Big Ideas Room 8 wants to understand

 Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HURyGlOksR0&t=87s

Link to transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-hqNC56zU5g-UzfefWU8_I3m7qyjNWjDviqw5IqFcbY/edit?usp=sharing

Words from transcript:

•  Vegetation -All plants

• Proliferate - spread

• Enabled - allowed, afforded                                                   

• Microbes - teeny tiny organisms like bacteria

•  Adversaries - enemies, foes. 

•  Majority - the biggest section

•  Irrevsible - can’t go back, can’t undo it.

• Pulsating - vibrating, moving, alive.

• Eco systems - a group of organisms that live together and rely on each other for survival

• Pollinators - animals that spread pollen, like bees.

• Magnitude - importance

• Breeding - making babies 

•  Ensured - make sure. 100% gonna happen.

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Summary of ideas: 

Paragraph one -  organisms/living things came out of the water. Life emerged from the ocean nearly 3 and a half billion years ago.The Earth was covered in plants (vegetation). Different species of animals/organisms evolved over millions of years in different habitats. 

Paragraph two - Animals that are predators have less babies, less often, (E.g. humans mostly have one baby at a time) because they will survive. Animals that are prey, have more babies/eggs, more often, because their babies/eggs will get eaten by predators. For example, glow worms lay eggs in batches of  30. When the first egg hatches, that worm eats its siblings as its first food source.

Paragraph three - Animals live in ecosystems, which is like a web or team where all the organisms rely on each other to survive. Some animals eat each other  (predator and prey), some trees are homes for animals, some fungi rot the leaves that fall from trees and feed nutrients back into the ground.

Paragraph four - Humans are destroying the planet through pollution, cutting down trees (deforestation) and putting bad gases into the air. We will have lots of animals/species either by killing them or destroying their habitats. Scientists predict that within 30 years, ⅕ of all species on Earth will be extinct.

Paragraph five/six  - In a rush to improve our own lives, humans have damaged the planet forever. Species that go extinct can never be brought back to life.