| | STANDARD 6: Stability in an ecosystem is a balance between competing
effects. As a basis for understanding this concept:
6a: Biodiversity is the sum total of different kinds of organisms and is
affected by alterations of habitats.
6b: Analyze changes in an ecosystem resulting from changes in climate, human
activity, introduction of nonnative species, or changes in population size.
6c: Fluctuations in population size in an ecosystem are determined by the
relative rates of birth, immigration, emigration, and death.
6d: Students know how water, carbon, and nitrogen cycle between abiotic
resources and organic matter in the ecosystem and how oxygen cycles through
photosynthesis and respiration.
6e: A vital part of an ecosystem is the stability of its producers and
decomposers.
6f: At each link in a food web some energy is stored in newly made
structures but much energy is dissipated into the environment as heat. This
dissipation may be represented in an energy pyramid.
California Standards for Biology
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| | Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - home page. A good start for
searching for current issues on human activity affecting the environment.
http://www.epa.gov/
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| | National Wildlife Magazine - A good Resource for both Human impact and
Wildlife issues (endangered, invasive). Full text articles!
http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/pastissues.cfm
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| | Air Pollution issues
http://www.epa.gov/airnow/
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| | Habitat loss issues
http://www.sierraclub.org/wildlife/species/
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| | Ozone depletion issues
http://www.epa.gov/ozone/
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| | Air Pollution from EPA
http://www.epa.gov/air/
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| | Deforestation (Causing Decline of Forests)
http://www.fao.org/forestry/index.jsp
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| | Over-fishing
http://www.fao.org/fi/default.asp
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| | A variety of Human influences on the environment from NASA.
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/Keywords.do?Portal=GCMD&KeywordPath=Parameters%7CHUMAN+DIMENSIONS%7CENVIRONMENTAL+IMPACTS&MetadataType=0&lbnode=gcmd3a
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| | Human effect on the environment: Several Articles
http://www.actionbioscience.org/environment/olson.html
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| | Red Rides: The dangers of Algae Bloom
http://whyfiles.org/082ocean_health/4.html
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| | Birds - How much do they eat in a day? Interesting and sometimes surprising
facts.
http://www.duncraft.com/Wild_Bird_Nutrition.ihtml
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| | Food Webs - Interactive: n four different ecosystems, place the organism in
the correct trophic level, and get the food web in return.
http://www.gould.edu.au/foodwebs/kids_web.htm
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| | Nitrogen Cycle - Great simplifying animation!
http://www.nps.gov/olym/hand/process/ncycle.htm
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| | INVASIVE SPECIES - The EPA list and data Sheets.
http://nas.er.usgs.gov/
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| | Ballona Wetlands Trust - Main page
http://www.ballona.org/
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| | Ballona Wetlands - Photos by Jonathan!
http://flickr.com/photos/stonebird/
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| | Mediterranean Chaparral (us!)- Background
http://www.runet.edu/%7Eswoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/medit/medit.html
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| | World Human Population throughout history - GREAT!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmEosykOesE
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| | Earth without Humans - Article, Video, Timeline with audio Check it out!
http://sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=2691D716-E7F2-99DF-38F54EF6075AAB4D
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| | Global Data Base for Invasive Species
http://www.issg.org/database/welcome/
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| | Invasive Species - from National Geographic (although not the full article,
offers an introduction and another good article). Recommended - pick up the
issue form the school library.
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0503/feature5/index.html
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| | Biodiversity by location - A vast data base
http://zipcodezoo.com/
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| | THE STORY OF STUFF....
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
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