10/21/14

Good trip today. Tonight's homework is to finish up Assignments 19 and 20. If you need any help or feel as though you missed something from the exhibits, then please check the following:

Hall of Planet Earth
Hall of North American Mammals

Assignment #19 - AMNH Visit – Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth

Answer all of the following questions to the best of your ability. Take notes for the first two questions and then write in complete sentences for #3.

1. How has the Earth evolved? How do we know? (Check Sections 1, 2, and 5 on your map.)

  

2. How has the Earth’s atmosphere changed over time? How do we know? (Check Section 1 on your map.)

3. Why is the Earth habitable? (Check Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 on your map. That was helpful!)

Assignment #20 - AMNH Visit – Hall of North American Mammals

Answer all of the following questions to the best of your ability. You are visiting this hall in order to learn more about different types of biomes (areas with similar climates), the organisms that inhabit them, how they interact, and how they are impacted by humans. Eventually you and your group will be writing and presenting this information (and more) to your class.

Your assigned biome: _______________________________

Search the hall and look for organisms that inhabit your biome. Record any interesting/relevant information.

Note-taking space (flora, fauna, geographic features, locations, adaptations, sketches, diagrams, etc.)

 How have humans impacted this biome?

How does the geography of your biome affect the diversity of the organisms within it?