dark-brown or nearly black with a white underneath and white flipper margins, change color once they’re older.
Size: Adults are 3 to 4 feet in carapace length (83 - 114 cm). The green turtle is the largest of the Cheloniidae family. The largest green turtle ever found was 5 feet (152 cm) in length and 871 pounds (395 kg).
Weight: Adults weigh between 240 and 420 pounds (110 - 190 kg).
Population: There are between 85,000 and 90,000 nesting females.
Habitat/Niche: Mainly stay near the coastline and around islands and live in bays and protected shores, especially in areas with seagrass beds. Rarely are they observed in the open ocean. The turtles eat plant vegetation and aquatic insects.
Predators: Humans and birds are huge predators, because birds kill baby turtles going to the sea and humans catch them in fishing nets.
Reproduction: The turtles hatch out of eggs and make their way to the sea.
Diversity: Green Sea Turtles come in several colors depending on age. They nest all over the world, but are the most diverse near Mexico and northern South America.
They impact humans by controlling aquatic insects and are very important in their niche.
Evergreen (Maytenus Boaria)
Characteristics: Small, light green leaves about 2.5-5 cm long. Small yellow or green flowers and red colored seeds. It germinates easily. Straight trunk, often around 65 feet tall.
Numbers: The evergreen is plentiful in South America.
Predators: The trees can be cut down by humans or destroyed by other animals, but have relatively few predators.
Reproduction: The trees pollinate using the wind, insects like bees and the birds
Impacts/Niche: The evergreen provides a home for many animals and spread seeds using gravity and other animals.
White Dish Mushroom (Agaricus Bisporus)
Characteristics: White with a rounded top and a short trunk. While immature, it has 2 color states: white and brown.
Population: These mushrooms is cultivated on over 70 countries.
Reproduction: These are fungi, so they reproduce accordingly.
Habitat/Niche: Mushrooms grow all over the world, and do best in moist environments.
Importance/Human Impacts: Mushrooms are most commonly used to cook with (if they aren’t poisonous). Therefore, humans cultivate them to use them in cooking, making these mushrooms very impacted.
Predators: These mushrooms are preyed on by humans and all kinds of insects.
Derrick
In the animal kingdom, there are many separate Phyla. One phylum is the chordate phylum. All animals have a backbone and also known as vertebrae. This phylum is split up into separate classes such as: mammal, bird, amphibian, reptile and bony fish class. The mammal is a warm blooded species, usually has hair or fur, they birth their children and feed them with milk. There many mammals such as: dogs, cats, and humans. Next is the bird class. The bird class usually can fly and has feathers, their children are hatched from eggs and they have hollow bones and warm blooded just like the mammal. Different types of birds are: seagull, chicken, and parrot. The amphibian is a very unique class. This class is made up of cold blooded animals that are usually slippery, live on land and in water, and are also hatched from eggs that change from larvae to adult. Some amphibians are; poison dart frogs, and bullfrog. In the reptile class, there skin is rough, dry and scaly. They lay soft eggs but sometimes held. So reptiles are: salt water crocodile and bearded dragon. Lastly there are the bony fish, and they are basically any fish with
In the plant kingdom, there are many separate phyla for separate classes. The two separate classes are liliopsida class and magnoliopsida class. The liliopsida class is made up of a single seed leaf. These plants are grass and lilies. The magnoliopsida class is made up of two seed leaves and are known having plants that blossom. Some magnoliopsida class plants are red roses, douglas fir, or California live oak.
2 Animals
Crystal Jelly also known as an Aequorea victoria, disappears mid autumn each year. Graceful and nearly transparent, these jellies have long, delicate tentacles. They have a bell diameter can grow to 10 inches (25 cm), but usually no larger than 3 inches (8 cm). They also give off a green-blue glow under special lighting because of more than 100 tiny, light-producing organs surrounding their outer bell. They are found off the west Coast of North America from central California to Vancouver, mainly near Washington and British Columbia. They often eat plankton and get eaten by sea turtles. They are on the second level of the food pyramid. They are asexual so that means there isn’t much diversity.Scientists have created "green mice"that glow green when hit by blue light by inserting the GFP gene from the crystal jelly into the mice. The glowing protein is a widely used biological highlighter that helps scientists find and study genes more quickly.
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animalguide/invertebrates/crystaljelly http://creationwiki.org/Crystal_jelly
The green sea turtle or Chelonia mydas, is a sea animal often found in open waters often found in tropical and subtropical waters. It is up to 5 feet long and 7oo pounds with a smooth shell and can live past 80 years. They are sexual and not asexual. They eat jellies, invertebrates, sea grasses, seaweeds and hunt by sharks and humans. They have a high status in the food chain because they are right below the apex predators. Green sea turtles are in the same family as the loggerhead, hawksbill, Kemp's or Atlantic ridley, olive or Pacific ridley and the Australian flatback.
Green turtles are listed as an endangered species, and a subpopulation in the Mediterranean is listed as critically endangered. Despite this, they are still killed for their meat and eggs. Their numbers are also reduced by boat propeller accidents, fishnetcaused drowning, and the destruction of their nesting grounds by human encroachment.
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animalguide/reptiles/greenseaturtle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_sea_turtle http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/greenturtle/
Sarah
Monera (includes Eubacteria and Archeobacteria)
In the monera kingdom they also include eubacteria and archeobactria. Monera are usually tiny and they look like algae. Monera absorb the nutrients through the cell wall. Monera also can produce their own photosynthesis.
Protista
In the protista kingdom the protista are single-celled. They usually move by cilia, flagella, or by amoeboid mechanism. For most of the time they don’t have cell wall, but it rare that some form cell wall. They are small, but when you use a microscope or a magnifying glass you could recognize it. Nutrients are acquired through photosynthesis and or ingestion of other organism.
Fungi
In the fungi kingdom fungi are multicellular and they contain cell walls. Fungi size are microscope to very large. The fungi does not have mechanisms for locomotion. They acquired nutrients by absorption and from decaying material.
Plantae
In the plantae kingdom contains plants. Plants need sunlight to grow. These organelles include nucleus, chloroplast, and cell walls. Most of them does not move, but some using cilia or flagella to move.
Animalia
In the animalia kingdom animal are multicellular. They move with the aid of cilia, flagella or muscular organs bose one the contractile proteins. They have organelles include the nucleus, but with none chloroplasts or cell walls. Animals acquire nutrients by ingestion.
Biblography: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/studies/invertebrates/kingdoms.html
Group:
Field Guide of Bay Area Project
Background:
What is the importance of labeling?
What are some dangers of labeling?
How can we classify things?
We can classify things into groups and categories.
Why do we classify living things?
We classify living things because it to help us stay organized, keep track of things, and be able to compare different things.
Question: What is the biodiversity of the Bay Area like?
Claim: The Bay Area is very biodiverse.
Evidence: They bay area is very biodiverse because it fill with lots of different plants and animal. In each kingdom there different species.
Reasoning/Rationale: With many animals in the animalia kingdom it make the bay area diverse and different plants in plantae kingdom. With the different kingdom it makes the Bay Area biodiverse.
Rebuttal:
Further question:
Summary of the Project Field Guide:
Another project that we did was the field guide. The purpose of the field guide project was to understand about which living thing below to which kingdom. In the project my part was to explain the five kingdom classification. There are five kingdoms. The five kingdoms are monera, protista, fungi, plantae, and animalia. In the monera kingdom it contains eubacteria and archeobactira. In the protista kingdom protista are the single celled. In the fungi kingdom fungi contains cell wall. In the plantae kingdom it contains plants. In the animalia kingdom they contain animals. In the project I have use picture from the Oakland Zoo of the animals. The animals are part of the animalia kingdom. The picture of my corn is part of the plantae kingdom. Our group have thought of the Bay Area is very diverse. The Bay Area is very diverse because it contains all five kingdoms. For example, there are plants and animals in the Bay Area. From one of my group mate, I learn that in the animalia kingdom there are many separate Phyla. All animals contain backbone, which is also known as vertebrae. In the plant kingdom, there are many separate phyla for many separate classes. There are two classes one is liliopsida and magnoliopsida. Through this project I have learn that everything in the world are separated into different kingdoms and in some kingdom they are separated into different classes. Before, this project I did not know that they were five kingdoms. In this project I learn more about biodiversity. Human hurt biodiversity by the increase of population. As human we are consuming more and more natural resources. Driving and using energy hurt biodiversity. One thing in this project that did not go well was the CERR part because we did not complete it. I was trying to work on it, but some part of it I did not know the answer and my group mates did not work on the CERR part. I think the biggest problem was the work was not split clear enough. One thing that went well is that at least everyone did something better than nothing.