Name: _________________________

This take-home learning experience will be due at the beginning of class next week. You are allowed to use whatever class notes you have taken, or handouts I have given you. You are not allowed to work with other students. If your answer matches someone else’s answer, neither student will receive credit for the answer. If you do not understand the question, you should contact Tiare by Wednesday to receive help.

1) Describe or draw how you can tell a simple leaf from a leaflet?

2) Go outside and find a simple leaf. Using the vocabulary words from class, describe each of the following characteristics for your leaf: (When you are done, pick the leaf and attach it to the page using tape or a stapler. No leaf = no credit!)

Attachment:

Arrangement:

Shape:

Margin:

Extra credit (5 points): What is the name of the plant this leaf is from?

3) Your friends are about to go to a nursery to look for a cool plant for their front yard. You want to make sure they don’t buy an invasive plant, so you tell them: (describe what an invasive plant is and characteristics (such as how they spread) of an invasive plant)

4) Despite your best efforts, your friends come home with English ivy. You whine and scream and threaten to cut it down, wad it up, and stick it in a tree. They say, "What’s the big deal? We’re just planting a little bit in our yard because it looks so pretty growing up the side of the chimney. It’s not like we’re hurting any wildlife in our yard or anything! Loosen up!" Explain to them why homeowners shouldn’t plant invasive species, and how they affect the native ecosystems and plant and animals living there:

5) Why do some naturalists believe that having an "attitude of gratitude" as you enter a place is a big part of the Routine of Invisibility?

6) Complete the following tourist test:

Which direction do you face when you walk out the front door of your regular school?

Where would the sun rise?

When you last walked out the front door, was there any wind? If so, which direction did it come from?

One the way in, what birds sounds did you notice?

What flowers are blooming around the school?

What did the moon look like last night?

Name a tree a beaver would eat at our site:

Draw a deer print:

7) Using the MLA format, correctly (and neatly!) write the bibliographic citation for the following book:

Life In The Cold, by Peter Marchand. Published by University Press of New England, which is in Hanover. The years on the inside cover say 1987, 1991, and 1996.

8) Let’s pretend a Chinook salmon laid her eggs in a redd in Newell Creek last November. Based on your observations and things you have learned this quarter, what are some of the water quality problems and issues the eggs might encounter? In your answer, consider the condition of the watershed (how might farms, parking lots, forested areas, etc affect parameters such as the streamflow, temperature, turbidity, etc.)

9) Let’s pretend the eggs from the previous question survived, and became alevins, then fry, then smolt, migrated to the ocean, and decided it was time to return to Newell Creek to spawn. What are some of the obstacles that might interfere with their ability to reproduce in Newell Creek?