AP Environmental Science Assignments

Unit 5:  Preserving Biodiversity

10/21-11/12

Date

In-Class

HW

Reading Concepts

Vidos

Reading

Wed/Thurs

10/21-22

Test on Unit 4

Study

191-203

Do chapter 10 study guide 

Finish species  Reports and

CS – Tropical Rainforest, Grasslands, Ranges,

National Parks, Nature Reserves, Ecological Restoration

Environmental Degradation

Tree Harvesting

Wilderness & Recreational Parkland

 Conservation Biology: Summary

CITES

Biodiversity Hotspots

Categories of Concern

Extinction Probability

A Sixth Mass Extinction?

Polar Bear International

Mass Extinction

Friday

10/23

Current Event

Present species reports

"The

 Forest for the Trees"

 

Read

203-220 

 

Read and review article 1 on conservation, and article 2 on management

Socratic Seminar next Wed/thurs

Fill out

Public Lands Due Friday

 

Extinction, Endangered, Threatened,

Habitat Loss, Invasive Species, Population,

Pollution, Overexploitation, HIPPO, Protection, Sanctuary, Reconciliation

The Loss of Biodiversity

Saving Our Planet

Keystone Species: The WolfBasic Conservation Crash Course

Tragedy of the Commons

Overharvesting

Nature MagazineAn Introduction to Managing Wild Game Populations

Habitat destruction: death by a thousand cuts

Fire and biodiversity

Invasive species

Overharvesting

Extinctions and the practice of preventing them

 

Monday

10/26

Public Lands

Read 222-247

Chapter 11 study guide

Aquatic Biodiversity, Protection, Sanctuaries, Reserves

Fisheries, Wetlands, Lakes, Rivers

 Invasive species

Endangered Species

 

 

Tuesday

10/27

Field Trip to Cabrillo

Wed/Thur

10/28-29

Ppt. sustaining biodiversity

Tag and Capture Lab

Conservation Biology Crash Course

 

 

 

Friday

10/30

Current Events

E.O Wilson Ted talk

Quiz on chapter 10/11 and Laws

Chapter 12 Study Guide

 

Read and review article 1 on conservation, and article 2 on management

 

Rangelands

 

Land Use

 

Monday

11/2

Socratic Seminar

 

Read pp. 247-257

 

 

 

 

Tuesday

11/3

Review

257-268

 

 

 

 

Wed/Thur

11/4-5

Empty Nets

Study

 

 

 

Friday

11/6

Test on chapters 10, 11, and 12

UN questions Unit 4 and 5

 

 

 

 

 

Study Guides:   chapter 10 study guide , Chapter 11 study guide, Chapter 12 Study Guide, Public Lands