If habitat destruction occurred in the ecosystem from the virtual lab, then the populations of organisms would decrease because they would have no place to thrive. Evidence from the virtual lab includes one plant population out surviving another due to adaptations, and all herbivore and omnivore populations declining. When a plant species died off, the herbivores relying on it also declined, creating a ripple effect. Habitat destruction disrupts the food web and balance of an ecosystem. The evidence suggests that without adaptations, species cannot survive without their habitat and resources. Damage to an ecosystem's habitat, whether by humans or nature, will decrease populations by unbalancing the ecosystem.
If habitat destruction occurred in the ecosystem from the virtual lab, then the populations of organisms would decrease because they would have no place to thrive. Evidence from the virtual lab includes one plant population out surviving another due to adaptations, and all herbivore and omnivore populations declining. When a plant species died off, the herbivores relying on it also declined, creating a ripple effect. Habitat destruction disrupts the food web and balance of an ecosystem. The evidence suggests that without adaptations, species cannot survive without their habitat and resources. Damage to an ecosystem's habitat, whether by humans or nature, will decrease populations by unbalancing the ecosystem.
If habitat destruction occurred in the ecosystem from the virtual lab, then the populations of organisms would decrease because they would have no place to thrive. Evidence from the virtual lab includes one plant population out surviving another due to adaptations, and all herbivore and omnivore populations declining. When a plant species died off, the herbivores relying on it also declined, creating a ripple effect. Habitat destruction disrupts the food web and balance of an ecosystem. The evidence suggests that without adaptations, species cannot survive without their habitat and resources. Damage to an ecosystem's habitat, whether by humans or nature, will decrease populations by unbalancing the ecosystem.
If habitat destruction occurred in the ecosystem from the virtual lab, then the populations of organisms would decrease because they would have no place to thrive. Evidence from the virtual lab includes one plant population out surviving another due to adaptations, and all herbivore and omnivore populations declining. When a plant species died off, the herbivores relying on it also declined, creating a ripple effect. Habitat destruction disrupts the food web and balance of an ecosystem. The evidence suggests that without adaptations, species cannot survive without their habitat and resources. Damage to an ecosystem's habitat, whether by humans or nature, will decrease populations by unbalancing the ecosystem.
1. Begin by defining the term ecosystem disruption. Be sure to include examples of
ecosystem disruptions with your definition:
An ecosystem disruption is. . .
An ecosystem disruption is an effect humans have on the ecosystem and the potential threat the impact has on different species.
Some examples of an ecosystem disruption include. . .
Some examples of and ecosystem disruption include but are not limited to habitat destruction, pollution, overhunting and not using sustainable resources, wildfires, inclement weather, invasive species, flooding, disease, drought, andclimate change.
2. Circle (I am SO sorry, but I am not tech-savvy, so I highlighted)examples of ecosystem
disruptions from the above question that are caused by humans.Select ONE of your CIRCLED ecosystem disruption examples that you’d like to use for this task:
My selected disruption is. . .
My selected disruption is habitat destruction. Impacts from this disruption can include. . . Habitat destruction can severely impact an ecosystem because it reduces biodiversity and can change the animals that used to live in that environment. Also, the numbers of the population will decline and the organisms lose their natural resources. Destruction of habitat can create an unbalance between species and the way that they used to function. ____________________________________________________________________________
CER-Claim, Evidence, Reasoning
When analyzing data, scientists often use the CER format. This is a structured format that allows you to make statements about your work, support it with evidence, and provide an analysis of your work.
Claims are statements that you believe to be true, based on what you’ve seen in your experiment or research. You can think of claims as being similar to a hypothesis in that they aim to predict the solution to a scientific problem. Evidence is the data or research that you gathered which supports your claim. The reasoning is your explanation of how the evidence supports your claim and therefore solves the scientific problem you have been working on. The point is to connect the evidence to the claim.
Here is a CER example:
Claim: David ran over the neighbor’s flower bed with his car last night Evidence: There are tire tracks running through the neighbor’s flower bed this morning. David’s car has mud and flower petals inside of its wheel wells. The flower bed was last seen by the neighbor who owns the flower bed at 9 pm last night and was fine. David was seen leaving work at 10 pm last night in his car and says that he drove straight home. David is the only person with keys to his car. A neighbor walking her dog at 10:30 last night noticed that the flower bed had tire tracks running through it.
Reasoning: The fact that the flower bed was not damaged at 9, but was seen to be damaged at 10:30 suggests that the damage occurred between those hours. Since David left work at 10, he would have been home 10 minutes later, which allows plenty of time for him to have damaged the flower bed and parked his car before the dog walker found the damage. The mud and flower petals on the wheel wells indicate that the car was driven over a flower bed. Since David was the only person with a key to his car and was seen driving the car during the time that the damage occurred, he was the only person who had the opportunity to drive his car through the flower bed. He is therefore the person who caused the damage to the neighbor’s flower bed with his car.
Your turn! You will now write a CER about how your chosen ecosystem disruption would affect the ecosystem that you created in Day 2 of the virtual lab.
Part I: Write your claim using the following sentence stem by replacing the items in parentheses:
If habitat destruction occurred in the ecosystem from yesterday’s virtual lab, then the populations of organisms in the Ecolab will decrease because they have no place to thrive.
Part II: Compile the evidence. Use specific examples from Days 1 and 2 of the virtual lab, as well as information that you’ve learned in this unit as evidence that supports your claim: ● Day 1: Plant A had better survival than Plant B because plant A had an ending population of 10,000, while Plant B had 0. ● Day 2: The population of all of the omnivores and herbivores decreased. ● Day 2: Plant C died out because it may not have had the adaptations that plant A and B had to survive ● Day 2: After trying to make all species survive in the simulation, there was always an unbalance between organisms. ● Day 2: All organisms that are in a food web are interconnected, so when one species dies off or has low numbers, another species on the web is affected. Part III: Reasoning. In a short paragraph, describe how the evidence is tied to and supports your claim: The evidence suggests that if this simulation was based on habitat destruction, it would take serious adaptations to allow a species to thrive in an environment where the resources are cut off. On Day 2, Plant C (Trees) died off because it was removed from the environment, and the only plant Cs that were left did not have the proper environmental changes like A and B to adapt to the new ecosystem. Also, the connection between organisms on a food web will make habitat destruction a widespread issue when it comes to a specific ecosystem. When plant C died, all of the herbivores that relied on the trees for homes and food had a decline in numbers, and it sends a ripple effect all the way to the top of the web. Finally, when we compare just two plants in a habitat destruction scenario, one plant will not have the changes to survive, which can kill off the organisms that steadily depend on the organism to live. Habitat destruction that occurs from weather and not humans can change the balance an ecosystem has. Dominant organisms in the web are now displaced and may have limited food resources. No matter what the cause of destruction, any damage to an ecosystem’s habitat will create an unbalance and decrease in population.
