AP BIOLOGY Scavenger Hunt

Directions:
1. Your goal is to find each item on the list. The student who brings in the most items on the list will receive a grade bump for the semester.

2. To find every item on the list, you will need to consult reference books and resource people.

3. Be responsible in collecting specimens, do NOT take anything with out permission first.

4. Every item must be tagged or labeled in a bag with its item number and description on the outside.

5. Must be present when assigned, when due and every class period in between.

6. Cannot compete if you have an A.

GOOD LUCK!

 ITEM NUMBERS and DESCRIPTIONS

1. A shell from a gastropod mollusk.

2. A live insect in a jar (but 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 Division Zygomycota.

5. Sea Lettuce (Division Chlorophyta).

6. A sample of the secretory product for which Class Mammalia is named. 

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

8. A fertile fern frond.

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 dog or cat tapeworm in a tightly capped vial of rubbing alcohol or preservative.

12. A package of seeds from Division Anthophyta, Class Monocots.

13. A lock of hair from an ungulate animal.

14. A jar of pond or creek water containing filaments of cyanobacteria (a.k.a. "blue-green algae")

15. A fruit from Division Anthophyta, Class Dicots.

16. A terrestrial annelid worm.

17. Evidence of a vertebrate from Class Agnethe, Class Chondrichthyes, or Class Osteichthyes- but not just a picture.

18. A jar of pond or creek water containing ciliates, flagellates, and/or sarcodines.

19. A cephalopod mollusk (or piece of one).

20. A commercial product designed to kill or retard the growth of pathogenic bacteria.

21. A dermal specialization characteristic of the surviving dinosaur descendents in the Subphylum Vertebrata, Class Aves.

22. A gladiolus flower sectioned to show the ovules (future seeds) within the ovary.

23. A short branch from a redwood tree showing needles and cones.

24. A two-inch patch of live moss in a dish; both sporophyte and gametophyte generations must be visible.

25. A kelp species.

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

27. The ingredients panel from a container of food which lists a substance extracted from red algae.

28. A short branch from a conifer which does not have needle-like leaves.

29. A cake or package of an ascomycote fungus.

30. A skeleton of an animal from Phylum Porifers.

31. EITHER an arachnid molt, OR a claw from a crustacean.

32. A flower from EITHER the composite family or the orchid family (the two largest families of flowering plants).

33. A dish of food made with a bivalve mollusk.

34. A piece of the limestone residence of an animal from Phylum Cnidaria.

35. A fungus with a fruiting body composed of hyphae arranged into gills.

36. A representative fungus from Division Deuteromycota.

37.  A angiosperm seedling that you planted and grew from seed.

38. EITHER a two-inch patch of live liverwort in a dish, OR a stalk of equisetum.

39. The skeleton of an echinoderm.

40. Evidence of amphibian metamorphosis (can be a picture).