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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 | ecologists | Eco-Spheres | biomes | conservation | climate change | pollution < 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).
• The most energy efficient light bulb is the one
you turned off when you left the room.
• “We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.” ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• “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
• “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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Pollution & the Environment
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Global Threats to the Environment:
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.
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Understanding Earth Science using Satellite Imagery, Chart
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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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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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