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Reid- Ecosystems - Patterns

MS: Middle School

Created on October 16, 2024

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Activity

Patterns

Describe annual and daily patterns and how the environment impacts them.
Torpor helps bears avoid danger!

Bears can sleep for 100 days without eating, drinking, or passing waste. They can turn their urine into protein.

FACT: Bears go into torpor.
MYTH: Bears hibernate.
Deep sleep that is easier to wake up from.

Torpor

Why do Monarch Butterflies migrate?
  • Have a special migration to the South in the fall.
  • Travel in groups up to thousands.
  • Journey about 2,500 miles.
  • Requires 3-5 generations of butterflies.

Monarch Butterflies

Living things active during the daytime.

Diurnal

Living things active during the night time.

Nocturnal

What is an advantage animals that hibernate have over animals that do not?

Relies on stored fat

Enters a deep sleep

Maintaining a state of inactivity during cold weather

Hibernation

Your circadian rhythm is mostly controlled by .

Circadian Rhythm

Desert locusts are herbivorous. Why are swarms like this a threat to humans and ecosystems?

Desert locusts migrate when their ecosystem becomes overpopulated, in search of more food.

Warblers spend winters in Central and South America and Summers in North America.

Salmon migrate from ocean to rivers to lay eggs and reproduce.

Humpback whales migrate from equator breeding grounds to feeding grounds at the poles.

Food

Temperature

Reproduction

3 reasons for this pattern
the movement from one place to a different place over long distances

Migration

  • describe population patterns that occur annually
  • describe population patterns that occur daily
  • evaluate how changes in the environment impact behavior patterns

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