FRST22
Module 22: Climate Change (Optional)
Outcome
Investigate how forest ecosystems and climate are linked.
Indicators
(a) Analyze how climate and weather influence Saskatchewan forests.
(b) Research the history of forests and how glaciation and climate have shaped them to what they are today.
(c) Discover how the increase in human population and resources directly impact forests.
(d) Describe how a forest can be a carbon source or a carbon sink and how that can affect climate change.
(e) Investigate how forests store carbon and are an important part of the carbon cycle to balance greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
(f) Explain the importance of the earth maintaining a carbon balance.
(g) Describe the National Forest Carbon Monitoring, Accounting and Reporting System (NFCMARS) and its significance in providing information on climate change.
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