Welcome to the Spring Semester!

Welcome to the Spring Semester of Zoology!

End of the Semester!

Zoology 9wks test on Tuesday, December 16th

Zoology Final Exam on Thursday, December 18th
8:05 - 1st block
9:45 - 2nd block

Mollusca and Echinoderm Test

Hi students,
Your next test is Tuesday, November 18th. The test is on ch. 12 Mollusca and ch. 16 Echinodermata. Study your notes, classification, and vocabulary terms for this test. The test will be on Senteo.
Mrs. Roberts

The Giant Leech

Hi Zoology Students!

You will take a field trip today online:
Go to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0305/01-hunt-nf.html

1. Click on the interactive version of the tour.
2. Answer the following questions on paper to keep up, but you MUST give me your answers by responding to the blog.
3. When you submit your answers on the blog, LEAVE ME YOUR NAME!
4. If you do not respond to the blog, YOU WILL NOT GET A GRADE ON THIS ASSIGNMENT!

Hunt for the Giant leech:
1. Who is the scientist that you are taking the tour with?
2. Where are you?
3. What are you and the scientist looking for?
4. Where are you going? What part of the world is that?
5. What are you doing in the forest?
6. Are we there yet? Describe the savannah swamps:
7. List and describe two creatures in the swamp:
8. How do we find these creatures?
9. Explain why you do not feel it if one bites you: (what is an anticoagulant?)
10. Describe what this leech looks like:
11. Just how big do they get, anyway? (explain "shortening")
12. Describe the leech on Roy Sawyer's arm:
13. What is the point of all of this? (why collect this leech?)

Birmingham Zoo Trip

The following students will be on a field trip Tuesday, October 21, to the Birmingham Zoo from 7:00 am until 5:30 p.m. Students will be hand feeding Lorikeets (tropical birds), seeing a variety of other animals, as well as answering questions from the iPod casting programs they will be viewing on their iPods.

Cody Hawkins
Hannah Farris
Tyneisha King
Amber Hodges
Ashton Scoggins
Julian Simmons
Chelsea Underwood
Meagan Wagner
Erin Kirby
Lindsay Byroad
Cory Campbell
Devonne Harris
Mackenzie McNatt
Emmalee Jones
Ashley May
Fallon Ingram
Ethan Hall
Kala Kerr
Benjamin Shook
Molly Gann
Tanner Barber
Casey Bendal
Ashley Letsinger
Mary Hensley
Kaitlin Collignon
Rebecca Remsburg
Elizabeth Riley
Jordan Bumpass
Rydreal Howard
Valerie Vess
Hannah Young
Shannon Baker
Justin Gray
Courtney Chapman
Brittany Jarmon
Khristina Davis
Akilah Abernathy
Jasmine Vinson
Megan Beattie
Lauren D’Atillio
Carmella (Kadie) Stevens
Megan Williams
Daniel Clement
Kenny Jones
Tasia Poellnitz
Morgan Fuller
Crystal Swim
Carly Woodis
Lauren Gist
Cheyenne Murdock

Sponge Vocab

Complete the following vocabulary terms:
Ch. 9 Phylum Porifera Vocabulary:
epidermal cells
incurrent openings
pore cells
gelatinous layer
amoeboid cells
spicules
collar cells (choanocytes)
spongocoel
osculum
incurrent canal
radial canal
gastrodermal cells
calcareous sponges
simplest canal system (asconoid)
advanced canal system (syconoid)
complex canal system (leuconoid)
glass sponges
encrusting sponge (bath sponges)