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4/10 Warm Up in Notebook

4/10 Warm Up in Notebook. Draw you own pyramid – include: Organisms Energy in kcal Numbers Biomass (kg). 1. Borneo & Malaria. Issue: People are dying from Malaria in Borneo. It’s a disease carried by mosquitoes. What would you do?. 2. Wetlands & Ducks in 1966.

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4/10 Warm Up in Notebook

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  1. 4/10 Warm Up in Notebook • Draw you own pyramid– include: • Organisms • Energy in kcal • Numbers • Biomass (kg)

  2. 1. Borneo & Malaria Issue: People are dying from Malaria in Borneo. It’s a disease carried by mosquitoes. What would you do?

  3. 2. Wetlands & Ducks in 1966 Issue:Ducks and other species are disappearing. How is this affecting the food web? What could be done?

  4. http://www.noble.org/ag/wildlife/ducknestboxes/index.htm

  5. 3. Toxic Water • Toxic Mines • What organisms may be influenced? • What can we do now to help? • What can we do to prevent it from happening again? • 1952: Hinkley Groundwater contamination/ Erin Brockovich

  6. 4. Acid Rain • Issue: Rain that has high amounts of chemicals that are harmful to the environment and society. • acid rain • ACID RAIN 2 • What does it come from? • What abiotic and biotic factors are influenced? • What has been done to help?

  7. 5. Suburban Sprawl & Deer • What is it: When people build communities right on the edge of a natural habitat for a species – then many species will start to come into the developed land • Issue: • What to do? • http://ur.umich.edu/9596/May07_96/artcl18.htm, http://www.rpaforall.org/RPA%20Factsheet%205.pdf

  8. What are some others cases when humans have influenced the ecosystem? • Come up with 2 other cases • Write the issue • Propose/write 2 solutions

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