Assignment 3: LASA 1: Organisms in Your Biome
In this assignment, you will create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that exhibits the different organisms in your current biome.
Include the following in your presentation:
Use pictures from the Internet to represent your chosen species, and give credit to these Web sites. Support your statements with 3 credible sources. Use the last slide of your presentation as a reference slide.
Develop a 10 slide presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M3_A2.ppt.
By Wednesday, October 29, 2014, deliver your assignment to the M3: Assignment 3 Dropbox.
| Assignment 3 Grading Criteria |
Maximum Points |
| Describe the environment where you live in terms of its biome. |
12 |
| Identify five plants and five animals within your biome, and describe how they interact with one another. |
40 |
| Consider the ten organisms you picked and describe what each one needs to survive (including interactions between the organisms). |
28 |
| Identify five plants and five animals that you feel would inhabit your area if the climate were to increase by an average of ten degrees Celsius, and describe the hypothetical new ecosystem along with the new interactions that would likely exist. |
40 |
| Summarize how environmental management practices would change in your city with this drastic shift in temperature and how these new conditions would impact the culture and society. Explain if you would still choose to live in this area and justify your answer. |
36 |
|
Presentation Components: |
44 |
| Total: |
200 |
