Description: Understanding Great Salt Lake as the heart of a system unified by forests, desert and wetlands, and by the watershed that serves them.

Purpose:

• Classify major habitat types in Utah
• Create a bridge between hydrological systems and habitats
• Introduce the Greater Great Salt Lake Ecosystem
• Introduce idea mapping as a means by which to classify living things
• Provide further experience working in cooperative groups and serving in cooperative group roles
• Identify important plants & animals of Utah forests, deserts, wetlands
• Identify relationships between plants & animals, their habitats and the Greater Great Salt Lake Ecosystem
• Provide a springboard from which additional studies pertaining to Utah forests, deserts and wetlands can be launched

Unit 4 Greater GSL Ecosystem Part 1 344.22 Kb

Unit 4 Greater GSL Ecosystem Part 2 559.10 Kb

Unit 4 Greater GSL Ecosystem Part 3 555.30 Kb

Illustrations 

• IV.A. Habitat Illus 105.46 Kb
• IV.A h1-4Habitats H 283.13 Kb
• IV.A v1-v5 Habitats 320.79 Kb
• IV.C.1 V1-6Aquatic life 459.79 Kb
• IV.C.1. List ofAquatic Illus 105.59 Kb
• IV.C.2. List of Plant&Anim. Illus 118.91 Kb
  
• IV.C.2.1-v1 Wildflowers V 315.30 Kb
• IV.C.2.2-h1-h10 Mammals 1.97 Mb
• IV.C.2.2-v1-v2 Mammals 473.98 Kb
• IV.C.2.3-h1-h6 Birds H 404.75 Kb
• IV.C.2.3-v1-v4 Birds V 368.29 Kb
• IV.C.2.4-h1-h6 Reptiles H 359.32 Kb
• IV.C.2.5-h1-h2 Amphibians H 183.98 Kb
• IV.C.2.6-h1 Invertebrates H 124.04 Kb
• IV.C.2.6-v1-v13 Invertebrates V 774.06 Kb