WCS 2009-08-27T17:39:39Z 2009-08-19T17:43:37Z 2009-08-19T20:36:37Z 11.9999 9210 15195 0 60 False False Student Name:     ____________________________ # ____ Biome Book Project CATEGORY Maximum Score Medium Score Low Score Unacceptable Cover Sheet = 10 pts. Choose a biome. Label the top of the paper with your biome. Illustrate and color your biome. Be sure to identify the environmental conditions of your biome. You must have at least 5 animals and 5 plants labeled. Biome isn't labeled, drawn, or colored. Only some of the environmental conditions are labeled. Only 4 plants and 4 animals are labeled. Biome isn't labeled, drawn, or colored. None of the environmental conditions are labeled. Only 3 plants and 3 animals are labeled. Biome isn't labeled drawn, or colored. None of the environmental conditions are labeled. Less than 3 plants and animals are labeled. Biotic and Abiotic Elements = 10 pts. List 5 or more biotic and 5 or more abiotic elements in your biome. Only 4 biotic or 4 abiotic elements are listed. Only 3 biotic or 3 abiotic elements are listed. Less than 3 biotic or abiotic elements are listed. Food Web = 30 pts. Illustrate (color) a food web for your biome. Label the producers: green, consumers: (herbivore- purple; carnivore- red; omnivore- orange; scavenger- black), and decomposers: brown. Illustration isn't colored. The correct colors weren't used in the illustration. Illustration has only some producers, consumers, and decomposers labeled. Illustration isn't colored. The correct colors weren't used in the illustration. Only a few producers, consumers, and decomposers labeled. Illustration isn't colored. The correct colors weren't used. None of the producers, consumers, and decomposers labeled. Interdependent = 20 pts. Illustrate (color) how organisms are interdependent (competition, predator/prey, mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism) is apparent. Illustration is colored. How organisms are interdependent is somewhat apparent. Illustration isn't colored. How organisms are interdependent is brief. Illustration isn't colored. How organisms are interdependent isn't shown. Energy Transformation = 15 pts. Discuss how energy is transformed through the ecosystem. One paragraph--five sentences--using the correct parts of speech. Discussion not complete. Less than five sentences. Not using the correct parts of speech. Less than four sentences. Not using the correct parts of speech. No paragraph. No discussion. Interaction of Biotic and Abiotic Elements = 15 pts. Discuss how biotic and abiotic elements in your biome interact. One paragraph--five sentences--using the correct parts of speech. Discussion not complete. Less than five sentences. Not using the correct parts of speech. Less than four sentences. Not using the correct parts of speech. No paragraph. No discussion. http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm