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=The Day's Assignment=

=**A Brief History of Diving**= 2. Sponge fishermen did not understand the importance of the equalization of pressure, how did they try and compensate for the pressure. 3. The Persian King Xerxes was the first person to use divers as salvors. What is a salvor? 4. It was frowned upon for females to dive into the ocean because it was believe that they would lose what from the water pressure? 5. How were the first two groups of people to use combat divers? 6. Alexander the great used "demolition divers" long before the birth of Christ. What was their purpose? 7. Salvors got paid on a three prong scale. How was it determined what they would get paid? 8. Provide three chores for Industrial revolution warfare divers. 9. Who gets credit for the first diving apparatus? 10. What was the hydrostatergatic machine? 11. What were two problems with early diving bells? 12. What was American John Smeaton's contribution to diving? 13. John Deane and his brother Charles are credited with improved diving devices, however, what did they patent first? 14. The royal George operation is the first cutting edge underwater salvage operation because of the use of this item. 15. What is an umbilical?
 * 1.** History has traced one of the first reasons for diving to occur for a reason other then food to Mesopotamia. What form did the Mesopotamians use diving for?

=Tidal Energy= Open a new word document, type your name, hit return, center justify and title the document Tidal Energy. Click on the file below and read the article. Copy and paste the following questions into the document. 1. Explain why tidal energy is considered renewable. 2. Provide three reasons why engineers are trying to improve the technology of tidal energy generators. 3. Why is tidal energy considered to be more powerful then wind energy? 4. Why is the United States struggling to make tidal energy more effective? 5. Why is tidal energy considered yo be more steady and reliable electricity compared to wind? 6. Provide two positive reasons why turbines are more effective in shallow water as compared to deep water. 7. What are the three different ways to obtain tidal energy? 8. Out of the three possible ways to obtain tidal energy, which one do you feel is most effective and why?

=Current Event - Sponges in the Medical Field=

=**Sponges: More Than Just a Bathroom Accessory**= Open a blank word document and type your name. Hit return, center justify and title it Sponges: More Than Just a Bathroom Accessory. Copy and past the following questions onto the document. Sponges: More than just a bathroom accessory 1. Define sessile. 2. What does the word Porifera mean? 3. Provide two reasons early naturalists thought sponges were plants. 4. What two systems do sponges lack unlike many other multicellular organisms? 5. What is a filter feeder? 6. What two features play a major role in the poriferan process? 7. What ability do sponges show to form new fully functional sponges? 8. List the three layers that make up a sponge and their role to the sponge? 9. Why are sponges typically found in areas of clean water with a low sedimentation rate? 10. What is a symbiont? 11. Since sponges only obtain about 90% of all food from the water they filter, where do they obtain the other 10%? 12. What are the Classes of sponges? 13. What two factors do scientists use to determine the class for a species of sponge? 14. Sponges have no bone but yet can be very rigid. List three different types of supporting structures in a sponge. 15. Why is one class of sponges able to grow at depth in which another class cannot? 16. Sponges are hermaphroditic. What does that mean? 17. What is a gemule? 18. What determines if a sponge can be used as bath sponge? 19. What are do the best bath sponges come from? Why? 20. Since sponges are sessile, explain their defense system. Use the article below to answer the questions.

=**Spawning Generations of Jellies**= Open a blank word document and type your name. Hit return, center justify and title it Spawning Generations of Jellies. Copy and past the following questions onto the document. 1. What percent of a jellyfish is made up of water? 2. How does the amount of food available effect the body of a jellyfish? 3. How many different developmental forms does a jelly display throughout its life cycle? 4. What are the swimming larvae of a jelly called? 5. What is needed for a jellyfish to become a polyp? 6. Explain the reproduction process of the polyp jellyfish. 7. Research what is the largest jellyfish in the ocean? 8. Research what is the smallest jelly fish in the ocean? 9. What jellyfish are most commonly found on the East coast? Use the Article below to answer the questions above.

=Coral Reefs= 1) What are the basic physical characteristics of the coral reef environment? On the map, indicate and label in orange two of the three largest barrier reefs. 2) Why do reefs usually develop in areas where there is a lot of wave action? 3) What are some of the different types of coral species that inhabit coral reefs? List at least 3 and give a brief description of each. Color green and label as many coral reefs that you can find that are considered healthy or not in danger. 4) What specific types of fish species live within the coral reef environment? What role do they play in the environment? 5) What is coral bleaching? How does this happen? Color red and label as many coral reefs that you can find that are considered threatened or endangered. 6) What contributes to coral bleaching? Can it be reversed? Color black and label and coral reefs that have been lost to bleaching, human activity or any other reason. (in other words, they have been destroyed completely or are almost completely lost) 7) What types of organisms live and rely on coral reefs? What organisms use coral as a food source? 8) Provide 6 types of human activities that contribute to decline in coral reefs and coral reef diversity? 9) What types of research are being done on coral reefs? What things have scientists learned from reefs that may benefit humans? 10) Coral reefs make up roughly what percent of the ocean's floor? 11) Roughly, what percent of life in the ocean house themselves around a reef?

Part 2 - Use the article below to answer questions 9 through 11

12) What does the article state was established in 2006 by President George W. Bush?

13) What does the article describe as "harms" to coral reefs?

14) What does the article state that is the greatest threat to coral reefs and humans? Take a look at the marine reserve by going to this link: http://www.papahanaumokuakea.gov/ . Take the "virtual visit" and click through the links under "monument features".

=Class Asteroidea= Open a new blank document and type your name. Hit return, then center justify and title it Class Asteroidea. Pick four of the following members of class Asteroidea: (Pillow star, Cushion star, Cake Sea star, Crown of Thorns, Bat star, Brisingid, Basket star, Shiny sun star). Provide a picture of each of the stars you opt for. In looking at the pictures, discuss some possible reasons for the vast differences in structure, habitat, feeding, reproduction, defense, color scheme and so forth. Research if you must.

=Sea Urchins= Open a new document. Type your name, hit return, center justify and title the assignment Sea Urchins. Copy and paste the following questions into the document. Click on the link below to view the video. 1. What part of the lep do the sea urchins feed on? 2. What is the name of the part of the kep that attaches to the rocks? 3. How many teeth do sea urchins have? 4. Provide two characteristics of sea urchin teeth. 5. According to the video, what is an urchin barren? 6. What kind of organisms, vertebrates or invertebrates, move into an urchin barren? List three different specific species. 7. What is the apex, top of the chain, predator of an urchin barren? 8. What does the giant sunflower star use to locate the brittle stars? 9. How does the body structure of sea urchins and sand dollars differ? 

=Echinoderm Webquest= Use the following [|link] to answer the questions on the worksheet.

=**Squid Assignment**= http://www.questgarden.com/55/07/2/070918070832/task.htm 1. Provide a picture of a squid. 2. Provide a picture of an octopus. 3. Most people think that a squid and an octopus are the same thing, but really they are quite different. Find 4 similarities and 4 differences between the two. 4. The smallest squids are only about 2.5 cm long, and the largest one recorded so far was about 20 meters long and weighed close to 1000 pounds! Find 8 characteristics of squid. 5. Describe the movement method of a squid. 6. The giant squid was often referred to in early times as the Kraken. It struck great fear into early sailors because of it's shear size. It's legend carry forward in what two literary works? 7. Provide a picture of a snail, clam, and a squid. Provide at least one sound reason on why they can possibly be in the same class. 8. Discuss four means of defense the squid possess and how they can be considered a means of defense. 9. What advantage if any does traveling in a shoal have for squid? 10. What is the hectocotyl? Discuss the function of this appendage? 11. What advantage is there to a female squid laying eggs in a packet next to another females? In some places people actually eat squid! It may sound strange but people all over the world enjoy eating squid. To learn more, [|click here] (then scroll down to the "As Food" section) 12. What is the italian word used to market squid as food? 13. Provide two vitamins or minerals that squid is a good source of.
 * Open a word document. Copy the and paste the following questions into the word document. Using your notes, the book, and the internet, answer the questions. Remember to bold the questions and to put your name on the assignment. The following sites will help.**

=**Crab Assignment**= Research the Blue crab. Blue crabs are broken up into four different groups. Explain how the color of the claws can be used to determine the sex of a blue crab. Claws however are not the only way to determine the sex of a blue crab. The sex of a crab can also be determined by is called the "apron". Provide four pictures of the aprons which identify the male crab, the "sally", the "sook", and the "sponge". Explain the difference function of the apron for the three types of females.

=Crab Dissection=

1. Locate one of the chelipeds. Briefly try opening and closing the fingers at the end of the cheeped. What is the difference between the fingers? What kind of advantage does this provide for the crab if any (note the teeth on each finger)? 2. Crabs tend to move backwards and sideways, very seldom do they move forward. Looking at the dorsal side of your crab, provide three possible reasons they would move in these directions. 3. Crabs are in order Decapoda. Count the pairs of walking legs on your crab. How many do they have? Is it appropriate to classify them in this order? If so, why? 4. Crabs are in phylum Arthropoda because they have biramonous appendages and jointed appendages. How many joint do they have on the first four pair of legs? 5. How many joints are on the last pair of walking legs? 6. Describe the design of the last pair of walking legs. Pay special attention to the propodus and dactyl. What do you think the function of these legs can be? 7. Flip your crab over so the ventral side is visible. Draw a picture of the apron of your crab. Be sure to observe the different aprons of the crabs throughout the class. 8. What s the sex of your crab? How many males and females were found in your class? 9. What kind of symmetry does the blue crab display? How do you know? 10. Looking at the ventral side of your crab, you can tell the crab has a segmented body. The cephalic region is the outer most area. How many segments are located in that region? The thoracic region is next inside of the cephalic region. How many segments are in the thoracic region? The last region is in the abdominal region. When you unfold the apron, the abdominal region becomes visible. How many segments are there? (Hint: segments 3,4,&5 are fused together) 11. Do a little research, is your crab considered legal size for harvesting?
 * External Observations:**

The following link provides valuable drawn diagrams including labels. It also provides terms and definitions. http://home.earthlink.net/~wweinkle/Crablab.htm

1. The blue crab, callinectes, is a member of the phylum arthropod. Of what subphylum is it a member? 2. Name the four potential body segments common in arthropods. 3. How are crustaceans adapted for marine life when compared to terrestrial arthropods like insects? 4. How does the term ‘decapod’ relate to the external anatomy of the blue crab you observed today? 5. How do the feeding habits of this blue crab differ from another crustacean, the barnacle? 6. What anatomical features did you observe on the crab today that would aid it in feeding? 7. Which type of crab are you more likely to encounter – a hard-shelled or soft-shelled crab? Why? 8. Which type of crab, hard-shelled or soft-shelled, is more vulnerable to predators? 9. In which of these forms must females be to mate? 10. Is the exoskeleton of a crab living or non-living? 11. How does the exoskeleton of a crab affect its ability to grow? 12. Describe two materials of which the exoskeleton of a crab may be composed. 13. What are the structural differences you notice between the swimming legs and walking legs and how does this relate to their purpose? 14. What is the term used to described the shedding of old exoskeleton? 15. Name two features of a crusteacean nervous system that you observed today. 16. Describe how a statocyst works to restore balance for crustaceans? 17. What modified appendages are used by females to carry eggs? 18. What would you observe on your crab if you wanted to know its gender? 19. Describe the functions of the following blue crab anatomical structures: a. Carapace b. Maxilliped c. Cheliped d. Antennae
 * Post-Lab Questions:**

=Current Event - Chesapeake Blue Crab Rebound=

=**Lobster Assignment**= Open a new word document and type your name. Center justify and title it Lobster Assignment. Copy and paste the following questions on the document. 1. Obtain a picture of the Maine Lobster and the Spiny Lobster. 2. From the pictures, identify two physical difference between the lobsters. 3. Describe the habitat difference between the two species. 4. Research why the Maine lobster tends to have a sweeter tasting meat as compared to the spiny lobster. 5. Which species has more meat in its tail? Explain. 6. What is the largest lobster ever caught? Provide weight and length.

=**Crayfish Dissection**= 1. What is the telson's function? 2. Describe the location of the uropods to the telson. How do they add to the function of the telson? 3. What is the function of the swimmerets? Ho does their function differ from the telson's function? 4. What is the function of the chelipeds? Why can they be different sizes from one another? 5. Locate the rostrum. What is cephalization? What organ would you expect to find in the rostrum? 6. What is the function of the carapace? 7. What segments of the crayfishes body make up the carapace? 8. What organ in humans are the gills equivalent? 9. Why are the gills so feathery? 10. Remove one gill and draw on high power. 11. Gently remove one walking leg and you should see that a gill is attached to each walking leg. Explain how this may be important to the function of the gills. 12. Locate the cardiac stomach. Carefully cut it open and find the gastric mill (reddish brown "teeth") Describe their function. 13. Locate the brain. Draw a sketch of the brain and describe the nerves coming off of it in terms of symmetry. 14. Locate the large intestine. What is its function? Is it wise or unwise to eat it when eating a lobster? (explain)

=Current Event - This Tiny American Town is Staking Its Future on Chinese Foodies=

=Current Event - Why is lobster so gosh-darn expensive?=

March 10th -Blog [|article]

=**Fish Anatomy**= 1. What characteristics do all fishes have in common? 2. What characteristics of a coelacanth cause it to be classed as fish? 3. What features do the coelacanth and the bull shark have in common? 4. Which features of a coelacanth are similar to those of a lamprey? 5. Do you think a coelacanth is more closely related to a bull shark or a lamprey? Explain your reasoning.

=**Overfishing and Destructive Fishing Methods**= Open a new word document. Type your name and hit return. Center Justify and title it Overfishing and Destructive Fishing Methods. Copy and paste the following twenty questions into the document. Read the following article to help you answer the questions. Use the internet to aid in answering any questions you need to. Overfishing and Destructive Fishing Threats 1. What percentage of the world’s reefs are threatened by overfishing and or destructive fishing? 2. Provide four reasons why fish stocks are increasingly threatened. a. b. c. d. 3. What is overfishing? 4. List three negative out comes from overfishing? 5. What is blast or dynamite fishing? 6. How does blast fishing effect reefs? 7. Why does the type of water level where blast fishing takes place make it unsustainable? 8. Why is cyanide used in fishing? 9. What two places benefit from cyanide fishing? 10. What percentage of fish harvested by cyanide die soon after being harvested? 11. Why are gill nets or beach seines so destructive? 12. What is ghost fishing? 13. What is hookah diving? 14. How have scuba and hookah diving affected fisheries? 15. Why are methods like dynamite, gill nets, and beach seines considered to be highly unsustainable? 16. List five impacts of overfishing and destructive fishing? 17. List three coral reef stressors that magnifying the effect on reefs when combined with overfishing and destructive fishing practices? a. b. c. 18. Provide five management strategies in place to address overfishing and destructive fishing. a. b. c. d. e. 19. What is a no-take area? 20. Provide an effective management strategy that was not provided in the reading but could benefit fish populations. Think about the methods we discussed that were used with Arthropods.

=Meet Menhaden= Read the linked article. Once you are done reading the article, answer the following questions. 1. Provide a picture of menhaden 2. Menhaden is a simple filter feeder, just like whales and herring. What makes menhaden different than those other filter feeders? 3. Provide two reasons why Omega Protein is harvesting Menhaden? 4. What does the name menhaden mean? What was the first use of this fish? 5. The U.S. government has spent millions of dollars keeping the menhaden fishing industry functioning for menhaden oil, animal feed, and fertilizer. This has been wasted money and ecologically damaging because those three items have been replaced with what two substitiutes? 6. Describe the fishing technique used by OMega Protein. Why is this techniques successful? 7. Define "forage" fish. 8. What is the importance of the role of menhaden in the ocean? 9. Define Ocean Dead Zone. 10. What will happen if menhaden are eliminated from the ocean?
 * Open a word document. Copy the and paste the following 10 questions into the word document. Using your notes, the book, and the internet, answer the questions. Remember to bold the questions and to put your name on the assignment. Do not use copyrighted pictures!**

= Sharkfinning = Open a word document and type your name. Hit return, center justify and title the document Shakfinning. Copy and paste the 20 questions below into the document. 1. What is sharkfinning? 2. WHere does most shark finning take place? Why? 3. What type of shark is taken for it's fins? 4. What is a longline? 5. Why do you think a longline is used to catch sharks? 6. Why has shark finning increased over the last decade or so? 7. What two reasons has improved the fisherman's ability to catch sharks? 8. How much do shark fins sell for? provide 8 impacts of shark finning 9. 10.  11.  12.  13.  14.  15.  16.  17. Each country is responsible for maintaining their fishing waters and controlling finning. How far off the coastline is really owned by a country? 18. What percentage of shark population is estimated to already be destroyed? 19. Who is seas shepard? 20. What could happen to the ecosystem of the marine world if sharks go extinct?

Use the following sites to help with the above questions. www.sharkwater.com try the education link

http://www.seashepherd.org/ usa.oceana.org

Create a folder on your desktop and label it shark finning. Collect a minimum of 25 different pictures displaying shark finning or that would show the stress sharks are under due to finning.

=** Creatures of the Deep **= Open a word document. Type your name and title the document Creatures of the Deep. Copy and paste the questions onto the document. Click on the following [|website] and scroll over the dark black square at the top and locate the hatchet fish and answer questions 1 through 5. Return to the main page and scroll over the black square and locate the gulper eel. Click on it and answer questions 6 through 10. Return the the main page and locate the firefly squid. Click on it and answer questions. Make sure all answers are in bold. 1. Provide a picture of the hatchetfish. 2. Define photophores. 3. Provide two defensive adaptations the hatchet fish exhibits to survive in the darkest parts of the ocean. 4. What two roles do the photophores play for the hatchetfish. 5. Does the hatchet fish search for food below it or above it? Explain why. 6. Provide a picture of the gulper eel. 7. How does the gulper eel use photophores to survive? 8. Why must it use the photophores? 9. Due to it's huge mouth, the gulper eel can consume prey the size of itself, which would really slow it down, how is this possibly a advantage to this fish? 10. Explain one physiological adaptation gulper eels have that help their species continue to survive. 11. Provide a picture of the firefly squid. 12. What two reasons firefly squids use their ability to make light? 13. Provide one physiological adaptation shown by the firefly squid and its believed purpose

=**Fact or Myth**= 1. Most sharks are harmful to humans. 2. Sharks must rollover on the their sides to bite their food. 3. Sharks eat continuously. 4. Sharks prefer human blood. 5. Sharks are not discriminating eaters and scavenge the sea. 6. Whale sharks are voracious predators of fish. 7. The great white shark is a common species of shark. 8. Sharks are not found in fresh water. 9. Sharks cruise at high speeds when swimming. 10. Sharks brains are too small to learn. 11. Shark meat is poisonous to humans. 12. All sharks must continuously swim or they will drown. 13. Sharks have poor vision. 14. Sharks are hard to kill. 15. All sharks are the same. 16. Sharks are considered to be trash fish. 17. The biggest enemy to sharks is man. 18. The largest extinct shark was over 12 meters long. 19. The smallest shark is less than 10 inches long. 20. The great white shark has the largest mouth. 21. The great white produces the strongest bite. 22. Sharks migrate. 23. Sharks can't dive more than a mile deep. 24. There are more than 450 species of sharks in the ocean. 25. Sharks have played a vital role in maintaining healthy oceans for hundreds of millions of years. 26. Sharks are being hunted for their meat. 27. It is estimated that there are more than 100 million sharks killed annually today. 28. Sharks have constantly evolved over the past 100 million years. 29. Sharks shed their teeth constantly. 30. Shark livers contain lots of oils which help them dive deep.
 * Open a new word document and type your name, hit return, center justify, title the assignment Fact or Myth. Copy and past the following statements into the word document. Use the internet to research whether the state is a fact or a myth. If the statement is a fact bold the entire statement. If the statement is a myth, change the underlined word to make the statement a fact.**

=**Bull Sharks**= Open a word document. Type your name hit return and title the document Bull Sharks (Center Justify). Save the document the same name as the title. Copy and paste the following questions on the document. Use the linked article provided to answer the following questions. 1. What is osmoregulation? 2. Explain how Bull sharks are able to survive in both saltwater and freshwater. 3. How does the Bull shark separate it's external environment with it's internal environment? 4. In which direction does the flow of water take place between the external and internal environments? 5. Explain the difference in the process of osmoregulation between freshwater and saltwater animals? 6. How do sharks remove the build up of excess salts in their body? 7. Why will most sharks die if put in a freshwater environment? 8. What organ in the bull shark is responsible to adjust their osmoregulation to the present environment they are in? What factor of the environment causes the adjustment to take place? 9. Describe the process of the adaptation of the osmoregulation of a Bull shark that migrate from a freshwater lake down river and back into the ocean.

=**Marine Fishes Concept Map**= Click on the file below and it will open in word. There is a text box where the word Name is typed. Type your name. All the shapes and lines have been grouped together. Use the words located at the bottom of the map to fill in the circles to the concepts they are related to. You may only use each word once. You may use your notes to help you fill in the words. You must insert text boxes into the circles in order to type in your answers. You may decrease the font size if needed, as long as it is readable.

=**The Inspiration for Jaws?**= Open a word document and type your name, hit enter, center justify, and title the document The Inspiration for Jaws? Copy and paste the question below into the document. Click on the [|link] and read the article to answer the questions. 1. After a shark attack takes place, scientists believe there are five phases of reaction from the general public. List the five phases. 2. Why is there the potential for denial after a shark attack? 3. Why did the first couple of assumption about the attack in the Matawan Creek not include the idea of a shark? 4. Explain how scientists try to determine the species of shark responsible for any attack? Watch the first video clip 5. What is acoustic telemetry? 6. How does Mark Ryan believe sharks are being conditioned by fishermen? 7. Provide three place where the public would have obtained information about sharks in the early 1900's. 8. Why were sharks not a priority to research in the early 1900's? 9. What was at one time the reason given for sharks coming close to shore? 10. How did the East coast towns react after the 1916 shark attacks? 11. Do you believe that the shark caught after the attacks was responsible for the attacks? Explain your answer. 12. What kind of role did the press play in the early 1900's with regards to the shark attack? = = = = = = = = =**Jaws**= Open a new word document. Type your name hit return and then center justify the title Jaws. Copy and past the following questions into the document and save the document as Jaws. 1. What is the name of the theory in which Hooper explains to Chief Brody why jaws continues to feed in the same place? 2. Explain the theory in the above question. According to the movie, without killing the shark, how can you get him to leave the area? 3. At one point in the movie, Quince asks hooper what he can do with his gear. Hooper tells Quince he can kill the shark by pumping Sodium Pentathol into his mouth. Why must he inject him in the mouth? 4. According to the movie, where do most shark attacks take place? Is this accurate? Explain why or why not? 5. Besides hearing from both Hooper and Quince that Jaws is a great white shark, provide one other piece of evidence noticeable in the movie that confirms Jaws is a great white? (Hint: No other shark can do this action) 6. Explain the technique used by the guys on the USS Indianapolis when they abandoned ship. Was it a successful technique to save them from the sharks? Explain. 7. What is the purpose of putting barrels into the shark? How does this work towards killing the shark? 8. What is “chum”? What is the purpose of chumming? 9. What island does Jaws take place? Research it’s location and discuss if it would be plausible to find great white sharks in that location. Explain why you would or would not find Great Whites in those waters. 10. Explain why Hooper thinks sharks are the perfect killing machine. Provide some evidence to support this thought. 11. What role did the movie Jaws play in people’s fear sharks? Is the media irresponsible in the way it portrays sharks? Explain. 12. Breifly research some of the following movies. How have movies depicted sharks? Jaws series (1975, 1978, 1983, 1987) Tintorera (1977) Great White (1980) Cruel Jaws (1995) Deep Blue Sea (1999) Shark Attack series (1999, 2001, 2002) Open Water (2003) Red Water (2003) Shark Tale (2004) 13. How is Hopper able to determine that the Tiger shark that is caught is not the shark they are looking for? 14. Describe the overall view of the tiger shark from the media, especially the newspaper man. 15. How did the presence of a shark effect the local towns people.

=**Shark Attacks!**= **Open a new word document. Type our name and title it Shark Attacks!Copy and paste the 8 questions below on a word document.** Go to the [|website] provided and read the information provided there. Take special note of the graphs provided as well. Once you are done reading the information, answer the following questions. If the link does not work use the file below 1. What is possible for the large difference in attack between surfers, swimmers, divers, and kayakers? 2. Why do you think there is such a large difference in attackers between swimmers and kayakers when the both exhibit roughly the same shape? 3. What three months account for a majority of the shark attacks? 4. What possible reasons can be given for the high attacks in these three months? 5. Explain why or why not time of day plays a factor in when sharks attack. 6. Do some research on abalone and explain how they are hunted and where they live. 7. Why do most shark attacks on people who are gathering marine organisms usually occur on those who are hunting abalone? 8. Why do you think that White sharks account for such a large majority of shark attacks?

=**World's Sharks Under Dire Threat from lethal foe: Us**= 1. On average, how many people are killed worldwide from shark attacks? 2. What is "finning"? 3. Why have unprovoked attacks off of US shores risen in past century? 4. What percent of shark species are described as being threatened with extinction? How many species is that? 5. Why is the demand for shark fin soup being driven up in the Asian cultures? 6. What species of shark was recently classified as critically endangered? 7. What are spiny dogfish and porbeagle sharks hunt for? Which country is responsible for a majority of hunting of these two species? 8. US vessels caught 6.2 million pounds of spiny dogfish. What amount in poundage would have been acceptable?
 * Open a new word document. Type your name hit return and title the document Sharks under threat (center justify). Save the document the name as the title. Copy and paste the following questions on the document. Use the provided [|website] to help answer the questions.**

=**Shark Feeding**= Open a word document. Type your name and hit return. Center justify and title it Shark Feeding. Save the document the same as the title. Use pictures that are not copyrighted. Provide a picture of the Thresher shark, Cookie cutter shark, Chain Catshark, Greenland shark, and the Porbeagle shark. Under each picture, include the name of each shark, an identifiable feature of each shark, one very unique feature of each of the sharks. (Hint: all unique features should somehow be tied to feeding).

=**History of Whaling**= Obtain two pieces of blank printer paper. Tape them together by their short ends so you have the longest possible space to work with. Use a ruler to split the paper in halfway long ways. Use the dates provided to create a timeline. Provide an event and small explanation of the event for each of the dates provided that deals with whaling. Use pages 194 - 196 in your textbook.
 * 6000bc || 1600 || 1800 || 1900 ||
 * 1930 || 1936 || 1946 || 1963 ||
 * 1965 || 1972 || 1974 || 1987 ||
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=**Why Do Some Countries Still Hunt Whales?**= Open a new word document and type your name and hit return. Center Justify and title the document "Why Do Some Countries Still Hunt Whales". Copy and paste the following questions into the document. Read the article linked and use the information to answer the questions. 1. Besides Iceland, list two other countries that practice whaling today. 2. What two species of whales are hunted by Iceland? 3. What are the two justifications that Iceland provides for hunting whales? 4. Since only a small percentage of Icelandic people eat whale meat, what is done with a majority of the meat? 5. What does it mean to be listed as "least concern" by the international Union for Conservation of Nature? 6. Why are accurate population estimates difficult to obtain on whales? 7. What reason does Japan provide for hunting whales today? 8. Why is Japan scientific research whaling program criticized? 9. What does it mean to be subsidized by the government? 10. Why are some species of whale listed as endangered in some places but not in others?

=**Early Whale Management**= Blue Whale Units (BWU) 1 BWU = one blue whale = 20 tons oil 1 BWU = one blue whale, or two fin whales, or two and-a-half humpback whales, or six sei whales Calculate the total oil collection, or BWUs, for the following whale takes: 1. From 1950 to 1955, the crew of the Revolution harvested 10,000 fin whales. How much oil did they collect? __BWU__ amount of oil 2. In 1850, the crew of the Margaret collected 9,750 tons of oil from blue whales. Approximately how many whales did they harvest? 3. What would happen if the entire BWU quota had been met by taking only one species of whale, like the fin whale, for example? 4. Could whalers wipe out a species even while following regulations? Explain. 5. Does the BWU system seem like a sustainable management plan? Why or why not? Explain. Marine Mammal Protection Act 6. Why was the MMPA a significant piece of legislation? 7. How is this different from the International Whaling Commission’s (IWC’s) blue whale quota system? 8. Is there evidence that the MMPA has indeed protected marine mammals in U.S. waters? Give examples.

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December 8 & 9 - Whale Populations

December 12 - Blueworldtv - Hawiian Spinner Dolphins / Yuk! No MOre Stomach For Whale Questions December 14 - Yuk No More Stomach For Whale Essay December 15 - Yuk No More Stomach For Whale Essay

=**Dolphins vs. Porpoises**= Click on the following [|link]. Create a free account under personnel. You are going to create a glog with the title Dolphins vs. Porpoises. Your glog should include at least two pictures. You should include four physical features of dolphins and then four physical features of porpoises. The glog should also include a 3 to 5 sentence paragraph explaining the difference in social behavior between the two species.

=**Pinnipedia**= USe your Glog account from the previous day. Create a new one titled Pinnipedia. You may use the internet, but pages 185 and 186 from the textbook will be of great benefit. Your glog should include three pictures, one each of seals, sea lions, and walruses. You should have two physical features for both seals and walruses. Sea Lions should have four physical features. You should then discuss diet, habitat, swimming style, need for land, and the threats faced for the three animals.

=**Take a Number, Mr. Walrus.**= Open a word document. Type your name and hit return. Center justify and title the document. Copy and paste the five questions provided into the word document. Click on the [|link] provided and read the article to help with answering the questions. 1. Why is the walrus situation less serious then that of other animals, like polar bears? 2. What is a candidate species? 3. Provide four reasons a walrus needs the ice to survive? 4. Why is land not as good as ice for the walrus? (Provide at least two reasons) 5. What is causing mass migrations by the walrus?

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=**Vaquita Assignment**= http://money.cnn.com/interactive/news/vaquita-business-of-extinction/ 1. Besides the vaquita, what are animals are contained in the cetacean grouping? 2. Explain why it may take years to confirm whether or not the last two vaquitas found dead could or could not be the last remaining vaquitas. 3. Provide two physical characteristics of the vaquita. 4. Which country is indirectly responsible for the decline of the vaquita? 5. Vaquita are really just considered by catch as poachers are hunting what? 6. What body part of the endangered totoaba fish is in great demand in china? 7. What is the above body part used for? 8. The value of the body part hunted for rivals in value to what drug? 9. What two methods has the Mexican government tried to incorporate to save the vaquita? 10. How if at all will the US government effect the future of the vaquita? 11. What is the marine mammal commission? 12. What is the Soutwest Fisheries Science Center? 13. What is a fishery? 14. What device did scientists use to try and determine the number of vaquitas? 15. Even if saved, why would it take so long for the vaquita population to grow? 16. Do some research and list five other fish, besides the totoaba fish and the vaquita, that are effect by the black market for fish products. 17. Authorities have turned to trying to implement a traceability program with marine mammals to thwart the blackmarket. What is a traceability program? Can they be successful?
 * Click on the following link and view the video.**
 * Open a word document and type your name, hit enter, center justify and title the document Vaquita. After viewing the video clink on the following link and read the document.**
 * Copy and paste the questions below into the document. use information from the video and article to answer the questions.**

http://money.cnn.com/interactive/news/vaquita-business-of-extinction/

= = November 30th - Yuk! No More Stomach for Whale Article and Questions December 3rd - Yuk! No MOre Stomach for Whale Essay December 4th - Research for Calderon Dolphin Massacre December 5th - Research for Calderon Dolphin Massacre December 6th - Research for Calderon Dolphin Massacre December 7th - Notes / Blueworldtv.com - Wilma the Whale / Blog - At What Cost? December 10th - Marine Mammals Webquest December 11th - Marine Mammals Webquest December 12th - December 13th - Blueworldtv.com - Sea Lions December 14th - No class December 17th - Mr. Walrus / Cetaceans & Pinnipeds Crossword / Blog - Tagging Sea Life December 18th - Mr. Walrus / Cetaceans & Pinnipeds Crossword / Blog - Tagging Sea Life December 19th - Pinnipeds Webquest December 20th - Pinnipeds Webquest December 21st - Volleyball Tournament January 3rd - Notes on Marine Reptiles January 4th - January 7th - Sea Turtle Webquest APES January 8th - Sea Turtle Webquest APES / Blueworldtv - Sea Turtles January 9th - Chapter 10 Crossword January 10th - Sea Turtle Conservation Webquest January 11th - Sea Turtle Conservation Webquest January 14th - Blueworldtv - Swimming with Sea Cows / Notes January 15th - Chapter 10 Worksheet January 16th - No School January 17th - Test 3 January 18th - Finish ongoing work = =

November 18th -Shark Finning Clips and Questions November 21st - Chapter 9 Notes and Crossword November 22nd - Dolphins vs. Porpoises Poster - Postermywall.com November 23rd - Dolphins vs. Porpoises Poster - Postermywall.com November 29th - Calderon Dolphin Slaughter - Research Paper November 30th - Calderon Dolphin Slaughter - Research Paper December 1st - Notes / Blog - At What Cost? December 2nd - Quiz / Video Segment Log - Giants of the Depths December 5th - Marine Mammals Webquest December 6th - Marine Mammals Webquest / Orcas Video clip / Blog - How Intelligent are Cetaceans? December 7th - Video Segment Log - The Shark and the Whale (Buleworldtv.com) / Current Event 4 Due Dec. 21st December 8th - Chapter 9 Worksheet December 9th - Quiz / Whale Notes December 12th - Yuk! No More Stomach for Whale article questions and essay December 13th - Yuk! No More Stomach for Whale article questions and essay / Blueworld - WIlma the Whale December 14th - Notes / Pinnipeds Webquest December 15th - Blueworldtv - Swimming with Sea Cows / Finish Pinnipeds Webquest December 16th - Quiz / Cetaceans and Pinnipeds Crossword / Take a Number Mr. Walrus Article and questions December 19th - APES Sea Turtle Webquest December 20th - APES Sea Turtle Webquest December 21st - APES Sea Turtle Webquest / Blog - Manatees and the changing climate December 22nd -Volleyball Tournament January 3rd - Sea Turtle Conservation Webquest January 4th - Sea Turtle Conservation Webquest Janaury 5th - Turtle Notes January 6th - Blueworldtv.com - Sea turtles / Blog - Re-establishing Sea Turtles