ELD-3- Habitat unit by https://padlet.com/rhwinston/r7qhuww3cq3mna7r Read the article, analyze the text and answer the following questions: en-us 2023-05-09 11:53:57 UTC 2026-02-26 13:46:58 UTC hello@padlet.com Read the article, analyze the text and answer the following questions: rhwinston https://padlet.com/rhwinston/r7qhuww3cq3mna7r/wish/2583684122 Explore the Issues:
1) Identify Problems: What are some major causes of Habitat destruction?
2) Analyze Cause and Effect: How do booming populations and over-consumption affect habitats and biodiversity?
  • See page 8-9 Explore the issues: 
1) Interpret Maps: In which 2 regions is sea life threatened by habitat loss?
2) Analyze Causes: Which human activities are threatening habitat in both North and South America?
Explore the Issues:
3) Identify Problems: What are the major threats to Kenya's elephants?
4) Analyze Causes and Effects: How does the Sheldrick Trust help Kenya's elephants?
5) Australia's Great Barrier Reef has at least ______ more Coral species than the entire Atlantic Ocean.
6) Identify Problems: What human activities on land threaten the Great Barrier Reef in Australia?
7) Identify Solutions: What are different groups of Australians doing to try to help save the Great Barrier Reefs?
8) Analyze Cause and Effect: What human activities have affected the big cats? What is the Effect of those activities?
9) Identify Problems and Solutions: How has the Big Cats Initiative helped preserve habitats?
10) See map page 8-9: Kenya's Savannas are home to ____________, ____________, ____________ and many other species of animals, and illegal hunting and habitat loss are serious threats. 
11) Andes Mountains - Earth's most diverse habitat has rare monkeys, birds and ___________ percent of all plant life on earth. Thus, farming, logging and mining and dams are the top concerns that are damaging the habitats.
12) California Coast- forests and dunes are home to ________________and the ____________________, on the the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere. 

]]> 2023-05-09 11:55:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rhwinston/r7qhuww3cq3mna7r/wish/2583684122 Vocabulary words for Habitat Unit rhwinston https://padlet.com/rhwinston/r7qhuww3cq3mna7r/wish/2583685294 1) Biodiversity (noun) - the variety of living things on Earth.
2) Conservation (noun) - the work of preserving habitats and living things.
3) Coral Polyp (noun) - a pinhead -sized animal builds a hard skeleton and joins with other coral polyps to form coral reefs.
4) Deforestation (noun) - the removal of trees in a forest t oconvert the land to framing or other uses.
5) Extinct (Adjective) = describing a species that NO longer exists.
6) Habitat - (noun) - the natural home of a living thing, providing food, water and shelter.
7) Initiative (noun) a plan of action.
8) Overcompensation (noun)  the use of natural resources faster than nature can replace them.
9) Pesticide (noun) - a chemical that destroys insects or other pests that harm plants and animals.
10) Poacher (noun) - a person who hunts illegally animals that are endangered.
11) Savanna (noun) a grassland with scattered trees.
12) Sediment (noun) - soil carried by water or wind and deposited on land or in a body of water.
13) Species (noun) - kinds of living things with similar features that can be interbreed.
14) Urban Sprawl (noun) - the spread of cities into surrounding land.
15) Wetland (noun) - a marshy or swampy land area soaked with water.]]> 2023-05-09 11:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rhwinston/r7qhuww3cq3mna7r/wish/2583685294 Read Article - Habitat Unit rhwinston https://padlet.com/rhwinston/r7qhuww3cq3mna7r/wish/2583686218 2023-05-09 11:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rhwinston/r7qhuww3cq3mna7r/wish/2583686218 Aziz https://padlet.com/rhwinston/r7qhuww3cq3mna7r/wish/2584221522 1.land conversion for development from growing populations, mining for materials, harvesting lumber for paper products and, of course, agriculture.
2. Farming, logging, urban sprawl, mining, dams and pollution are top threats in both North and South America.
3.poachers and conflict with humans.
4.rescuing and rehabilitating orphaned baby elephants.
5.Australia's Great Barrier Reef has at least  2,900 individual more Coral species than the entire Atlantic Ocean.
6.dredging, coastal development, agricultural and deforestation activities, and sewage treatment plant operations.
7. Education programs, plastic pollution control, COTS eradication, coral nurseries, renewable energy development and responsible stewardship by marine park tourism organizations.
8.habitat loss, poaching and the illegal wildlife trade.
9.The Great Plains Foundation Big Cats Initiative
BCI made a substantial impact in big cats conservation,
10.Elephants, rhinos, lions, zebras.
11.Andes Mountains - Earth's most diverse habitat has rare monkeys, birds and One-sexth or 16 -17% percent of all plant life on earth. Thus, farming, logging and mining and dams are the top concerns that are damaging the habitats.
12.California Coast- forests and dunes are home to Redwood trees and the  condor, on the the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere. 

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