...University of Phoenix Material Biosphere Worksheet Section A: Answer the following questions in complete sentences. 1. Define biosphere. Describe the part of the biosphere where humans can survive. Biosphere can be described as our whole earth and all living entities that dwell in it. 2. Based on this week’s required readings, what are the main causes of threats to the biosphere? The main causes of threats to the biosphere revolve around all the no sustainable practices that directly affect our world; more specifically, the immediate and long-term effects of the incorrect disposal of waste. 3. Define sustainability. What do scientists predict will happen in Earth’s future if we do not increase our sustainability practices? Sustainability refers to our ability to endure and maintain. From an ecological standpoint, sustainability considers the long-term environmental and social consequences of our decisions relative to our future resource base. Scientists predict the world’s future resource base will be dramatically depleted if we cannot effectively learn how to sustain. It is equally important to note that far too many decisions that prove correct in the short term have disastrous consequences in the long term. Section B: Fill in the chart with complete sentences. For each item listed below, identify one related threat to the biosphere. Then, describe business practices that may cause this problem. Finally, describe alternative business practices that may...
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...Biosphere Worksheet Jose Luis Sandoval Jr. MGT/360 August 18, 2014 Samuel Cunningham Biosphere Worksheet Section A: Answer the following questions in complete sentences. 1. Define biosphere. Describe the part of the biosphere where humans can survive. Biosphere is defined as the parts of the land, sea, and atmosphere in which organisms are able to live. The biosphere is an irregularly shaped, relatively thin zone in which life is concentrated on or near the Earth's surface and throughout its waters; and all the Earth's ecosystems considered as a single, self-sustaining unit ("Biosphere - Definition of Biosphere by the Free Dictionary", 2014). For humans to survive there must be certain environmental conditions such as proper temperature must exits, and humans must be supplied with food. The northern continents will be the best place for humans to survive. 2. Based on this week’s required readings, what are the main causes of threats to the biosphere? The main cause of threats to the biosphere is the world population of 6 billion people. These people cause global warming, water shortages, loss of arable land, pollution, extinction of species, and social ills. 3. Define sustainability. What do scientists predict will happen in Earth’s future if we do not increase our sustainability practices? Sustainability is define as of, or relating to a state of being maintained at a constant level while no major or severe damage is incurred, such as to the...
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...by applying theories to your own behaviour. In this assessment, you will submit three (3) out of six (6) tutorial worksheets as part of a portfolio. You must submit worksheet 1 and then choose any two (2) from worksheet 2 to 6. The tutorial program has been designed to assist your learning and is directly linked to this assessment. You should aim to attend most of the tutorials if you seek a good mark. Consumer Behaviour List In the first tutorial, you will be select ONE consumer behaviour from the list below that you have done in the last three months. You will then complete worksheets in the tutorials of weeks 2 – 7 on that consumer behaviour. Once you have selected a behaviour you cannot change as your assessment requires to submit worksheets on the same behaviour. List of Consumer Behaviours * Buying a PC/laptop/high-technology item * Booking/arranging/going on an overseas holiday * Selecting a university * Going to the movies * Choosing a restaurant for a special occasion * Evaluating and selecting a mobile phone plan * Choosing to do volunteer work * Buying a fashion item * Going to a concert * Changing a bad habit (smoking, reducing alcohol intake, getting fit, eating better) Assignment structure and requirements You must follow this structure, do not change the order of the content of the worksheets in any way as this may result in reduced marks. This assignment requires the use of first-person language. The total...
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...DIPLOMA IN PRE-PRIMARY TEACHERS TRAINING MID TERM ASSIGNMENT ON COMMUNITY HELPER Topic: Community Helpers Subject : Environment Studies Level / Class : GRADE II No. of students : 16 Time : 40 mins Age Group : 6-7 years Teaching Aids : Flash Cards, Marker, VCD, Reference Book “Hello Earth” Aim of the Lesson: a) Main focus - To develop understanding in young learners about Helpers in our community and how they help us? b) General Aim - To develop listening and speaking skills. To enhance their knowledge about community helpers. To enhance the volume of their vocabulary. To develop memorization and imaginative skills. Concepts Introduced: a. Identification of Community Helpers. b. Tools used by Community Helpers. c. Work Place of Community Helpers. d. Dress up of Community Helpers. e. Dramatization of Community Helpers. Time Allotted | Activity Planned | Teacher’s Activity | Student’s Activity | Anticipated Problems (Teacher’s Point of View) | 10 min | Warm...
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...Homework #1 – Basic Terms and Concepts Name: Intro to the Environment - Eco Footprint - Homework #1 (HW1) – Fall 2012 1. An ecosystem is a community of organisms living in a particular environment and also the physical elements in that given environment, in which these organisms interact. Its diversity is profoundly substantial. An ecosystem can extend from the icy artic zones to the tropical forests. They occur in many different scales with smaller systems pierced inside larger systems. Depending on the scale, an ecosystem can be small or profoundly large. 2. Photosynthesis is the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. In plants, photosynthesis generally involves the green pigment chlorophyll and generates oxygen as a byproduct. 3. A producer in an ecosystem, converts energy from the environment into carbon bonds. For instance, green plants use energy from the sun to create more complex molecules like carbon dioxide into glucose. Consumers on the other hand are organisms that obtain nutrients from other organisms. They attain their energy from the carbon bonds made by the producers. An example of a consumer is animal that gets its energy from plants. It is also called an herbivore. A few examples of herbivores include cows, moose, gazelles, rabbits and elephants. The trophic level of an organism is where the organism is situated in the food chain. A food chain is similar to...
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...Math 100 Review for Test III As college students, you are expected to be able to review on your own, and carefully manage your time. That is, the primary responsibility for mastering the material is your own. Here are some suggestions that may help in preparing for your first test. As listed in the Course syllabus, you may bring one sheet of self-prepared notes. You are cautioned that spending too much time searching through notes can be fatal. You should know the material well enough that only a quick glance at notes will suffice. A very good source for review is the Worksheets that you have been printing during the term. Printing one or two Worksheets each week is a good study skill. Click on Worksheet in the blue bar in Aleks. This will show the Worksheets and answers. You can also get ALEKS to suggest Review problems for you. Click on Review in the blue bar in ALEKS. You should see something similar to what is below. You should look over the list, and decide for yourself which problems you had trouble with and need to review. Clicking on any topic listed will bring you to Practice on that topic. This test will cover Chapters 5. There are 23 possible topics that were covered. I will certainly not ask a question from every one of these topics, but ... you should be prepared to answer questions on any of them. And there might be a review topic from the first two tests. Based on your work to date, I expect all of you to do very well....
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...Website Planning Worksheet n o This worksheet can help you to lay a solid foundation for your web sit e. It will help define your goals along with setting a o o r t p r guidelines to make sure your website is complete and useful for your visitors. If you don't know an answer or feel like it e k m s r o w l a t e doesn't apply to you, then simply leave it blank. If you have any quest ions; please call and I'll be happy to help you Name Address r City State Zip Code Business Phone n Home Phone Cell Phone Description of your business c o s (One Paragraph) e [Type a quote from the document o or the summa ary of an inte eresting point. You can t position t the text box a anywhere in the document t t. Use the Dra awing Tools t tab to change the e formattin ng of the pull quote text bo ox.] Description of services c e , (Separated by commas) Example: Pizza, Restaurant, Take Out, Salads, Italian, Entrees, Pasta, a m p s e [Type a quote from the u e document o or the summa ary of an interesting point. You can t anywhere in the document t. Use the Dra awing Tools tab to change e position the text box a the forma atting of the p pull quote tex xt box.] 1 What is your "Motto· or ·Slogan"? Do you want people to: ☐ Learn more about your business or organization? ☐ Hire you to perform a service? ☐ Buy products from you...
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...Sebastian Estrada PHIL 3360: Environmental Ethics Dr. Vicki Toscano Issues paper#1 Anthropocentrism vs. Biocentrism 1/26/2012 The Historical Roots of our ecologic crisis is an article written by Lynn T. White, Jr. published in the journal Science in 1966. White was a medieval scholar and in this article he blames technology, Christianity, and anthropocentrism as the “Roots” of our ecologic crisis. He states, “All forms of life modify their contexts,” but believes that this modification should be for the good of the earth like the coral polyp. He states Man must coexist with nature. Man had always been a dynamic element in harmony with the earth. This all changed sometime around the 1850 when the “Baconian Creed” of scientific knowledge started influencing the people. As a result man began to exploit the earth through new advents in technology. White cites the invention of the eight-oxen plow as the beginning of man’s “ruthlessness” towards nature. White continues to argue that Christian Axioms fueled this newfound exploitive attitude towards earth. To White, Christianity’s story of creation and notion that “no item in the physical creation had any purpose save to serve man’s purpose (White).” only served to justify these actions and put Christianity as “the most anthropocentric religion the world has seen.” White continues to argue that simply applying more science and more technology to our ecologic crisis is not going to solve the problem. To him the issue is essentially...
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...known as: the Lithosphere, the Biosphere, the Atmosphere, and the Hydrosphere. Each of these elements performs a certain function that is dependent on the other. The Lithosphere is the Earth’s outermost rocker layer. The Biosphere consists of recently decayed and living organisms on Earth’s surface. The Atmosphere is the gases that surround the Earth. The Hydrosphere contains all of the earth’s water and ice, above and below the surface. Losing any of these systems would have a depleting effect on the earth as we know it. There is a cycle to how these systems work, plants gain nutrients from the lithosphere and then these nutrients are incorporated back into the biosphere. When the plants die some of the material left behind is released into the atmosphere and the rest goes back into the lithosphere. Each element provides what is needed to continue the cycle and the cycle is a constant. People depend on each subsystem in the same way that the earth depends on these systems to continue. The lithosphere is important because “There are high mountains ranges like the Rockies and Andes, huge plains like those in Texas, Iowa and Brazil, and the deep valleys of the ocean floor .We walk and climb on this part of the lithosphere (Wheeling Jesuit University, 2005).” The biosphere is important because it contains the environment that a person lies in. “The biosphere is as important as life itself because it is all of life. Without the biosphere, the Earth would be a lifeless...
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...The chaparral biome is a temperate shrub land biome found in all five parts of the world with a Mediterranean, dry, coastal climate. The chaparral is primarily found in California and the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico. The chaparral is also found around the world in Chile, South Africa, and Western and Southern Australia. The chaparral’s climate is defined by mild, wet winters and hot dry summers. Plants of the Chaparral Plants of the chaparral must survive long periods of heat, fire, and drought. Many plants of the chaparral very closely resemble plants of the desert that can also survive long periods without rain. The South African Chaparral contains many species of plants that are not located anywhere else in the world. Examples of Chaparral Plants: Quercus ilex- commonly known as the evergreen oak, holm oak or holly oak. Eucalyptus- known by its scientific name and commonly known as the plant koala bears almost exclusively eat. However, the waxy coating of the leaves makes the eucalyptus difficult to digest but that does not stop the koalas from eating. Salvia- commonly known as the sweet smelling sage plant, this plant produces long purple strands of flowers. This plant has hairs that grow along the stem to keep water from transpiring and reduce water loss. When the hairs are rubbed or brushed against, it stimulates oil producing cells that release a very pungent smell making these plants unattractive to some grazing animals. ...
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...| [pic] |Course Syllabus | | |College of Natural Sciences | | |ENV/100 Version 2 | | |Principles of Environmental Science | Copyright © 2011, 2009 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course will provide students with the scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies that are required to identify and analyze risks associated with environmental problems, and examine alternative solutions for resolving or preventing these problems. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you...
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...mankind we procreate thus reproducing to not die out. Grow and Develop – in order to be a productive member of this existence we learn and grow by evolving i.e... From infancy to adulthood Are homeostatic – in order to function in a more complex environment our bodies learn to adapt by regulating our body temperature to ensure we do not cease to survive. Respond to stimuli – when we accidently drop an object on our toe we respond by exclaiming a loud remark thus responding to external stimuli. Have an evolutionary history – we have an evolutionary history by adapting and changing with time in order to survive rather than become extinct. 3. As stated by Mader and Windelspecht, (2012), “All living things on Earth are part of the biosphere, a living network that spans the surface of the Earth into the soil and seas.” (p. 8). 4. The purpose of the scientific method is to acquire the best known knowledge by a series of experiments and hypotheses in order to arrive at a methodical solution that can be shown to be factual or unfactual based on the removal of scientific proof as it relates to theories. 5. The...
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...National Curriculum Statement (NCS) Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement LIFE SCIENCES Further Education and Training Phase Grades 10-12 basic education Department: Basic Education REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA CurriCulum and assessment PoliCy statement Grades 10-12 life sCienCes CAPS LIFE SCIENCES GRADES 10-12 department of Basic education 222 Struben Street Private Bag X895 Pretoria 0001 South Africa Tel: +27 12 357 3000 Fax: +27 12 323 0601 120 Plein Street Private Bag X9023 Cape Town 8000 South Africa Tel: +27 21 465 1701 Fax: +27 21 461 8110 Website: http://www.education.gov.za © 2011 department of Basic education isBn: 978-1-4315-0578-4 Design and Layout by: Ndabase Printing Solution Printed by: Government Printing Works CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT POLICY STATEMENT (CAPS) LIFE SCIENCES GRADES 10-12 FOREWORD by thE ministER Our national curriculum is the culmination of our efforts over a period of seventeen years to transform the curriculum bequeathed to us by apartheid. From the start of democracy we have built our curriculum on the values that inspired our Constitution (Act 108 of 1996). the Preamble to the Constitution states that the aims of the Constitution are to: • heal the divisions of the past and establish a society based on democratic values, social justice and fundamental human rights; improve the quality of life of all citizens and free the potential of each person; lay the foundations for a democratic and open society in which...
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...|[pic] |Syllabus | | |College of Natural Sciences | | |BIO/101 Version 2 | | |Principles of Biology | Copyright © 2010, 2008 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course is designed to introduce biology at an entry level by examining the hierarchy that ranges from the fundamentals of cell biology to the physiology of organisms, and the interactions among those organisms in their environment. The topics in this course include cell biology, genetics, molecular biology, evolution, physiology, and ecology. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies...
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...[pic] Course Syllabus GLG/101 Geology with Lab Please print a copy of this syllabus for handy reference. Whenever there is a question about what assignments are due, please remember this syllabus is considered the ruling document. Copyright Copyright ©2009 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. University of Phoenix© is a registered trademark of Apollo Group, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft©, Windows©, and Windows NT© are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Use of these marks is not intended to imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation. Edited in accordance with University of Phoenix© editorial standards and practices. Facilitator Information Michael Gutierrez gofiguretravel@email.phoenix.edu (University of Phoenix) gofiguretravel@q.com (Personal) 602-301-2633 (mountain) Facilitator Availability I am available from 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Mountain Time on most days, but I attempt to reserve Saturday for my family. On Sundays, I tend to be online in the late evening only. If these times are not convenient for you,...
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