Study Guides

Unit 8

Global Issues (habitat loss, species extinctions, climate change and ozone loss)

Chapters 11-13, 21 Test April 1, 2010

Review Questions (due April 1, only awarded 20 points if complete, otherwise, excused)

Unit 8 Assignment (due April 1)

Carbon Footprint Activity

Calculate your carbon footprint here: http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx

1. Record your results for each category. For the home calculation, take the total and divide by the number of people in your home - this is your contribution. Record your total footprint.

2. Record your immediate family results for each category. Record your family total.

3. Summarize your findings. Was your footprint what you expected? What about your family footprint? Did the way the values were calculated seem reasonable? Explain.

4. Visit another site (try perhaps http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/calculator/) and record your results again. Were the results the same? If they weren't, what might account for the differences? In your opinion, which of the two calculators was more accurate? Explain.

5. What are some ways suggested by the websites to offset your carbon footprint?

6. What are some actions you have already taken to reduce your carbon footprint? What are some actions you could take in the future?

Power Point: Global Issues Introduction

Free Response Questions

Here are three questions dealing with species preservation, extinction and climate change. These are from old AP exams. You will see two of these on the April 1st test!

APES/APES2000.pdf (see question #3 on extinction and preservation)

APES/APES2003.pdf (see question #4 on extinction and preservation)

APES/APES2006.pdf (see question #2 on temperature and CO2 levels)

Chapter 11 Readings (habitat loss) Chapter 12 Readings (biodiversity loss)

Catalog List/Junk Mail (recycled content status)

Greenpeace Forest Friendly Toolkit The Extinction of a Species

Boreal Forest Sierra Club: Habitat Loss

Wildlife victims of border fence

Chapter 21 Readings

Ozone: Troposphere and Stratosphere

Unit Readings on Climate Change

Climate Change & Mythology from the University of Oregon Environmental Studies course website

Human Impact on Climate

The Enhanced Greenhouse Effect

Bothun's version of Environmental Mythology

Data Reliability and Myth Suppression

Exxon Misinformation on Climate Change

Glaciers

Who Contributes to Climate Change

Climate Change Evidence

Solar & Fuel Cell Home

The link below is to the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s three ads that aired May 2006 (in response to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth). You can watch them on line. A good example of why critical thinking and analysis of sources/commercials is important.
http://streams.cei.org/

Guest Presentation: Dr. Mark Hixon March 10th, 2009

Climate Change

Global Warming and YOU

Guest Presentation: Dr. Sam Chan March 17th and 19th, 2009

Invasive Species

Ocean Videos web links

Student Script: Invasive Species

Supplemental Material for Invasive Species Talk 2008-2009

Dr. Chan Presentation: Invasive Species

http://www.charlesmann.org/articles/NatGeo-Jamestown-05-07-1.htm

Some examples of the impacts of species and practices introduced to the ecology and European and native American societies of Jamestown.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/jamestown/