Editing CW5-2391

==Looking at Maps==
Using the online map source from '''National Geographic''', found at
[http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/conservationmaps.html MapMachine].

Answer the following questions about major ecosystems, soils, climates, and populations.

There are three zoom modes to use to answer these questions; world-view, US-view, and Southern Illinois view.  You may copy this page's source to start your work if you like.

==''Click'' "Major Habitat types"==
===1) Do these major ecosystems of the world match what you have already learned so far about biomes?===

*Yes

===2) What does ''National Geographic'' call these regions? What region(s) are in Southern Illinois?===

*They call the regions ecoregions: habitat types. In the southern most part of Illinois ther are mostly temperate broadleaf forests and above that there are temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands.

==''Click'' "Vegetation"==
===3) What vegetation types are in Southern Illinois?===

*There are mountain vegetation of broad-leafed forest, broad-leafed deciduous forests with evergreen elements, mountain vegatation of forest-steppe and steppe, broad-leafed deciduous and pine hemixerophyyic forest, and mountain vegetation of subboreal forest.


==''Click'' "Natural Landscapes"==
===4) What landscape types are in Southern Illinois?===



==''Click'' "Soil Types"==
===5) What soil types are in Southern Illinois?===



==''Click'' "Population Density"==
===5) What are the population densities in Southern Illinois?===



===6) What are the population densities in the Everglades region?===



===7) What are the population densities Near New Orleans?===



===8) How do each of these poulation densities compare? Do you think they correctly depict the poulations in those areas?===



==''Click'' "Flood Regions"==
===9) Near New Orleans, compare this map to the population densities and explain what you find.===



===10) Overview: Pick a region-Southern Illinois, New Orleans, or Everglades and discuss the possible problems of assigning a single zone type to each of these smaller regions by comparing each of the map types above.===



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