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By: Brandon Locke & Zakeyia Bacon 4/21/11. What is Life?. Seven Characteristics Of Life. Cellular Organization Reproduction Metabolism Homeostasis Growth and Development Heredity Responsiveness. Teach Your Critter. Brandon- Animal Kingdom Spider- Animal Kingdom.
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By: Brandon Locke &Zakeyia Bacon 4/21/11 What is Life?
Seven Characteristics Of Life • Cellular Organization • Reproduction • Metabolism • Homeostasis • Growth and Development • Heredity • Responsiveness
Teach Your Critter Brandon- Animal Kingdom Spider- Animal Kingdom
Blue Footed Booby • A multi-cellular organism that is Eukaryote. • Secondary consumer who diets mainly consist of fish. • Their habitat is located on the continental coasts of the Eastern Pacific Ocean to the Galapagos Islands and California. • 32 inches long and weighs 3.3 lbs. The reproduce sexually and can lay between 2-3 eggs. • Main purpose is to keep fish from overpopulating • The Blue Footed Booby is that the males dance to impress females when they are ready to mate. • They also whistle out to the female to communicate.
Blue Footed Booby This is an image of a male Blue Footed booby who appears to be doing the mating dance to attract a potential mate.
Amoebas • An amoeba is a unicellular, microscopic, and an eukaryote organism. • It is found in terrestrial and aquatic habitats. • It reproduces asexually. • An amoeba is a secondary consumer and consumes it food by the process called phagocytosis. It eats bacteria and other smaller protist. • Its main purpose in life is to consume. • They are legendary as the ultimate “shape shifter” and also can be classified under many types of species.
Amoebas This is a micrograph of the amoeba.
Question 1 • Out of the following, which kingdom do the Blue Footed Booby belong to? • Animilia • Plant • Protist • Bacteria
Question 2 • Why is an amoeba legendary?
Question 3 True/False: • One interesting fact about the Amoeba is that it can be classified under many types of species.
Question 4 • What is a similarity between an amoeba and the blue footed booby? • They both are unicellular. • They are eukaryote. • They both have aquatic habitats. • Both B and C.
Question 5 Which is a difference between the Blue Footed Booby and the Amoeba? • They are secondary consumers. • Their main purpose is to consume. • They eat the same food. VS.
Works Cited • http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/kops_aman/classification.htm • http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/blue-footed-booby/ • http://www.esu.edu/~milewski/intro_biol_two/lab_8_protista/Protista.html • http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep01/amoeba.html