Here is the lesson we started last Thursday. This week we will be looking at putting these sampling methods into practice and also using the Lincoln Index and Simpson's Diversity Index. This section corresponds to pgs 309-318 in your book.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Is South Africa addicted to coal?
Coal is the new gold in South Africa -- it's also one of the worst polluters on the planet.
South Africa is the world's fourth largest coal exporter with over 40 billion tons of the fossil fuel in reserves, according to the government. While the Chamber of Mines reported sales of some $10 billion last year. Read more on cnn.com
Measuring Biotic Components of an Ecosystem
Today in class we learned about the importance of measuring biotic (living organisms) in an ecosystem. We investigated the science of taxonomy-classification of organisms and discussed how each organism is named using bionomial nomenclature- 2 names in latin that are of the organisms genus and species. For more information on taxonomy- I found this great website produced by Michigan State University. We also looked at the Red-Cheeked Cordon Bleu, a songbird that lives right here on our campus- here is the powerpoint so you can see how it got it's classification:
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Going green- in style or in good intentions?
Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper discusses why people "go green"- do you think they change their practices because it's trendy or do people really care about the cause? Check out this article from the nation.
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