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●Work effectively within a cooperative group setting, accepting and executing assigned roles and responsibilities.
●Keep a journal record of observations, recognizing patterns, summarizing findings, and reflecting on the observations.
●Describe how energy is transferred through food webs in an ecosystem, and explain the roles and relationships between producers, consumers and decomposers.
●Recognize that one of the most general distinctions among organisms is between plants, which use sunlight to make their own food, and animals, which consume energy-rich foods.
●Recognize that energy, in the form of heat, is usually a byproduct when one form of energy is converted to another, such as when living organisms transform stored energy to motion.
●Explain how insects and various other organisms depend on dead plant and animal matter for food, and describe how this process contributes to the system.
●Describe the Sun as the principle energy source for phenomena on the Earth’s surface and necessary for life.
●Recognize that one of the most general distinctions among organisms is between plants, which use sunlight to make their own food, and animals, which consume energy-rich foods.
●Recognize that vibrations in materials set up wavelike disturbances that spread away from the source, as with earthquakes.
●Given an ecosystem, trace how matter cycles among and between organisms and the physical environment (includes water, oxygen, food web, decomposition and recycling.
●Organize observations and data into tables, charts and graphs.
Assignment read the earthquake presentation, complete the short homework sheet. Write a 3 page word document summarizing the important facts about earthquakes and buildings from your understanding of the pdf. You may use outline form or categories with bullet points. This assignment is in edmodo - submit and attach your named earthquake period last first. This is day one of sub plans. (You need more notes on earthquakes than notes, defining the physics of earthquakes. Use single space 12 font.