Wednesday, April 12, 2017

How Your Cat is Making you Crazy

Many people missed Monday due to SBAC testing or other reasons.

Here is a link to an assignment we did.
Read the article and answer the questions on your own paper.  You don't need to answer the last one.
The answers go in your notebook.

Link to Article

Link to Questions

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Air Pollution Video Link

Here's a link to the Bozeman Science Video we watched in Class

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dTtvtlct9k&feature=youtu.be

Here is a link to the Concept Map he used also.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50d5cc57e4b0e383f5b1eb34/t/56c483de8259b5f557f2e151/1455719391024/AP+ES-029+Air+Pollution+CM+PDF.pdf

Reading guides

Here are the first two reading guides for chapters 19 and 20

Chapter 19  due 3/17 and 3/21
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j7wudCc_ov62fG1Lah2ukoD7MuwMVh06IQvo2JrqdPM/edit?usp=sharing

Chapter 20  due 3/23  https://docs.google.com/document/d/18_Tvxl9IEauJmyP_GjIWimqOOVpkHF8jTaPaaPLAMRM/edit?usp=sharing

Vocabulary List Unit 6

Vocab Quiz Wednesday 4/5

Here's a link to the list.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14PTivV3BBDBF1FvxsxmorZPzD9aL8Wgjm-nT8K8YqlU/edit?usp=sharing

Here's a link to flashcards.
http://www.flashcardmachine.com/3551174/c7i9

Pollution Unit

Goals
VI. A.  Pollution Types
1. Air pollution (Sources — primary and secondary; major air pollutants; measurement units; smog; acid deposition — causes and effects; heat islands and temperature inversions; indoor air pollution; remediation and reduction strategies; Clean Air Act and other relevant laws)
2. Noise pollution (Sources; effects; control measures)
3. Water pollution (Types; sources, causes, and effects; cultural eutrophication; groundwater pollution; maintaining water quality; water purification; sewage treatment/septic systems; Clean Water Act and other relevant laws)
4. Solid waste (Types; disposal; reduction)

VI. B. Impacts on the Environment and Human Health
1. Hazards to human health (Environmental risk analysis; acute and chronic effects; dose-response relationships; air pollutants; smoking and other risks)
2. Hazardous chemicals in the environment (Types of hazardous waste; treatment/disposal of hazardous waste; cleanup of contaminated sites; biomagnification; relevant laws)

VII. A. Stratospheric Ozone (Formation of stratospheric ozone; ultraviolet radiation; causes of ozone depletion; effects of ozone depletion; strategies for reducing ozone depletion; relevant laws and treaties)

Dates:
Reading Guides due:
Ch 19 I Friday 3/17
Ch 19 II Tues 3/21
Ch 20 Thurs 3/23
Ch 18 I Mon 4/3
Ch 18 II Wed 4/5
Ch 21 Fri 4/7
Ch 22 I Mon 4/10
Ch 22 II Wed 4/12

Daphnia Lab
3/17 - 3/24 Due TBD

Vocab Quiz Wed 4/5

Presentation Prep 4/5-4/7
Presentations 4/14

Review 4/18
Unit Test 4/20
AP Test 5/1

Monday, March 6, 2017

Review Material for Climate Change Unit

Here is a link to the major topics in the unit as described by the college board.
Unit 5 Topics


Here are links to several question sets focused on different aspects of this unit.
Nuclear Power
Renewable Energy
Climate Change

Here are links to two Kahoots quiz sets.  I don't think we'll be able to get to each in class, but we'll try.
https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/5a071922-f8f9-482d-bd9e-5d614ba8abb9
https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/6990c5a0-3037-41ed-83b8-c9ec0c73dcd0

Here is a link to the Bozeman science video

http://www.bozemanscience.com/ap-environmental-science/

These short tutorials on for your phone may be good too.
Use the Bozeman Science App or click on the links below.