Your Footprint

In some classes today, I mentioned your ecological footprint. This is how many Earths we would need if everyone lived life just like you do. You plug in information about your life, and it tells you your Carbon Footprint, your Food Footprint, your Housing Footprint, and your Goods and Services Footprint, all in a chart. If you're interested in how much energy you use and how much you waste, and how to reduce your footprint to not use up precious resources on our planet, visit this link. You'll have to go through a couple steps to get to the quiz. For distances, you may want to use the distance calculator.

5th Grade: Biome Links

Here are some useful links to make the ides of the book easier to understand. They can also help you for your Chapter 5 Poster Project.

A useful site on ecosystems and biomes:
Ecosystems of our World

Biome Maps: Each of these is a little different. Why do you think this is?
Blue Planet Biomes
United States Bioregion Map <-- This is pretty complicated, because ecosystems come in as many varieties as places on earth. Interactive Biome Map: The Wild Classroom: Biome Map
The main Wild Classroom site can be reached at Wild Classroom Home

Now, here are links about food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids:

Food Chains and Food Webs
Two examples of food chains
An example of a food web

Also, here are links about the different kinds of cycles that happen in different biomes:

Here is a video describing the water cycle. This animation might also be useful.
Here is a picture of the water cycle. You can see the rest of web site at The Blue Planet.
Biogeochemical cycles talks about all the cycles, including, the water cycle, the carbon dioxide cycle, and the nitrogen cycle.