Mia Mendieta- Environmental Science

      Natural Resources can be split into two different groups. Renewable and Non-renewable resources. Renewable Resources are things such as trees, wind, and solar energy. These can all be replaced to meet society's demand for energy. Sunlight and wind are never going to completely deplete, therefore these resources can be used forever. Although trees take years to grow, planting new trees over time can keep our needs met. (Jerome, 2017)     Non-Renewable Resources are things such as copper, minerals, and coal. These can also be identified as Fossil Fuels. These are energy sources that are very powerful but can take hundreds to millions of years to reproduce. Although these energy sources are important to our daily lives, they can become scarce.      This brings us to Reusing and Recycling. Recycling plastic bottles, cans, and cardboard can reduce the amount of waste that goes into our environment. Old cardboard can be reused to make paper straws...

  This concept map depicts the different units of energy and how they relate to the energy sources and producers in the environment. Specifically where the energy is created and how the energy moves throughout the ecosystem to different organisms.  This concept map shows the different groups within biodiversity, which relates to the categories and different classifications of organisms in our ecosystem. This helps categorize each organism into different sections so we can understand where it originated from and what it is.  This concept map depicts the different natural biomes and the categories they originated with and what specific area the different biomes exist within the plant, animal, or microorganism group.         Beginning with the first concept map, which contains information on energy in ecosystems. Autotrophs are more so the basic origin of energy in the ecosystem. It is the producer of the main external energy source and then other co...

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 Original Photo 1938 (Grinnell Glacier, 1938) Second Photo 2019 (Grinnell Glacier, 2019) (Google Earth, 2023) Grinnell Glacier, Glacier National Park, Montana 1938 to 2019 The Grinnell Glacier, which subsides in the Glacier National Park in Montana, has existed for about 900 million years. This was during the Proterozoic Era .  (Dawes, 2001) The Grinnell Glacier has shrunk considerably, due to climate change and erosion. Most people tend to forget or ignore the impacts of erosion on our environment and only focus on climate change and global warming. But especially in this case, Glaciers like the Grinnell, have shrunk due to the freezing and refreezing of the ice and the breaking down of the rocks and other natural causes. In the span of 39 years, the Glinner glacier has lost almost 40 percent of its acreage. Researchers believe that by 2030, all the glaciers in the National Park will be gone. This is due to the increase in carbon dioxide, which has been inclining rapidly in t...