Step
1. List What is Known
The two columns
below illustrate the parallel jobs to be completed in Step 1. You
do not need to conduct any research to do this step. Use your current
knowledge and the information from the scenario to fill in the lines provided.
In the space provided in the first column, list what you know about hard-red winter wheat.
Then
look at the Earth System Diagram in the second column. Notice how the
arrows go to and from the event and spheres. These arrows indicate that
the cause and effect relationships go both from the event to the spheres
and from the spheres to the event (
).
While thinking about these relationships, list your ideas about how the
event--increased concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide -- could
possibly impact the four spheres that make up the Kansas wheat farm ecosystem.
List prior knowledge about hard-red winter wheat.
List prior Earth system science knowledge regarding increased concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Increased Carbon
Dioxide Event
Biosphere
Increased Carbon
Dioxide Event
Lithosphere
Increased Carbon
Dioxide Event
Atmosphere
Increased Carbon
Dioxide Event
Hydrosphere