Pacemaker Biology Textbook Scavenger Hunt

DO NOT WRITE ON. WRITE ANSWERS ON A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER!

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Biology Textbook Scavenger Hunt Many students struggle to easily find information from their textbook, making their job as a student much more difficult. The purpose of today’s activity is to get you more familiar with your textbook (to help you track down information), and how your text organizes that information, so that you can be more successful using your text as a class resource. Now Let’s Begin The Hunt…

THE BIG 3! When you need to find information quickly, and you have not been given a specific page or chapter, the following three parts of the book will be most important.

1. The Table of Contents: a. Where is it? b. How does it help you find information? c. Does it provide specific information or general information and an overview of how the book is organized? Explain d. How many chapters are in your Biology textbook?

2. The Index: a. Where is it? b. How does it help you find information? c. Does the index provide specific information, or general information and an overview of how the book is organized? Explain.

3. The Glossary: a. Where is it? b. What information does the glossary provide you? c. Define lichen: d. Does the definition make sense to you? (Be honest!)

4. Book Organization: Go to Chapter 1 Section 3 on page 13. Note how the chapter title is the OVERALL topic, and that it has sections. a. What is the title of this section? What color is the title? b. What is the first subtitle of this section? What color is the subtitle? c. What is the first subheading within the first subtitle section? d. List and briefly describe the six steps of the scientific method. On which page did you find this information? e. Define all 11 vocabulary words listed in the upper right corner or page 13. These are the vocab words for this section. DO NOT WRITE ON. WRITE ANSWERS ON A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER!

5. What is the title of Chapter 1? a. How many sections are there in Chapter 1? b. What is the title of Section 4? c. On what page would you find the Chapter Highlights?

Questions:

1. List three authors of this textbook.

2. What is the definition of a producer?

3. On what page can you find information about cells?

4. What is the title of chapter 18?

5. What are the first two vocabulary words for Chapter 18 Section 1?

6. What is in the picture at the top of page 199?

7. What is the first objective for Section 8.3?

8. On what page is the Chapter 8 Assessment?

9. Does every chapter have an Assessment?

10. What does figure 9.9 show you?

11. What is on page 1119?

12. What is in the picture on page 21?

13. Draw a picture of Figure 18.9. What is this a picture of?