Increasing population impacts the natural resources of the earth. To enable students to demonstrate attitudes toward science in solving problems and making personal decisions about issues affecting the individual, society, and the environment. Individual views of technology are affected by culture and need. Now that you have heard about some life-styles, think of your own and ask yourselves these questions 1. Today we will try to understand the relationship among population size, life-style and consumption of natural resources.
Ecology is the study of the environment and how living things house themselves in it.
You may not realize that just like people, individual organisms or parts of organisms that may look just alike, do in fact, have variations. If you brought to class ten leaves from the same tree, none of the leaves would be the same. All living things have variations. These variations set the stage for ecosystems. If any of these variations change, the change can put stress on the natural resources of that system.