bio 9b: tuesday, 5.17.11 title: introduction to watersheds
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Bio 9B: Tuesday, 5.17.11 Title: Introduction to Watersheds. DOUBLE Block. Homework: Complete the “Design a Town” Analysis Questions Read pgs. 74-75 in the textbook. In your notebook, answer the questions on the back of the assignment sheet. Do Now(s): - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Bio 9B: Tuesday, 5.17.11 Title: Introduction to Watersheds
Homework:1. Complete the “Design a Town” Analysis Questions2. Read pgs. 74-75 in the textbook. In your notebook, answer
the questions on the back of the assignment sheet.
Do Now(s): We are beginning our last unit of the year:
Ecology/Environmental Science. In your notebook, write down anything you KNOW or
WANT TO KNOW about these topics.
Today’s Objective: Design a town along a river with specific features and
elements.
DOUBLE Block
Design A Town
• Build your Town along a river• The town needs to have the following elements:
• Roads• Factory• Shopping Mall• Housing/ Apartment Development (places people live)• Businesses• Farm• Sewage Treatment Plant• Forest• Outside Swimming Area (pond, lake, swimming hole)
• In your notebooks respond to the following:• Why did you put these elements where you did? • Was there disagreement among the team about where
to put these things? Why? Explain
Examples of your town’s features/ elements
Factory
Sewer Treatment Plant
Places People Live
Mall Power Plant
Farm
Design A Town Wrap-up
Now that all of the towns are put together, what trends do you notice about the how teams planned their towns?
Which seem to be the best town designs? Why?
What are some issues that could arise between neighboring towns?
Bio 9B: Wednesday, 5.18.11 Title: Ecosystems & Nutrient Cycles Day 1: Water Cycle & Watersheds
Homework: Read the top of page 76 (Nutrient Cycles but not Carbon
Cycle) and pages 78-80. In your notebook, answer the questions on the back of
assignment sheet.
Do Now(s): What do you think a “watershed” is? Even if you’ve never
heard the word before, write down anything that comes to mind when you hear the word “watershed.”
Today’s Objectives: Describe the major stages of the water cycle and the 3
phases of water. Identify the criteria for a watershed.
ECOLOGY: ECOSYSTEMS & NUTRIENT CYCLES
PHA Biology 2009
Moretti/ Dickson
Ecosystems & Nutrient CyclesEcosystem – a collection of all the organisms
that live in a particular place, plus the non-living components of their environment
Nutrient – a chemical substance needed for life Made of the 6 common elements in living things
(CHNOPS) Ex: Water, Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen
Nutrients cycle through ecosystems – they aren’t created or destroyed, just transformed and recycled!
The Water Cycle
The Water Cycle
Water moves through ecosystems by… Precipitation Run-off (over the land) Infiltration/seepage (soaks into
ground) Evaporation Transpiration (evaporation
through plants/trees) Condensation
Precipitation & run-off can carry other nutrients, sediments (soil particles) and pollutants with it
These things build up as water flows downstream (think back to Design a Town)
An area of land that drains to reach a particular body of water (River, Stream, Lake, Pond, Ocean, etc.)
Watershed -
http://www.recycleworks.org/images/watershed_800.jpg
Watershed Demo
In which direction(s) does water flow? How many separate watersheds are
there? What forms the boundaries between
different watersheds? How do different land surfaces and
topography affect water movement?
Watershed -
An area of land that drains to reach a particular body of water (River, Stream, Lake, Pond, Ocean, etc.)
•Watershed Boundaries = Hills & Mountains• They direct the path of water movement• The speed of water movement is affected by topography
and land surfaces
•Watersheds are usually named after the main body of water in the watershed (Ex: Charles River watershed = all land that drains into the Charles)
• They vary in size• Every large watershed is composed of many smaller
watersheds• MA has 28 Distinct Watersheds that feed 6 River Basins
Wherever you are…you are in a watershed!
Mississippi Watershed
Image: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1998/of98-177/basnmap.gif
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Our Immediate Watershed: The Charles River
•80 miles long •Flows directly through 23 towns and cities in eastern Massachusetts•35 towns and cities comprise the Charles River watershed. •Begins at Echo Lake in Hopkinton and ends in the Boston Harbor.
•20 Dams along its length•The Charles River drains an area 308 square miles (its watershed). •There are 20 species of fish found in the Charles River
Info and Image: http://www.crwa.org/watershed.html
What does the landscape look like? Hopkinton, MA
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/86/276761075_791fa7d454.jpg?v=0
Image: http://www.mass.gov/envir/smart_growth_toolkit/images/hopkinton-loc.gif
Getting Closer to home…
Image: http://esplanadeassociation.org/park/images/CRWABasinMap_000.jpg
What does the landscape look like?
Cambridge, MAhttp://www.skypic.com/sports/1-5382.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/0/05/20070902101525!Cambridge_ma_highlight.png
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/11/11.001j/f01/lectureimages/13/13002.JPG