Biome Reflection

Find three recent news articles that specifically impact your biome and read them. Examples of this could be an industrial project, a nutrient spill, an endangered species designation, or some other impact. A link must be provided for each article, as well as a short summary. This must be done individually and posted here

Additionally, choose an article about Sandy from a neutral, a Democratic-leaning, and a Republican-learning website that talks about climate change, water quality or food web issues that will affect the biome (Hint:  figure out the biome).   Print these and highlight, please.  Then tell me the probably effect of the storm in 1 week, 1 month, or 1 year.


Suggestions for Sites

• Huffington Post (D)
• BBC.com
• Fox News (R)
• NBC News 
• ABC News (D)
• Washington Post
• Real Clear Politics (R)

Finally, you will finish your comparison of three locations impacted by Sandy (NYC, Pennsylavania, and Appalachia, but then we need to go down a grain size. How will ONE of the biomes be affected on a level of

• ecosystem
• habitat
• community
• population
• niche level

• http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/habitat/habitat.html

Biome Project

Using a team of 3-4, you will select one biome and develop the following as a linoit or pinterest project.

• food web including producers and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degree consumers
• characteristics of min and max temperature, elevation, wetness and location on earth
• interrelations of 4 biogeochemical cycles shown for one species and a human being.

Project must show or explain the pictures provided.

chapter 4 env sci

Day 3: Sustainability

Using Environmental Science, 11th Edition by G. Tyler Miller Jr.

• Summarize the two pictures on p. 33
• Read pp. 78-83

Homework:  Use your Gmail login and make at least three comments about sustainability, the idea of choice, and your initial impressions about oil on this document

What do the two pictures you summarized talk about?  Be ready to discuss this tomorrow.

You and your partner must include your name:

Discuss How temperature, wind direction, and heat transfer connected to climate? 

Sustainability: What is it?

http://www.youtube.com/v/B5NiTN0chj0


What is the definition of Sustainability?

Day 1, Chapter 1

Your textbook is online: The Habitable Planet


Today we are dividing and conquering the chapter by whiteboard.

Alex 1

Atmospheric science

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/co2_human.html

http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/439.html 


Carbon Sequestration

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Carbon Dioxide Lab from Chapter 2

Data document