Human Impact Task Cards

This is a set of 55 enrichment, reinforcement and review task cards for your lessons on "Human Impact on the Environment." Students will identify the many ways that humans have changed the biosphere, and will answer questions about ozone destruction, the greenhouse effect and global warming. Students will use their critical thinking skills to answer questions about the importance of biodiversity and keystone species. Key vocabulary words are thoroughly covered.

Choose to use the traditional printable version, or the paperless, digital Google Apps version. Both Google Slides and Google Forms versions are included. Suitable for life science and biology students in grades 8 - 12.

This resource is perfect for distance learning and for students in 1:1 classrooms.

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What is included in this resource?

• A set of 55 printable and editable task cards.
• Paperless Digital Versions for use in Google Drive, Google Classroom, and/or Microsoft OneDrive.
• Google Slides version (not editable)
• Google forms version (editable)
• Student answer sheet for recording answers.
• Blank task cards so that you can add additional questions.
• A complete teacher answer key. (7-pages)
• Teacher Guide containing tips, tricks, and suggestions for use. (4-pages)
• Review PowerPoint of 56 slides.

Task cards are a fantastic way to enrich or reinforce lessons, review difficult concepts, or provide extra practice for the struggling student. The student reads each card, performs the task, and records his/her answer on the included student answer sheet.

From the moment of purchase, you will be ready to use your task cards in just a few minutes. Simply print the sheets of task cards on card stock paper, laminate, and cut the cards apart. The cards look best when printed in color, but they can easily be printed in black and white.

This set of 55 task cards on "humans and the biosphere" covers the following concepts and topics:

• Planet Earth and environmental science.
• A brief history of the human impact on planet Earth: Hunters and gatherers, agriculture, industry, and urban development.
• Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources: Definitions and examples.
• Sustainable development.
• Land resources: The importance of land, land as a renewable resource, composition of soil, human impact on soil, erosion, desertification, good land management.
• Forest resources: The importance of forests as a producer of human goods and services, the ecological role of the forests, renewable forests, nonrenewable forests, old growth forests, deforestation, good management of forests.
• Fishery resources: The importance of fisheries to humans and to the environment, overfishing, fisheries as a renewable resource, aquaculture.
• Air resources: Air quality, smog, the pollutants in smog, the burning of fossil fuels, acid rain.
• Freshwater resources: Water use by humans, how pollutants enter the water supply, the role of nature in the cleaning and purifying of water.
• The Human Influence on the Biosphere: Ozone depletion, rising levels of carbon dioxide, population growth.
• Ozone Depletion: Definition of ozone, importance of ozone in our atmosphere, the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation, how humans are causing the destruction of the ozone, chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's), global regulations of CFC's.
• Increasing Levels of Carbon Dioxide: The role of carbon in the carbon cycle, the addition of too much carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, the danger of rising carbon dioxide levels, global warming, the greenhouse effect.
• Human Population Growth: Estimation of future population size and the effect this will have on our planet.
• Biodiversity: Definition of biodiversity, how biodiversity is measured, the importance of biodiversity, ways biodiversity is lost, extinction, the threat of pollution to biodiversity, keystone species, the use of DDT in the environment, biological magnification, the threat of invasive species.

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