What We Did
We chose an animal that is endangered to figure out how to save them, which generally involved saving their habitat. Our group chose the Indochinese tiger from the Greater Mekong in southeast Asia. After doing some research we discovered that one of the main reasons these tigers are dying is because of the loss of their habitat through deforestation and illegal poaching. To advocate this we decided to plant a tree to promote forests and the saving of those tigers. We decided to plant a redwood tree on our campus to replace one that died.
Our Slideshow
Content
- Ecology: is branch of science that deals with the relationships of organisms to each other and their environment.
- Trophic levels: each level of the ecosystem organized in hierarchical levels, where each level shows the function of each animal or organism and how they all get their food from each other.
- 10% rule: 10% of the available energy is passed on to the consumer at each trophic level.
- Abiotic: Physical parts of an ecosystem, for example rocks and water
- Biotic: The living things in an ecosystem, for example animals and plants
- Carbon cycle:
- Niche: The role species have in their environment
- Population: all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country.
- Carrying capacity:the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation.
- Climate:the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
- Weather:the state of the atmosphere for a given day in regards of temperature, precipitation, wind, etc
- Nitrogen cycle: Is how nitrogen makes it's way through the ecosystem and how it makes a cycle
- Biosphere:the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth occupied by living organisms.
- Biome:a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat, e.g., forest or tundra.
- Water cycle: Is the process of how water flows through an ecosystem.
- Autotroph:Organism that is at the first trophic level and is generally a plant
- Heterotroph: Organism that gets its energy from other thing ie. not producing their own energy like plants do
Reflection
I learned a lot in this project. I never knew that so many organisms could be affected by a small change in the atmosphere or biosphere. I also had a lot of fun researching a problem and finding a way I could help to make it better since then you know you can actually make a difference in the world.
This project was hard in some ways by actually having to come up with a solution to the issues, because most of the time the problem was caused my a multitude of things, and it would be had to pin point the main cause of said issue. Also it not the easiest for my group to figure out the logistics of where we could put a tree since it had to be in a place where people would see it and a place that it would be okay to put a tree.
This project was hard in some ways by actually having to come up with a solution to the issues, because most of the time the problem was caused my a multitude of things, and it would be had to pin point the main cause of said issue. Also it not the easiest for my group to figure out the logistics of where we could put a tree since it had to be in a place where people would see it and a place that it would be okay to put a tree.