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Ecology & Environmental Educational Posters, Prints & Charts
for science & social studies classrooms, home schoolers, offices.
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science > biology > health > ecology & environmental index < peace & justice < social studies
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ECOLOGY
Poster Text: The study of the natural world of plants, animals, soils, air, water, and how they interact to form living systems is called ecology. Because we humans have unprecedented power to change our surroundings, we must understand how those changes will affect the environment for both the short and long term. We may not fully appreciate the impact the environemt has on our existence, but we can not afford to ignore it.
Many opportunities are open to people who study ecology and the environment. Wildlife research biologists gather important data for the understand of management and preservation of native animal populations. Landfill managers make sure that we recycle and dispose of waste in a way that will have a minimum effect on living systems. Environmental lawyers work to establish and enforce laws which protect our land and waters.
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Ecology, a multidisciplinary science that transcends and includes biology, is the study of relationships between living organisms and their environment - “where organisms are found, how many occur there, and why” (C. J. Krebs- Ecology).
The word ecology is based on the Greek word oikos for household and means the “study of the household”, in this case, nature. It was coined for biology studies by German scientist Ernst Haeckel.
Ecologists gather information on the “household” Earth, from the micro to macro levels through the disciplines of biochemistry, molecular biology, and cellular biology, as well as the sciences of anthropology, botany, zoology, geology, and the study of local ecosystems to the global biosphere as the environment of the human species and all known life forms in the Universe.
Environmental concerns include the preservation, restoration and sustainability of the natural systems through the conservation and recycling (highest efficiency use of finite resources), and prevention of introducing harmful and unnatural substances (pollution).
Quotes ~
• The most energy efficient light bulb is the one you turned off when you left the room.
• Four Laws of Ecology: 1. Everything is Connected to Everything Else. There is one ecosphere for all living organisms and what affects one, affects all. 2. Everything Must Go Somewhere. There is no "waste" in nature and there is no “away” to which things can be thrown. 3. Nature Knows Best. Humankind has fashioned technology to improve upon nature, but such change in a natural system is “likely to be detrimental to that system.” 4. There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch. Everything comes from something. There's no such thing as spontaneous existence. ~ Barry Commoner
• “Nature is the art of God.” ~ Dante
• “Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.” ~ Rene Dubos
• “More can be learned from what works than from what fails.” ~ Rene Dubos
• “Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. Celebrations of Life, 1981” ~ Rene Dubos
• “The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.” ~ Rene Dubos
• “Think Globally, Act Locally.” ~ Rene Dubos, Patrick Geddes, etal.
• “Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.” ~ Murray Gell-Mann
• “Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.” ~ Joel Chandler Harris
• “We must draw our standards from the natural world. We must honor with the humility of the wise the bounds of that natural world and the mystery which lies beyond them, admitting that there is something in the order of being which evidently exceeds all our competence.” ~ Vaclav Havel
• “We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.” ~ William Hazlitt
• “The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them.” ~ Ivan Illich
• “The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.” ~ Marshall McLuhan
• “If there can be such a thing as instinctual memory, the consciousness of land and water must lie deeper in the core of us than any knowledge of our fellow beings. We were bred of the earth before we were born of our mothers. Once born, we can live without our mothers or our fathers or any other kin or friend, or even human love. We cannot live without the earth or apart from it, and something is shriveled in man’s heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men.” ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• “Certain people always say we should go back to nature. I notice they never say we should go forward to nature.” ~ Mark Rothko
• “We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• “I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.” ~ E. B. White
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| The Endangered Oceans - Species Extinction - Major Carbon Dioxide Contributors - Overpopulation - Acid Rain - Ozone Hole |
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Oceans and Seas
Provide an at-a-glance overview of the waterworlds that make up three-quarters of our world. Covers average temperature in °C, percentage of mineral salts contained in seawater, surface extension and depth of oceans, sunlight penetration in the sea, presence of plankton in the sea, seawater salinity in percentage and more. All information is based on the latest scientific information and is conveyed in an easy to understand style. Laminated.
• more marine / aquatics posters
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Biomes Poster Series
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Biomes Poster Series
places where plants and animals live in an interdependent ecological communities -
marine, deserts, coniferous & deciduous forests, rainforest, grasslands, polar, tundra biomes.
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Biosphere: Interdependence Poster
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Ecosphere Posters
anthrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere
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Trees & Forest Posters
Trees
• Remove atmospheric carbon dioxide
• Reduce stormwater runoff
• Filter airborne pollutants
• Conserve energy by shading buildings and paved surfaces
• Increase the value of our homes
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Fragile. Handle With Care Poster
Image of Earth covered by wildlife and habitats with 'Fragile Handle With Care' expressed in 15 different languages.
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Diagram illustrating the Earth receiving radiation energy from the Sun, reflecting about 30% and absorbing 70%, warming the land, atmosphere and oceans.
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Life Cycle Poster
(4) 17" x 24" life cycle charts, 4 chart headers, a header, and a resource guide. Showing the development stages of the Frog, Chicken, Butterfly and Plant. Gr 1-8
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Landfill & Trash
TRASHED (DVD) is a provocative investigation of one of the fastest growing industries in North America, the garbage business. The film examines a fundamental element of modern American culture...the disposal of what our society defines as “waste”. It is an issue influenced by every American, most of whom never consider the consequences. Nor, it seems, the implications to our biosphere. At times humorous, but deeply poignant, “TRASHED” examines the American waste stream fast approaching a half billion tons annually.
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“Environmental vegetarianism is based on the concern that the production of meat and animal products for mass consumption, especially through factory farming, is environmentally unsustainable. According to a 2006 United Nations initiative, the livestock industry is one of the largest contributors to environmental degradation worldwide, and modern practices of raising animals for food contributes on a ‘massive scale’ to air and water pollution, land degradation, climate change, and loss of biodiversity. The initiative concluded that ‘the livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.’” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarian#Environmental
• more food posters
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