7th & 8th Grade Science Assignments
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Fall 2007
September 25th
Find definitions to the following words from our reading and know what the definitions mean.
Permaculture
Sustainable
Adventitious buds
Black fungus
Cambium
Herbaceous
Coniferous
Conflagration
Savannah
Alluvial
Intervales
Primeval
Decimating
Ancestral
Laurentide Ice Sheet
September 7th
In Class - Develop a policy that would serve you in doing all of your work on time and to the best of your ability.
Homework - Learn 4 new species of trees and bring in leaves from those trees.
September 10th
Be able to identify a few parts of a leaf and their function as well as some vocabulary we covered in class.
Blade, stomate, veins, lobes, serrated and the little hairs found on the under-side of many plant called trichomes. Bonus for anyone who knows what they do.
My apologies for the lack of clarity and for posting this later in the evening.
September 18th
Complete in-school assignment.
Describe some of the characteristics of the wooded slope behind Compass.
Use these clues to determine some possible histories associated with this area.
