AP Environmental Science (Period Per. 1) Assignments

Please complete and return the Whole Foods Final Field Trip Permission Form.  If you misplaced your form, you can find another form attached below.

 

See instructions for the written report and the display on the document linked below.

Also linked below is the rubric for the Final Presentation

Also linked below is the rubric for the Vermiculture Lab Analysis

Be prepared to present the "Making Your Case" part of your Final Project.  Please name your project presentation starting with the number of your period, then your topic name and then the last name of one person in your group. (1PlasticWielenga) Please submit your presentation in the shared google folder linked below:

 

The rubric for presentation 1 "Making Your Case"  has been linked below

This is the DAY.  The AP Environmental Science Test will be given this morning.

Check my website for review information.

 

You must know the following:

If you are not taking the test you will be taking an AP Style test (WAPES) in your regularly scheduled class either Monday or Tuesday (5/2 even or 5/3 odd)  You should be prepared for the test.  It will count toward your grade.

Second Semester Final Multiple Choice

The test will cover the following topic areas from this semester:

Use the the following to prepare for the second semester final

1. Your test corrections
2. Your study guides
3. Chapter Powerpoints (Find them by scrolling through past test dates)
4. Review topic sheet attached below

The FRQ for the second semester final will have the following parts:

Part 1: Students will complete a calculation on energy or populations

Part 2: For one source of energy we studied, find the following:

Part 3: For one of the topic areas

Part 4: For ONE topic area

 

Topic areas for second semester:

• Population
• Atmosphere
• Agriculture and Nutrition
• Resource Management
• Energy

Test on energy chapters 19, 20, 21

This topic has many possible FRQ's  Some are document based (DBQ's) and others are math based. 

 

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/exam/exam_information/2003.html

DBQ

• 1998-2 Nuclear Power
• 2004-3 Radioactive Waste
• 2005-3 Coal mining
• 2006-1 Solar Power
• 2012-1 Fossil Fuels vs Nuclear Power
• 2014-1 Nuclear Power

• 2000-1 Power and BTU
• 2001-1 Heating and BTU
• 2002-1 Electric Cars
• 2004-2 Coal Power Plant
• 2005-4 ANWR
• 2007-2 Home water and energy
• 2008-1 Biodiesel
• 2009-2 Methane Digesters and Electricity
• 2011-3 Electricity and Power
• 2012-2 Alternative Energy and Forests
• 2013-2 Electric Vehicles

WARNING: This assignment will take two days to complete so you must not wait until the night it is due!

 

Complete the home energy audit attached.

Read chapter 21 and complete the attached study guide

Read Chapter 20 and complete the attached study guide

Read chapter 19 and answer the attached study guide questions

Test on Resource Management

Possible FRQ's

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/exam/exam_information/2003.html#name05

• 2005 #3 Coal mine restoration
• 2006 #4 Fishing
• 2008 #3 Forests
• 2011 #2 Coral Reefs

Complete the following TWO Study Guides

Complete the following TWO Study Guides

Complete Mining Study Guide (Understanding Mining)
You can use the internet or the attached information pages

Read the information sheet on soil and answer the questions at the end of the reading

 

Continue Presentations

Read Ch10 GMO

Study Guide Ch 10  Read pages273-280 to answer questions 15-34

Continue Presentations

Ch 10 Reading and Study Guide

Read pages 263-272 for questions 1-14 and  pages 280-289 for questions 35-44

Begin Presentations

You should complete your Spring Report Research and Presentation.  The instructions can be found at the following link:

 

Presentations will be given in the order on the sign up sheets and the presentations will start the week of Feb. 27

 

1. Bring two, 2 liter plastic bottles per group.  The bottles should be clear (not green)
2. Read Chapter 9 pp234-241

•  Answer questions 1-33 on the study guide.

 

Test on Populations

 

• FRQ’s
• 2000 #4 Age Structure Diagrams
• 2003 #2 Population Rates
• 2008 #4 Population totals

• Read Ch8 Human Populations
• Complete Ch8 study guide (4-25)

• Read the pages in Chapter 5 on Population Ecology (pp125-136)
• Answer study guide questions on Chapter 5 (1-14) and
• Read pp 207-2113 in Chapter 8
• Answer study guide questions on Chapter 8 (1-3)
• Be prepared for quiz

Test on Chapter 7 Air Pollution

Review the Following FRQ's

• 1999 #3 Air Pollution graph
• 2001 #3 air pollutants and effects, sick building syndrome
• 2007 #3 Destruction of stratospheric ozone
• 2007 #4 Outdoor air pollution and temperature
• 2013#3 Ozone, Montreal Protocol

AP Link: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/exam/exam_information/2003.html

Quiz on Big 6

Read pp 494-500 about indoor air pollution.

Answer study guide questions 58-65.

Quiz on Science of Atmosphere.

Read pages 480 to 494.   Be sure to read the insert about CFCs on Page 490

Answer questions 18-57 in the Study Guide

Quiz on Controlled Experiment.

Read Pages 473 - 480.  Be sure to read the case study about the Killer London Fog

Complete Study Guide Questions 1-17

 

 

First Semester Final

To prepare for the final, you should review the following:

Study for test on Chapter 22 Waste Management and Wastewater treatment.

Read the rest of Chapter 22 on Municipal Solid waste and answer questions 40-58 on the study guide.

Complete Part 4 of Green Holiday. 

Be sure to find a way to show evidence of your efforts to reduce your holiday impact on the environment.

Also, include a short reflection paragraph explaining the how the effort turned out (Good and/or bad)

 

Zero Waste Homework

Watch the following videos and answer the questions below

• Subaru Zero waste facility 7 min
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOGI5WnPLZk

• Subaru Plant manager talks about zero waste factory 13 min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0dUIokVcDc

• Shocking Scale of Waste and the myth of recycling 5min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTgTWLYCeOU

• A town that is almost zero waste 5 min
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eym10GGidQU

1. List three things you learned about zero waste from these videos.
2. What do you think about (the content of) these video clips? (Make at least two comments)
3. Ask at least two questions you might ask the people in any of these videos?

Read pp 630 to 644 on Municipal Solid waste and answer questions 1-39 on the study guide.

As you get ready for the holiday season you should know that the traditions of this season often have negative impacts on the environment.  In this assignment you will explore the impacts you are having and propose ways to mitigate these impacts.

 

You will complete parts 1, 2  and 3 for homework.  Part 4 will be due later.

 

Test on Chapter 14 Toxicology

 

Turn in Final Draft of your Arroyo Stream Report.  It must include a title page, introduction, research and analysis of each parameter/test and an overall conclusion

 

Read the second half of chapter 14 and answer study guide questions 21-43.

Read Chapter 14

Turn in one completed analysis of the Arroyo Water Quality Project (Include the Research and the Data Analysis-results, meaning, graphs, precision, accuracy)

 

Test on Chapter 18 Climate Change

 

Global Warming FRQ choices

Go to the following page and review the questions and scoring guides for the following FRQ’s

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/exam/exam_information/2003.html

 2002 #4 El Nino

2006 #2 Atmospheric CO2

2008 #1 Biofuels

2009 #3 questions d and e Colorado River

2010 #2 Termites

2010 #4 Estuaries

2011 #2 Coral Reefs

2013 #2 Electric Vehicles (Math)

Also, you will find a review worksheet attached.  It is not required to be completed but many students find the review worksheets a useful study tool.

 

 

Practice the following FRQ possibilities for the test.  You won't have to turn them in but the next class period is the only time you can ask questions about them.  Be sure to check out the sample student responses.

 

Global Warming FRQ choices

Go to the following page and review the questions and scoring guides for the following FRQ’s

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/exam/exam_information/2003.html

 2002 #4 El Nino

2006 #2 Atmospheric CO2

2008 #1 Biofuels

2009 #3 questions d and e Colorado River

2010 #2 Termites

2010 #4 Estuaries

2011 #2 Coral Reefs

Read pp 512-536 on the Response to Climate Change
Answer Questions 41-60 on the Study Guide

Read pp512-529 on the Evidence and Impacts of Climate Change and answer questions 27 - 40 on the Study Guide

Read pages 504-511 on the Introduction to Climate

 

Test on Chapter 15 Freshwater Resources

Don't forget your bike and helmet for our second day of stream study.

 

Your homework for tonight is

Link to google spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iPeFuWUIrKbOwq3FZRBo94qgVXf-i8rSqWCYnBlgM08/edit#gid

Make sure your bike is working and your tires are sound.

Don't forget a Helmet!!!

 

Complete research on your water quality parameters (tests) that you selected in class.  You should have a page for each parameter.  Your explanations do not have to take up the entire page.  Be concise with supporting details. You are to answer the questions:

Be sure to explain why each parameter (test) is important by providing the following details:

1. the impact of the parameter on humans

2. the impact of the parameter on the ecosystem

3. the impact of the parameter on other tests.

4 The desired qualitative or quantitative limits or ranges, including units.

 

 

The information sheets we used in class can be found at this page: http://www.sphstigers.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=436484&type=u&pREC_ID=662787. 

You are also welcome to research the information from other sources, but it is not required.

Complete the Attached Assignment on the Delta Smelt Controversy

Read Chapter 15 pp427-449 and answer study guide questions 47 -72.  Be sure to print out the answers.

 

Check to make sure you have a HELMET!

Read Chapter 15 pp418-427  and answer study guide questions 28-46.  Be sure to print out these answers and bring them to class.

 

If you haven't turned in your field trip form, turn it in!

 

Don't forget to check your bike tires, brakes and chains!

Read sections

• Part 1. Read the Central Case: Plumbing the Colorado River.
  Write a paragraph that summarizes the cause of the conflicts over Colorado River water.
• Part 2. Read the section on Freshwater Systems (pp 413-418) and answer study guide questions 1-27.  Be sure to print out your study guide answers for this section and bring them to class with you.
  
• Turn in Field Trip Form for the Arroyo Field Trip.  If you have lost your form, I have attached the form below.  Be sure you choose the appropriate form (ODD or EVEN)

Test on Chapter 11

 

I have also included a study outline and a review sheet

Complete the activity on "Taking Action to Protect Biodiversity"

 

 

Endangered Species Report and Flier

Read the attached report instructions.  You will use the IUCN redlist website to answer questions on the report. 

Read Chapter 11 310-323

Complete Study Guide 27-46

Read Chapter 11 pp294-310

Answer study guide questions 1-26

Test on Chapters 5,6,&7

Complete the Invasive Species Report.  Choose any invasive species from the list (also attached).

 

Read chapter 5 and complete the attached study guide questions.

Be prepared for a quiz on the  phosphorus and hydrologic cycles.

Complete Study Guide on Chapter 6 attached below

 

Study for quiz on Nitrogen Cycle

Begin the Study Guide on Chapter 6 attached below

Policy And Regulation Report

You are to research an environmental law, treaty, or regulation.  You should have selected the law, treaty or regulation in class.

You will make 3 products: An information sheet, a story, and an answer sheet for your story.

Read Chapter 3 and Complete Study Guide

Read Chapter 3 and complete the study guide.  You do not have to define the terms but you should know them.

This is the third and final chapter we will cover in this first unit.

Read Chapter 2 and Complete Study Guide

Read the introduction to Chapter 2 on the Jabaluka Mine and write down 3 discussion-starting questions or opinions .

Read the chapter and complete the attached Chapter 2 Study Guide Questions.  Do not define the terms but you should know them.  Be sure to give examples when asked.

Read Chapter 1 and Complete Study Guide

Read Chapter 1 of your textbook and answer the study guide questions.

Be sure to answer each question in a complete sentence and be sure to give examples or explain when the question demands it.

You can download the word document and type your answers on the document.

Please try to print out your answers double sided to save paper.

If you don't know the answer to any question you can ask it in class before you turn it in and still get full credit.

You don't have to write down the definition to the terms but you should be able to define each term and give an example of each.  You should be prepared for a quiz on any of the terms or questions in the study guide.

Also: Be sure to read the inset article on Easter Island

Read "Tragedy of the Commons" and Eutrophication Test

Download and print out the PDF: Tragedy of the commons -- please  try to print double sided.

Read the article and highlight  5-10 passages that are meaningful, provocative,  or worthy of class discussion.  Write 5-10 comments on the margins (or on a separate paper) about your thoughts on the passages.

Be prepared to discuss your analysis and opinions in class.

Test: Be prepared to explain the process of Eutrophication