Human Impacts to Ecosystems in North Carolina
Instructions:
Using your knowledge and research of Human Impacts complete the following one pager assignment. The
following must be included in your one pager:
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Using unlined or lined white paper (or composition notebook) folded into four.
Include a title within your One pager.
Each quadrant or section of the template must be completely colored- little to no white space.
Each quadrant or section must include 3-5 complete sentences. You do not need to rewrite the
questions.
● Must be neat, colorful, creative, and legible. No digital products
Quadrant Questions:
What is Acid rain and how does it form?
Include the cause and effect of Acid
rain.(What causes Acid Rain and what does
it affect and how)
What is an invasive species and how do
they affect an ecosystem? Choose one
example from North Carolina in your
answer.
Draw/sketch a well labelled diagram to aid
your explanation to include the cause and
effect of Acid rain.
Choose an invasive species from North
Carolina (plant or animal or insect) to
draw/sketch.
What is the cause and effect of hog
How does beach erosion and saltwater
lagoons in North Carolina? Give at least one intrusion affect North Carolina? What is the
mitigating factor (how to solve the
environmental impact on North Carolina?
problem).
Describe at least 3 mitigating factors (how to
Include a sketch/drawing to help explain your
solve the problem) here in North Carolina.
answer.
Please use bullet statements.
Rubric:
Requirements
Neat and legible to include title
The quadrant has very little “white space”
(very colorful!)
Question is answered accurately in 3-5 complete
sentences
Sketch/drawing of the Human Impact concept is
ACCURATE (labeled correctly, in the correct box,
and mitigating factors in bullet statements
TOTAL
Points Possible
5 points x4
(quadrants/section)
Total
5 points x 4
20
10 points x 4
40
5 points x 4
20
20
100
Points Total