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Do Now Part I

Do Now Part I. XL Keystone Pipeline Web Site : http://factcheck.org/2012/03/march-23-keystone-xl-pipeline-auto-bailout-child-labor /. Fact checking. Why checking facts are important!

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Do Now Part I

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  1. Do Now Part I • XL Keystone Pipeline • Web Site: http://factcheck.org/2012/03/march-23-keystone-xl-pipeline-auto-bailout-child-labor/

  2. Fact checking Why checking facts are important! According to a New York Post article by documentary filmmaker and journalist PhelimMcAleer, stars/screenwriters Matt Damon and John Krasinski were forced to make hasty re-writes to their forthcoming eco-drama, “Promised Land,” because it turned out that their premise was founded on fraud.Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/10/01/matt-damon-manipulating-fracking-facts-in-new-film/#ixzz283cGif6w Back up source: http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/28/too-bad-to-check-anti-us-oil-production-film-financed-by-middle-eastern-oil-producers/ Finally - http://www.gallup.com/poll/143267/distrust-media-edges-record-high.aspx

  3. Do Now Part II – no more than 5 minutes to update What is happening in Washington? • Political battle • Health care is the center of the argument • Shutdown versus Slim down

  4. Homework due Friday Vocab Words: for next week 21. Ecocide 22. Eugenics 23. Influenza 24. Avian (Bird) Flu 25. Rachel Carson Finish chapter 5 for Friday! Prepare for a test next week. We will determine the date on Friday Next week

  5. Decreasing Eutrophication • Scientists, farmers and policymakers are encouraged to Decrease fertilizer use while safeguarding agriculture • Offering insurance and incentives to promote better farming practices • Planting cover crops • Maintaining wetlands

  6. Landscape ecology • Landscape ecology = studies how landscape structure affects the abundance, distribution, and interaction of organisms • Helpful for sustainable regional development • Patches = form the landscape • Are spread spatially in complex patterns (a mosaic) • I.e. forested patches within an agricultural landscape • Ecotones = transitional zones between two ecosystems

  7. Boards - modified • Landscape ecology = studies how landscape structure affects the abundance, distribution, and interaction of organisms • Patches= form the landscape

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