ECOLOGY DISRUPTED:  Winter Roads

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Investigation Booklet
Exploring: Salt in Our Lives
 1. Draw and describe your prediction of what will happen to the eggplant after the teacher applies salt to it.

 

Use the ecosystem fact sheets to complete the table below

| List at least two organisms that live in this ecosystem. | How will changing salt levels affect the organisms that live in this ecosystem?
FOREST | |
FRESH-WATER | |
SWAMP | |
MARSH | |
ESTUARY | |
OCEAN | |

2. Support the statement that the salt level isn’t the problem for ecosystems; the problem is changing the amount of salt in an ecosystem. Give a specific example.

3. List three ways that salt can negatively affect organisms in a freshwater, forest or swamp ecosystem.

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