CHAPTER 18 ECOSYSTEMS

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CHAPTER 18ECOSYSTEMS

• Paul McPeterson of the 4th high Sea

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ALL LIFE IS CONNECTED

• Tilapia
• Lake Victoria
• Perch
• Brits

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The House of Life

• Ecosystems pg 261
• Ecology pg261
• Inter-dependent

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The Law of Unintended Consequence

• You cant change just one thing
• Somalia?

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Energy and the Food Web

• Food Chain
• Trophic levels
• Producers
• Primary carnivores
• Secondary carnivores
• inefficiency

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Nutrients and the Carbon Cycle

• Recycling-Matter cannot be create nor destroyed
• Chemical Cycles-water Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen,
  Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Others
• Pg 266 1st Paragraph

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Humans and the Environment

• The end of evolution?
• Ozone-Good Ozone Bad Ozone
• CFCs-Hole over Antarctica (Permanent?)

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Problem 2 Acid Rain

• Acid Jazz? Is it Rock and Roll?
• Impure Coal and Petroleum
• Forest Death

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The Greenhouse Effect

• Carbon Dioxide unavoidable
• Other Greenhouse Gasses
• Controversy pg 271
• Free Mason plot to distract attention from the
  Elders of Zion???

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Greenhouse Effect

• Protocol of the convention of the elders of Zion
• Nostradomos
• Bush is a Free Mason-is this why we didnt ratify
  Kyoto?

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Greenhouse Effect

• In our view, the greenhouse effect is the most
  difficult and potential damaging environmental
  problem now confronting the human race.
• Robocop is cool

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Nuclear Waste

• Burying
• Controversy
• Glass

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The end of the book

• My heart aches
• What do you call a musician without a girlfriend
• homeless