Assignment

1. Describe your general area and climate/conditions. Next: 2. For plants in your area select some form of simple and basic water plant, shore plant, land grass, shrub

and tree. 3. Match these with microbes, water species, reptiles, insects, birds, and mammals. 4. Once you have done step two and three, tell what these species do together (step four). *** List

specific plants and animals. PLANTS .......... ANIMALS ......... WHAT THEY DO TOGETHER 5. state why these species and resources need each other and what is needed to protect this biodiversity

and your conclusion for the future health of your web of life!

1.  Tell me how these how plants and animals arrive, find, migrate or develop their habitat, respond to the food chain, climate and other living and non living factors. Give an example or short explanation of each. This will show you how the ecology works together 2. The plant kingdom contains seedless and seed plants.   Plants moved onto to land from the sea. Plants - mosses, ferns, etc., producing oxygen, some with seeds, some not..... plants became more complex with food and flowers, attracting animals.  Give two examples of plants evolving. 3.  Animals followed plants for oxygen, food, moving onto land, from water, developing tissues and structures, simpler to more complex (most often symmetrical) suitable for water and land habitats.  Give two examples of animals evolving.  4.  Plants and animals create communities to better survive.  This would include habitats with water, food, shelter.  In turn, life expectancy increases.  Give two examples. 5.  Communities will grow with carrying capacity.  Conservation is needed as community ecology is self limiting over time.  Give an example with specific species.

1.  Please read Chapter 20 and 21 and observe the larger ecosystems, biomes and peak of biodiversity and all its pieces in the web of life. See the larger picture and comment any three of these topics: our part in global warming, sea ice melting, imbalances in the carbon cycle, the picture of our impact on the environment  as a whole and how we will reduce our impact on the environment.

2. What is "going green"? What is the Human Ecological Footprint, Biocapacity, What is the effect of population growth on natural resources including clean water, open space and renewable fuels?

3.  Consider:  How do we create sustainability in our cities, urban, suburban and the country ecosystems for the coming generations?

4.  Summing up:  "What is the Human Impact on the Environment"?   What was the most important thing you learned?