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PEOPLE AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT

PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA Essential Questions: How has the culture of the United States and Canada shaped these countries? Learning Target: IWBAT analyze how people influence their environment in the United States and Canada. Formative Assessment(s): In what ways have Americans and Canadians destroyed the environment?

BELLWORK What natural resources do the United States and Canada share?  Timber  Fish  Fossil fuels  Minerals

FUN FACT  The oldest known rocks on Earth — 250 million years older than any other known rocks — are found in Canada. The 4.28-billion- year-old rock was discovered by geologists in 2001 in an area of exposed bedrock on the eastern shore of Hudson Bay, in northern Quebec.  Bristlecone pine trees, believed to be some of the world's oldest living things, are found in the western United States in California, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. The oldest of these trees is in California. The oldest living tree itself is found in Sweden.

CLASSWORK  Read Managing Resources on page 173  Write and answer the following questions in your notes: 1.Explain clear-cutting. 2.Why have wetlands been disappearing? 3.What animals have been disappearing? 4.What animals are now overpopulated?

FUN FACT 

CLASSWORK  Read Human Impact on pages  Write and answer the following questions in your notes: 1.What causes acid rain? 2.What practices can be used to help reduce smog? 3.What are some effects of water pollution? 4.What two laws protect the water of the US?

FUN FACT  It is commonly called the Alaska pipeline, trans-Alaska pipeline, or Alyeska pipeline, but those terms technically apply only to the 800 miles of the pipeline with the diameter of48 inches (122 cm) that conveys oil from Prudhoe Bay, to Valdez, Alaska.

CLASSWORK  Read Future Challenges on page 176 Write and answer the following questions in your notes: 1.What causes global warming? 2.Which region has been most affected by global warming? 3.What are examples of sources of renewable energy?

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT In what ways have Americans and Canadians destroyed the environment?