Wastewater treatment assignment

1.     Create a diagram that identifies the steps of wastewater treatment.  Label the parts.

2.     Describe what would happen to D.O.  and BOD at each of these stages (use a graph to do this)

3.     Describe how the treatment plant is designed to maximize the DO availability during the process

4.     Describe the material cycling of nitrogen in the wastewater treatment plant.  Include the chemical reactions associated with this cycling and the bacteria that drive the reactions

you may use the miller texts and the internet to do this.

You do not need to turn this in electronically.  We will be using this on monday.

Chap 14 is now assigned

Chap 14 now assigned

Quiz due-Thursday

RNR 14-Due Friday

DTM -Due Saturday

Part 1- Page388

Part 2

Test Monday 10/22

Test is still on for Monday


That is why it was announced on Thursday

Chaps 1-3

Remember that we also saw films on Population Growth and Economic/Environmental Impact

Also that we did a project on important people and events in environmental history.

Test will Be 60% multiple choice 40% free response

AP scoring will be used

5=A
4=B
3=C
2=D
1=F

Scores bordering between scores will be assigned + or - accordingly

Classwork oct 19th

1.  Write a paragraph per biogeochemical cycle that identifies 2 specific ways in which humans influence the cycle and what the resulting global impacts are associated with the human influence.

(the internet may be used to research this)

2.Complete the following essay. (No internet resources or notes)

Root Nodule Lab due oct 18th

Dissection of a Root Nodule

Examine roots under the microscope on low power.  Sketch and intact nodule and root here:

Obtain a razor blade, slice the nodule open sagitally (so you can see the cut surface of one side). Describe the appearance of your nodule.  If yours “didn’t work’ describe the appearance of someone’s who did.  Sketch

What process occurs in the nodules?

What conditions are indicated by what you observed in a nodule

What compound provided by the clover plant provides this condition?

What is the importance of this process in the biosphere?

Oct 2nd in class assignment

You are going to watch planet earth from pole to pole.

During the film identify the following with specific examples

1. What shapes life on Planet Earth?

2. What happens to Arctic sheet ice during the spring and summer?

3. What transformation takes place at 50 degrees latitude?

  

4. Describe the sunlight in the tropics.

5. What shapes food chains in the ocean?

6. How does the sun create rain storms?

Send an e-mail with your answers

Chapter 3 is now assigned

Chap 3 Assigned

Self Quiz Due Thursday
R+R on Friday
DTM on Sat

Environmental science History

Using the ipads and the power of the interweb (world wide net, great googlymoogly or what ever you kids are calling it these days) create a poster that highlights the significance of the person or event that you have been assigned.

I suggest that you use google docs to create your poster.  You can do this by making 4 to 6 slides.

Information should include:

Description of person/event (time,place,background)

Impact that was felt at the time  (include federal/international response. legislation agreements...)

Continuing impact of person/event (impact on modern day life How have we changed how we approach our lives as a result of this person/event) 

Pictures are an absolute must

Remember to focus on how they have impacted environmental science.  Don't tell me about watergate if you have Nixon

Azcona, Lisa -Thomas Malthus

Carroll, Victoria -John James Audobon

Corrado, Matthew -Love canal 

Daga, Keshav-Henry David Thoreau

Duperrier, Liloye-George Perkins Marsh

Gabriel, Simon-Bhopal India  Union carbide

Healy, Sage-John Muir

Joshi, Maithili-Theodore Roosevelt

Kang, Hyun Taek-Gifford Pinchot

Kioko, Harrison- John Adams

Lehman, Madison M- Alice Hamilton

Lipschutz, Jared -Montreal Protocol 

Naylor, Harrison-Paul Ehrlich

Patel, Brij -Barry Comoner

Peck, Merritt-Garret Hardin

Plage, Scarlett-Richard Nixon

Poddar, Ritika-Aldo Leopold

Ransegnola, Monica-Sherwood Roland and Mario Molina

Raza, Syed-Lester Brown

Reyes, Eva-E.O Wilson

Robertson, Jane-Pete Seeger

Rothstein, Jessica-Gaylord Nelson

Sawyer, John-Svante Arrhenius

Smallzman, Ben-Captain Joseph Hazelwood

Stanley, Robert-James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis

Tobias, Brian-Cuyahoga river 1969 

Waters, Eileen-Dust Bowl