Science Homework Help

1. Explain the meaning of biodiversity by using, as an example, an ecosystem of your choice–e.g. animal’s body, tundra, ocean, swamp. Note the general benefit of this ecosystem to its inhabitants.

2. How is biodiversity related to sustainability? Base your response on the meaning of words such as monoculture, monocrop, homonegeity. Use an example a local project (close to where you live, in southern Ontario) that promotes biodiversity and sustainability.

use any of the sources below

In order to save biodiversity (Science Daily, September 2010) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/10090…

Actions of individuals key to saving biodiversity – and ourselves (Science Daily, 2008) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/0808…

Biodiversity—it’s in the water (Science Daily, May 2008) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/08050…

Global change and mass extinction- new solutions (Science Daily, June 2007) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/07062…

Can nature parks save biodiversity? (Science Daily, 2012) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/1208…

Biodiversity begins at home, saving old villages helps save farmland birds (Science Daily, 2016) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/1608…

SCIENCE, ETHICS, & POLITICS

Esme McAvoy, Oil or life: Ecuador’s stark choice (New Internationalist, April 2011) http://www.newint.org/features/2011/04/01/yasuni/

Polly Higgins, Stopping the Juggernaut (New Internationalist, November 2010) http://www.newint.org/features/2010/11/01/ecocide-…

Walden Bello, Deglobalization (New Internationalist, March 2010) http://www.newint.org/features/2010/03/01/alternat…

Jack Laurenson, An Alternative Life (New Internationalist, June 2010) http://www.newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2010/…

OPTIONAL:

100 questions to conserve global biodiversity (Science Daily, April 2009) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/09042…

Doomsday Messages can backfire (Science Daily, November 2010) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/10111…

Turning over a new leaf for future energy supplies (Science Daily, December 2008) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/08121…

Toward the design of greener consumer products (Science Daily, September 2009) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/09091…

Oil Palm research (Science Daily, February 2008) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/08021…