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AP Environmental Science Chapter 18 Questions and Answers

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Chapter 18 1. Know about the Asian Brown Cloud 2. Know the layers of the atmosphere and how they are divided 3. Where does weather occur? 4. Where do weather balloons go? 5. What are VOC?s? 6. How are VOC?s classified? 7. Where is photochemical smog likely to occur? 8. Who is vulnerable to air pollution? 9. What does formaldehyde cause? 10. What are the 4 most dangerous indoor air pollutants? 11. How do experts rate indoor air pollution? 12. What is sick building syndrome? 13. What is a temperature inversion? 14. What is gray air smog? 15. What is radon and how is it harmful? 16. What are national ambient air quality standards? 17. How has the combined emissions of the six major air pollutants decreased?

Fossil Fuel Use

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environmental science and policy

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ENSP102: Intro to Environmental Policy Prof. Joanna Goger (focused on environmental law in law school) TA: Kelly Boeckl Ella Clarke: can contact with questions, runs review sections 1/24/13 Overview of Today?s Material: What environmental problems do we face? Top environmental stories of 2012 What is environmental policy? Who are the players? How are problems defined and solutions formulated? What are the most pressing environmental problems today?: Global warming/climate change Trash per population Population growth Waste/trash Depletion of resources (fresh water, for example) Soil erosion Agriculture Deforestation Sea level rise Endangered species and biodiversity loss Habitat loss Ocean acidification Air quality Water and land pollution

Biomass Powerpoint

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environmental science biomass powerpoint how does it work

Biomass ? Organic Matter One of our oldest energy sources. Gets energy from the sun-photosynthesis Renewable Three types are used today Wood and agriculture products Solid Waste Landfill gas and biogas What is it? ? How Does it Work? ? Mainly used for Electricity - 14% Heat- 1/10th of homes Fuels - 15% Industrial - 55% What Does it Do? ? Can be sustainable Paper and saw mills But? Like anything can be overused Cost How Realistic is it? ? Promising Comes from many different sources Usually our waste Can be used for a lot Has a few disadvantages Releases carbon dioxide Future? ? What is the purpose that biomass is used for the most? Where does biomass get its energy from? Is biomass better environmentally and economically than coal? How?

Biomass

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Biomass It is any organic matter; wood, crops, seaweed, animal wastes It?s one of our oldest energy sources People have always used wood for heat and cooking It gets its energy from the sun through photosynthesis. It is a renewable resource There are three main types that we used today. Wood and agriculture products Wood accounts for 46% of biomass energy Other sources are fruit pits and corn cobs Many wood using companies are seeing the benefit of using scraps for power Saves money Reduces wastes Pulp and paper mills use biomass to meet 63% of their energy needs Solid wastes Burning trash 1 ton of garbage contains as much heat energy as 500 pounds of coal Reduces amount of trash dumped into landfills by 60-90% Landfill gas and biogas

Cp 3 Ecosystems

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Cp. 3 Living in the environment

Cp 3 Ecosystems, What are they and How do They Work? p. 62 1. Define biomass 2. Give an everyday example. 3. Because the transfer of energy through the food chains and webs is not very ______________, some chemical energy is lost to the environment as ______-_______ _______. 4. What is ecological efficiency? 5. Give the range and the typical (specify which is which). 6. Prepare an Energy pyramid, start at 100,000 Calories Give all alternative names for each level. p. 63 7. The energy flow pyramids explain what about human populations? 8. About two thirds of the world?s human population survive on which foods? Why? p. 64 9. Why are food chains rarely more than 4 at the most 5 levels? 10. What is Gross primary producitivity? 11. How is it measured?

Geological Time Scale

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geology time scale geologic eon epoch

Eon Era Period Epoch Major Events Phanerozoic Cenozoic Quaternary (0-1.6 million yrs BP) Holocene (Present-10,000 yrs) Modern humans develop. Pleistocene Ice Age Interglacial. Pleistocene (10,000 -1,600,000 yrs) Pleistocene Ice Age. Extinction of many species of large mammals and birds. Tertiary Pliocene (1.6-5.3 million yrs) Development of hominid bipedalism. Cascade Mountains began forming. Climate cooling. Miocene (5.3-24 million yrs) Chimpanzee and hominid lines evolve. Extensive glaciation in Southern Hemisphere. Climate cooling. Oligocene (24-37 million yrs) Browsing mammals and many types of modern plants evolve. Creation of the Alps and Himalaya mountain chains. Volcanoes form in Rocky Mountains. Eocene

Biome Characteristics

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biomes climate terrestrial biodiversity desert forest grassland

Tropical forest Within 23 N/S Canopy 4% of land space, but 20% photosynthesis of the Earth most diverse species on Earth Tall trees- Tropical dry forests Tropical deciduous forests Tropical rain forests Dim floor Epiphytes cover trees Savannas Tropic/subtropic grass land Rainy/dry seasons Scattered trees Mammals move deserts 23 N/S Low/unpredictable rains Hot and cold CAM photosynthesis plants Water storage adaptation Draught-resistant plants chaparral Along coastlines in midlatitudes Mild/rainy winter Hot/dry summer Dense, spiny evergreen shrubs Maintained by periodic fire Temperate grass land NE USA etc Deep and rich soil in nutrition Low total annual rain Inhospitable for forest Maintained by fire/drought/grazing Temperate deciduous forests

Chapter 13 Guided Reading

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Name: Period: Chapter 13 Guided Reading AP Environmental Science ? Mr. Oliphant & Mr. O?Connor (with many questions taken from R. Young ? Kennedy HS) Briefly describe earth's water supply. Compare amounts of salt water and fresh water. Compare amounts of frozen fresh water and water available for human use.

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