AP-Environmental SciencePost Date: June 7, 2010
AP Environmental Science Spring Break Assignment Assigned: March 17, 2010 Due: April 6, 2010 I. Answer the following questions from Chapter 22, pages 560-591 a. How have human activities affected the earth’s biodiversity? b. Are human activities causing an extinction crisis? c. Why should we care about biodiversity and species extinction? d. What human activities endanger wildlife? e. How can we prevent premature extinction of species? f. How can we manage game animals more sustainable? Pg 577,Connections: Deliberate Introduction of the Kudzu Vine, answer critical thinking question II. Answer the following questions from Chapter 23, pages 594-631 a. How is land used in the world and in the United States? b. What are the major types of public lands in the United States, and how are they used? c. Why are forest resources important and how are they used and managed in the world and in the United States? d. Are tropical deforestation and fuel wood shortages serious problems? If so, what can we do about them? e. What problems do parks face, and how should we manage them? f. How should we establish, design, protect, and manage terrestrial nature reserves? g. What is ecological restoration, and why is it important? III. Answer the following questions from Chapter 24, pages 634 –657 a. What are three (or more) things that have put Lake Victoria, in East Africa, in ecological trouble? Pg 634 b. What is aquatic biodiversity and what is its economic and ecological importance? c. How are human activities affecting aquatic biodiversity? d. How can we manage and sustain the world’s marine fisheries? e. How can we protect, sustain, and restore wetlands? f. How can we protect, sustain, and restore lakes, rivers, and freshwater fisheries? IV. Answer the following questions from Chapter 25, pages 660 – 686 a. How is the world’s population distributed between rural and urban areas, and what factors determine how urban areas develop? b. What are the major resource and environmental problems of urban areas? c. How do transportation systems shape urban areas and growth, and what are the pros and cons of various forms of transportation? d. What methods are used for planning and controlling urban growth? e. How can cities be made more sustainable and more desirable places to live?
List three (3) advantages and three (3) disadvantages for each of the following forms of renewable energy: Solar Power –passive Solar Power -active Wind Power Hydroelectric power Solid Biomass Hydrogen as a fuel Geothermal Energy Straw Bale Houses Micropower systems List three (3) advantages List three (3) advantages of reducing energy waste Homework: Starting page 328 through end of Ch. 14 (14.6-14.9) Due: Tuesday, February 23 1. What are the pros and cons of cloud seeding? Iceberg towing? 2. What are the 3 major causes of water waste? Describe each cause. 3. Define: doctrine of riparian rights, principle of prior appropriation, and common law (for groundwater). 4. List and describe 5 ways to waste less water in irrigation and include their efficiency. 5. What might inhibit farmers from using irrigation techniques that save water? 6. What is xeriscaping and what are its benefits? 7. Look at figure 14-19, pg 331. Choose 5 and explain why each of those 5 selected methods reduces water waste. 8. Figure 14-20. List three methods of reducing water waste in industries, homes, and business that you think would be the most effective and explain why. 9. What are 4 major advantages of living on a floodplain? 10. List and briefly describe 5 ways humans can reduce flood risks.
•Reliable runoff •Watershed/drainage basin •Groundwater •Zone of saturation •Water table •Zone of aeration •Recharge area •Natural recharge •Lateral recharge •Discharge area •Desalination •Distillation •Reverse osmosis •brine •Consumptive water use •Water stress •Desiccation •Water scarcity •Water table lowering •Aquifer depletion •Aquifer subsidence •Saltwater intrusion •Drawing of chemical contamination in groundwater toward wells •Reduced stream flow •Cone of depression •Groundwater overdraft
Assignments: Page 312: Water and Grain Import Wars in the Middle East Discuss each of the following countries claims on water: Egypt, Sudan, and Ehtiopia What problem does Israel have with Syria? Why should Iraq be concerned with the building of Turkey’s 24 dams? What rivers are involved? What are grain-import economic wars? List the pros and cons for each of the following and using the internet, what is the current data/status on/of these projects : List web pages used for each. China’s Three Gorges Dam, page 320-321 Egypt’s Aswan High Dam, pg. 321 Colorado River Basin, pg 322 California Water Project, pg 322-3 James Bay Watershed Transfer Project, pg 323 Aral Sea Water Transfer Disaster, pg 324 Answer the critical thinking questions following each of these readings and, using the internet, what is/are their current state/plans for conservation/sustainability?: Ogalalla Aquifer, page 327 Las Vegas, pg 334 Answer the critical thinking questions for: Bangladesh, pg 335 And What is the geography like in the Himalayan Watershed?
Test Friday, Feb 5 Ch 13 & 20
Endangered Species Act/ESA
Marine Mammal Protection Act—protection and conservation of marine mammals
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species/CITES
Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Management and Conservation Act (Magnuson Act)—establishes Regional Fisheries Management Councils that set quotas, size limits, and seasons; establishes 200-mile fishing area; protects essential habitat; rebuilds overfished stocks; minimizes bycatch
UN Law of the Seas—individual countries have jurisdiction over Exclusive Economic Zones (200 miles off shore) and sovereignty over the sea bed 12 miles offshore; allows for Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) in which allocated quotas can be sold to others
International Whaling Commission/International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling—regulates the species that can be harvested and sets quotas on the number of cetaceans that can be harvested
Other U.S. and International Laws and Regulations Accepted: The Oceans Act of 2000—establishes a presidential commission to examine federal ocean policies and programs; promotes protection of marine environment and prevention of marine pollution
U.S. Whale Conservation and Protection Act—prohibits the harvesting of whales in U.S. waters
Marine Sanctuaries Act-protects the habitat of marine organisms and protects the animals from being harvested in that area
post date: 2/3/10• • Chapters 13 & 20 •(added chapter 20) •HW:•Due Thurs, Feb 4 •Quest. 2,4-9, pg 523 •Remember: Bring book to class in case we have extra time, you can work on HW Happy Snow Day!!! If you are reading this you are in luck! (see notice at end of announcement) The Chapter 13 test scheduled for tomorrow, Feb. 2, is postponed to Feb. 3. Tomorrow, Feb. 2 will be for review. Remember your assignment: Make a concept map of Chapter 13. This assignment is now due on Feb. 2. ** You will receive extra credit, for reading this notice, if you put a star in the bottom, right-hand corner of your concept map. *** Enjoy your day off and remember to do something good for the environment! Recycle, turn down the heat, take shorter showers, etc.................................... |
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