Activity 15Changes Due to Population Growth

Activity 15: Changes Due to Population GrowthActivity 15: Changes Due to Population Growth

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Activity 15: Changes Due to Population Growth

Get Started

Have you eaten fish or some other kind of seafood in the last week?

Where do you think that fish or other seafood came from?

Activity 15: Changes Due to Population Growth

Get Started

Do you think we could have fish farms to grow fish instead of catching wild fish?

Would this help to prevent overfishing? Do you think fish farming will be helpful,

negative, or mixed?

Activity 15: Changes Due to Population Growth

Introduction

Aquaculture is the growing of fish and other aquatic species for human consumption.

Read the introduction.

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How can the environmental harm from salmon farming be minimized?

Challenge

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Procedure

If at any point in the investigation you roll a 5 or 6 and your farmed population is not 1,400 or greater, roll again until you get a 1, 2, 3, or 4.

Activity 15: Changes Due to Population Growth

Follow Up

What kind of events affected your systems?

How did the events affect the wild and farmed populations?

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Follow Up

What are the benefits and trade-offs of the fish farm shown in the video?

How does this compare to the salmon farm in the activity?

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Follow Up

Do you think the results of fish farming will be helpful, negative, or mixed?

Activity 15: Changes Due to Population Growth

Follow Up

What are the benefits and trade-offs involved with aquaculture? Discuss at least two aquaculture systems.

Analysis 4

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How can the environmental harm from salmon farming be minimized?

Revisit the Challenge

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aquaculture density-dependent factors density-independent factors population population growth rate

Key Vocabulary