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=Monkey at Ikea= Science 2012-13
 * Current Assignment: See today's Date! (It is highlighted in green)**

PLANTS




Background Information on Plants from FactMonster
Read and Listen to: Section 2. 6 A Closer Look at the Plant Kingdom

1. Why plants are so important to life on Earth? 2. How are plants classified? Into which group would you put the rose? Into which group would you put a spruce tree?
 * After reading/listening copy and complete answers for these questions in a pages document.**

Into which group would you put a apple tree? 3. Describe how plants reproduce.

Save it as "5/6G_PlantKingdom_yourfirstname"
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December 10-11 Watch: Plants

Living Things are grouped in five Kingdoms



Linius Classifies LIVING THINGS into 7 categories.

December 3, 2012
1. Watch Classifying Animals

2. Read/ Listen to:



3. Complete the questions on page 37 of this document above. These are the questions: 4.Answer the questions on this sheet:
 * 1) Explain why a spider is considered a member of the Animal kingdom.
 * 2) What characteristic can you use to separate all animals into two groups?
 * 3)  Look at Figure 3 . How can you tell that this animal is not a vertebrate?
 * 4)  Use Table 1 as a guide to help you identify which **class** of vertebrates an organism would belong to if it had the following characteristics:
 * a) breathes through lungs and lays eggs that have a shell
 * b) lives in the water and breathes through lungs ( Figure 4 )
 * c) lives on land and lays eggs in water
 * d) has a constant body temperature and gives birth to live babies



= FUN Information: = Animal Hybrids :

Pizzy A few examples Hinny

A list for some article on Wikipedia Bird Examples Panthera hybrids

Wildcat Hybrids

Bizarre: Sasquatch 2 Sasquatch

Plants
To Plan or Not to Plant

Fungi
Fun Facts About Fungi

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