Read 214-226
Define the following terms and draw a picture using https://sketch.io/sketchpad/ Old-growth forest Second-growth forest Tree plantation/tree farm/commercial forest Deforestation 1. What are the ecological services that forests provide? 2. What are the economical services that forests provide? 3. What are the harmful effects of deforestation? 4. What are 3 products you have used recently that might have come from old-growth forests? 5. What are 3 things you can do to slow the rate of forest depletion and degradation? Read 9.3, p. 193-206.
Define the following terms. (Some terms are bolded, others are italicized.) Endemic species, p. 193 Habitat island, p. 193 Habitat fragmentation, p. 193 Environmental indicators, p. 197 Poaching, p. 204 Bush meat, p. 207 Answer the following questions: 1. Would you support expanding the ranges shown on Fig 9-11 even though this would reduce the land available for people to grow food and live on? p. 194 2. What are 2 ways to reduce the fragmentation of rain forests? p. 195 3. What would happen to your life and lifestyle if most of the world's vultures disappeared? p. 197 4. How does your lifestyle directly or indirectly contribute to the premature extinction of birds? p. 197 5. Controlling Invasive Species: Which of these 2 actions in Fig. 9-18 do you think are most important? Why? Which of these actions do you plan to take? p. 201 Read 9.3, p. 193-206
1. What is HIPPCO? 2. Write 4 summaries (5 sentence paragraph minimum) for each of the case studies on the following pages:
Read 9-2, p. 189-192
1. How would you go about trying to set a price on the ecological value of an orangutan? (p. 189) 2. Name and describe one plant that contains chemicals that can treat/cure disease. (p. 190) 3. How might species diversity provide economic benefits? (p. 190) 4. How might genetic information be of instrumental value? (p. 190) 5. What might be a "non-use value" of species? Explain. (p. 190) 6. Do you favor culling elephants in areas where large populations are degrading vegetation? Explain. (p. 191) 7. Has reading this material changed your view of bats? Can you think of 2 things that can be done to help protect bat species from premature extinction? (p. 192) 8. If you believe that premature extinction of an undesirable species is justified, what would be your top 3 candidates? What might be some harmful ecological effects of such extinctions? (p. 192) Read Chapter 9.1, p. 184-189: What Role Do Humans Play in the Premature Extinction of Species?
Define the following 10 terms (some words are Bolded, others are Italicized): Background extinction Extinction rate Mass extinction Local extinction Ecological extinction Biological extinction Speciation crisis Endangered species Threatened species Behavioral characteristics The 21 kids that are suing the U.S. government. Go kids!!! :)
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/kids-sue-us-government-climate-change/ https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29062017/trial-date-children%E2%80%99s-climate-lawsuit-trump-administration-climate-change Draw table on page 26 and fill in the last column on half sheet of paper provided.
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