Marine Science Unit 6 SLM 3

Student Learning Map for Unit: The Present and Future of the Marine Environment (6.3) Key Learning(s): Niche organisms play an important role in their ecosystem and can be supplanted by non-native species. Conditions challenge organisms and dictate population diversity in habitats. Resources are distributed unevenly throughout the Earth and its oceans. Marine policy has evolved over time in reaction to economic and environmental stimuli. Humanity and natural processes have effects on ecosystems such as coral reefs around the world. Students have opportunities to be stewards of the oceans.

Unit Essential Question(s): What is ecology? How does the flow of energy through the food web affect an ecosystem? What factors affect the productivity of an ecosystem? Why do human activities have wide-ranging potential effects on coastal ecosystems? How would you classify the broad range of marine resources? Who owns marine resources? What does biodiversity mean to you? Are the ocean and the atmosphere linked together? What are the different classifications of pollutants and their effects? What is the “Tragedy of the Commons” and how has it applied to the oceans? How do we construct marine policy for effective stewardship of the oceans?

Concept: Concept: Concept: Concept:

Who Owns the Sea? – Global Habitat Sensitive Marine Habitat Toxic Pollutants Biodiversity in the Future Destruction Destruction and Types of Pollution

Lesson Essential Question(s): Lesson Essential Question(s): Lesson Essential Question(s): Lesson Essential Question(s):

What is the significance of What gases are greenhouse What is the primary cause of What are heavy metals and how Mare Liberum? (A) gases? (A) coastal wetland destruction? do they affect organisms? (A) How did the Truman About what percentage of (A) Why can many synthetic Proclamation of 1945 change carbon dioxide from burning How do ENSO events relate to chemicals persist in the marine the concept of territorial fossil fuels does the ocean coral reef destruction? (A) environment? (A) waters? (ET) absorb? (A) What practices destructive to What are the major sources of What is an Exclusive Why is the ozone layer vital to coral are associated with oil pollution and how does it Economic Zone (EEZ)? (A) life on Earth? (A) fishing? (A) affect the marine environment? What EEZ does the United How does ultraviolet radiation With respect to the marine (A) States claim? (A) harm organisms? (A) environment, how do we define Why is refined oil more What is biodiversity and how What kind of damage do non- “pollution”? (A) hazardous to the environment does it relate to biological native species cause? (A) What are the different sources than crude oil? (A) resources? (A) How does overfishing affect for pollution in the ocean? (A) Why is it sometimes better to local ecosystems? (A) About what percentage of leave an oil spill alone rather KEY: pollution does each source than to clean it up? (A) (A) – Acquisition Lesson account for? (A) (ET) – Extended Thinking Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary:

 Biodiversity  Carbon dioxide  Airborne emissions  Bioaccumulation  Exclusive Economic  Ecosystem imbalance  Biodegradable  Biodegradable Zone  Global warming pollutants  Biomagnification  Genetic diversity  Greenhouse gases  Coastal wetland  Chlorinated  International waters  Homogeneous destruction hydrocarbons  Preservation ecosystem  Coral bleaching  Conservative materials  Truman Proclamation  Methane  Coral reef destruction  Crude oil  UNCLOS  Non-native species  Crude oil  Dumping  Overfishing  Cyanide  Heavy metals  Ozone gases  Dynamite  Munitions  Passenger organisms  ENSO  Radioactive waste  Ultraviolet radiation  Estuaries  Refined oil  Land run-off  Synthetic organic  Mangroves chemicals  Pollution  Toxic waste  Toxic Model from Learning-Focused Strategies. Thompson, M., Thompson, J. (2008)