Term 1, Week 3 - Sept.16-20

Don't forget the SAT Question of the Day!

Finish your pernicious kumquat essay.  Your one word for an essay this week is... expedient.  

Geography:

1. Review the continents, oceans, and major seas on a world map.  Then you can take the World's Oceans and Seas Map Quiz. (Let me know how you did.  You can retake the quiz until you get them right.)
2. Read the rest of ch. 3 in Why Greenland is an Island.  Find all the rivers in the list of major rivers in an atlas.  Then take the World's Longest Rivers Map Quiz. (Let me know how you did.  Again, you can retake the quiz until you can get them right.)

3. Do some research on river science and major rivers:
            The USGS Water Science School site.  Check out some of the sidebar links after reading the
            article.  You can access current water data for the US, as well as the current state of all US
            rivers and the US river flood watch.  

            There's a good introduction to the Nile River at How Stuff Works.
 
             Here's a short video on the Amazon.

             The Nature Conservancy site dedicated to the Mississippi River has lots of information and   
             links to explore the river and see what efforts are being made to preserve it. 

4.  Complete the "Map the Mississippi Watershed!" activity I printed out for you.  Follow the directions to color the map.  I have a completed map and answers for you to check your work.  (If you need to print another copy of the activity for whatever reason, it's located here.  You'll have to print it in two sections: Page Set Up - Portrait -- for pages 1 and 2 and Page Set Up - Landscape -- for pages 3 and 4.  All you need to do the activity are pages 1 and 4.)   


Zoology:

1.  Color the Animal Kingdom page in your Zoology Coloring Book and know the major divisions of the animal kingdom.

2.  Redo your slides and view.

3.  Read chapter 18 in the Prentice Hall Biology textbook about classification.  Look up any unfamiliar vocabulary in the glossary and write it down with the definitions.  

4.  Try the Quick Lab on p.453: "How is a cladogram constructed?"


Keep up with your math.

Finish your history readings/lectures for Mesopotamia.  The writing project is posted, too.











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5. Keep reading The Aye-Aye and I ( and let's watch another episode of Last Chance to See.