Assignment: Environmental Health- Understanding Eco-Regions
You should provide us with two separate essays; however, we ask that you staplethem together. List your references using APA format, citing them within the text. Please make sure your essay is double spaced, 12pt font. Include your name and assignment number on your paper. I would suggest at least one reference for the ecoregion and two for the ANWR portion. However, more references result in a more complete understanding of the topic.
a) Choose ANY eco-region on earth. Eco-region is preferred to a generic biome. I'll accept the latter if it goes into great details.
Conduct some research on this region - Describe the unique, biological and geographical features (species of plants and animals, geology, etc.), challenges and impacts faced by this eco-region.
• What factors threaten, enhance or influence the eco-region?
• Has it changed over the course of time?
• How do the factors (you discovered) impact the species or population living in this eco-region?
• If you are aware of impacts not mentioned in these sites, through your own travels or readings, do not hesitate to include this in your description.
Examples of peripheral impacts: the effects of war, over development, logging, agriculture, desertification, mining or other forms of environmental degradation.
LENGTH: About 2 PAGES
b) Look up and research an area designated, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
• Name and describe the eco-region(s) that best describes this (ANWR) refuge.
• Research the effects of drilling an oil pipeline in ANWR eco-region either negatively or positively. (Have evidence to support your opinion (USE at least two (2) citations)
• Do you feel the merits of drilling outweigh the threats, or does drilling in this region too perilous to the ecosystem?
LENGTH: About 2 PAGES.