WHS AP Biology 2011: August 2011

Redox Reaction

This honeysuckel bush, Acasis viridata, is carrying out photosynthesis, is a redox reaction.

Lepidopteran

Acasis viridata

photo taken at 2 Cider Circle

Arthropod

This is a hermit crab, Pagurus longicarpus.

photo taken at 135 Daniels Island Rd, Mashpee MA

Angiosperm

Hydrangea macrophylla

10 Wading Place Road, Mashpee MA

Storage Polysaccharides

Name: Geranium endressi

This plant's stem is composed of cell walls which give it its rigid structrue to hold the plant up-right and provides storage for polysacharides. Photo taken at 10 Wading Place Road.

Secondary Succession

This land used to be an apple orchard and now it is overgrwon into any regular field. Photo taken at 87 Adams Street, Westboro MA.

Biogeochemical Cycle

This fallen tree is decomposing, replenishing the soil with elements such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus.

Photo taken at 10 Wading Place Rd, Mashpee MA

Viviparous organism

This domestic pig is a viviparous organism because it gives birth to live young.
120 South Street, Westborough, MA.
Sus scrofa domesticus.

Organism's Home (#2)

These are the homes of common pavement ants Tetramorium caespitum.

56A Warren Street, Westborough, MA.

Organism's Home

I believe this hole was made by a chipmunk because we saw one multiple times around this area. 56A Warren Street. Tamias striatus.

Different Classes of Proteins

Insulin (hormonal)

Muscle (myosin for motion/locomotion)

Saliva (amylase)

Under the skin there are veins which hold blood. The blood contains fibrin which acts as a transportaion device to particles in the blood.

Skin, made up of keratin proteins.

All pictures taken at 2 Cider Circle

Gymnosperm

These pine cones come from the tree Pinus strobus.
29 Lackey Street, Westborough, MA.

Food Chain levels

Green Frog
Secondary Consumer
Rana Clamitans

Eastern Garter Snake
tertiary consumer
Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis

Pesky Mosquito
Primary Consumer
Ochlerotatus abserratus

Red Tailed Hawk sighted from up close but soon became just a distant dot.
Quaternary Consumer
Buteo jamaicensis

Seagull
(young in age because it hasn't come into its black and white plumage)
Scavenger, but also a quaternary consumer though the red-tailed hawk probably preys on them when famished
Larus pacificus

NOTE
All these species were found in close proximity in Brewster Mass near Long Pond on Crosby Neck Road

Introduced Species

Bos taurus

The Red Cattle (watusi) were introduced to the United States in the 1960s through a small stock imported from European zoos.

Seen at Six Flags Safari, New Jersey

Arthropod

We found this crayfish in a small pond on Olde Connecticut Path, Westborough, MA.
Procambarus acutus

Sahara desert

http://treeandeducation.blogspot.com/2011/06/prehistoric-sahara-desert.html

Tundra (Denali National Park, Alaska) http://wgrc1971.blogspot.com/2008/08/blog-post_15.html

Beach

Phot taken of Poppenessett Beach, Mashpee MA

Forest

Photo taken at 2 Cider Circle

Lake

Photo taken of Mill Pond, Westboro MA

Exothermic Organism

Phalangium opilio

Humpback Rocks Trail, Blue Ridge Parkway, Waynseboro, VA, 22980

Population

Connochaetes taurinus

A population of wildebeest.

Seen at Six Flags Safari, New Jersey

Passeriform

The American Robin, Turdus migratorius, belongs to the Order of Passeriformes. Taken at 37 Byard Lane. It is hard to find but pretty much in the center of the photo.