ENVS 330, Module I: The Bosque System - Class activity January 25, 2016

Name of Your Group: ______

Group Members: ______

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REMEMBER: Only put down the names of group members would are actually here today!

Group activity:

  1. What aboutthis site showing a system? (** Remember, the key parts of a system – involves living and nonliving things, involves exchanges of matter and energy, and has inputs and outputs). List a few things here.
  1. Based on what you wrote in your field notes last week,write down 4 living things you seeand 4 nonliving things that you see in the space below. Discuss how these things might be relate to one another – you may draw arrows or lines if you wish, with things in boxes around the page…use a different paper if you need more space.

This will eventually be copied onto the large paper for your group, but use this space as a ‘draft’ workspace to put thoughts and ideas down.

  1. How will matter flow in the system? Make a drawing of how you think it flows. This is an addition to the systems map you began under #2. In a systems map, or box model, the ‘things’ would be held in boxes, with relationships between them where energy or matter are exchanged would be represented by arrows between the boxes.
  1. How will energy flow in the system? Make a drawing of how you think it flows.
  1. In the system as outlined so far, what is at least one function of one of the living things you have identified? What would happen if you took this thing away?
  1. In the system as outlined so far, what is at least one function of one of the nonliving things you have identified in the picture? What would happen if you took this thing away?
  1. What words did your group write down that were not just “things”. How do you think they relate to the system?
  1. If you came back and took a photo of this same place 100 years into the future what do you think would have changed?
  1. If you had been able to take a photo of this place before the first Spaniards arrived in the region what do you think you would have seen?
  1. Now, transfer your ‘system map’ to the large paper for display. Be prepared to present this to the rest of the class.