Colony Day 5 -Bringing it all together

Complete the layout for your Colony.  You need to provide an overview either on paper or digitally of what the colony will look like.  Ensure your integrate the infrastructure concepts you researched on Thursday.  You will present you colony plan in class on Monday.

Colony Day 4 -Layout

What is Chemical Engineering?

How can Chemical Engineering help you in dealing with your colony design?

Finish Answering the problems from yesterday

´Divide your teams into the following specialty areas

´Transportation

´Internal

´On-world

´Off-World

´Communications

´Power Generation and Distribution

´Waste Management and Recycling

´Waste Collection and Treatment

´Water Production and Distribution

´Food

´Production

´Distribution

´Medical

´Facilities and Services

´Safety/Risk Management

´Security (internal)

´Fire and emergency services

´Economic Production

´Entertainment

Colony Day 3 - Infrastructure

´Divide your teams into the following specialty areas

´Transportation

´Internal

´On-world

´Off-World

´Communications

´Power Generation and Distribution

´Waste Management and Recycling

´Waste Collection and Treatment

´Water Production and Distribution

´Food

´Production

´Distribution

´Medical

´Facilities and Services

´Safety/Risk Management

´Security (internal)

´Fire and emergency services

´Economic Production

´Entertainment

Colony Day 2 - Life Support

In your groups answer the following Questions

´Identify how oxygen will be cycled and generated for your colony

´Identify how water will be cycled and generated for your colony

´Identify how food will be cycled and generated for your colony

Colony Part 1 -Unifying Efforts

Get together with the people who studied the same world as you.  You will be designing a proposed colony to allow humans to inhabit that world.  Your group will need to decide the following to get started

´Identify the purpose of your colony

´Why is it being constructed?

´How long is it expected to last?

´Fixed or expanding size?

´Identify the group, nation, organization that will establish your colony.

´Where is the funding coming from?

´What is the philosophy/ unifying purpose of the colonists?

´Identify your tentative location for the colony.

´Orbital, Surface, or Subterranean

´Justification

Space and Energy

Terra forming -Finding another home for humanity

What does it take for humanity to endure? 

Consider the following areas:

• Land
• Air
• Water
• Ecology
• Economic Resources

What are the challenges and opportunities we will need to face?

Assignment:

You will do individual research to create a planetary profile to assist in the upcoming colonization project.

The choice of worlds are:

• Mars
• Moon (Moon of Earth) 
• Europa (Moon of Jupiter) 
• Titan (Moon of Saturn) 
• Venus

Here is some of the information you need to determine about your world:

• Land
• Distance (Travel Time) from Earth
• Suitability of soil for farming
• Gravity (compared to earth
• Soil Hazards
• Seismicity
• Air
• Atmospheric Composition
• Temperature variation
• Air Pressure
• Available Oxygen
• Atmospheric Hazards
• Water
• Availability of water
• How hard to access water?
• Solid, liquid gas?
• Water hazards
• Ecology
• Radiation Levels
• What would it take to sustain Life?
• Economic Resources
• Solar Energy
• Other Energy Sources
• Mineral Wealth
• Other Economic Reasons

Some useful videos

When you are done go to this page and answer the 10 questions on the list.


Exit question

Based on your research, what is the greatest challenge to colonizing your selected world?

Why Mars?

What is the speakers basic message?
Identify 3 points the speaker makes to support his conclusion

What is the speakers basic message?
Identify 3 points the speaker makes to support her conclusion


What do you think about colonization of mars?

Rare Earth, Great Filters and the Fermi Paradox

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• What is the Fermi Paradox?
• What is meant by 'habitable zone?
• What is Kardeshev's scale based on?
• What is meant by the concept of a "Great Filter"
• Give three examples of Great Filters.  
• Do you think the filter is front of us or behind us?  Explain.  

River Erosion

Some videos to support this week's assignment.

Geography and Climate

At your tables, create a poster to describe one of the following geographic effects on weather (each is a link to an article you can used to get started):

Rain Shadow

Lake Effect

Rainforest Transpiration

Marine Layer

Valley Inversion

Urban Heat Islands

Your poster should include a diagram and answer the following questions:

Where is your effect found?

How does the geography create this effect?

How does the weather change due to this effect?

Two ages of civilization followed by ores in Washington

A pair of videos to get us started on Ores

1. Go to this link and complete the Mineral Distribution in Washington exercise.  The image shows the location of ore deposits in Washington, and the questions require you to consider how the melting points and/or densities may affect the distribution here in Washington.

Energy

Questions

• What is energy?
• What does the phrase “children of the sun” mean?
• How does electricity differ from energy?
• How has energy use transformed civilization?

Other views of the changes

Nova Saving the Dead Sea

 Video for today .  We will talk sinkholes and applications on Monday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY3d3Onr3bo

Biodiversity Case Study

Biodiversity Case Study

Your task: create a google slide presentation by the end of Thursday that demonstrates your understanding of habitat characteristics, biodiversity values, threats, and solutions.

Go to https://www.cepf.net/our-work/biodiversity-hotspots/

The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund is an organization that gives grants to NGOs and individuals who are working towards conservation efforts around the world.

Step 1: Choose a biodiversity hotspot on the list on the website above.  

Step 2: Gather data. The data that you must gather is the following:

Microhabitat Analysis—What characteristics and interactions are present in this region? You might need to review your notes to remind yourself what qualifies as habitat, ecosystem, community, and environment. Gather information about each for your given region. Be sure to include what species are endemic to this region!

Biodiversity Values— Address each of the following in your presentation: ecosystem services, economic value, and cultural value. You may include other aspects of biodiversity as well. Be sure to include how this region qualifies as a biodiversity “hotspot”.

Threats to Biodiversity—Consider habitat destruction, invasive species, pollution, (human) population growth, and overharvesting.  Identify threats to biodiversity in this region. Be specific about what is being lost/damaged and what has already been lost/damaged and why or how.

Solutions—For some of your regions, solutions might have already been tried. Talk about these and whether or not they have been successful. If nothing has been done to prevent biodiversity loss, come up with potential solutions. Be specific! Don’t just say “conservation efforts” or “awareness”. What kinds of conservation should be done? What species need protection? If resources can no longer be gathered here, where else should we gather them?

Step 3: Compile your information onto your google slide.

Keystone Species

After the video respond to the following in your notebook:

• What is a keystone species?
• What is an Endemic species?
• Identify two things you think you learned
• Write one question you now have.

On your biome worksheets, select one specific region with each biomes and identify a keystone species and endemic species for each.  Justify your response.

Where in the Biome am I?

         

• You will be researching two Biomes on-line using the sheet provided.  
• Using Biomes of the World website begin to research and learn where your biome is located in the world. (See http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/ or http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/)
• Color or Shade the world map for your biome. Identify on your map the major bodies of water and countries that border the biome.
• Questions to Answer
• Climate
• Does the biome have seasons? Has the climate been changing during the last decades? What is unique about the climate of the biome?
• How much precipitation does the biome receive? Is it in the form of rain or snow?
• What is the temperature range of the biome?
• List three physical features of your biome, such as terrain and how it looks in general.
• Plants and Animals:  Identify at least  five plants and five animals to your biome.  This must include at least one KEYSTONE species. 
•  Has the biome experienced any of the changes you saw in the survey  (My Initial Thoughts) such as urban development, air pollution, or soil erosion?
• Based on what you have been able to learn, do you believe the biome is being conserved, preserved, or exploited?
  
  

The Anthropocene

• Define Anthropocene
• Identify two things you think you learned
• Write one question you now have.

Agricultural Revolution

Questions:

• Identify two advantages and two disadvantages of the agricultural revolution
• Write one additional thing you think you learned
• Write one question you now have

Discussion Wrap-Up  submit a ClEvR statement for the question:

Did the agricultural revolution benefit humanity?

History of Life on Earth

What was the primary cause in changes to animals over time?

Identify two things you think you learned

Write one question you now have.

• Identify three big ideas presented in the video. 

Other concepts to understand

• Hypothesis:  A prediction you can test.
• Scientific Theory:  An explanation supported by experiment. (Explains WHY something happens) 
• Scientific Law:  A 'Rule of Nature' (states what will happen.)