1. National geographic Typical person
Human population growth
Public Service Announcement Example

2. Turn in Biosphere Squares at LAB STATION 1
Take out your SCIENCE JOURNAL
Have your PROBLEM SOLVING on your desk so we can check after our journal entry.

3. Explain the INTERDEPENDENCE found within an ecosystem.
Entry /8
Explain the INTERDEPENDENCE found within an ecosystem.
When explaining your answer be sure to include the carbon cycle, energy transfer, and biotic relationships

4. Date Entry
Mythbusters Video:discoveryeducation.com Are cows causing global warming?
Independent Variable?
Dependent Variable?
Background info: what do they tell us about methane
How much methane does one cow produce?
Why is methane bad for the environment?

5. Environmental Problems
Warm-up Jan. 2 #68
Human Population
vs.
Environmental Problems
As best as you can determine the connection
between Human Population & Environmental
Problems.

6. Warm-up Feb. 8th Entry 12 Use the picture to write a definition and draw a picture to represent the word BIODIVERSITY
Sustainability
Wise use of earth’s resources to provide the best for people AND the environment both NOW and in the FUTURE
Biodiversity
Variation in the different species that live in an ecosystem. Depends largely upon the variation of plant life, which depends on the amount of precipitation.

7. More people Bubble Chart
As a group make a bubble chart with ALL of the possible effects of a growing population will have on the environment and society as a whole
MORE people might mean….

8. Warm-up Feb. 8th Entry #12
Use the words birth or death to fill in the blanks
In order for populations to INCREASE the ______ rate must exceed the _____ rate.
When populations decrease the _____ rate exceeds the ____ rate.
Which population is growing faster?
How do you know?

9. Let’s think about this………
MORE people might mean….

10. Help!!!!!
Unit 3 Human Impact

11. Human Population Growth Too many people = environmental problems!
What caused human population growth?
Causes:
Agricultural Revolution- more food to support more people
Industrial Revolution- improvements in technology, and medicine, increased birth rate and decreased death rate
Urbanization – development of cities, economic and social development

12. Human population Growth: J curve

13. Effects of Human Population Growth
Overcrowding
Increase in pollution- ALL environmental problems relate back to human overpopulation!
Decrease of Natural Resources: More people require more resources
Increase land use

14. Solution:
Zero Population Growth: birth rate = death rate; china offers tax incentives for having one child; education, birth control
Conservation: wise and careful use of resources
Reduce: use less materials
Reuse: use products more than once
Recycle: return products to be reprocessed
Sustainability – ensuring the availability of resources and a stable environment for future generations.

15. What’s in a Histogram? Ages, percent of males and females in the population What can a histogram reveal? An increasing, stable or decreasing population

16. Public Service Announcement Assignment
Did you answer /address these questions
Clear Introduction and important background information about the topic
How has the overpopulation of humans contributed to this environmental problem?
What are the short-term effects for the environment/ecosystems if nothing is done to change human behavior? (locally and globally)
What are the long-term effects for the environment/ecosystems if nothing is done to change human behavior? (locally and globally)
What should people do to help stop this problem?
Speak clearly and able to be easily understood
OBJECTIVE:
You will create a “Call to Action” public service advertisement using iMovie to address the issues that increased human population size has had on a specific environmental problems in North Carolina and the world. This will be a SHORT video delivering the FACTS and the changes need to solve the problem.
GUIDING QUESTION: What impact does human population size have on the environment?

17. Migration/Immigration Deforestation Public health Social security
RESEARCH news articles and opinion pieces on human population trends and related environmental and social issues. See the topics below. Each person should sign up for ONE topic to research.
Within your group there should be at LEAST ONE article summary related to global issues , one article summary related to a LOCAL issue.
Cite your source on the index card. Write a summary (in YOUR OWN words) on your card explaining the MAIN ideas of the article. (How does overpopulation of humans relate to this environmental issue?) Tape or paste these cards onto your bubble chart.
Air pollution
Land use
Climate change
Migration/Immigration
Deforestation
Public health
Social security
Energy
Waste management
Food resources/Hunger
Water resources
Housing and homelessness
Economics
Resource use/Consumption
Endangered species

18. Warm-up Feb. 11th Entry #13 Global warming Ozone depletion
too much CO2 in atmosphere increases average global temperature this could cause flooding, climate change, stronger storms, rising sea levels
Ozone depletion
Caused by CFC’s - (chlorofluorocarbons) destroy ozone layer – this increases UV radiation exposure – which increases skin cancer and crop damage; IS NOT RELATED TO GLOBAL WARMING!!!

20. Global Warming: unnatural warming of the Earth
Cause: Excessive greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide CO2 and methane CH4) in the atmosphere trap heat, leading to an abnormal increase in earth’s surface temperature
CO2 comes from burning fossil fuels
CH4 from landfills and cow farts!

21. Effect: It’s like the earth has a fever
Effect: It’s like the earth has a fever! Have you seen the movie “ The Day After Tomorrow”?
increase in temperature (2-4 degrees Celsius), weather patterns will change worldwide, polar ice caps may melt, flooding coastal cities and contaminating drinking water with saltwater.

22. Ozone Depletion: Has nothing to do with global warming!
Cause: CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), once used as refrigerants and in aerosol cans destroy ozone molecules in the upper atmosphere leading to thinning or a hole
UV radiation is NOT heat!!!!

23. Ozone depletion : Effects:
Harmful UV radiation reaches earth causing increased numbers of sunburns, skin cancer, cataracts (leading to blindness), and crop damage.

25. Group Global Warming Activity
Each group has a different topic describing one effect of global warming.
In your folder you have:
A copy of an article for each person to read
Each person will answer the questions on a separate sheet of paper in complete sentences… in your OWN words.
Each person will draw and complete the graphic organizer on their own paper.
Each group will creatively display the information from their graphic organizer in the educreation app (take a picture of the graphic organizer and each person explains a portion)
Each person is expected to speak/talk about their topic. Hi this is _________ and I am going to explain _______.
**implications means consequences
password is : students

26. Interpreting the graphic organizer
Cause (what is the reason for the situation)
Event (what is happening as a result of the cause)
Effects (the result)
Implications (consequences)
Solutions (how can we fix this problem)

27. Ticket Out the Door
1. What three events allowed for the fast growth of human population? 2. What type of curve does human population growth look like when graphed? 3. Is the Country pictured in the Histogram a stable or developing country? 4. What is the cause of Global Warming?

28. Acid rain

29. Warm-up Feb. 12th Entry #14
Seven students argued about what they thought were the major human causes of global warming. Here is what each of them thought::
Maria: acid rain
Natalie: burning coal
Tessa: the fuel we use in our cars
Anita: toxic chemicals in air pollution
Raul: the thinning of Earth’s ozone layer
Van: the growing landfills
Blaine: the CFC’s from refrigerators
Write out the causes that you agree with. Explain why you agree.

30. Acid Rain
Cause: emissions (sulfur and nitrous oxides from cars and factories react with oxygen and water)

31. Blue ridge spruce and acid rain

32. Acid Rain: Effects: A lowered pH disrupts aquatic ecosystems,
makes soil less fertile, harms plant life, and damages human property.

33. Water Quality
Cause: sediments, oil, fertilizers from land, illegal dumping, acid rain, raw sewage, heated water from power plants
Effect: Disease, habitat destruction

34. Group Global Warming Activity
Each group has a different topic describing one effect of global warming.
In your folder you have:
A copy of an article for each person to read
Each person will answer the questions on a separate sheet of paper in complete sentences… in your OWN words.
Each person will draw and complete the graphic organizer on their own paper.
Use an iPad to take a picture of a NEAT and filled out picture of the graphic organizer.
Each group will PRESENT their information/findings to the class. This means EVERY person will EXPLAIN a part of the graphic organizer. This does not mean you will be READING what is on the picture but EXPLAINING based on information from the article.
**implications means consequences

35. Biomagnification Warm-up Feb. 13th Entry #15
Pesticides and TOXIC CHEMICALS “move up the food chain”
Chemical contaminants are stored (bioaccumulation)in the CELLS of living organisms (they do not get broken down.
TOXIC CHEMICALS are magnified in organisms higher up the food chain because predators accumulate pesticides in the bodies of their prey.

36. Biomagnification Demonstration
Small beakers represent ALGAE
Medium beakers represent FISH
Large beakers represent EAGLE
Draw a food chain and include arrows pointing to the consumers
Label the trophic levels
As pesticides are passed from one to the next. Write down the NUMBER of pesticides in EACH organism

37. Let’s use PAC-Man for our example..
The dots represent pesticides (toxic chemicals) in the environment
WHO gets more? Pac-Man or Pinky?

38. What is BIODIVERSITY??

39. Biodiversity Loss/ Habitat Destruction
Causes:
Deforestation: cutting down forests for wood, and farming
Draining/filling wetlands
Bioaccumulation:
Greatest accumulation in lower organisms in the food chain
Biomagnification
Magnified greatest in organims higher in the food chain
Endangerment/extinction: Endangered species are at risk of becoming extinct. Extinction refers to the loss of a particular species.

41. Technology
Satellites: track changes global temperature and the ozone layer
Ice Core Analysis: Measure gases (CO2) that were once in atmosphere
Census Data:

42. Census Data:
Developing Stable

43. Ticket out the Door 1.What is biomagnification?
2. What is bioaccumulation?
3. What organisms are most affected by biomagnification?

44. ADD BIOMAGNIFICATION (with a definition) to your bubble chart
Station rotation:
Read article summaries and take notes
Watch video about global warming and take notes
Go back to your original BUBBLE chart and ADD information in a DIFFERENT color or by STARRING the info so that I know it was added. You should add 5 NEW things to your chart .

45. Ticket Out the Door
1.What three events allowed for the fast growth of human population?
2. Use the histogram to determine if the population is increasing or decreasing. Explain how you know.
3.Explain how Global warming and Ozone depletion are NOT related.
How are they different??

46. Environmental Problems
Warm-up
Environmental Problems
Overpopulation – cause of all environmental problems
Global warming – too much CO2 in atmosphere increases average global temperature ->flooding, climate change
Ozone depletion – CFC’s destroy ozone layer -> increase UV radiation exposure -> increases cancer and crop damage

47. Warm-up Feb. 14th Entry #16 INVASIVE or INTRODUCED SPECIES
A species that is not native (an alien) to an ecosystem and whose introduction is likely to cause economic, environmental or human harm.
EXPLAIN WHY introducing a species to an environment could be detrimental to an ecosystem.