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1 In the area where you live, develop a list of 10 types of ecosystems (natural and human‐created). Which types of ecosystems were easiest to define? Which were hardest? Why?

2 Draw a map of the ecological region you inhabit. How did you distinguish it from surrounding regions?

3 What is the rarest type of ecosystem in your region? Have many examples of it been protected?

4 What services are provided by the major types of ecosystems in your region?

5 In one of the major ecosystems near where you live, which “rivets,” if popped out, would be most likely to cause the “plane to crash” (Ehrlich analogy)?

6 What evidence can you cite that supports the idea that ecosystems are just loose collections of species? What evidence refutes the idea? If you do not specifically know of such evidence, how would you design a research program to obtain it?

7 In your region, what type of ecosystem probably has the highest species richness? What type of ecosystem has the greatest ecological value (with its inevitable corollary, how are you defining ecological value in this context)?