From local, national, and international news, compile a list of the many ways humans are altering abiotic and biotic factors on a local, regional, and global scale
Analyze ways that local changes may affect ecosystems on larger scales and ways that global changes may affect ecosystems locally.
Look for articles on waste disposal, hazardous waste and materials, energy consumption and production, pesticide use, land use (such as building homes, business, or parks), road construction, air pollution, water pollution, consumer buying, and so forth. It is possible to find information about how we are altering abiotic and biotic factors on a local, regional, and global scale in a substantial portion of news articles. Any article on cars can be evaluated for energy efficiency, air pollution, resource extraction (petroleum, minerals, and coal) waste disposal, urban sprawl, road construction impacts, water pollution from road and parking lot runoff, and energy consumption due to road building and maintenance, traffic and street lights, and law enforcement.
Local changes may impact ecosystems on a larger scale in a variety of ways. The release of mercury from coal-fired power plants impacts local ecosystems, and the mercury moves from local ecosystems all over the world. Local loss of species impacts on a larger scale because of the loss of biodiversity.
Global changes may impact local ecosystems when overall climate shifts or if the quantity of UV reaching the surface of the planet changes.
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