Human Impact Workshop and
Homework # 10:
Climate Change & the
Marine Environment
All
work should have your name and your Carbon Ring name on it.
1.
Research assignment: You may work
together in your Carbon Rings but each student turns in their own work. Due date ___________.
How does anthropogenic climate change impact
each of the following? Keep your answers
short; under ˝ page
double spaced typed for each topic, 4 pages altogether. But it would be hard to adequately respond to
the questions any shorter than that.
krill
marine dead zones
polar bears
ocean acidification
reef corals
2. Turn in your personal carbon footprint. Due date________.
You need your utility records and driving history to
do this. Go to the carbon calculator at www.vccool.org. If you have problems with your utility
records see me for help.
3. Using
copies of Low Carbon Diet on reserve in the VC Library create your plan
for reducing your carbon footprint.
Share your plan with your Carbon Ring.
Turn in to me a copy of everyone’s plan and the minutes of the meeting.
Due date_______.
4. Meet with your Carbon ring either in person or on
phones or online to see how everyone is doing with their carbon diet goals and
encourage each other. Add new items to your list of carbon saving changes. Turn in the minutes of the meeting. Due date_________.
5. Meet with your Carbon Ring to fill out the data
forms for the pounds of carbon you have lost.
Remember you are NOT graded based on your losses, so please don’t pad
the data. This is real data which goes on a web site illustrating carbon
footprint changes in the