PowerPoint presentations for Environmental Science - Earth Systems - Environment

Teaching high school Environmental Science this year? Looking for a place to start? These detailed and highly visual PowerPoint presentations provide content for many traditional environmental topics in a format that's easy to use and engaging for students.

Please note: This PowerPoint Bundle is also part of my Full Environmental Science Curriculum.

These fully animated, EDITABLE PowerPoint presentations are loaded with colorful illustrations, real photographs, and detailed explanations. What a time-saver!

The topics are organized according to the four spheres of the earth (biosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere) with an introductory unit and a sustainability unit at the end. Human impacts are woven through every topic.

Included in this resource:

• Intro to Environmental Science (55 slides)
• Biosphere 1- Spheres of the Earth, Ecology & Organism Relationships (27 slides)
• Biosphere 2- Species and Population Growth (20 slides)
• Biosphere 3- Biomes, Communities, Ecological Succession, & Biodiversity (19 slides)
• Geosphere 1- Plate Tectonics (19 slides)
• Geosphere 2- Minerals, Soil Composition & Soil Conservation (39 slides)
• Geosphere 3- Energy, Fossil Fuels, Renewable Energy Sources (17 slides)
• Atmosphere- Composition & Layers of the Atmosphere, Weather, Global Winds, Coriolis Effect, Nitrogen Cycle, Phosphorous Cycle, Carbon Cycle (49 slides)
• Hydrosphere 1- Water Cycle, Surface Water, Watersheds, Groundwater & Irrigation (28 slides)
• Hydrosphere 2- Marine Biomes, Ocean Productivity, Wetlands & Water Pollution
• Land Use & Sustainability- Urbanization, Land Use, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Forestry (51 slides)

This resource is designed to fit seamlessly into a high school Environmental Science curriculum. The text on every PowerPoint slide is editable. Due to copyright restrictions from the clip artists and photographers I use, some of the images on the PowerPoints are not editable. Thanks for your understanding.

**NOTE: These PowerPoints coincide seamlessly with my guided Cornell Notes to make teaching new content a snap!

Topics covered in the PowerPoints:

Intro to Environmental Science

• Renewable and nonrenewable resources
• Tragedy of the Commons
• Ecological footprints
• Scientific methods
• Science v. pseudoscience
• Ecosystem services
• Cost-benefit analyses
• Types of environmental policies (regulatory v. incentive)

Biosphere

• Hydrosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere
• Organization of living things (organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere)
• Food chains v. food webs, energy pyramids
• Symbiotic relationships (mutualism, commensalism, parasitism, predation)
• Endangered v. threatened species
• Speciation (behavioral, mechanical, temporal, geographic)
• Linear v. exponential growth, logistic growth, limiting factors, carrying capacity
• Natality, fecundity, fertility, mortality, life expectancy
• Survivorship curves (Types 1, 2, & 3), R strategists v. K strategists
• Age Structure Diagrams (Population Pyramids)
• 9 different world biomes (tundra, taiga, grasslands, deciduous forest, savanna, chaparral, rainforest, desert, alpine)
• Climate v. weather, climatograms (or climate diagrams)
• Keystone species, indicator species, invasive species
• Primary v. Secondary succession, climax community, pioneer species
• Types of biodiversity (species, genetic, ecological), biodiversity index

Atmosphere

• Atmospheric composition
• Layers of the atmosphere (troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere), ozone layer
• Local and global weather patterns
• Global circulation (Polar cells, Ferrel cells, Hadley cells), Coriolis Effect
• ENSO (El Nino, La Nina)
• Nitrogen cycle, phosphorous cycle, carbon cycle
• Greenhouse gases and global warming (climate change)

Geosphere

• Layers of the Earth
• Plate tectonics, plate movements, landforms
• Characteristics and properties of minerals
• Mining methods and impacts (surface v. subsurface, restoration v. reclamation)
• Soil composition and soil profiles
• Porosity and permeability of soil
• Soil erosion by wind and water, soil conservation methods
• Fossil fuels
• Renewable energy sources

Hydrosphere

• Unique properties of water, processes in the water cycle
• Watersheds, estuaries
• Eutrophication and acidification of aquatic ecosystems
• Water table, aquifers (confined v. unconfined)
• Human impacts from groundwater usage (depletion of aquifers, salinization, etc)
• Types of aquatic biomes (saltwater, freshwater, estuaries)
• Ocean productivity and nutrients in ocean food webs, ocean zones
• Point-source v. nonpoint-source pollution
• Oxygen sag curve and nutrient pollution
• Effects of pollution on aquatic ecosystems (thermal pollution, sediment pollution, nutrient pollution, chemical pollution, biological pollution)
• Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
• Bioaccumulation v. biomagnification, bioassays and LD50
• Characteristics of wetlands, environmental benefits of wetlands

Land Use & Sustainability

• Environmental impacts of cities (air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, light pollution)
• Human health impacts of cities (obesity from commuting, sanitation issues in developing countries)
• Heat islands, urban sprawl
• City planning and smart growth
• 3 E's of sustainability (economics, environment, equity)
• Economic and environmental benefits of trees
• Habitat fragmentation and wildlife corridors
• The Green Revolution, agricultural impacts on the environment
• Vertical farming and other future agricultural techniques

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