| Case Study: Why is it so important to maintain populations of all types of species? Guiding Thought Question: Choose an animal of some type (reptile, bird, insect, mammal, etc...) and make a case for removing it from the planet. (NO CHOOSING HUMANS) Part 2 - Go on someone else's post and make a counter argument on why that species should be protected and kept. Today's Learning Objective: Students will examine population dynamics by examining a case study of wolves and moose on Isle Royale and how one species can impact another, and how the removal of one can have a drastic effect on the landscape and potential ecosystem collapse. |  |
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39 Comments
emma
11/15/2021 08:56:13 am
I'm not really sure that there even should be an animal removed, but if I picked it would probs be monkeys because they seem kinda pointless.
Jack Smith
11/15/2021 08:59:17 am
Monkeys, while quite general, were an important step in humans evolution and have shown us a lot about where humanity has come from. They also act as ambassador species for ecosystems across the globe.
Jack Smith
11/15/2021 08:56:35 am
Sardines should be removed because they are a tiny and insignificant fish that people generally don’t like to eat because of the taste.
Annie
11/15/2021 08:59:30 am
They can be good to eat
Bob
11/15/2021 09:01:56 am
Sardines can die ong.
Bea
11/15/2021 09:06:53 am
Sardines are low in mercury, meaning they are a good, as well as cheap, food source
Peter
11/15/2021 08:58:16 am
Anopheles mosquitos are stupid awful creatures that spread malaria. They cause millions of deaths worldwide as disease vectors and their niche could be filled by other types of mosquitoes that don't spread malaria. Thanos snap these guys.
emma
11/15/2021 08:59:54 am
as much as they suck they still feed the lower part of the food chain. but yea agreed
Annie
11/15/2021 08:58:44 am
Stink bugs because they seem pretty pointless
Ethan
11/15/2021 09:02:09 am
Stink bugs actually help maintain the food web by controlling the moth and beetle populations
Sienna
11/15/2021 09:02:34 am
stink bugs pick up and move around waste which fertilizes the soil and cleans up an area.
Sienna
11/15/2021 08:59:37 am
Even though I love them a lot I guess I would say jellyfish since they don't really keep any other species populations in check and they give no nutritional value to other animals.
Peter
11/15/2021 09:05:10 am
Jellyfish are an important food source for lots of sea creatures such as salmon, sea turtles, and even sharks. They don't have calories, but they do have fatty acids important for the construction of cell membranes.
Bob
11/15/2021 09:00:48 am
I think that Zebra Muscles should be eliminated because they're a pest species
Annie
11/15/2021 09:04:18 am
They are filter feeders
Peter
11/15/2021 09:05:34 am
They're a pest species in America, but they have a native ecosystem where they fill a niche.
Ethan
11/15/2021 09:01:10 am
Wasps should be removed because they seem to serve only one purpose and that is to constantly attack animals, people, and plants alike.
Emily
11/15/2021 09:03:55 am
Wasps are great pollinators and play a key role in keeping the ecosystem balanced and regulate the populations of many crop pests.
Emily
11/15/2021 09:01:34 am
Flies because they have no purpose other than being annoying freeloaders. There are much better pollinators and do they even do that much cleaning?
Bea Jackson
11/15/2021 09:02:44 am
St. Francis Satyrs, a nickel sized butterfly that is only found on Fort. Bragg. There’s only a few hundred of them left. Conserving the population consists of destroying the butterfly’s habitat (similar to pyric herbivory), and in turn destroys the habitat of many animals who will not benefit.
emma
11/16/2021 12:22:48 pm
i think that sea walnuts should be removed because they are killing commercial fish by eating zooplankton and thats what the commercial fish eat causing them to die and commercial fish numbers to drop rapidly as well as killing dolphins and other fish that eat zooplankton so obvously they are a big problem and they were brought by boat into lots of diffrent seas and it will just be a massive impact on the sea life
Riley Martin
11/16/2021 12:34:45 pm
even though it is invasive, it is still important to its native ecosystem, and if removed will leave big impacts on said ecosystem.
Izzy
11/16/2021 12:25:37 pm
Ticks, because they kill a bunch of other things with Lyme disease. I understand that they’re food for a bunch of other animals, but they’re gross and I hate them.
Braeden Irwin
11/16/2021 12:31:10 pm
While ticks are extremely annoying, and they do cause problems in many aspects of animals and human's lives, they are an extremely good food source for many species of bird and would most likely harm at least some species (though I'm not sure which).
Maria
11/16/2021 12:35:59 pm
Ticks may seem unnecessarily hurtful to many species, but it is a vital link of energy and nutrition in the food chain for species, especially ground birds such as chickens and turkeys. The ticks sucks nutrients out of species of many trophic levels but allowing lower trophic level animals to consume them and gain some of that nutrients.
Alyssa Dillon
11/16/2021 12:27:35 pm
Killer algae should be removed because there are many other types of algae that can take its place, and killer algae strangle other types of plants, making them an invasive species.
izzy martin
11/16/2021 12:34:33 pm
but their name is so sick
Braeden Irwin
11/16/2021 12:28:13 pm
Humans should be removed because let's be honest, they literally kill everything and are only really beneficial to themselves. However, if T refuses to accept that answer, then probably mosquitoes because they don't actually keep anything alive, and the things that do feed on it (like dragonflies) have other food sources they could use to sustain their numbers.
Izzy Martin
11/16/2021 12:32:45 pm
very edgy with the human thing, but an argument for mosquitos! they’re awful, obviously. no one enjoys them. but they’re like, a MAJOR food source. as in, nonreplaceable since there’s so many things that eat SO many of them.
Daniel Montes
11/16/2021 12:34:16 pm
Spiders are cool and cute too and they eat a lot of mosquitoes also froggies and toads they hoppin and eating them dudes so while the number of mosquitoes is a lot some are needed
Evers
11/16/2021 12:34:43 pm
I agree mosquitoes are gross but they provide food and pollination. They pollinate when they consume nectar.
Maria
11/16/2021 12:29:37 pm
Mosquitoes seem like they serve no purpose. They are just simply annoying to human life and other animals. Their bites are painful, irritating, and can carry disease. All they ever want to do is annoy us.
emma
11/16/2021 12:31:19 pm
If mosquitoes were eradicated from the planet, hundreds of species of fish would have to change their diet. ... Without these fish, the food chain would be disrupted in both directions. Some species of bird, bat, spider, insect, salamander, lizard, and frog also eat mosquitoes, and may struggle without them.
evers
11/16/2021 12:30:36 pm
Black rats because they are extremely invasive and have caused or contributed to many species numbers declining or completely disappearing. One example is they eat bird eggs.
little forget
11/16/2021 12:46:56 pm
Although they caused or contributed to many species numbers declining or completely disappearing, they proved food for lots of different animals such as, Birds of Prey, Felines, Snakes, Dogs and weasels.
Daniel Montes
11/16/2021 12:31:41 pm
Panda, they don’t contribute much to the environment and to be honest if it wasn’t for us they would’ve been gone they serve as a logo and a cute animal now. And if they died we’d probably use that as a way to protect other animals 11/16/2021 12:33:20 pm
I think that ticks should be removed from the planet, because that do way more harm then good, they spread disease and cause bodley harm to many animals!
Chloe
11/16/2021 12:36:44 pm
Zebra muscles -- they coat surfaces with razor-sharp shells; foul anchor chains; block water intake pipes; steal plankton and other food from native fish, & filter out algae that native species attach to--& incapacitate--native mussels.
Riley Martin
11/16/2021 12:43:27 pm
really the only animals I can think of are animals that are already doomed. even though they are important Leave a Reply. |
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