Environmental+Issues

Environmental Issues

These are the things that you will be required to know.

Objectives: Recognize and explain how human activities can accelerate or magnify many naturally occurring changes. a. Based on data from research identify and describe how natural processes change the environment. b. Identify and describe how human activities produce changes in natural processes:
 * Cyclic climate change
 * Sedimentation in watersheds
 * Population cycles
 * Extinction
 * Climate change
 * Loss of habitat
 * Introduction of nonnative species
 * Cycling of Matter

NOW How are we going to learn this!?!


 * We listed 10 things that you can measure in your house. Quantitative data!
 * We took a Multiple Intelligence Test. Qualitative data!
 * How do you learn? Look at your test to find out. I have some extra if you want some of your family to take it.
 * We took some notes on Populations
 * direct observation
 * indirect observation
 * sampling (remember the net!)
 * mark and recapture
 * Birth rates and death rates
 * Immigration (INTO) and Emigration (EXIT)
 * Try this population game and print out the answers to the questions Changes in Population
 * Cycle Notes
 * Water cycle -condensation, precipitation, evaporation
 * Carbon/oxygen cycle - respiration, photosynthesis
 * Nitrogen Cycle -nitrogen fixation
 * Try this activity and print out the answers to the questions
 * Try this activity and print out the answers to the questions

We will do a lab where you have to use the material I give you to create a model of the water cycle. We need to be careful because we are using flames.

Oh Deer! Climate Changes as shown in clips of //An Inconvenient Truth// (also to show bias)