Team,
Nice work on the massive but interesting/depressing Poisoned Waters video. Lots there to dissect over the next few months. We have another like that for later called "Heat" about climate change, but we need to move on to biomes, which is what chapter 4 in our text is all about. The frog book will be our first pass at this, with excellent diagrams of biomes from a standpoint of temperature and rainfall: the two most important distinctions between biomes.
Keep in mind biomes are to living things as your friends are to you: it's not what they will do, it's what they WON'T do that you can count on.
For example:
A tropical rain forest will reliably provide an environment of lots of water, and warm temperature for all bios in this "ome". It would kill this life (bios) if it were to undergo desert or tundra conditions.
So...
Let's take time this week to go over Frog book chapter 6: Biomes and Aquatic systems.
Please make sure to complete each of the lesson exercises and email me your (correct) answers after each class. Your homework will involve some reading of the material in the text from module 9, which should help bring these topics together. There's a lot to discuss about these topics, so relax, we'll be going over them in more detail the following week.
Week 6 assignments:
In class: complete frog book chapter 6: Biomes and Aquatic systems
homework: module 9 and 10 in the normal text.
As always, please let me know how I can help.
aloha
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