1. Resources and Living Things
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2. What are the types of environmental issues?
Three Categories:
Population growth
Resource use
Pollution

3. Population Growth
World Population Why did the population begin to increase so rapidly? Can this growth continue? Do you remember the terms about populations: limiting factors and carrying capacity?

4. Population Growth Exponential growth Birth rate and death rate
What factors allow the human population to grow?
Medicine
Technology
Agriculture

5. Resource Use Natural Resources are the materials we use from the earth
Trees
Water
Oil, coal, gas
Minerals
Space (land)
How do we get these natural resources? How do we know how much there is? How do we share them?

6. Resource Use Renewable resources: always available or replaces shortly
Wind, sunlight, water
Nonrenewable resources: not replaceable
Metals, minerals, oil, coal
What category would trees be in?

7. Environmental Introduction
Pollution
Land
Water
Air
Examples: wastes, chemicals, noise, heat, light
Water 1
Water 2

8. Solutions are out there
Billions in Change

9. Environmental Project (4th)
Environmental Introduction
Environmental Project (4th)
Read the text pages given and complete any questions/blanks
Make a vocabulary list and define words
Complete a graphic organizer
Create a presentation PowerPoint
4th period only

10. How will you learn more about environmental issues?
Six biomes: rainforest, desert, deciduous forest, tundra, grassland, boreal forest
Two water ecosystem: marine and freshwater
You will complete a product for an environmental issue affecting a biome

11. Learning more about environmental issues
Work plan
Self (website, paper, or poster)
Group of 3-4 (PSA video or presentation)
Biome
Pick what biome you will do
Issue
Examine the issue to go with the biome (text and web resources)
Present
Plan and create your project product

12. What are some key parts of my product?
Biome overview: climate, species (2 plants, 3 animals), and locations
Problem: What is it? What is the cause? How bad is it?
Solution: Explain how it can be fixed