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Viewing Guide: An Inconvenient Truth

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Environmental Science
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climate change
Environment
Climatology
global warming
Greenhouse gases
Climate history
An Inconvenient Truth
Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere
Carbon dioxide
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Global warming controversy

Viewing Guide ? An Inconvenient Truth 1. According to Al Gore, why do good people in politics not accept global warming as a ?truth?? (Think about this throughout the video.) 2. Why is the earth?s atmosphere the planet?s most vulnerable component? 3. What causes global warming? 4. What has happened to carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere since the 1960?s? 5. What has happened to glaciers around the world over the last 30-40 years? 6. How have previous warming periods in the last 1,000 years compared with the present warming? 7. What is the relationship between global temperatures and carbon dioxide levels? 8. How do current carbon dioxide levels compare with any other time in the last 650

APES 10th edition Chapter 18 questions

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Environmental Science
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Environment
Waste management
sustainability
Waste
Anaerobic digestion
Environmental soil science
Landfill
Leachate
Municipal solid waste
Resource recovery
Compost
Food waste

Chris Nowak 3/22/13 Ch. 18 Paper, yard waste, metals, plastics, food wastes, glass, wood, rubber, other. 30.6% recycling, 14% combustion, 55.4% landfills leachate generation and groundwater contamination, methane production, incomplete decomposition, settling. The things listed above damage and harm the environment. For example, groundwater contamination lessens the availability for drinking water. Everyone wants to get rid of the waste, but nobody wants to take the waste. We must recycle more and conserve our resources. Good: Easy conversion, lessens weight, and resource recovery.?Bad: Air and odor pollutant, wastes energy and resources.

The Emergence of Early Human Communities and the People of the Earth (Timeline)

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World History
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Hominina
Biology
Transitional fossils
Cenozoic
Zoology
Pleistocene extinctions
Prehistoric Africa
Human Evolution
Australopithecus afarensis
Homo
Ardipithecus
Australopithecus
Environment

The Emergence of Early Human Communities and the People of the Earth (ca. 5 million B.C.E. - 10,000 B.C.E.) BIG BANG SOLAR SYSTEM AND EARTH LIKELY APPEARANCE OF FIRST HUMAN- LIKE SPECIES ARDIPITECUS RAMIDUS, "ARDI," EARLIEST KNOWN BIPEDAL HOMINIDS AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS, "LUCY" HOMO HABILIS, THE "TOOLMAKER," AND BEGINNING OF THE ICE AGES HOMO ERECTUS AND MIGRATION OUT OF AFRICA HOMO SAPIENS AND LANGUAGE HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS OR MODERN HUMANS HOMO SPAIENS SAPIENS REMAINS FOUND OVER LARGE AREAS 14 billion years ago 5-6 billion B.C.E. 6 million B.C.E. 4.4 million B.C.E. 3.9 million B.C.E. 2.5 million B.C.E. 1.8 million B.C.E. 400,000 B.C.E. 135,000 B.C.E. 100,000 B.C.E.

Part 2 Biology Revision Notes for AQA GCSE A/A*

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Biology
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Medicine
Anaerobic digestion
nutrition
metabolism
Biomass
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Biogas
Glucose
homeostasis
Carbon dioxide
health
Environment

B3.3 Keeping internal conditions constant 3.1 Controlling internal condition Keeping the conditions in the in the body within a narrow range is called homeostasis. Temperature, blood glucose, water and ion content and levels of waste products must all be controlled Waste products that have to be removed include; CO2 (produced by respiration) removed by the lungs urea (produced in the liver when amino acids are broken down) removed by the kidneys and temporarily stored in the bladder Water and ions enter the body when we eat and drink. If the water or ion content in the body is wrong, too much water may move into or out of the cells. This could damage or destroy the cells 3.2 The human kidney

sun/earth/moon notes

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Physics
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Astrology
Astronomy
Eclipses
Phases of the Moon
Observational astronomy
Lunar phase
Moon
Full moon
Solar eclipse
Eclipse
Lunar eclipse
New moon
Environment
Technology
religion
Human Interest

Moon-Earth System When looking at the moon, if the bright side fits in your right hand it is waxing, if it fits in your left hand it is waning. I. Moon Movements A. Rotation Moon turns on axis a. Creates Moon?s day and night Takes 27 1/3 Earth days B. Revolution Moon?s orbital path around Earth a. Creates Moon?s year Takes 27 1/3 Earth days Because rotation/revolution cycles are identical, some side of Moon always faces Earth a. Sun does strike all parts of moon C. Moon Phases Gradual change in appearance of Moon a. Arrangement of Sun, Earth, Moon results in phases Phase month is 29 ? days ? a. Extra time caused by Earth?s orbit around Sun b. 2 plus days needed to get Sun, Earth, Moon lined up c. 13 lunar cycles in our year

Research Paper Final Draft on fracking

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US Gov and Politics
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Hydraulic fracturing
Shale gas
Geography of the United States
geology
Proppants and fracking fluids
Natural gas
Frack
Marcellus Formation
Regulatory capture
energy
Hydraulic fracturing in the United States
Environment
Business

Parker Bell English Period 7 Research Paper: Fracking Hydraulic fracking, or fracking, is a process of extracting oil and natural gas from deep underground shale formations. These resources accessed by fracking could not be accessed by any other available method currently known, making it a very important practice for all drilling companies. However, it has still received heavy public criticism for its impact on the environment. This paper will argue that, although it may cause some environmental damage, fracking is a necessary evil so that companies can fully use the oil and natural gas rigs that they already have in place.

Climate Change

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Environmental Science
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Atmospheric sciences
Effects of global warming
Environment
earth
Climate history
Climate
Rain
Current sea level rise
Precipitation
Regional effects of global warming
Physical impacts of climate change

Climate Change IPCC- established in 1988, intergovernmental panel on climate change. 2500 climate scientists, producing reports every six or so years projecting where we are in terms of the environment. Last one was in 2007 Each time a report is produced, scientists are more convinced that climate change is happening and can be attributed to human activity. -Difference between climate variability and climate change, you can get a cold year in the middle of a warming period, but the broader scale is climate change. -2-11.5? higher temperature by 2100. Can?t get it to an exact number because unless you are 100% certain, you really can?t be sure that anything will happen. Depends on CO2 emissions, parts of the globe,

Magnuson Stevens Act

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Environmental Science
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Fishing
fish
Fisheries
Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
Environment
Seafood
Ichthyology
Sustainable fisheries

The Magnuson- Stevens Act Tessa and Mallory Actually the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Sets up eight Regional Fishery Management Councils that work to manage their regions? fisheries. Enacted in 1976 when the issue of foreign fishers depleting US fish supplies came to surface Mostly known for the regulation saying that only US fishing boats could fish within 200 miles of our shore Annual Catch Limits (known as ACLs) were put up to ensure that fish supplies were not depleted too much, or beyond repair, in a single year. The ACL also limited sale, catch and transport of some specific fishes. Acceptable Biological Catches (ABCs) are very similar to ACLs; they regulate fish catch amounts. The MSA also regulated fishing equipment/technology, and vessel permits.

APES Environmental Law Review

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Environmental Science
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Environment of the United States
Environment
Air pollution in the United States
88th United States Congress
Clean Air Act
Climate change in the United States
Endangered Species Act
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Hunting
Grazing
Pollutant
united states

Environmental Legislation - APES Review Sheets Based on Miller's 11th Edition of Living in the Environment from Ben Smith, Palos Verdes High School ? NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) -Requires an environmental statement (E.I.S.) for any project which receives federal funding. Energy Policy Act (1992) -Extends tax benefits to solar and wind energy industries. Provides a subsidy ($.015 per. kwh) to utilities for electricity provided by using renewable resources.?

Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections, and Solutions, 16th Edition Summary

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Environmental Science
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Environment
earth
water
Aquatic ecology
water pollution
environmental science
Environmental engineering
Environmental soil science
pollution
Environmental policy of the United States
biodiversity
Phytoremediation

Chapter 2 Science, Systems, Matter, and Energy Summary 1. Science is an attempt to discover the natural world?s order and use that in describing what is likely to happen in nature. Scientists ask a question or identify a problem to investigate. Then, they collect scientific data through observation and measurement. Experiments may be used to study specific phenomena. 2. The major components of complex systems are environmental inputs, flows within the system, and outputs to the environment. 3. The basic forms of matter are elements and compounds. Matter is useful to us as a resource because it makes up every material substance. 4. The major forms of energy are kinetic energy and potential energy. Energy is useful to us as a resource because it moves matter.

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