AP Biology Semester Project

Biodiversity Scavenger Hunt

Project Requirements

1)Projects are completed in groups of up to 3 students

2)All projects need to be completed in total and brought to class on ______

3)Students are to collect (in a consistent, organized manner) 25 of the 30 items listed below by the above due date (extra 5 can be done for 2 points a piece).

4)Create a report (typed, 12 font, Times New Roman) that contains:

  1. Title Page
  2. “Biodiversity Scavenger Hunt” as the title
  3. Names of all the members
  4. Date project is due
  5. Index
  6. List the 1 – 30 (even ones you did not find, you will leave information beside this number blank)
  7. Place common names and scientific names (Label the phylum, class, order, family and genus of each. If possible, the species should be labeled as well) in proper format beside the appropriate #
  8. The date collected, and collection location should also be labeled.
  9. The member’s name that found this item

5)Label each part of your collection with its corresponding number.

6)Consult your textbook, resource books and people for help classifying your specimens.

7)Budget your time so that all items are acquired.

8)Do not collect specimens from marine reserves, neighbor’s yards, etc! Be responsible and think about not disturbing habitat.

9)Think about how you will preserve and/or keep alive various specimens.

  1. Leaves and flowers will keep a few days in sealed, misted Ziploc bags in the refrigerator.
  2. Fungi may last a day or two wrapped in paper towels and kept in dry plastic bags in the refrigerator.
  3. Some samples can be pressed and dried and mounted for credit (flowers/leaves).

10)Figure out a way to keep all of you specimens organised in one place to hand in.

Scavenger Hunt List

1)A shell from a gastropod mollusk

2)A live insect in a jar (not a butterfly)

3)A leaf or bunch of leaves with parallel venation

4)A slice of bread with a healthy growth of mold from Phylum Zygomycota

5)A sample of the secretory product for which Class Mammalia is named

6)An edible example of the angiosperm organ, which anchors, absorbs water and minerals, and stores food for the plant.

7)A fertile fern frond

8)A live specimen from the Phylum Arthropoda, class Malacostraca

9)A food made with the assistance of lactobacillus

10)A news or magazine article about plasmodium and its affects on human health

11)A package of seeds from Phylum Anthophyta, class Monocots

12)A lock of hair from an ungulate animal

13)A fruit from Phylum Anthophyta, Class Dicots

14)A photograph with your finger and a terrestrial Annelid worm

15)Evidence of a vertebrate from Class Agnatha, Class Chondrichthyes, or Class Osteichthyes , but not just a picture.

16)A commercial product designed to kill or retard the growth of pathogenic bacteria

17)A dermal specialization characteristic of the surviving dinosaur descendants of the Subphylum Vertebrata, Class Aves.

18)A two inch patch of a plant that lacks true vascular tissue.

19)Shed skin from (whole or a piece) from a backboned animal in Class Reptilia.

20)The ingredients label from a container of food which lists a substance extracted from red algae

21)A cake or package of an Ascomycete fungus.

22)A skeleton of an animal from Phylum Porifera

23)Either an arachnid molt; or a claw from a crustacean

24)A flower from either the composite family or the orchid family (The two largest families of flowering plants).

25)Food made with a bivalve mollusk

26)A photograph of a bipedal hominid

27)A fungus with a fruiting body composed of hyphea arranged into gills

28)An Angiosperm seedling that you planted and grew from seed (the seedling should be about 2 weeks old, NOT a previous planting)

29)The skeleton of an Echinoderm

30)Sample of a material composed of keratin, which is characteristic of the class mammalia

Good Luck