G is for green

The Green Project was born to respect the environment and the biodiversity these are important in the food chain

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1) What is a marine reserve?

A marine reserve is a “wet national park”. That is, an area of the marine and coastal environment that is under special protection.

2) Where are Vendicari’s marine nature reserves? Vendicari's marine nature reserves in the Sicarusan place.

3) Why do we have marine reserves in Vendicari?

Marine Reserves have been declared in Vendicari:

 To protect special habitats (e.g. kelp forests)  For scientific study

 For tourism (e.g. a snorkelling tour)

 For recreation (e.g. swimming, boating)

 To protect culturally important areas (e.g. a shipwreck)

 To provide a safe place for plants and animals to reproduce and stock other areas

What are you allowed to do in a marine reserve? 

Different reserves have different rules. In Vendicari many of our marine reserves have ‘no-take’ areas where you are NOT ALLOWED to fish; remove, to hunt, collect or harm anything. In no-take areas you can participate in activities that don’t harm the reserve, for example, swimming, boating and diving. Remember, in no-take areas: “LOOK, BUT DON’T TAKE”

Activities

1. Mark on the map with numbers (1-7) the location of Vendicari’s Marine Nature Reserves.

2. Read the following list and decide which activities would be allowed in a Vendicari marine reserve and why or why not. Present your work in a table like the one below.

 Motorised boating  Underwater photography  Fishing for flathead  Swimming  Collecting shells  Anchoring a vessel  Collecting driftwood  Removing rubbis, bird watching, to hunt the reserve bird

Activity Allowed (YES/NO) Reason

ROLE-PLAY

What is your role in the community?

What are your goals for resource management? Where would you establish marine reserves? Use the blank map to draw your answer.

Explain why you would establish reserves in these locations.

How large should marine reserves be? Why?

Nature of science

Scientific research sometimes uncovers environmental problems that are linked to human lifestyles. This research shows that the way we live needs to be balanced with environmental needs, which sometimes puts scientists in a difficult position in defending their work.

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biodiversity

PARTS OF A FLOWER

Look at the picture, fill in with the right words.

Read and color:

the roots light brown;

the stem green;

the petals pink;

the small leaf light green;

the large leaf dark green.

A TREE

A tree is a wooden stick trying hard to reach the sky. It wants to reach the sunlight which it needs for life. The stick is called a trunk. Raising itself tall also keeps the leaves farther away from insects and animals. There are two main types of trees: conifers and broad-leaved.

Broad-leaved trees are usually rounded. Conifers grow into a triangular shape. To be called a tree the plant must be over twenty feet tall. It can have only one trunk. Anything else is a shrub. A tree below twenty feet is called a sapling. Redwoods are the tallest trees in the world. They can grow to more than three hundred-sixty feet in height.

QUESTIONS:

1) What is the wooden stick?

3) How is the shapes of broad-leaved?

4) Who do the plants take the food from?

5) What do the trunk?

6) How the look like of the broad- leaved?

7) When did they leave the leaves?

8) What do the plants need?

9) Do you can explain the water cycle?

All the parts of a tree work together to make it grow. Leaves make food by using sunlight and gases in the air. The roots take water and minerals from the soil. The leaves need water, and the roots need food. The trunk carries water and sap up and down the tree. Sap is the name for the tree's food. The water and sap channels are just under the outer layer of bark. The bark protects them. As a tree grows, the bark cracks open on the outside. New bark grows on the inside.

The leaves of broad-leaved trees are thin, flat, and often wide. In northern climates, broad-leaved trees are usually deciduous. They lose their leaves in the fall. The veins in a leaf carry food and water around the leaf. A leaf's shape can identify the type of tree. Young leaves are especially tasty to deer and other animals. Some trees have thorns to keep the eaters away.

Conifers are trees which produce cones. Some conifers have hard, spiky needles. Leaf-eating animals cannot eat these spikes or needles. Others have bad-tasting leathery leaves or scales. Each needle of a conifer stays on the tree for three to four years. They save their energy by not having to make new needles each year.

Twigs stick out from trees and are the growing ends of the tree. Each twig has some buds. These contain new shoots. The shoots open and become new twigs. Sticky scales protect the buds from insects.