Woot! Please read the board carefully. Get ready for your quiz today – Objectives #3-6 (History and watersheds) Retakes for Objectives #1-2 also

Quiz time! Everyone takes History/Watershed quiz First quiz –  “Improve” – name in pencil, retake optional (keep better grade!)  “Retake” – name in pen, retake required

Finished with your quiz? Turn it in to Ms. Klein Pick up several magazines, a pair of scissors, index cards and a glue stick. Cut out pictures of animals and plants that live in the Houston area and glue one picture to each card. On the back of the card, write the name of the organism and which ecoregion it belongs in (Prairie, Pineywoods, Bayou, Bay)

TARDIES BATHROOM SIGNAL PHONES – 1 ST TIME, STICKY NOTE; 2 ND TIME IN MY OFFICE Two more class systems:

YOU NEED TO HAVE A COMPOSITION NOTEBOOK HERE! CLASS DONATIONS DUE FRIDAY – KLEENEX OR GLUE STICK +5 ON FIRST TEST Friday - Building an interactive notebook

LISTEN CAREFULLY FOR YOUR LAB TABLE! A sustainability review!

Tragedy of the Commons The ruin of free-access resources by the accumulated actions of individuals.

What does this mean for solving problems? The protection of free-access resources by the accumulated actions of individuals.

Sustainability KEEPING AN ECOLOGICAL BALANCE BY CONSERVING OUR NATURAL RESOURCES

We each depend on natural resources Food Air Water Energy How does increased population affect our resources? Which resources do you think Houstonians should be most concerned about?

PROCESSES PERFORMED BY NATURAL AREAS THAT HELP HUMANS! ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

Gulf Coastal Prairie/ Katy Prairie

Oak motts

Pineywoods –

Buffalo Bayou

Galveston Bay

Ecosystem services Things our natural areas do for us.  Air purification (plants take in CO2, produce O2)  Flood control (prairies absorb water to protect our homes)  ___________

Your ticket out (yup, it’s a grade) The Tragedy of the Commons is.... Sustainability is..... An Ecosystem service is.....