Instructions

BIOLOGY SCAVENGER HUNT

For this part of your winter assignment, you will be familiarizing yourself with science terms that we will be using/have used at different points throughout the year. On the next page is the list of terms.

1. Each item is worth 2 points (1 point for the photo and 1 point for a proper definition and use of the term.) Your goal is to earn at total of 120 points by Tuesday, January 22, 2013.

2. Earn 120 points by “collecting” 60 items from the list of terms. When I say “collect”, I mean you should collect that item by finding it and taking a photograph (digital or paper printed) of that item. You will publish your photographs on LaiAPBiology.blogspot.com. You may also post a link to your personal photo page (Instagram, Picasa, etc.) that is publicly accessible. Unless otherwise specified, I will use your e-mail addresses given to me at the beginning of the semester on your 3x5 card.

            a. For EACH photograph you will clearly identify the term from the vocabulary list you are connecting the photo to by typing the vocabulary term in bold print and underlining the term.

            b. You will write a caption for each photo in which you properly define the word and clearly explain       how your photo illustrates or relates to the selected term.

            c. All definitions and descriptions MUST BE IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Do not directly copy and paste definitions from an online source or you run the risk of losing points!

3. The NEW curriculum developed for AP Biology has been designed around four big ideas that run throughout biology. I have divided the scavenger hunt terms into the four big ideas they best fit. You must collect the required number of items for each big idea. The required number for each big idea is listed below:

Big Idea 1: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life. (20 items required!)

Big Idea 2: Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow,

toreproduce, and to maintain dynamic homeostasis. (20 items required!)

Big Idea 3: Living systems store, retrieve, transmit, and respond to information essential tolife

processes.(10 items required!)

Big Idea 4: Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess

complex properties(10 items required!)

4. 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 how this specimen represents the term. NO organisms should be harmed in the process of taking your photographs!

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

5. Original Photos ONLY: You cannot use an image from any publication or the Web. You must have taken the photograph yourself. You can prove that by placing an item in all of your photographs that only you could have added each time, something that you might usually have on you like a specific pen or a key chain or a ring, or a small toy object, etc. Be creative! The SAME object MUST appear in all submitted photos; photos in which your selected object does not appear will NOT BE COUNTED FOR POINTS!

6. Natural Items ONLY: Each specimen, including humans, you photograph may be used for only ONE item, but all must be from something that you have found in nature. Take a walk around your yard, neighborhood, and town. 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.

9. 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. There are over 100 choices … probability says there is a very small chance that any two students will have most of the same terms chosen. Of course a few terms may overlap, but the large majority must be unique.

10. Once school resumes, you will have an opportunity to share at least a portion of your Biology Summer

Scavenger Hunt with your peers.

BIOLOGY SCAVENGER HUNT TERMS

Below are items you are to “collect”. An individual organism can only be used ONCE. Humans are acceptable for ONE category only! You must take all photos yourself; no internet photos!

Big Idea 1: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life. (20 items required!)

1.        acoelomate

2.        adaptation of an animal

3.        adaptation of a plant

4.        amniotic egg

5.        analogous structure

6.        angiosperm

7.        annelid

8.        arachnid

9.        archaebacteria

10.     arthropod

11.     artificial selection

12.     bilateral symmetry

13.     bryophytes (nonvascular plant)

14.     chordate

15.     cnidarian

16.     coelomate

17.     deuterostome

18.     distinguishing characteristics between monocots & dicots (up to 4 different photos for 8 points)

19.     eubacteria

20.     fungi

21.     gastropod

22.     genetic variation

23.     gnathostome

24.     gymnosperm cone

25.     gymnosperm leaf

26.     homologous structure

27.     lichens

28.     modified leaf of a plant

29.     modified root of a plant

30.     modified stem of a plant

31.     mycorrhizal fungi

32.     Organisms in different animal phyla (up to 4 different photos for 8 points)

33.     Organisms in different plant divisions (up to 4 different photos for 8 points)

34.     Organisms in same class but different orders(up to 4 different photos for 8 points)

35.     protostome

36.     pseudocoelomate

37.     radial symmetry (animal)

38.     seedless vascular plant

39.     tetrapod

40.     unicellular organism

41.     vestigial structure

Big Idea 2: Biological systems utilize free energy and molecular building blocks to grow, to

reproduce, and to maintain dynamic homeostasis. (20 items required!)

1.        adhesion of water

2.        anabolic

3.        ATP

4.        autotroph

5.        Calvin cycle

6.        carbohydrate

7.        catabolic

8.        cellulose

9.        chitin

10.     cohesion of water

11.     denaturation

12.     ectothermy

13.     endothermy

14.     entropy

15.     enzyme

16.     fermentation

17.     glycogen

18.     glycolysis

19.     heterotroph

20.     homeostasis

21.     hypertonic

22.     hypotonic

23.     hydrophilic

24.     hydrophobic

25.     isotonic

26.     kinesis

27.     Kreb’s (citric acid) cycle

28.     lactic acid

29.     long-day plant

30.     phloem

31.     phospholipid

32.     saturated fat

33.     stomata

34.     taxis

35.     territorial behavior

36.     transpiration

37.     unsaturated fat

38.     xylem

Big Idea 3: Living systems store, retrieve, transmit, and respond to information essential to life processes. (10 items required!)

(Note: Since many of the concepts under Big Idea 3 happen at a cellular and molecular level, it is not practical to include many of the key terms you will encounter for this concept.)

1.        diploid

2.        ethylene

3.        eukaryote

4.        double fertilization

5.        gamete

6.        haploid

7.        Evidence of different alleles

8.        for the same trait (up to 3 different photos for 6 points)

9.        flock, herd, or schooling

10.     behavior

11.     genetically modified organism (GMO)

12.     herbivory responses

13.     mimicry (Batesian)

14.     mimicry (Mullerian)

15.     mitosis

16.     meiosis

17.     phenotype

18.     pollinator

19.     prokaryote

20.     seed dispersal method

21.     tropism

Big Idea 4: Biological systems interact, and these systems and their interactions possess

complex properties.(10 items required!)

1.        altruistic behavior

2.        biological magnification

3.        biomes (up to 4 different biomes for 8 points)

4.        climax community

5.        commensalism

6.        competition

7.        detritovore

8.        endosperm

9.        introduced species

10.     keystone species

11.     K-strategist

12.     mutualism

13.     niche

14.     Organisms on different levels of the same food chain (up to 4 different photos for up to 8 points)

15.     parasitism

16.     pioneer species

17.     population

18.     predation

19.     r-strategist

20.     succession