AP Biology Summer Work

Part I Due: Tuesday, August 10, 2021 on Google Classroom

Read text, Chapters 1-5 and complete the reading guides. Expect an exam on this material during the first few days of school

Also, look around all parts of the AP Biology web site

Expect an exam on this material during the first few days of school

Part II: Due: Tuesday, August 10, 2021 on Google Classroom

Read Haldane's essay "On Being the Right Size" and answer the following questions. Note that Haldane was a famous in his day for being a rascal and having radical political views, but he did much to popularize scientific concepts and bring them to the public forefront. As with all formal writing, your submissions should be typed and professionally formatted. See the student handbook for guidelines.

1. What is the problem with some of the fairy tale monsters?

2. How does gravity affect animals of varying sizes?

3. Why do animals become more complicated?

4. In humans the gut is complicated to increase ________

5. What restricts the thickness of insects?

6. How is size an advantage in terms of food and temperature regulation?

7. Why don’t whales have eyes much larger than ours?

Part III: Due Friday, August 20, 2021 on Google Classroom

AP BIOLOGY SCAVENGER HUNT

For this assignment, you will be familiarizing yourself with science terms that we will be using at different points throughout the year. Below find the list of terms.

1. Select 50 terms and choose your unique item (see 4)

2. “Collect” 50 items from this list of terms. When I say “collect”, I mean you should collect that item by finding it and taking a unique digital photograph of that item. You will post your photographs with corresponding explanations on your personal webpage (St. Catherine account), and then link to it from Ms. Lucia's "student pages" page. You do not need to find the exact item on the list, say for example, it is an internal part to an organism, but you must apply the term to the specimen you find and explain on the blog how this specimen represents the term.

Example: If you choose the term “phloem”, you could submit a photograph you have take of a plant leaf or a plant stem and then explain on the blog what phloem is and specifically where phloem is in your specimen

3. NO organisms should be harmed in the process of taking your photographs!

4. Original Photos ONLY: You may not use an image from any publication or the Web. You must have taken the photograph yourself (or be present when it is taken).

Place a unique item in all of your photographs that only you could have added each time. Something that you might usually have on you like a pen or a coin or a key or your phone, etc. Be creative! However, please do not use yourself…. All 50 photos must be unique and different (no using the same photo for multiple terms)

5. Natural Items ONLY: Some specimens may be used for more than one item, but all must be from something that you have found in nature. Take a walk around your yard, neighborhood, and the city. DO NOT SPEND ANY MONEY! Research what the term means and in what organisms it can be found … and then go out and find one.

6. Team Work: You may work with other students in the class to complete this project, but each student must turn in his or her own project with a unique set of terms chosen and unique photographs. There are over 100 choices … probability says there is a very small chance that any two students will have most of the same 50 terms chosen. Of course a few terms may overlap, but the large majority must be unique.