Objectives 9/8

SPI 3210.2.4 Predict how various types of human activities affect the environment.
SWBAT predict how various types of human activities affect the environment
Intro to New Material: The Hoover Dam
What was a benefit during the construction of the Hoover Dam?

How can construction of the Hoover Dam be detrimental to the environment?

Controlled Burn
How can a controlled burn benefit an ecosystem?

How can a controlled burn harm an ecosystem?

Government Regulations

Clear-Cut Forests

Think, Pair, Share

Read the following excerpt.
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29009234

Gir in India's Gujarat state is home to Asiatic lions and has seen 256 lions dying in the past five
years.
Experts say their population is at risk with the big cats making new homes in human
settlements.
Once widespread in Gujarat, the lion population shrank to a mere dozen in the early 20th
Century, mainly due to hunting and drought.
What can the Indian government do to increase the number of lions in Gujarat?
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Independent Practice 9/8

1. Which human activity would interfere most directly with the production of oxygen in the
environment?
a. using fertilizer for agriculture
b. using nuclear fuels
c. accelerating deforestation
d. preserving wetlands
Explain how you know: __________________________________________________________________
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2. In what ways do humans threaten the biosphere and damage ecosystem?

a. Human activities reduce biodiversity
b. Humans clear forests for farmland
c. Humans tend to alter ecosystems
d. All of these are ways humans threaten the biosphere and damage ecosystems.
Explain how you know: __________________________________________________________________
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3. Which of the following human activities reduces biodiversity?
A. prohibiting hunting in wildlife preserves.
B. taking tissue samples from members of endangered species.
C. planting only native grass species to prevent erosion beside highway.
D. planting only red pine trees to replace native hardwood forests cut for lumber.
Explain how you know: __________________________________________________________________
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4. Discuss how two examples of human activity can increase atmospheric carbon dioxide. AP
Question!

Objectives 9/9
- SPI 3210.3.4 Predict how changes in a biogeochemical cycle can affect an ecosystem.
- SWBAT define differences of the four biogeochemical cycles and changes that affect them
Definitions:
- Nitrogen fixation- process plants use to make __________________ usable
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Ammonia- compound of ________________ and _________________

Fossil fuel- a natural fuel such as ______________ or ____________, formed in the geological
past from the _________________ of living organisms

- Emit- _________________ and ___________________

Notes:
- ____________________ makes up all ___________ things.
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___________________ helps increase _____________________ in an area.

Nitrogen enters the food web when plants absorb nitrogen compounds and converts them into
_____________________.
Nitrogen is often a factor that limits _____________________ of __________________.

Phosphorus has a _________________ and _______________ cycle.

- __________________ return phosphorus to the soil where it can be used again.
- __________________ of rock slowly (LT cycle) adds phosphorus back to the cycle.
Guided Practice:
Below is a diagram of the carbon cycle. Answer the following questions.
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A. List where carbon found in the

atmosphere comes from.
1.
2.
3.
B. How does carbon get in the oceans?
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C. What is a fossil fuel?
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D. The burning of fossil fuels releases
carbon into the carbon cycle. How could this
impact an ecosystem?
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Independent Practice 9/9:

1. Below is the nitrogen cycle. Answer the following questions about the nitrogen cycle.
A.
Why is nitrogen essential to life?
__________________
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B.
How do plants and animals get nitrogen
from the atmosphere?
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C.
What is a major reservoir for ammonia?
____________
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D. Why do herbivores need nitrogen?

2. Below is a diagram of the phosphorus cycle. Answer the following questions.

A. What is the steps of phosphorus in the short-term cycle? What are the steps in the long-term
cycle?_________________________________________________________________________
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B. Which process most increases the amount of phosphorus available in the ecosystem?
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C. What process returns phosphorus to the soil where it can be used again? __________________
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Homework: Complete Section 2.3 Assessment pg. 49 #1-4

Objectives 9/11
2.4, 3.4, 2.7
SWBAT predict how biogeochemical cycles and human activity cause ecological succession.
AP Challenge Question!

A. Discuss:

B. Describe and explain THREE changes in abiotic conditions over time that lead to the succession,
as shown in the diagram above.

C. Discuss immediate and long-term effects on ecosystem.

i.
Volcano Erupts
a. Short-term
b. Long-term
ii.

Matures forest clear cut

a. Short-term
b. Long-term:

Independent Practice 9/11:

1. What type of succession does this show? How do you know? ____________________________
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2. What happens to the amount of biodiversity as time progresses? Explain why this is important
for an ecosystem. _____________________________________________________________
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3. The diagram above shows the progression of ecological events after a fire in a particular
ecosystem. Based on the diagram, which of the following best explains why the oak trees are
later replaced by other trees?
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4. What stage would have to happen first if a volcano erupted in this area instead of a fire?
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