Well in all honesty this Thursday wasn't very busy, but here's what we did do.
First, we took notes on 6-3 Biodiversity and looked at charts. Some of the main points and ideas were
-all species are involved int the food web/chain
-Threats to Biodiversity
--pollution
--global warming
--resources
--habitat destruction
--hunting
--disease
--invasive species
-pollutants increase the higher it goes on the food chain
Then we watched part of a 60 Minutes video called The Wasteland. It was about ewaset which is waste like old cell phones and computers. This waste sometimes gets shipped illegally out of the country. These places have they highest death rate from diseases like cancer because the materials in cell phone and especially compute monitor, which hold terrible chemicals like mercury. So, when these ewaset products are burned and taken apart the people who do this dirty work are infected and become sick. Some even die from the chemicals involved in this work.
Hopefully we will finish the video tomorrow because it was really interesting and anyone who missed it really missed out.
The homework, like always, can be found on moodle under Stein Bio. and click the calendar, but just as a heads up the Oil Spill movie project must be posted on the blog by 8AM tomorrow. So I would post those tonight. And thats your Thursday recap! Thanks for reading!
And the next scribe for Friday is MattT! Have fun Matt!
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