Unit A: Energy and Matter Exchange in the Biosphere

A career focused on climate change and sustainability would let you help people by working to help solve the biggest problems of our time.

Resource page including articles and career profiles related to the environment.

Learn more about the causes and impacts of global climate change.

Learn about the physical geography, chemistry and ecology of rivers and streams.

Learn about how water is treated at municipal water treatment plants.

Learn about how people impact the ecosystems of lakes and rivers.

Students explore careers related to outdoors and the land and then design and build a water filter prototype.

Students learn about the water treatment process as they complete a digital “escape room” on a Google site.

If I asked you to name a few things that all life on the planet couldn’t live without you could probably come up with some good answers, but I bet you’d never think to say dirt.

Mussels are a kind of invertebrate that filter food out of the water they live in. This makes them a great tool for monitoring environmental water quality and tracking bioaccumulation in aquatic food webs.

Acid rain is any precipitation that has an unusually low pH. It can be rain, snow, fog, etc. But what is a low pH and why is this a problem?