Major Concepts
- Trends and traits of human population growth
- Future changes in human population growth
- Factors that effect human population growth and quality
- Assessing and traits of environmental health
- How do humans use land?
- Urbanization
- Sprawl
- Effecst of both urbanization sprawl
- Building of and traits of sustainable cities
Lesson plans for the week of April 11, 2011...
Major Concepts
- Population triats (5) and types of population growths
- Basics of Ecology
- Habitat, Niche, Abiotic vs. Biotic, Organization
- Population interactions in a Biological Community
- Predation, Competition, Symbiotic Relationships (3)
- Ecological Succession, natural rebuilding after disaster
- Primary vs. Secondary Succession
- Environmental diversity (Biomes, Ecosystems and the value of Biodiversity)
Unit One – Introduction to Environmental Science Major Concepts
- General overview of Earth and our planets environment
- The general definition of science and how we use science to explain nature (i.e. scientific processes)
- The function of a scientific community and the value in being a part of it
- The economics that are involved in the environmental sciences
- Major domestic and international policies that are encountered while studying the environmental sciences
- Matter, energy and the “systems,” of the Earth
- The “-spheres,” of our planet and how the biogeochemical cycles interact within each
