1. Impact of Environmental Change
Essential Question:
How will environmental change affect the stability of an ecosystem?

2. What is an Ecosystem?

3. What Determines Stability?
Species diversity (aka Biodiversity)
Feeding Relationships Between Organisms
Matter and energy cycling
Biogeochemical cycles
Food webs

4. Why is the Food Web Limited?

5. What Affects Ecosystem Stability?
Invasive species (i.e. Kudzu Invasion)
Dominant species (i.e. Grass, Insects, etc.)
Keystone species (i.e. Sea Otters)
Storms (i.e. Irma Destruction)
Fire (i.e. California Wildfire 2017)
Flood (i.e. Texas Neighborhood)
Drought (i.e. Cape Town Drought )

6. What Affects Ecosystem Stability?
Overgrazing (i.e. leads to drought)
Human Activity (i.e. Cities, roads, bridges, overharvesting, overfishing, stupidity, etc.)

7. How will environmental change affect the stability of an ecosystem?
Essential Question
How will environmental change affect the stability of an ecosystem?

8. Quick Lab Get with your lab group
Which Environmental Change do you think is the second most affective? Give evidence from current events to support your opinion.
Turn in ONE PAPER PER LAB GROUP answering this question (include all names on the paper)