Organisms in Food Chains and Webs (WIP)
Year 7 & 8 Topics Key Players in Food chains & food webs Organisms in Food Webs & Food Chains Ecosystems can contain a number of different organisms, all depending on each other to live, grow and survive. A food web is a great way to see how various organisms in an ecosystem interact with […]
Introduction to Ecosystems
Year 7 & 8 Topics Ecosystems An Introduction to Ecosystems When you think about the Great Barrier Reef, what comes to mind? You might think of water, Coral or Fish? All these things make up the ecosystem of the Great Barrier Reef. Even the water! WHAT WILL YOU LEARN? What is an ecosystem? What are […]
Introduction to Food Chains and Webs (WIP)
Year 7 & 8 Topics Food chains & food webs An Introduction to Food Webs & Food Chains What did you eat today? Did you have a bowl of cereal? Slice of toast with some eggs? Whatever you ate, you just became part of a food chain. In fact, anytime you eat, you are part of […]
Questions: Categorising Plants
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Questions Categorising plants MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS SHORT ANSWERS Using the information you’ve just learnt, create a dichotomous key of the following plants. Roses Liverworts Ferns Campanulales Which group do the following plants belong to? Fruit tree Bird nest fern Rose bush Pine tree Grass Maidenhair fern What is a […]
Indigenous Science: Classification (WIP)
Year 7 & 8 TOC Indigenous Science Classification Classification (taxonomy) is the practice of defining and naming groups of living and non-living things, based on their shared characteristics. We use the taxonomy system created by Carl Linneaus to help us make sense of all the organisms on Earth. Linnean Taxonomy In Linnean taxonomy, organisms are […]
Categorising Plants
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Organising Plants Plants belong to the kingdom Plantae and are arguably one of the most important organisms on Earth! Without them life wouldn’t exist as we know it. In the Amazon alone, there are roughly 80,000 plant species. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN? What are some differences between plants? What […]
Questions: What are species?
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Questions What are species MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS SHORT ANSWERS Define the term Species. What happens when organisms from one species breed with other species? Imagine that you are a famous biologist working in the field, searching for a new species. As you search you stumbled on one of the […]
Questions: Scientific Names and Linnaean Taxonomy
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Questions Scientific Names and Linnaean Taxonomy MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS ACTIVITY Sort out the different levels below. SHORT ANSWERS Look at the images of the foxes. Are these all of the same species or different? Explain why you think this. What genus do these foxes belong too? Select 5 different […]
What are species
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification What are species? There are roughly 8.7 million species on our planet, but, what does that mean? WHAT WILL YOU LEARN? What are species? What happens with different species breed? What are examples of crossed species. Species Organisms in the same species group can breed with each other and […]
Scientific Names and Linnaean Taxonomy
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Scientific Names and Linnaean Taxonomy Think about your home. If you were talking to someone in another country, and explaining to them where your house was, you’d first start with the country, state, suburb, street and number. Each level becomes more specific until you eventually find your house. Classification […]
