Student Biome Movie

Environmental Movie on the Tundra Biome

Chapter 1: Understanding Our Environment

"Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system."
- Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize -

Readings:

1. Apo Island Case Study (pg 2)
2. Understanding Our Environment (pg 3-10)
3. A Brief History of Conservation and Environmentalism (pg 13-20)

Chapter 5: Biomes and Biodiversity

"In the end, we conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught."
- Baba Dioum

Readings:

1. Predators Help Restore Biodiversity in Yellowstone (pg 95)
   
2. Terrestrial Biomes (pg 96- 97)
3. Benefits of Biodiversity (pg 110-111)
4. What Threatens Biodiversity? (pg 111-118)
5. Endangered Species Management and Biodiversity Protection (pg 119-122)

Chapter 2: Environmental Systems: Connections, Cycles, Flows and Feedback Loops

"Most institutions demand unqualified faith, but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue."
-Robert King Merton

Reading:

1. A Natural System for Wastewater Treatment (pg 25)
2. Systems (pg 26)
3. Energy for Life (pg 32-39)
4. Biogeochemical Cycles and Life Processes (pg 40-44)

Chapter 3: Species Populations, Interactions and Communities

"When I view all beings not as special creations, but as lineal descendents of some few beings which have lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled."
- Charles Darwin

Readings:

1. How Species Diversity Arises (pg 49-55)
2. Species Interactions Shape Communities of Species (pg 55-60)
3. The Growth of Species Populations (pg 60- 63)
4. Properties of Communities Depend on Species Diversity (pg 63-67)
5. Communities are Dynamic and Change Over Time (pg 68-70)