Environmental Science IP1 Essay

For this assignment, please be sure you answer all of the questions.

You are welcome to divide your report by question if that helps you stay organized. Use the grading rubric (above) as an outline to be sure you cover all parts.

Sometimes it is fun to use games to learn.

Here is a website designed for kids where you are asked to identify all of the abiotic and biotic components of an ecosystem. I hope you will try it out as it can help you recognize the different factors in an ecosystem:
http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/facilities/multimedia/uploads/alberta/Ecosystem.swf

Like many of you, I am a visual learner. I enjoy animations very much. Here are two that may help you describe the carbon and nitrogen cycles.

Carbon Cycle:
http://nortonbooks.com/college/biology/animations/ch38a03.htm

Nitrogen Cycle:
http://www.classzone.com/books/ml_science_share/vis_sim/em05_pg20_nitrogen/em05_pg20_nitrogen.html

Here is a step through animation on succession starting with a beaver dam acting as the disturbance.
http://www.wiley.com/college/strahler/0471480533/animations/ch23_animations/animation1.html