Ecology and Climate:What Do I Already Know About This?: ~How the Living Planet Works What Changes Its Climate~

Ecology and Climate: What Do I Already Know About This? How the Living Planet Works and What Changes Its Climate Vita Harwood Test your knowledge! >What happens when you stop treating ecology as a list of environmental rules and start seeing the planet as a connected system? Ecology and Climate: How the Living Planet Works and What Changes Its Climate is a twelve-lesson short course for readers aged fifteen and up who want a clear, evidence-based introduction without a school-textbook tone. It begins with a single organism and its relationships, then follows food webs, energy flow, water and nutrient cycles, carbon, biodiversity, and the machinery of climate. >Each lesson is built around a question rather than a chapter heading to memorize. Scientific ideas are introduced when they become useful, with portraits of researchers, surprising verified facts, key terms, a ten-question test, and a home or field assignment. A single observation project, the Map of a Living System, runs through the entire course and teaches readers to notice stocks, flows, feedbacks, boundaries, risks, and trade-offs in the world around them. The result is a compact guide to ecology and climate science that replaces slogans with mechanisms. Readers finish with a connected picture of ecosystems, the carbon cycle, biodiversity, climate evidence, environmental risk, mitigation, adaptation, technology, and sustainability, plus 120 explained test answers, a glossary, resources, and suggestions for what to read and watch next.