​Ideas for Level 4 Investigations
(Included with Lab Books)

Rubric

• Example 1
• Example 2

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Ecology - Suggestions and Idea Links

• Tree stumps that should be dead can be kept alive by nearby trees
• Great Salt Lake's dry lakebed 'big' producer of greenhouse gas emissions, study finds
• Surprise: Bees Need Meat
• Brigham City battles algae on Mantua Reservoir, hopes to avoid another trout kill
• Scientists issue warning after observing troubling behavior shift in coastal bird species: 'Adverse effect[s] ... on its productivity'
• Methane-Producing Microbes Unlike Any Seen Before Found In Yellowstone’s Hot Springs
• Deep-ocean floor produces its own oxygen
• The US government gives nuclear energy a big boost
• Rising seas wiped out an entire US species for the first time. Scientists say it’s a sign of things to come
• A House Cat Was Brought To A Remote Island In 1894—A Year Later A Species Was Extinct
• “Planting parties” at Utah Lake working to rid the lake of invasive phragmites
• Utah has the fourth most toxic chemical releases of any state. The majority come from one source.
• Stop setting your thermostat at 72
• U.S. officials plan to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls to save another species from extinction
• Microplastic Map Reveals Countries Consuming the Most