WISE OWL PRIVATE SCHOOL

Grade: 9 SNC1W SCIENCE

Unit 1: Sustainable ecosystems
TOPIC: Sustaining terrestrial ecosystems
Assessment of Learning: Blog Writing
How Human Activities Impact Ecosystem Limiting Factors (4%)

Name: _______________ September 28 , 2023

Blog Post
How Human Activities Impact Ecosystem Limiting Factors

Now you will research some of the limiting factors that impact your chosen ecosystem
of concern. Your environmental issue will impact some populations in your ecosystem.
When you have completed your research, create a blog post describing the effect of
human activity on the limiting factors and how they impact the carrying capacity for
some living things in your ecosystem. Your post could be written, an audio recording, or
other media. Any media created can be posted on your blog.

For example, if I were studying the mining of the Alberta Oil Sands, I could research
how much water is used to extract bitumen from the Oil Sands. I would learn that the
process uses a large quantity of water and only some of it is recovered. This reduces
the water available in nearby ecosystems. In this case, if we are looking at aquatic
wildlife such as a species of fish, the carrying capacity of the ecosystem would be
limited by the amount of water available. So, the limiting factor would be water.

Success Criteria:
• I included a description of how at least one living thing is impacted by the human
activity.
• I described how the human activity affects some of the limiting factors for this living
thing.
• I described how the limiting factors impact the carrying capacity of the ecosystem for
this living thing.
 Criteria Excellent (5) Good (4) Fair (3) Needs Improvement (2) Inadequate (1)
Shows a good
understanding of the Includes limited
Demonstrates a deep ecosystem and human Provides some information about the Lacks critical
understanding of the activity, with information about the ecosystem and human information about the
ecosystem, human activity, explanations that are ecosystem and human activity, making it ecosystem and human
Content and their impacts with clear generally clear and activity but lacks challenging to understand activity, making it
Knowledge and detailed explanations. informative. depth in explanations. the topic. unclear.
Thoroughly describes how at Describes how living Mentions the impact
least one living organism is organisms are impacted on living organisms Briefly mentions the impact
impacted by the human by the human activity but lacks specific on living organisms without Does not adequately
Impact on activity with detailed but may lack some examples or detailed providing clear examples or address the impact on
Organisms examples and explanations. depth or clarity. explanations. explanations. living organisms.
Effectively describes how the Describes how the Mentions the impact
human activity affects human activity affects on limiting factors but Briefly mentions the impact
Effect on limiting factors in the limiting factors but may lacks specific examples on limiting factors without Does not adequately
Limiting ecosystem with clear and lack depth or clarity in or detailed providing clear examples or describe the impact on
Factors detailed explanations. the explanations. explanations. explanations. limiting factors.
Provides a comprehensive
analysis of how limiting Offers a good analysis of Provides a basic
factors impact the carrying how limiting factors analysis of the carrying
capacity of the ecosystem for affect the carrying capacity impact Briefly mentions the Does not adequately
Carrying the chosen living organism, capacity but may lack without clear evidence carrying capacity impact analyze how limiting
Capacity with well-supported some depth or or in-depth without sufficient analysis factors impact carrying
Analysis arguments and evidence. supporting evidence. explanations. or evidence. capacity.