Assignment from Environmental Science class

Principles of Environmental Science Name:

Homework Set #3: Chapter and Additional Questions – 34 points

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Homework - look at the schedule on first page of syllabus for DUE dates. Once your homework is completed, you will email to me at/before the due time/day. No more than a day ahead of time. If you use a Mac/Apple you will need to save as a PDF, then email to me.

NOTE: Homework will not be accepted after the due date.

NOTE: you must do your own work! 

IMPORTANT: I DO NOT TOLERATE CHEATING! If you are caught cheating (plagiarizing or copying from current or past student, using cell phone, copying from the Internet) on homework or exams you will receive a zero points for that exam or homework. All cheating will be reported and additional disciplinary action may be taken. DO YOUR OWN WORK!!!!

The Internet is a good resource to answer some of these questions if you cannot find in Lecture Book or Lecture Notes – NOTE you must write in your own words – DO NOT COPY AND PASTE!!

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Chapter #12 – 5 points: (Type your answers in RED!!!!!)

1. How does tectonic plate movement create ocean basins, midocean ridges, and volcanoes?

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2. What is the “ring of fire”?

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3. Describe the processes and components of the rock cycle.

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4. What is the difference between metals and nonmetal mineral resources?

5. What is a mineral and a rock? Why are pure metals not minerals?

6. Which countries are the single greatest producers of our major metals?

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7. Describe some of the mining, processing, and drilling methods that can degrade water or air quality.

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8. Compare the different mining methods of underground, openpit, strip, and placer mining, as well as mountaintop removal.

9. What resources, aside from minerals themselves, can be saved by recycling?

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11. What is mass wasting? Give three examples and explain why they are a problem.

12. Why is building on barrier islands risky?

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13. What is a floodplain? Why is building on floodplains controversial?

14. Describe the processes of chemical weathering and mechanical weathering.

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Chapter #13 – 5 points: (Type your answers in RED!!!!!)

2. Define energy, power, and kilowatt-hour (kWh).

3. What are the major sources of global commercial energy?

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4. How does energy consumption in the United States compare to that in other countries?

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5. Why don’t we want to use all the coal in the ground?

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6. Where is most liquid oil located and how long are supplies likely to last?

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7. What are tar sands and oil shales? What are the environmental costs of their extraction?

8. How are nuclear wastes now being stored?

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9. Explain how concentrating solar power (CSP) works.

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10. How do photovoltaic cells work?

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Chapter #14 – 5 points: (Type your answers in RED!!!!!)

1. Explain the basic process of producing methane biogas from organic waste.

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2. What are solid wastes and hazardous wastes? What is the difference between them?

3. Describe the difference between an open dump, a sanitary landfill, and a modern secure hazardous waste disposal site.

4. Describe some concerns about waste incineration.

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5. List some benefits and drawbacks of recycling wastes. Click here to enter text.

What are the major types of materials recycled from municipal waste, and how are they used? List 3:

6. What is e-waste? How is most of it disposed of, and what are some strategies for improving recycling rates?

7. What is composting, and how does it fit into solid waste disposal?

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8. What materials are most recycled in the United States (based on how much is produced and how much of it is recycled)? List 6:

9. What are brownfields, and why do cities want to redevelop them?

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10. What are bioremediation and phytoremediation? What are some advantages to these methods?

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Chapter #15 – 5 points: (Type your answers in RED!!!!!)

1. How many people now live in urban areas?

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2. How many cities were over 1 million in 1900? How many are now?

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3. Why do people move to urban areas?

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4. What is the difference between a shantytown and a slum?

5. Define sprawl.

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6. In what ways are cities ecosystems?

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7. Define smart growth.

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8. Describe a “green” roof.

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10. Define sustainable development.

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11. Briefly summarize the differences in how neoclassical and ecological economics view natural resources.

12. What is the estimated economic value of all the world’s ecological services?

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13. How is it that nonrenewable resources can be extended indefinitely, while renewable resources are exhaustible?

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Chapter #16 – 5 points: (Type your answers in RED!!!!!)

1. What is a policy? How are policies formed?

2. Describe three important provisions of NEPA.

3. List four important U.S. environmental laws (besides NEPA), and briefly describe what each does.

4. Why are international environmental conventions and treaties often ineffective? What can make them more successful?

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5. Why is the U.S. Supreme Court case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission controversial?

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6. List two broad goals of environmental education identified by the National Environmental Education Act.

7. What is citizen science, and what are some of its benefits? Describe one such important project.

8. List 10 things each of us could do to help preserve our common environment.

9. Describe some things schools and students have done to promote sustainable living.

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10. Define sustainability and describe some of its principal tenets.

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Additional Study Questions – 9 points: (you may use the internet to help you answer – please type in your own words):

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1. Explain the differences between the following types of rocks and give an example of each: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.

2. What is the rock cycle?

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3. How is igneous intrusive different from igneous extrusive? Give an example of each.

4. List in order the 4 largest oil rich nations in the world.

5. Explain what a strategic metal and/or mineral (give 3 examples) and how does it correlate with a countries economic geology.

6. Identity the 7 main pollutants release (from the most to the least) when coal is burned for energy.

7. Most people do not know that we get most of our oil from Canada's tar sands. Identify the environmental costs for removing oil from Canada's tar sands. What are your feelings about the Keystone Pipeline?

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8. How does a nuclear reactor work?

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What subatomic particle is used?

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What do we do with all the nuclear waste?

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9. Identify the differences between renewable and nonrenewable resources and give 3 examples of each. What federal agency primarily manages renewable resources and what federal agency primarily manages nonrenewable resources (I will only except answers from Chapter 16 PowerPoint lecture)?

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