Subject
Grade
Curricular Competency
Identify and assess how human and environmental factors and events influence each other (interactions and associations)
Elaboration
- Sample topics:
- human modification of the lithosphere for resource extraction, settlement, agriculture
- human modification of the atmosphere by changing the rate of exchange of gases (e.g., release of CO2 through burning of fossil fuels)
- human modification of the biosphere by hunting, domesticating, bio-altering, and geographically relocating other species
- storm protection of coastal cities by wetlands
- settlement patterns associated with access to natural resources (e.g., risk of farming on a flood plain in rich soils developed by river flooding)
- global climate change and ocean acidification
- deforestation
- coral reef bleaching
- depletion of ozone layer
- global atmospheric circulation patterns
- acid precipitation
- wild species at risk
- drainage patterns, agriculture, and coastal dead zones
- weather modification
keywords
Identify and assess how human and environmental factors and events influence each other