APES Warm Ups 2015 2016 WARM UP QUESTIONS

APES Warm Ups 2015 - 2016

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 1 Monday 8/29 Why did you take this class? Tuesday 8/30 What is the product/process breakdown for the lecture? lab? Wednesday 8/31 Answer Yes or No to the following questions: A) Do you recycle at home? B) Do you use your dryer regularly? C) Do you own a hybrid vehicle? D) Do you have any H 2 O saving devices in your home? Thursday 9/1 What is your definition of environmental Science? Friday 9/2 What is the most important environmental issue facing humans in the United States today? This is your opinion.

WARM UP QUESTIONS - WEEK 2 Monday 9/5 NO SCHOOL How many neutral choices did you have? Why might one choose neutral? Tuesday 9/6 Which disease would you rather have: smallpox or malaria? Why? Wednesday 9/7 See Front board for diagram. How many beads are in the box? Defend your answer. Thursday 9/8 Who was not a 19 th century person? Muir, Carson, Marsh, Teddy Roosevelt Friday 9/9 What three ways does an object appear different as you view it under a microscope?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 3 Monday 9/12 What does GDP stand for in Chapter 1 notes? Tuesday 9/13 How do you find the total magnification of a microscope when looking thru eyepiece? Wednesday 9/14 What were the 5 shapes in the ESP Lab? Thursday 9/15 How did they move the rock statues on Easter Island? Friday 9/16 What are 3 major causes of Environmental Problems?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 4 Monday 9/19 Draw an Exponential growth graph. Give an example of exponential growth. Tuesday 9/20 What are three solutions to an economically depleted resource? Wednesday 9/21 What is your Definition of pollution? Thursday 9/22 Which is more important: pollution prevention or pollution cleanup? Explain. Friday 9/23 I = _____ x ____ ? Which letter in the spaces you filled is most important to the Environmental impact (I)?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 5 Monday 9/26 Define species. Tuesday 9/27 Name 3 classes of heterotrophs. Wednesday 9/28 Which is a cycle: matter or energy? Explain. Thursday 9/29 What % of biomass is transferred from trophic level to trophic level? Friday 9/30 NO SCHOOL

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 6 Monday 10/3 Name 3 cycles in nature. Tuesday 10/4 Put in order 1) Nitrification 2) Nitrogen Fixation 3) Ammonification 4) Denitrification Wednesday 10/5 Name 2 ways humans influence the carbon cycle in a negative way. Thursday 10/6 What is a major carbon “sink” on this planet? Friday 10/7 What are two ways humans disrupt the carbon cycle?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 7 Monday 10/10 What is meant by replacement fertility? Tuesday 10/11 What are 3 events that can cause mutations? Wednesday 10/12 What type of evolution has 2 new species emerging from one species? Thursday 10/13 How can genetic drift lead to speciation? Friday 10/14 Which biome is this? Grass is main vegetation, seasonal drought, wide temperature variation.

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 8 Monday 10/17 What is the rain shadow effect? Tuesday 10/18 What biome has 4 seasons, moderate precipitation and temperature, and mammals such as squirrels and deer? Wednesday 10/19 What is more important when discussing climate: longitude or latitude? Explain. Thursday 10/20 What latitude are the doldrums found at? Friday 10/21 NO SCHOOL

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 9 Monday 10/24 Define Climate Tuesday 10/25 What are the two major zones in the ocean? Wednesday 10/26 What are standing freshwater aquatic zones called? Thursday 10/27 Lakes are described by their nutrient qualities. There are two classifications. What are they? Friday 10/28 What are the 4 major types of organisms in aquatic systems?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 10 Monday 10/31 Name two benthic and two pelagic species found in the ocean. Tuesday 11/1 Give an example of mutualism Wednesday 11/2 What are three characteristics of r-species? Thursday 11/3 What are 3 terms used to describe non-native species? Friday 11/4 What is an indicator species?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 11 Monday 11/7 What does primary succession start with? Tuesday 11/8 NO SCHOOL Wednesday 11/9 What are two examples of primary succession? Thursday 11/10 Is succession an orderly sequence of community change? Friday 11/11 NO SCHOOL

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 12 Monday 11/14 What are three factors that affect how succession occurs? What is difference between fundamental niche and realized niche? Tuesday 11/15 Define Demography Wednesday 11/16 If the % growth is 2, what is the doubling time of the population? Thursday 11/17 What are three main factors that affect birth rate? Friday 11/18

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 13 Monday 11/21 What is fertility? Tuesday 11/22 Draw a population histogram of a developing country. Wednesday 11/23 NO SCHOOL Thursday 11/24 NO SCHOOL Friday 11/25 NO SCHOOL

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 14 Monday 11/28 Which country from the movie would you least like to live in? Explain your answer. Tuesday 11/29 Birth Rate is 100. Death Rate is 50. What is % Growth Rate? Wednesday 11/30 What is happening to BR and DR in Stage 1 of Demographic Transition? Thursday 12/1 What is happening to BR and DR in Stage 3 of Demographic Transition? Friday 12/2 What is an intrinsic value? What is an instrumental value? Name 3 ecological intrinsic values that are provided to humans.

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 15 Monday 12/5 Head Paper “Chapter 9 FRQ” Tuesday 12/6 What is the #1 use of forests in the developing world? Describe one problem this might cause. Wednesday 12/7 Name 3 economic services that forests provide. Pick one and defend its importance. Thursday 12/8 A tunnel beneath a highway is an example of what when trying to reconnect ecosystems? Friday 12/9 In what natural area is man a visitor?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 16 Monday 12/12 What are three reasons species become endangered? Tuesday 12/13 What are three characteristics that make a species prone to becoming endangered? Wednesday 12/14 What are two laws that protect endangered species. Thursday 12/15 What are two reasons an exotic species would become invasive. Friday 12/16 Head paper Chapter 10/11 Test.

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 17 Monday 12/19 What are 3 ecologic services provided by aquatic ecosystems? Tuesday 12/20 What are 3 reasons for species loss in the oceans? Wednesday 12/21 What are 3 positives and negatives to dams? Thursday 12/22 What areas of the ocean outside any territorial boundary claims called? Friday 12/23 NO SCHOOL

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 18 Monday 1/2 NO SCHOOL Tuesday 1/3 What is the difference between mal- and under-nutrition? Wednesday 1/4 What is the difference between mal- and under-nutrition? Thursday 1/5 What is an example of a monoculture crop? Friday 1/6 What are characteristics of high-input agriculture?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 19 Monday 1/9 What 4 textures make up soil? Tuesday 1/10 What are the layers to a soil profile? Wednesday 1/11 Name 3 alternative methods of pest control. Thursday 1/12 What are 3 macronutrients? Friday 1/13 What are 3 micronutrients?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 20 Monday 1/16 NO SCHOOL Tuesday 1/17 Soil type Sa. B 2. What is the slope and erosion of this soil? Wednesday 1/18 What does a severe limitation tell one about a particular soil type for a purpose? Thursday 1/19 Define Weathering. Friday 1/20 Give an example of chemical and physical weathering

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 21 Monday 1/23 Why is salt bad for plants in large quantities? Tuesday 1/24 The Earth is made up of 3 main parts. Which one is not an interior part? Wednesday 1/25 Which type of plate boundary makes mountains? Thursday 1/26 Of the 3 seismic waves, which is fastest? Causes the most damage? Does not travel thru liquids? Friday 1/27 Define mineral.

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 22 Monday 1/30 How do you get sedimentary rock? Metamorphic? Igneous? Tuesday 1/31 Which type of mining is environmentally worse than all others? Give two reasons why this method is often employed. Wednesday 2/1 An igneous rock with large grains is found. Where was it formed? At what speed? Thursday 2/2 How is acid mine drainage cleaned up usually? Friday 2/3 What are two products of a neutralization reaction?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 23 Monday 2/6 Describe how net energy as it relates to the 1 rst and 2 nd Laws of Thermodynamics Tuesday 2/7 How is petroleum made into other substances? Wednesday 2/8 Fix the following statements by changing the underlined words: Natural Gas deposits are found below petroleum deposits. Natural Gas has a low net energy. Thursday 2/9 Burning coal release air pollutants. Name 5 and underline the worst in your opinion. Friday 2/10 What is a moderator in a nuclear reactor? What is the most common type of moderator used worldwide?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 24 Monday 2/13 What is the best immediate energy option? Tuesday 2/14 When buying new electrical appliances, what is a primary factor that should be considered? Wednesday 2/15 How is petroleum made into all different products? Thursday 2/16 Define Cogeneration. Friday 2/17 What direction should energy efficient windows face? Why?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 25 Monday 2/20 NO SCHOOL Tuesday 2/21 NO SCHOOL Wednesday 2/22 What is the genius behind PV cells? What is one + and one – to hydroelectric power? Thursday 2/23 What is one + and one – to wind power? Friday 2/24 What is one + and one – to biomass power?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 26 Monday 2/27 Name 3 types of hazard classifications. Tuesday 2/28 What is the number 1 disease killer of humans? Wednesday 3/1 What is a teratogen? Give one example. Thursday 3/2 Give two examples of a neurotoxin. Friday 3/3 What is the difference between biomagnification and bioaccumulation?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 27 Monday 3/6 What are three factors to consider when discussing toxicity? Tuesday 3/7 What is the difference between acute and chronic when discussing exposure to harmful agents? Wednesday 3/8 Why is a there an increase in temperature upon entering the stratosphere? Thursday 3/9 NOx stands for what? Friday 3/10 VOC stands for what? Name two characteristics of VOC’s.

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 28 Monday 3/13 What layer of the atmosphere contains our weather and most of the total atmospheric mass? Tuesday 3/14 What are three examples of particulates? Wednesday 3/15 What are 4 major greenhouse gases in lower atmosphere? Thursday 3/16 List the 6 major air pollutants. Friday 3/17 What are two ways humans have increased levels of greenhouse gases?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 29 Monday 3/20 What does polar ice due to sunlight in general? Tuesday 3/21 Which species would fare better, generalists or specialists in climate change. Wednesday 3/22 What were 3 traits of CFC’s that made them popular to use? Thursday 3/23 When CFC’s react with UV light, what molecule is released? Friday 3/24 Define Eutrophication

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 30 Monday 3/27 What does primary sewage treatment do? Tuesday 3/28 What is the last part of water treatment normally? Wednesday 3/29 Name 6 states in the Bay watershed. Thursday 3/30 Name 6 major rivers in the Bay watershed. Friday 3/31 NO SCHOOL

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 31 Monday 4/3 Why do oil and water not mix? Tuesday 4/4 What is the fastest growing type of waste? Wednesday 4/5 What are the 5 R’s of waste? Thursday 4/6 What are 5 types of material that can be recycled? Friday 4/7 Give 3 reasons plastic is most desirable.

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 32 Monday 4/10 What are 2 negative to incineration? Tuesday 4/11 What % of world’s population leave in urban areas? What are 2 advantages to urbanization? Wednesday 4/12 What was the 3 rd internal migration pattern in U. S? What are 2 disadvantages to urbanization? Thursday 4/13 NO SCHOOL Friday 4/14 NO SCHOOL

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 33 Monday 4/17 NO SCHOOL Tuesday 4/18 NO SCHOOL Wednesday 4/19 If the concentration of mercury in a water supply changes from 65 ppm to 7 ppm in a ten-year period, what is the percentage change of the mercury concentration? Calculate the percentage growth rate for a country with a population of 6 million: in a year in which it had 100, 000 births, 70, 000 deaths, 30, 000 immigrants, and 50, 000 emigrants. Thursday 4/20 If 35% of a natural area is to be developed, leaving 500 acres untouched, how many acres are to be developed? Friday 4/21 A natural gas power plant is 60% efficient. If one cubic meter of natural gas provides 1000 BTUs of electricity. How many BTUs of waste heat were produced?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 34 Monday 4/24 Scientific notation: one billion, twenty three thousand, six thousand divided by 300 billion, 6 billion divided by 35 trillion Tuesday 4/25 Name the Legislative Act for the following descriptions: cradle-to-grave system Wednesday 4/26 sets maximum permissible amounts of water pollutants Thursday 4/27 Ozone phase out; management of marine fisheries Friday 4/28 Superfund

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 35 Monday 5/1 What is the difference between restoration and remediation? Tuesday 5/2 Give an example of a positive and a negative feedback loop. Wednesday 5/3 What is the difference between groundwater and surface water? Thursday 5/4 What are 3 characteristics of an endangered species? Friday 5/5 What are 3 causes of extinction?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 36 Monday 5/8 What is a legume? Tuesday 5/9 What is the difference between euphotic and benthic? Wednesday 5/10 What does fragmentation due to genetic drift? Thursday 5/11 What are three reasons we live longer? Friday 5/12 Put up divider, get out pencil, and chill!

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 37 Monday 5/15 What energy type is not directly or indirectly derived from solar energy? Tuesday 5/16 What does the presence of fecal coliform in river water suggest? Wednesday 5/17 What factor is fundamentally responsible for seasons on Earth? Thursday 5/18 If nitrates and phosphates freely flow into a body of water what is the likely result? Friday 5/19 LAST DAY FOR SENIORS Two chemicals when used separately are considered safe. When used together, they are dangerous. What is this called?