Ecosystems,

Human Impact

and

Sustainability

Matthew DeFazio

Group ADK

Fall 2010

EDIM 502

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What is an Ecosystem?

Human Impact Sustainability Final Assessment

Credits

Standards PDE

Additional Resources

Investigations

Ecosystems Impact

Sustainability

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What is an Ecosystem?• The plants and animals that are found in a particular location are referred to as an ecosystem.

• In a delicate balance, these life forms help to sustain one another in regular patterns.

• Disruptions to an ecosystem can be disastrous to all organisms within the ecosystem.

Click on the picture of this ecosystem to learn more! After reading about different ecosystems take the quiz.

Take the Quiz

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How Do We Impact Our Earth?

Click on the picture to view a video describing the impact we have on our environment. Minimize Power Point to view

the video in a separate window.

•Human well-being is highly dependent on ecosystems and the benefits they provide such as food and drinkable water. Over the past 50 years, however, humans have had a tremendous impact on their environment.

• Virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems have been significantly transformed through human actions. Changes have been especially rapid in the last 50 years and today the fastest changes are taking place in developing countries. Ecosystems are particularly affected by large-scale fishing, freshwater use, and agriculture.

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Quiz

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What is Sustainability?

Next, click on the picture to the right and complete the journal activity described.

Take the

Quiz

First, click on the picture to the left and learn about sustainability and how we can help the ecosystem we live in.

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In your Science Journal, describe this picture in your ownwords. Be sure to include how you think this ecosystem would be impacted by what you see? How do you think this happened? Is there a way to fix what you see?

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Final AssessmentFinal AssessmentDirectionsDirections: In your science journal answer the : In your science journal answer the

following questions:following questions:

1. What is an ecosystem?1. What is an ecosystem?

2.2.How do we impact our environment and the living How do we impact our environment and the living organisms within it?organisms within it?

3.3.What is sustainability and how can we help What is sustainability and how can we help improve the impact we have on future generations? improve the impact we have on future generations?

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Image, Text and Video Credits

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Imageshttp://images.travelpod.com/users/psubrat93/7.1234132260.trash_on_beach.jpg

http://www.andysalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ecosystem.jpghttp://pages.uoregon.edu/uplan/photos/Sustainability/sustainability.jpg

http://www.sustainabilityninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/sustainability.jpghttp://bcalliance-international.com/static/files/Sustainability_arrows_Globe.jpg

http://vanishingearth.com/images/Our-Impact-Vanishing-Earth.jpg

Texthttp://www.greenfacts.org/en/ecosystems/index.htm

http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-for-kids/0164-ecosystems.phphttp://www.olliesworld.com/planet/usa/info/info/s_def03.htm

Videohttp://www.vidoemo.com/yvideo.php?human-impact-on-the-environment=&i=MHpQY1I3cWuRpd2doMGM

PDE StandardsEarth Science 3.5.4

Recognize earth resources and how they affect everyday life.

4.6.4C Ecosystems and their Interactions

Identify how ecosystems change over time.

Reading, Writing, and Listening 1.4

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1.4.5 B Write multi-paragraph informational pieces (e.g., essays, descriptions, letters, reports, instructions).· Include cause and effect.· Develop a problem and solution when appropriate to the topic.· Use relevant graphics (e.g., maps, charts, graphs, tables,illustrations, photographs).

Quiz Time!When an ecosystem is disrupted it can

be disastrous to ________ that live within the ecosystem.

Plants Animals

People All

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Quiz Time!How have changes in the Earth’s

ecosystem’s occurred over the past 50 years?

Slowly Not At All

Rapidly Steadily

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Quiz Time!The Earth’s resources can survive

into the future if we are all responsible and use them….

Until they disappear Only as much as is needed

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Additional ResourcesEcosystem

Impact

Sustainability

http://forest.mtu.edu/kidscorner/ecosystems/definition.html

http://www.neok12.com/Ecosystems.htm

http://tiki.oneworld.net/sustain/quizzes/sustainability_quiz.html

http://www.epa.gov/kids/

http://geographyworldonline.com/ecosystems.html