TOPIC 5: Ecology

Syllabus:  Syllabus Topic 4

Syllabus 4.3:Syllabus 4.3 Carbon cycling

Topic 4.1:  ECOSYSTEMS

Vocabulary test (4.1)

Class presentation: ecosystems2019

The complexity of ecosystems:

2. Mesocosms

Biosphere 2 Research Paper

Mr Latimer’s Bottle garden

Mesocosm links

Wood’s Hole mesocosm lab

Biosphere 2 website

QUADRAT SAMPLING

TOPIC 4.2: ENERGY FLOW

Class presentation: Energy Transfer 2019

Vocabulary 4.2

Link to UN energy efficiency of consumption and production

TOPIC 4.3: CARBON CYCLING

4.3 Carbon cycle and flux: carboncycle2019

Interactive carbon cycle

Vocabulary 4.3

1.  The Carbon cycle:

The Carbon cycle from NASA

The carbon cycle from NOAA

PEAT BOGS

ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE

NOAA website

Current carbon dioxide levels

TOPIC 4.4: CLIMATE CHANGE

Class presentation: IBClimate2019

Current data on climate change country by country: Climate change 2

Class presentation: ibclimate1

Vocabulary 4.4

Methane versus carbon dioxide!

Global warming – the debate, fact checked…

Great Barrier Reef…the end?

This changes everything…

BBC overview of climate change

Excellent article addressing common climate change ‘myths’

Breitbart on climate change

Inside climate science

 

OCEAN ACIDIFICATION

Introductory short

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27492949