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Date 4/18 Reminders Quiz Friday on Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, and Ecoregions
Which words best represent the following The carrying away of sediment The settling of sediment The breaking down of rock
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION What are the ecoregions of Texas?
OBJECTIVES -Play vocabulary enrichment game.
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Video Earths Surface

• As we watch, we will discuss some of the
  processes involved in creating the landforms we
  observe, and we will discuss the level of
  biodiversity in each.
• Video

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Pictionary

• Each table will contain two teams. Your shoulder
  partner is your teammate.
• 1 partner randomly chooses a vocabulary word out
  of the bag to draw on the whiteboard. The other
  partner will try to guess the word.
• Each team has 30 seconds to draw/guess what the
  word is.
• No words or numbers may be included in the
  drawing. Person who draws cannot speak.

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Date 4/19 Reminders Quiz Friday on Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, and Ecoregions
Complete a Venn Diagram comparing Internal Stimuli and External Stimuli.
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION How do geological processes shape the different ecoregions of Texas?
OBJECTIVES -Explore the ecoregions of Texas -Begin an in-class research project on an assigned ecoregion.
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Ecoregions of Texas!
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Pineywoods
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Gulf Prairies and Marshes
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Post Oak Savannahs
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Blackland Prairies
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Cross Timbers and Prairies
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South Texas Plains
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Edwards Plateau
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Rolling Plains
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High Plains
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Trans-Pecos Mountains Basins
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Geological Processes in Texas

• The ecoregion below does not get much rain. How
  do you think this landform was created?

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Draw this in your notebook
REGION
ECOLOGY
ECOREGION
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Add these definitions to your diagram

• ECOlogy
• the study of the relationships that living
  organisms have with each other and with their
  natural environment.
• REGION-
• An area or part of a state having specific
  characteristics.

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Add this definition to your diagram

• ECOREGION-
•  an area defined by environmental conditions and
  natural features

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Ecoregion Project

• Today you will be assigned an ecoregion by group.
• You will trace your ecoregion onto butcher paper.
• Using the folder of information and a laptop, you
  and your group will research the ecoregion and
  follow the rubric to complete your project.

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Date 4/20 4/21 Reminders Quiz on Weathering, Erosion, Deposition and Ecoregions on Friday
What is homeostasis?  Give one example of how the human body might respond in order to achieve homeostasis.
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION How do geolocial processes chape the ecoregions of Texas.
OBJECTIVES -Finish your ecoregions project
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Ecoregions Projects

• You will finish your Ecoregions projects.
• You will complete a gallery walk when projects
  are finished and fill out information on your
  sheet.

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SUCCESSION PLOT

• Lets check on the succession plot!
  (weather-permitting)
• Bring notebooks and marker to add new growth to
  your illustration

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Date 4/22 Q What are the ecoregions of Texas?
Jim and Karen needed to get a heavy chair into their apartment.  Karen took it 10 meters from her car to the stairs using 6 Newtons of force.  Jim lifted it up the stairs 3 meters and used 20 Newtons of force.  Who did more work?
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION What land features make up a watershed?
OBJECTIVES -Take a quiz on Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, and Watersheds
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Quiz

• Voice level 0
• When you are finished, raise your hand, and I
  will pick up your quiz.
• You may read a book when you finish.