Woot!
Please read the board carefully.
Get ready for your quiz today – Objectives #3-6 (History and watersheds)
Retakes for Objectives #1-2 also
Quiz time!
Everyone takes History/Watershed quiz
First quiz – “Improve” – name in
pencil, retake optional (keep better grade!)
“Retake” – name in pen, retake required
Finished with your quiz?
Turn it in to Ms. KleinPick up several magazines, a pair of scissors,
index cards and a glue stick.Cut out pictures of animals and plants that
live in the Houston area and glue one picture to each card.
On the back of the card, write the name of the organism and which ecoregion it belongs in (Prairie, Pineywoods, Bayou, Bay)
TARDIESBATHROOM SIGNAL
PHONES – 1ST TIME, STICKY NOTE; 2ND TIME IN MY OFFICE
Two more class systems:
YOU NEED TO HAVE A COMPOSITION NOTEBOOK HERE!
CLASS DONATIONS DUE FRIDAY – KLEENEX OR GLUE STICK +5 ON FIRST TEST
Friday - Building an interactive notebook
LISTEN CAREFULLY FOR YOUR LAB TABLE!
A sustainability review!
Tragedy of the Commons
The ruin of free-access resources by the accumulated actions of individuals.
What does this mean for solving problems?
The protection of free-access resources by the accumulated actions of individuals.
Sustainability
KEEPING AN ECOLOGICAL BALANCE BY CONSERVING OUR NATURAL RESOURCES
We each depend on natural resources
FoodAir WaterEnergy
How does increased population affect our resources?
Which resources do you think Houstonians should be most concerned about?
PROCESSES PERFORMED BY NATURAL AREAS THAT HELP HUMANS!
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Gulf Coastal Prairie/Katy Prairie
Oak motts
Pineywoods –
Buffalo Bayou
Galveston Bay
Ecosystem services
Things our natural areas do for us. Air purification (plants take in CO2, produce O2) Flood control (prairies absorb water to protect our
homes) ___________ ___________ ___________
Your ticket out (yup, it’s a grade)
The Tragedy of the Commons is . . . .Sustainability is . . . . .An Ecosystem service is . . . . .