This unit was about ecology: the interaction between organism and their environment. In all environments, there will always be producers and consumers. In a food chain or web, the consumer or producer is shown obtaining energy from something else, but that doesn't necessarily mean an organism. Energy can also be found from photosynthesis or the primary producers in an ecosystem. When a product is consumed, only ten percent will be passed on to the next trophic level. More into depth about organism, we learned about population and the factors that impact the amount of organisms. Immigration, births, emigration, and death are all factors that can fluctuate the statistics. Our world is almost reaching its carrying capacity, the maximum population size the environment can hold. Today, we have about 7.5 billion humans in the world, but it is said that our carrying capacity is 14 billion. We are over HALF way there! What is going to happen when we reach that limit? The nutrient cycles- water, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycle- aren't going to sustain us for this future. That's why we need to educate people on what they can do. We can start a nature reserve, grow more plants, jumpstart succession, and reduce your carbon footprint. We will have more time on this earth and so will our future generations.
I want to learn more about the environment and go in depth about water pollution, consumption, and ways to positively impact my world. Like I stated above, I want to know what will happen when we reach our carrying capacity limit? Will we have to move to another plant? Are their planets that can sustain human life or any living life? I'm very curious if we will resort to what the Pixar animated movie, WALL-E, had in mind, shipping living beings out to space, while machinery cleans up our mess.
I thought that our group project about an endangered biome, worked very well. We communicated throughout the process and didn't leave anyone hanging behind. The work was distributed evenly and we all seemed very educated on the topics given to us. What didn't work so well was that we were procrastinating to record our slides because we hadn't finished them or needed to edit them. I learned that you should always establish the roles in a group and no one should be "in charge" or the "leader". Communication is key, even though it sounds cliche, you need to see who is doing what and check up on them constantly to keep everything running smoothly. During class, Mr. Orre made us take a self assessment to see if we are a passive, assertive, aggressive, or passive aggressive person when we collaborate with others. It indicated that I'm a passive-assertieve person. The goal is to be assertive, which seems to be an easy task but will be hard to execute. I'd have to state what I want and have more confidence in myself. Confidence will always be something I'll struggle in, but as long as you're loud, what difference does it make? :)
This unit was about ecology: the interaction between organism and their environment. In all environments, there will always be producers and consumers. In a food chain or web, the consumer or producer is shown obtaining energy from something else, but that doesn't necessarily mean an organism. Energy can also be found from photosynthesis or the primary producers in an ecosystem. When a product is consumed, only ten percent will be passed on to the next trophic level. More into depth about organism, we learned about population and the factors that impact the amount of organisms. Immigration, births, emigration, and death are all factors that can fluctuate the statistics. Our world is almost reaching its carrying capacity, the maximum population size the environment can hold. Today, we have about 7.5 billion humans in the world, but it is said that our carrying capacity is 14 billion. We are over HALF way there! What is going to happen when we reach that limit? The nutrient cycles- water, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycle- aren't going to sustain us for this future. That's why we need to educate people on what they can do. We can start a nature reserve, grow more plants, jumpstart succession, and reduce your carbon footprint. We will have more time on this earth and so will our future generations.
I want to learn more about the environment and go in depth about water pollution, consumption, and ways to positively impact my world. Like I stated above, I want to know what will happen when we reach our carrying capacity limit? Will we have to move to another plant? Are their planets that can sustain human life or any living life? I'm very curious if we will resort to what the Pixar animated movie, WALL-E, had in mind, shipping living beings out to space, while machinery cleans up our mess.
I thought that our group project about an endangered biome, worked very well. We communicated throughout the process and didn't leave anyone hanging behind. The work was distributed evenly and we all seemed very educated on the topics given to us. What didn't work so well was that we were procrastinating to record our slides because we hadn't finished them or needed to edit them. I learned that you should always establish the roles in a group and no one should be "in charge" or the "leader". Communication is key, even though it sounds cliche, you need to see who is doing what and check up on them constantly to keep everything running smoothly. During class, Mr. Orre made us take a self assessment to see if we are a passive, assertive, aggressive, or passive aggressive person when we collaborate with others. It indicated that I'm a passive-assertieve person. The goal is to be assertive, which seems to be an easy task but will be hard to execute. I'd have to state what I want and have more confidence in myself. Confidence will always be something I'll struggle in, but as long as you're loud, what difference does it make? :)
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