Chapter 2 Questions
+ Voices from the Story and Referenced Resources
Think about it
- Are there any unanswered questions or areas that require further investigation based on the story?
- Can you apply the information from the story to real-life situations or other contexts?
- What's the difference between a food chain and the food web?
- What might cause an ecosystem's carrying capacity to change?
- How does the carrying capacity of an ecosystem influence the area's food chains?
- Why is understanding the food web, food chains and carrying capacities important to scientific research?
- Do you think food chains and carrying capacities should be weighed when making decisions at the intersection of people and nature?
- What is the most important fact you learned in this lesson?
- What did you learn from this story?
- Why do food chains matter?
- What's our role in - and impact on - the food web?
- How can we eat the change we want to see, as farmer Takota Coen suggests? Or is life - food especially - already too expensive?
- Do you agree with Quinn Scott that our salmon are in trouble? Why or why not?
- How can science help us improve how we produce food?
- How can science help us lesson our impact on biodiversity by making better decisions as consumers?
- How does context help us better understand a situation in science and in life?
- How can cultural knowledge help improve our understanding of differing societal values and conflicts in our world today? How can that knowledge help advance better science?
- Should ecological context be weighed alongside cultural context when investigating complex issues?
- In science, should we work to have more empathy for different contexts and perspectives, no matter what the science says?
- How can understanding the social and economic context of a community or region allow us to use science more effectively to solve complex problems?
- Reflect on a time when hearing a different context made you rethink a situation or perspective.
- Reflect on a situation where you felt your viewpoint was not heard. How did it make you feel?
- How does listening to diverse perspectives contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of complex topics or current events? And how can that understanding foster better science?
Hot Takes
Define
- Food Chain & Food Web
- Ecological Niche
- Generalist (biology)
- Food Pyramid (biology)
- Trophic Level
- Photosynthesis
- Primary Producer
- Primary Consumer
- Secondary Consumer
- Tertiary Consumer
- Decomposer
- Herbivore
- Omnivore
- Carnivore
- Carrying Capacity
- Indicator Species
- Umbrella Species
- Keystones Species
- Charismatic Megafauna
- Trophic Cascade
Reflection Activity
- Option One: Write a self-reflection on the story. Did you enjoy it? What did you learn? How did it make you feel and think?
- Option Two: Design a poster that celebrates the most interesting fact you learned in this story.
- Option Three: Find three websites or articles that relate to themes presented in this story. Explain why you selected them.
Quinn Scott
Quinn Scott loves fish. Though many of us have passions that become hobbies, Quinn made his passion for fish his career. From being a...
Takota Coen
Takota Coen is the award-winning co-owner of the Coen Farm – a wide-ranging parcel of land in the heart of Alberta, nestled in the...
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Referenced Resources
- Grizzly Bears
- Elk
- Mountain pine tree that feeds grizzlies threatened due to climate change, beetles, fungus, officials say
- Pleistocene Epoch: The Last Ice Age
- Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre
- Ecology of Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
- Lions and brown bears colonized North America in multiple synchronous waves of dispersal across the Bering Land Bridge
- Lions and brown bears colonized North America in multiple synchronous waves of dispersal across the Bering Land Bridge
- Canada's Food Guide
- No average bears: How human use of trails affects grizzlies
- More roads in grizzly bear habitat means more deaths
- The phenomenon of moth-eating bears - and the dangers they face
- Mountain pine tree that feeds grizzlies threatened due to climate change, beetles, fungus, officials say
- WHAT NOW? | Sustainable Canadian Agriculture
- Stop biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction, warns UN
- Biodiversity loss raises risk of 'extinction cascades'
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Endangered Ecosystems Alliance
- Too many deer are bad for the forest
- Top predator decline affects ecosystems everywhere
- Feeding the future: How AgriTech and FoodTech can power food sustainability
- Over half of Albertans $200 away from being unable to pay their bills: report
- 53% of Canadians on the brink of insolvency: MNP survey
- Half of Canadians struggling to pay bills on time as insolvencies rise in Sask.
- Value of outputs
- Unfolding disaster in B.C. salmon fishing industry has hit workers hard
- Four reasons 2020 is set to see the lowest Fraser River sockeye salmon return on record
- Study charts 'shocking' declines in chum salmon
- DFO shuts most B.C. fisheries in desperate effort to save salmon
- Logging in watersheds among stressors for declining Pacific salmon population, experts say
- Sedimentation of Salmon Spawning Habitat
- Forests Ontario
- Forest management certification in Canada
- 50 million tree program
- ‘A tipping point’: how poor forestry fuels floods and fires in western Canada
- The connection between forests and salmon populations
- Farmed fish breeding with wild fish is changing the life cycle of wild fish
- How the science behind salmon farms and sea lice became so contentious
- Farmed versus wild salmon debate can be overwhelming
- Extreme environmental impacts on Pacific salmon
- The biggest threat to wild salmon you’ve never heard of: Management underway for invasive green crab
- Global salmon farming harming marine life and costing billions in damage
- Impacts of Pinniped Predation on BC Salmon
- Salmon struggle to spawn amid record-setting drought, with tens of thousands dead in B.C.
- Fish in hot water: decades of logging tied to warmer temperatures in unprotected salmon-bearing streams
- Global Consequences of Overfishing
- Extinction Risk of Chinook Salmon Due to Climate Change
- In Yukon, the dwindling Chinook salmon population threatens food security and livelihoods
- British Columbia chinook salmon populations in decline
- First Nations try to turn the tide on 'heartbreaking' decline in salmon population
- Cod Moratorium of 1992
- BC salmon fishery on verge of commercial collapse
- Running on Empty: The BC Forestry Crash
- Sovereignty bills are symbols of discontent in today's Canada
- Quebec and the right to be different
- Ottawa's "just transition" needs to be challenged for encouraging fantasy around oil and gas
- Don’t ‘bothsides’ the just transition
- Arrests continue as the old-growth protest near Fairy Creek moves into another year
- Federal government steps into Greenbelt debate, launching study that could delay some development
- Nova Scotia pitches something 'better than a carbon tax' to Ottawa
- Shame on the federal government,' N.S. premier says of clean fuel rules
- Houston continues fight with Feds over carbon tax, runs ad campaign
- N.S. moves step closer to protecting 20% of its land and water by 2030
- Nova Scotia announces 17 new, expanded protected areas, and 10 more to come
- New report says federal carbon levy expected to cost most Nova Scotians more
- Nova Scotia gets 14 new nature reserves, wilderness areas, including area in Sackville
- Ottawa's carbon tax will hit Nova Scotia hard
- How B.C. brought in Canada's 1st carbon tax and avoided economic disaster
- B.C. gets a C grade in protecting land and oceans: report
- B.C. holding out on federal conservation targets and large-scale protected areas
- The environment is the top issue for Ontario voters, but are candidates taking it seriously enough?
- Environment is top election issue for Metro Vancouver residents: survey
- Canadians unified on forest protection although wildfire cause divisive: poll
- Survey supports outdoor group's call for additional B.C. Parks funding
- Don’t forget about rural Canadians when crafting environmental plans
- The rural-urban split matters more than you think
- Algonquin Logging Museum
- 10 Key Facts on Canada’s Natural Resources
- Acts administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Visible Forest Stages
- Like it or not, building houses on the Greenbelt is necessary
- Logging Algonquin Park is just one example how Ontario is failing to protect nature
- After almost 3 decades, cod are still not back off N.L. Scientists worry it may never happen
- DFO shuts most B.C. fisheries in desperate effort to save salmon
- Ghost town no more: How tourism revived a once-decimated Newfoundland fishing community
- Grasslands National Park
- From cowboys to tourists: How the Grasslands kept Val Marie alive
- Sovereignty act shows Ottawa that Alberta will continue to fight for its rights
- 'We are not backing down': Premier Moe says legislation on parental rights coming this fall
- Danielle Smith wants vaccine status to be a human right. Expect a petri dish of problems
- Declaration Act Action Plan
- Quebec English speakers brace as major provisions of language law come into effect
- Geez, everyone likes parks, concludes $150,000 Parks Canada survey
- Bear watching more profitable than bear hunting, says study
- Banff Rules and Regulations
- Canada's National Parks Are Colonial Crime Scenes
- B.C. national park faces opposition as debate continues over land protection
- Ranchers frustrated with 'unchecked growth' of grizzly bear population
- Rise in Grizzly-Bear Deaths Has Some Environmentalists Worried
- What's Wrong with Putting a Price on Nature?
- Put a price on nature? We must stop this neoliberal road to ruin
- The environment is Canada's biggest wedge issue
- The anatomy of social media's mad-making machine
- Technology and Tyranny: Social Media and the End of the Liberal World Order
- This is what's wrong with Canada's Left
- This is what's wrong with Canada's Right
- Global Democracy Weakens in 2022
- Threats To Democracy Rise In A Third Of Countries
- There Are No Rules
- How to Understand the Global Spread of Political Polarization
- Revealed: the rise and rise of populist rhetoric
- The Rise of Global Populism
- Canada's angry, divisive politics are as old as Canada itself
- Do Canadians deserve their reputation for being nice?
- Why virtue signaling isn't the same as virtue
- Divergent bilingualism, linguistic anxieties, and Bill 96
- Divergent bilingualism, linguistic anxieties, and Bill 96
- Trans Mountain pipeline: Some of the main arguments for and against it
- Province holding feedback sessions on Bighorn proposal
- Bighorn rally Thursday in Red Deer
- Under pressure: Canadians are losing trust in their governments, adding stress to our public institutions
- Canadians' trust in the news media hits a new low
- Trust in government is recovering but a new “generational trust gap” is emerging
- Millennials don't trust anyone. That's a big deal.
- Millenials and Gen Z have lost trust and loyalty with business
- Millennials aren't apathetic – they just don't trust politicians
- Quebec Press Council rules debate moderator Shachi Kurl was biased in question on Bills 21 and 96
- Why 6 in 10 Canadians feel the country is divided
- Replacing the pan-Canadian consensus
- The objectives of the Global Innovation Clusters
- Clusters and the New Economics of Competition
- The Coming of Knowledge-Based Business
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