Pearson Baccalaureate: Environmental Systems and Societies bundle 2nd edition

ISBN: 9781447990420

Case Studies (13 links)

Case Study 1 (Aral Sea) - This link is currently unavailable Watch an animation that shows the shrinking of the Aral Sea
Case Study 1 (Aral Sea) View time-lapse satellite images that show the shrinking of the Aral Sea	Report this link
Case Study 1 (Aral Sea) Read an article about individuals affected by the shrinking of the Aral Sea	Report this link
Case Study 1 (Aral Sea) Read more about the Aral Sea (Columbia University)	Report this link
Case Study 1 (Aral Sea) Read more about the Aral Sea (World Resources Institute)	Report this link
Case Study 1 (Aral Sea) - This link is currently unavailable Read more about the Aral Sea (Sometimes Interesting blog)
Case Study 1 (Aral Sea) - This link is currently unavailable Read more about the Aral Sea (National Geographic)
Case Study 2 (Gulf of Mexico) - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about the pressures on the Gulf ecosystem
Case Study 2 (Gulf of Mexico) Learn more about the BP oil spill	Report this link
Case Study 2 (Gulf of Mexico) - This link is currently unavailable Watch a video showing where and when sea turtles were affected by the BP oil spill
Case Study 2 (Gulf of Mexico) Watch a video about the GOM dead zone	Report this link
Case Study 2 (Gulf of Mexico) - This link is currently unavailable Read more about the BP oil spill (National Museum of Natural History)
Case Study 2 (Gulf of Mexico) - This link is currently unavailable Read more about the Gulf of Mexico dead zone (Environmental Protection Agency)

Chapter 1 (10 links)

Weblink 1.1 - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about Earth Day through the Earth Day website
Weblink 1.2 Learn more about conservation of the Antarctic ocean system	Report this link
Weblink 1.3 - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about global climate patterns
Weblink 1.4 - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about climate tipping points
Weblink 1.5 Learn more about the different Millennium Assessment reports	Report this link
Weblink 1.6 - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about the Three Gorges Dam
Weblink 1.7 Calculate your ecological footprint with this footprint calculator	Report this link
Weblink 1.8 Read a BBC news article on pollution	Report this link
Weblink 1.9 - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about pollution through the WWF website
Weblink 1.10 - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about the use and impact of DDT

Chapter 2 (9 links)

Weblink 2.1 Carry out an experiment in population biology by simulating growth in Paramecium with this virtual lab	Report this link
Weblink 2.2 - This link is currently unavailable View questions to accompany the virtual lab in weblink 2.1
Weblink 2.3 Learn more about constructing pyramids of numbers, biomass and productivity	Report this link
Weblink 2.4 Learn more about primary and secondary productivity	Report this link
Weblink 2.5 Learn more about rocky shores	Report this link
Weblink 2.6 Learn more about using dichotomous keys	Report this link
Weblink 2.7 Learn more about sampling techniques	Report this link
Weblink 2.8 Random number generator	Report this link
Weblink 2.9 - This link is currently unavailable Simpson's diversity index calculator

Chapter 3 (7 links)

Weblink 3.1 View Charles Darwin's full works	Report this link
Weblink 3.2 - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about Richard Dawkins, an advocate of Darwin's theory
Weblink 3.3 Learn more about plate tectonics and species diversity	Report this link
Weblink 3.4 Learn more about the diversity of life on Earth through the Natural History Museum website	Report this link
Weblink 3.5 Learn about Survival International (an organization that supports indigenous people's rights)	Report this link
Weblink 3.6 - This link is currently unavailable Learn about the Forests NOW campaign (which aims to raise awareness of the need to protect forests in order to prevent climate change)
Weblink 3.7 Learn more about the Chengdu Panda Base	Report this link

Chapter 4 (6 links)

Weblink 4.1 Learn more about El Nino and La Nina	Report this link
Weblink 4.2 - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about the Common Fisheries Policy of the European Union
Weblink 4.3 - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about the status of whales
Weblink 4.4 - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about the number of whales in the wild
Weblink 4.5 Learn more about the Trent Biotic Index for Chesapeake Bay (2006–08)	Report this link
Weblink 4.6 Learn moure about experiments related to eutrophication	Report this link

Chapter 5 (8 links)

Weblink 5.1 Learn more about the International Year of Soil	Report this link
Weblink 5.2 Learn more about the importance of soils	Report this link
Weblink 5.3 - This link is currently unavailable Watch a selection of soil-related animations
Weblink 5.4 - This link is currently unavailable Read an article on the importance of pollinators
Weblink 5.5 Learn more about the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change	Report this link
Weblink 5.6 Go to Documents, Technical Atlas and select Map 12 to learn more about soil degradation around the world	Report this link
Weblink 5.7 Learn more about soil conservation in Tennessee	Report this link
Weblink 5.8 - This link is currently unavailable Watch a video on the importance of soils

Chapter 6 (13 links)

Weblink 6.1 - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about the Earth's energy balance
Weblink 6.2 - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about stratospheric and ground-level ozone
Weblink 6.3 - This link is currently unavailable Discover the ozone tour
Weblink 6.4 - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about the development of the ozone hole
Weblink 6.5 Learn more about the Ozone Secretariat	Report this link
Weblink 6.6 Learn more about trends in ground-level ozone in the 21st century	Report this link
Weblink 6.7 - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about the health effects of ground-level ozone
Weblink 6.8 See real-time air quality data for Beijing, supplied by the US Embassy	Report this link
Weblink 6.9 See air-quality data for Oxford, UK	Report this link
Weblink 6.10 - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about acid rain in Canada
Weblink 6.11 - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about acid rain from the US Environmental Protection Agency
Weblink 6.12 Learn more about the management of acid rain	Report this link
Weblink 6.13 Learn more about the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution	Report this link

Chapter 7 (10 links)

Weblink 7.1 - This link is currently unavailable View the BP Statistical Review of Energy (updated annually)
Weblink 7.2 Watch an excerpt from the film 'The high cost of cheap gas'	Report this link
Weblink 7.3 Learn about the wind farm in the Thames estuary	Report this link
Weblink 7.4 Learn about which companies are most responsible for emissions of greenhouse gases	Report this link
Weblink 7.5 Learn more about carbon dioxide and global warming	Report this link
Weblink 7.6 Learn more about the impacts of climate change on five cities: Melbourne, Tokyo, Lagos, Paris and Rio de Janeiro	Report this link
Weblink 7.7 Learn about plans to use giant ‘hoovers’ to clear up China’s smog	Report this link
Weblink 7.8 Learn about carbon offset schemes	Report this link
Weblink 7.9 - This link is currently unavailable Learn about the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Weblink 7.10 Learn about the artificial volcano to reduce climate change	Report this link

Chapter 8 (14 links)

Weblink 8.1 Learn about global demographic trends	Report this link
Weblink 8.2 - This link is currently unavailable Learn about the World Population Data Sheet from the Population Reference Bureau
Weblink 8.3 - This link is currently unavailable Learn about the CIA World Fact book
Weblink 8.4 - This link is currently unavailable Learn about population simulations
Weblink 8.5 - This link is currently unavailable View an audit of the earth's natural wealth, presented as an infographic
Weblink 8.6 Learn about the economic value of biodiversity	Report this link
Weblink 8.7 - This link is currently unavailable Learn about the Story of Stuff project
Weblink 8.8 - This link is currently unavailable Watch movies about waste and other issues produced by the Story of Stuff
Weblink 8.9 Learn about the World Bank Global Review of Solid Waste Management	Report this link
Weblink 8.10 Learn about recycling e-waste in China	Report this link
Weblink 8.11 - This link is currently unavailable Learn about human carrying capacity
Weblink 8.12 - This link is currently unavailable Calculate your ecological footprint
Weblink 8.13 Learn about national ecological footprints	Report this link
Weblink 8.14 Use an ecological interactive footprint graph	Report this link

Chapter 9 (2 links)

Chapter 10 (1 link)

Worksheet 1.1 (3 links)

Worksheet 1.2 (2 links)

Worksheet 1.3 (10 links)

1 - This link is currently unavailable View a timeline of the meetings leading up to the 1992 Earth Summit
2 - This link is currently unavailable Read about the seven priority areas highlighted for Rio+20
3 - This link is currently unavailable Explore the United Nations' website for Rio+20
4 Watch a selection of videos related to Rio+20	Report this link
5 - This link is currently unavailable Learn about sustainable development from the United Nations
6 Use this dictionary to help understand terms related to Rio+20 and sustainable development in general	Report this link
7 - This link is currently unavailable Activity 1: view a sustainable-development timeline
8 Activity 3: read the Living Planet Report (2014) from the WWF	Report this link
9 Activity 3: read an article about the Living Planet Report	Report this link
10 Activity 3: explore the One World website	Report this link

Worksheet 1.6 (4 links)

Worksheet 1.7 (7 links)

1 - This link is currently unavailable Read a report about the effect of sonar activity on beaked whales from the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC)
2 Read a report on the Bahamas Marine Mammal Stranding Event of 15-16 March 2000	Report this link
3 - This link is currently unavailable Read a report on the population consequences of acoustic disturbance of Blainville’s beaked whales
4 - This link is currently unavailable Read more about Naval sonar in the Bahamas causing whales to become stranded
5 - This link is currently unavailable Read OSPAR's analysis of man-made underwater sound pollution
6 - This link is currently unavailable Read more about beaked whales
7 - This link is currently unavailable Read an article on acoustic pollution and marine animals

Worksheet 2.4 (2 links)

Worksheet 2.5 (3 links)

Worksheet 3.1 (4 links)

Worksheet 3.2 (5 links)

1 Read a biography of Alfred Russel Wallace	Report this link
2 View a photo of some of the moths and butterflies collected by Alfred Russel Wallace	Report this link
3 Watch a video of Bill Bailey talking about Alfred Russel Wallace	Report this link
4 Explore a collection of letters written by Alfred Russel Wallace	Report this link
5 Explore a website dedicated to Alfred Russel Wallace	Report this link

Worksheet 3.3 (6 links)

1 Read about mass extinction on the American Museum of Natural History website	Report this link
2 Read more about the Permian extinction	Report this link
3 - This link is currently unavailable Read about mass extinctions on the National Geographic website
4 Read an article on the sixth mass extinction	Report this link
5 View an interactive timeline: move the slide-rule from left to right to trace the history of the universe from the Big Bang onwards	Report this link
6 View an interactive animation looking at the fossil record and how it is studied	Report this link

Worksheet 3.4 (3 links)

Worksheet 3.6 (1 link)

Worksheet 3.7 (2 links)

Worksheet 3.9 (2 links)

Worksheet 3.10 (11 links)

1 - This link is currently unavailable Read about the Eden Project architecture
2 Read an article on how one of the buildings at the Eden Project was inspired by the Fibonacci sequence	Report this link
3 - This link is currently unavailable View the Wikipedia page for Tim Smit, one of the entrepreneurs behind the Eden Project
4 - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about the Eden Project
5 - This link is currently unavailable Visit the Eden Project website
6 Visit the Eden Project YouTube channel	Report this link
7 - This link is currently unavailable Read more about the construction of and inspiration behind The Core building at the Eden Project
8 Visit the Lost Gardens of Heligan website	Report this link
9 View a timeline of the Heligan gardens	Report this link
10 Watch a video about the Heligan gardens	Report this link
11 Watch another video about the Heligan gardens	Report this link

Worksheet 3.11 (7 links)

1 - This link is currently unavailable Read an article about Sir Peter Scott on the WWF website
2 Explore the WWF website	Report this link
3 - This link is currently unavailable View a factsheet on the giant panda
4 Read more about the giant panda	Report this link
5 Read the latest news on the pandas at Edinburgh Zoo	Report this link
6 Read an article about China's panda gift and its political effect	Report this link
7 - This link is currently unavailable Visit the fundraising website for the WWF

Worksheet 4.1 (2 links)

Worksheet 4.2 (3 links)

Worksheet 4.4 (3 links)

Worksheet 4.5 (1 link)

Worksheet 4.6 (2 links)

Worksheet 4.8 (3 links)

Worksheet 5.1 (1 link)

Worksheet 5.2 (6 links)

1 Visit the BBSRC website about the insect pollinators initiative	Report this link
2 Explore a website for beginner beekeepers	Report this link
3 Read a round-up of comments on the value of bees	Report this link
4 Watch a video about the threat to bees	Report this link
5 Visit the website for the film 'Vanishing of the Bees'	Report this link
6 - This link is currently unavailable Read the 'Vanishing of the Bees' study guide

Worksheet 5.3 (4 links)

Worksheet 5.6 (5 links)

1 Read a report on edible insects from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization	Report this link
2 Read a news article on a woman who prepared a cicada-topped pizza	Report this link
3 Read an article about a restaurant that opened in New York with insects on the menu	Report this link
4 View a website of insect recipes	Report this link
5 - This link is currently unavailable Read an article on the nutritional value of insects

Worksheet 5.7 (2 links)

Worksheet 5.8 (1 link)

Worksheet 6.2 (1 link)

Worksheet 6.3 (3 links)

Worksheet 6.4 (6 links)

1 IARC website	Report this link
2 Explore the website for Clean Air in London	Report this link
3 View photos of smog in northern China	Report this link
4 View real-time data for air pollution in China	Report this link
5 Read an article about how much it would cost China to combat air pollution	Report this link
6 - This link is currently unavailable Explore the website for the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology

Worksheet 6.5 (6 links)

1 View real-time data for air-pollution in London	Report this link
2 Read air-pollution advice from the UK government	Report this link
3 Learn about the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants	Report this link
4 Visit the website for Asthma UK	Report this link
5 Explore the World Health Organization’s website on air quality	Report this link
6 Read a report on trends in NOx and NO2 emissions in the UK	Report this link

Worksheet 6.6 (4 links)

1 - This link is currently unavailable View a map of acidification of the world's oceans
2 Explore the website for the European Mediterranean Sea Acidification (MedSeA) in a changing climate initiative	Report this link
3 Read an article about how climate change and ocean acidification is affecting coral reefs	Report this link
4 Read an article about rising acidity in the ocean	Report this link

1 - This link is currently unavailable Read an article on Mount Krakatau's physical geology
2 - This link is currently unavailable Learn about the ecology after a volcanic eruption
3 View a presentation about ecosystems, featuring definitions and key terms	Report this link

1 - This link is currently unavailable View a Wikipedia page on the subspecies of the Galapagos tortoise
2 - This link is currently unavailable Read an article on the giant tortoise 'Lonesome George'
3 - This link is currently unavailable Read an article on the death of 'Lonesome George'
4 Expore the Charles Darwin Foundation website	Report this link

1 Read Terry Erwin’s paper from 1981 that suggested there could be as many as 30 million anthropod species on Earth	Report this link
2 - This link is currently unavailable Explore the website for the Convention on Biological Diversity
3 View the website for the Alliance for Zero Extinction	Report this link

1 Read an article on water wars	Report this link
2 - This link is currently unavailable Read an article on water stress
3 Read an article on water stewardship	Report this link

1 View the Food and Agriculture Organization's 'hunger map' for 2015	Report this link
2 Read an article about the drought in Niger in 2010	Report this link
3 - This link is currently unavailable Read an article on the causes of the Pakistan floods from the NASA Earth Observatory
4 Read an article about Russia's wheat harvest in 2010	Report this link

Weblink 9.1 Learn more about the Paluxy River site	Report this link
Weblink 9.2 - This link is currently unavailable Learn more about food deserts

1 Read an article on the environmental effects of an oil spill	Report this link
2 Read an article from the Center for Biological Diversity on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill	Report this link

1 - This link is currently unavailable Read an article about the new generation of hydrofluorocarbons
2 View a map and satellite images of Pakistan’s floodwaters in the 2010 floods	Report this link

1 Read an article about whether you can put a price on nature	Report this link
2 Explore the UK National Ecosystem Assessment website	Report this link
3 Read the Natural Environment White Pape	Report this link
4 Read an article about the true value of nature	Report this link

1 Explore the urban pollinators' US website	Report this link
2 Explore the urban pollinators' UK website	Report this link

1 - This link is currently unavailable Read about the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre set up in 1964
2 Visit the website for the Rainforest Discovery Centre, a venue for environmental conservation adjacent to the Sepilok forest reserve	Report this link

1 Explore the website for the Stockholm International Water Institute	Report this link
2 Visit the website for the International Water Management Institute	Report this link

1 Visit the 'Product water footprint' webpage (Question 1)	Report this link
2 Visit the 'National water footprint explorer' webpage (Questions 2, 4 and 5)	Report this link
3 Visit the 'Glossary' webpage (Question 3)	Report this link

1 Read an article on the possible extinction of the Baiji dolphin	Report this link
2 - This link is currently unavailable Read more about the baiji dolphin

1 Watch a video on crab fattening in Bangladesh	Report this link
2 Explore the BRAC website	Report this link
3 Read an article about Christensen’s work	Report this link

1 Read the World Health Organization’s report on air pollution in 2012	Report this link
2 Read an article on air pollution in China	Report this link
3 Read an article on smog in the UK in 2014	Report this link

1 Read an article on acid rain in China	Report this link
2 - This link is currently unavailable Read information about acid rain in the USA

1 Watch a video on the BP oil spill	Report this link
2 Read the article 'BP oil spill: environmental impact one year on'	Report this link
3 Watch a video about the cost-cutting that contributed to the BP oil spill	Report this link
4 Watch a video about the bad management that contributed to the BP oil spill	Report this link

1 Read about the Chicago Climate Action Plan	Report this link
2 Read the progress report for the Chicago Climate Action Plan	Report this link
3 - This link is currently unavailable Visit the website for the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

1 Read more about waste and see some useful graphics	Report this link
2 Read an article about sewage and waste in India	Report this link
3 Read a report on waste in Asia from Responsible Research	Report this link