Pakistan Flooding 2010

Learn about the floods in Pakistan. 


Q:1 How is the flooding going to affect food supply for the people of the country? What else will be affected? Why?


Q:2 How is food reaching the people in need?

    Listen to an article. The World PRI

    Read articles.
         BBC: Damage and Challenges
         BBC: More flooding cause more people to leave their homes
         USA: Aid to Pakistan

     See pictures about the flooding.
         Huffington Post
         BBC
         Google

Signal Mountain Food Web

Get to know your environment!

Make a Signal Mountain food web with 15 plus organisms from our deciduous forest ecosystem. Take special care to show correct relationships between each organism, arrows should point from the food source to the organism eating the source thus showing the flow of energy. If both organisms could eat each other such as a black rat snake and a red tail hawk a double-ended arrow should be used to demonstrate the fact that both creatures could eat each other. Those seeking to earn an "A" should add scientific names to five or more of the organisms.

Helpful list:

Tennessee Animals

Tennessee Fish Photos  

Fish Key

Tennessee Ornithological Society: Birds  

Non Native Birds

Venomous Creatures of Tennessee

Nonvenomous Snakes of Tennessee  

Snake Poster  

Snake Review

Amphibians and Reptiles of Tennessee


Frog Poster


Salamander Poster

eNature: Field Guides

Rare Animals of Tennessee (Not an easy read) 

Endangered or Threatened Animals

Tennessee Watchable Wild Life

Quick Frozen Critters

Q:1 Why do limiting factors affect the number of organisms living?

Q:2 If you are a country leader, how would you direct a plan to feed your starving nation? Support your answer with facts learned in class.

Main Point is to help students better understand the 10% rule within trophic levels.

Vocabulary: Energy Pyramid, Trophic Levels, Food Chain

Additional Help:

1. Energy Pyramid Ocean

2. Energy Pyramid Video

3. How to play

4. Data Collection

Online Ecology Review: Interrelationships

Do you know your decomposers? Play the game and find out.

Play the food chain game!

Carnivore - Herbivore - Omnivore