Ecosystem Services LT1 with answers.notebook
September 01, 2014
MS – ESS3 – 3 Apply scienfic principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
Guiding Queson: What Does Ecosystem Health Have to Do With Me?
Learning Target
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Big Ideas
Post
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I can idenfy ecosystem services related to freshwater and can explain why these services are invaluable (crical)
to humans.
I can do this.
I can do this with review.
This is new. I need instruction.
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Ecosystem Services LT1 with answers.notebook
September 01, 2014
MS – ESS3 – 3 Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
LT ‐ 1 I can identify ecosystem services related to freshwater and can explain why these services are invaluable (critical) to humans.
In your composition book, draw a diagram of an ecosystem. • Include as many interactions as possible.
• Label the components and interactions in your drawing. (Don't forget to begin with the source of energy that powers the ecosystem).
• Title your page, "Ecosystem"
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Ecosystem Services LT1 with answers.notebook
September 01, 2014
MS – ESS3 – 3 Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
LT ‐ 1 I can identify ecosystem services related to freshwater and can explain why these services are invaluable (critical) to humans.
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food, water for drinking, water for irrigation, recreation,
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Ecosystem Services LT1 with answers.notebook
September 01, 2014
MS – ESS3 – 3 Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
LT ‐ 1 I can identify ecosystem services related to freshwater and can explain why these services are invaluable (critical) to humans.
At your table, move one chair to your left and share your ideas with your new elbow partner.
Share out at your table. Make a list on a sheet of paper of all of your ideas.
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Ecosystem Services LT1 with answers.notebook
September 01, 2014
MS – ESS3 – 3 Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
LT ‐ 1 I can identify ecosystem services related to freshwater and can explain why these services are invaluable (critical) to humans.
Share Out ­ This is what we think!
Class ideas:
food, water for drinking, water for irrigation, recreation,
industry, 5
Ecosystem Services LT1 with answers.notebook
September 01, 2014
MS – ESS3 – 3 Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
LT ‐ 1 I can identify ecosystem services related to freshwater and can explain why these services are invaluable (critical) to humans.
Ecosystems provide “services” that:
moderate weather extremes and their impacts (wetlands, estuaries)
disperse seeds mitigate drought and flood (wetlands)
cycle and move nutrients protect stream and river channels and coastal shores from erosion (wetlands, estuaries)
detoxify and decompose wastes control agricultural pests maintain biodiversity generate and preserve soils and renew their fertility contribute to climate stability purify the air and water (riparian zones, wetlands)
regulate disease carrying organisms pollinate crops and natural vegetation
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Ecosystem Services LT1 with answers.notebook
September 01, 2014
MS – ESS3 – 3 Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
LT ‐ 1 I can identify ecosystem services related to freshwater and can explain why these services are invaluable (critical) to humans.
Choose one ecosystem service and explain why it is invaluable (critical) to humans.
Wetlands provide a home to thousands of plant and animal populations. Having wetlands allows for biodiversity which is a sign of ecosystem health.
Wetlands help to filter the water (water purification). Plants and soil in the wetlands filter out harmful metals and pollutants before they reach the main water body.
Wetlands help to protect us from flooding (flood protection). They help to slow water down and store much of it to reduce flooding threats. Wetlands also store water during times of drought.
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Ecosystem Services LT1 with answers.notebook
September 01, 2014
MS – ESS3 – 3 Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
LT ‐ 1 I can identify ecosystem services related to freshwater and can explain why these services are invaluable (critical) to humans.
Many human activities disrupt, impair, or re­engineer ecosystems every day including:
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runoff of pesticides, fertilizers, and animal wastes >
pollution of land, water, and air resources >
introduction of non­native species >
over­harvesting of fisheries >
destruction of wetlands >
erosion of soils >
deforestation >
urban sprawl
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Ecosystem Services LT1 with answers.notebook
September 01, 2014
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Ecosystem Services LT1 with answers.notebook
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