APES Warm Ups 2018 2019 WARM UP QUESTIONS

APES Warm Ups 2018 - 2019

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 1 Monday 9/3 NO SCHOOL Tuesday 9/4 Why did you take this class? Wednesday 9/5 What is the product/process breakdown for the lecture? Lab? Thursday 9/6 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? Friday 9/7 What is your definition of environmental Science? What is the most important environmental issue facing humans in the United States today? This is your opinion.

WARM UP QUESTIONS - WEEK 2 Monday 9/10 How many neutral choices did you have? Why might one choose neutral? Tuesday 9/11 Which disease would you rather have: smallpox or malaria? Why? Wednesday 9/12 See Front board for diagram. How many beads are in the box? Defend your answer. Thursday 9/13 Who was not a 19 th century person? Muir, Carson, Marsh, Teddy Roosevelt Friday 9/14 What three ways does an object appear different as you view it under a microscope?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 3 Monday 9/17 What does GDP stand for in Chapter 1 notes? Tuesday 9/18 How do you find the total magnification of a microscope when looking thru eyepiece? Wednesday 9/19 What were the 5 shapes in the ESP Lab? Thursday 9/20 How did they move the rock statues on Easter Island? Friday 9/21 What are 3 major causes of Environmental Problems?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 4 Monday 9/24 Draw an Exponential growth graph. Give an example of exponential growth. Tuesday 9/25 What are three solutions to an economically depleted resource? Wednesday 9/26 What is your Definition of pollution? Thursday 9/27 Which is more important: pollution prevention or pollution cleanup? Explain. Friday 9/28 NO SCHOOL

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 5 Monday 10/1 I = _____ x ____ ? Which letter in the spaces you filled is most important to the Environmental impact (I)? Tuesday 10/2 Define species. Wednesday 10/3 Name 3 classes of heterotrophs. Thursday 10/4 Which is a cycle: matter or energy? Explain. Friday 10/5 What % of biomass is transferred from trophic level to trophic level?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 6 Monday 10/8 Name 3 cycles in nature. Tuesday 10/9 Put in order 1) Nitrification 2) Nitrogen Fixation 3) Ammonification 4) Denitrification Wednesday 10/10 Name 2 ways humans influence the carbon cycle in a negative way. Thursday 10/11 What is a major carbon “sink” on this planet? Friday 10/12 What are two ways humans disrupt the carbon cycle?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 7 Monday 10/15 Which biome is this? Grass is main vegetation, seasonal drought, wide temperature variation. Tuesday 10/16 What is the rain shadow effect? Wednesday 10/17 What biome has 4 seasons, moderate precipitation and temperature, and mammals such as squirrels and deer? Thursday 10/18 What is more important when discussing climate: longitude or latitude? Explain. Friday 10/19 NO SCHOOL

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 8 Monday 10/22 What latitude are the doldrums found at? Tuesday 10/23 Define Climate Wednesday 10/24 What are the two major zones in the ocean? What are the 4 major types of organisms in aquatic systems? Thursday 10/25 What are standing freshwater aquatic zones called? Name two benthic and two pelagic species found in the ocean. Friday 10/26 Lakes are described by their nutrient qualities. There are two classifications. What are they?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 9 Monday 10/29 How can genetic drift lead to speciation? Tuesday 10/30 What is meant by replacement fertility? Wednesday 10/31 What are 2 events that can cause mutations? Thursday 11/1 What type of evolution has 2 new species emerging from one species? Friday 11/2 Give an example of mutualism

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 10 Monday 11/5 What is an indicator species? Tuesday 11/6 NO SCHOOL Wednesday 11/7 What is difference between fundamental niche and realized niche? Thursday 11/8 What are three factors that affect how succession occurs? Friday 11/9 What are 3 terms used to describe non-native species?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 11 Monday 11/12 NO SCHOOL Tuesday 11/13 What does primary succession start with? Which takes longer? Primary or secondary succession. Wednesday 11/14 What are two examples of primary succession? Thursday 11/15 Is succession an orderly sequence of community change? Friday 11/16 What does primary succession start with?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 12 Monday 11/19 What are three characteristics of r-species? Tuesday 11/20 Define Demography Wednesday 11/21 NO SCHOOL Thursday 11/22 NO SCHOOL Friday 11/23 NO SCHOOL

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 13 Monday 11/26 What is fertility? Tuesday 11/27 Draw a population histogram of a developing country. Wednesday 11/28 If the % growth is 2, what is the doubling time of the population? Thursday 11/29 What are three main factors that affect birth rate? Friday 11/30 What are three characteristics of a developing country?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 14 Monday 12/3 Which country from the on-line lab would you least like to live in? Explain your answer. Tuesday 12/4 Birth Rate is 100. Death Rate is 50. What is % Growth Rate? Wednesday 12/5 What is happening to BR and DR in Stage 1 of Demographic Transition? Thursday 12/6 What is happening to BR and DR in Stage 3 of Demographic Transition? Friday 12/7 What is an intrinsic value? What is an instrumental value? Name 3 intrinsic values that are provided to humans.

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 15 Monday 12/10 What is the #1 use of forests in the developing world? Describe one problem this might cause. What are three reasons species become endangered? Tuesday 12/11 Name 3 economic services that forests provide. Pick one and defend its importance. What are three characteristics that make a species prone to becoming endangered? Wednesday 12/12 A tunnel beneath a highway is an example of what when trying to reconnect ecosystems? Thursday 12/13 In what natural area is man a visitor? What are two laws that protect endangered species. Friday 12/14 What are two reasons an exotic species would become invasive.

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 16 Monday 12/17 What is equilibrium? Tuesday 12/18 What relationship is shown by moss growing on a tree? Wednesday 12/19 Zero population growth is shown by what phase(s) of demographic transition? Thursday 12/20 What cycle has no atmospheric part? Friday 12/21 What is natural selection?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 17 Monday 12/31 NO SCHOOL Tuesday 1/1 NO SCHOOL Wednesday 1/2 What are 3 ecologic services provided by aquatic ecosystems? What are 3 reasons for species loss in the oceans? Thursday 1/3 What are 3 positives and negatives to dams? Friday 1/4 What areas of the ocean outside any territorial boundary claims called?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 18 Monday 1/7 What 4 textures make up soil? Tuesday 1/8 What are the layers to a soil profile? Wednesday 1/9 Name 3 alternative methods of pest control. Thursday 1/10 What are 3 macronutrients? Friday 1/11 What are 3 micronutrients?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 19 Monday 1/14 Define Weathering. Tuesday 1/15 What is the difference between mal- and under-nutrition? Wednesday 1/16 Soil type Sa. B 2. What is the slope and erosion of this soil? Thursday 1/17 What does a severe limitation tell one about a particular soil type for a purpose? Friday 1/18 Give an example of chemical and physical weathering

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 20 Monday 1/21 NO SCHOOL Tuesday 1/22 The Earth is made up of 3 main parts. Which one is not an interior part? Wednesday 1/23 Which type of plate boundary makes mountains? Thursday 1/24 Of the 3 seismic waves, which is fastest? Causes the most damage? Does not travel thru liquids? Friday 1/25 Define mineral.

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 21 Monday 1/28 What is strip cropping? Tuesday 1/29 What is contour farming? Wednesday 1/30 What is conservative or minimum tillage? Thursday 1/31 Give two examples of a neurotoxin. Friday 2/1 What is a teratogen? Give one example.

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 22 Monday 2/4 Name 3 types of hazard classifications. Tuesday 2/5 What synthetic mimic would most likely disrupt which body system? Wednesday 2/6 What is the difference between biomagnification and bioaccumulation? Thursday 2/7 Of the 3 seismic waves, which is fastest? Causes the most damage? Does not travel thru liquids? Friday 2/8 Define mineral.

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 23 Monday 2/11 How do you get Sedimentary rock? Metamorphic? Igneous? Tuesday 2/12 Which type of plate boundary makes mountains? Wednesday 2/13 What are two products of a neutralization reaction? Thursday 2/14 An igneous rock with large grains is found. Where was it formed? At what speed? Friday 2/15 Which type of mining is environmentally worse than all others? Give two reasons why this method is often employed.

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 24 Monday 2/18 NO SCHOOL Tuesday 2/19 NO SCHOOL Wednesday 2/20 What is a moderator in a nuclear reactor? What is the most common type of moderator used worldwide? Burning coal release air pollutants. Name 5 and underline the worst in your opinion. 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 2/21 How is petroleum made into other substances? Friday 2/22 Describe how net energy as it relates to the 1 rst and 2 nd Laws of Thermodynamics

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 25 Monday 2/25 What is the best immediate energy option? When buying new electrical appliances, what is a primary factor that should be considered? Tuesday 2/26 Define Cogeneration. How is petroleum made into all different products? Wednesday 2/27 What is the genius behind PV cells? What direction should energy efficient windows face? Why? Thursday 2/28 What is one + and one – to hydroelectric power? What is a positive and negative to tidal power? Friday 3/1 What is one + and one – to wind power? What is one + and one – to biomass power?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 26 Monday 3/4 What are three factors to consider when discussing toxicity? Tuesday 3/5 What is the difference between acute and chronic when discussing exposure to harmful agents? Wednesday 3/6 Why is a there an increase in temperature upon entering the stratosphere? Thursday 3/7 Nox stands for what? Friday 3/8 VOC stands for what? Name two characteristics of VOC’s.

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 27 Monday 3/11 What layer of the atmosphere contains our weather and most of the total atmospheric mass? Tuesday 3/12 What are three examples of particulates? Wednesday 3/13 What are 4 major greenhouse gases in lower atmosphere? Thursday 3/14 List the 6 major air pollutants. Friday 3/15 What are two ways humans have increased levels of greenhouse gases?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 28 Monday 3/18 What does polar ice due to sunlight in general? Tuesday 3/19 Which species would fare better, generalists or specialists in climate change. Wednesday 3/20 What were 3 traits of CFC’s that made them popular to use? Thursday 3/21 When CFC’s react with UV light, what molecule is released? Friday 3/22 Define Eutrophication

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 29 Monday 3/25 What does primary sewage treatment do? Tuesday 3/26 What is the last part of water treatment normally? Wednesday 3/27 Name 6 states in the Bay watershed. Thursday 3/28 Name 6 major rivers in the Bay watershed. Friday 3/29 What are 5 types of material that can be recycled?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 30 Monday 4/1 What are the 5 R’s of waste? Tuesday 4/2 Give 3 reasons plastic is most desirable. Wednesday 4/3 Why do oil and water not mix? What is the fastest growing type of waste? Thursday 4/4 What is the fastest growing type of waste? Friday 4/5 What are 2 negative to incineration?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 31 Monday 4/8 What are 2 negative to incineration? Tuesday 4/9 What was the 3 rd internal migration pattern in U. S? Wednesday 4/10 What are 2 advantages to urbanization? Thursday 4/11 What are 2 disadvantages to urbanization? Friday 4/12 What % of world’s population leave in urban areas?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 32 Monday 4/15 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? Scientific notation: one billion, twenty three thousand, six thousand divided by 300 billion, 6 billion divided by 35 trillion Tuesday 4/16 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? Wednesday 4/17 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. If 35% of a natural area is to be developed, leaving 500 acres untouched, how many acres are to be developed? Thursday 4/18 NO SCHOOL Friday 4/19 NO SCHOOL

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 33 Monday 4/22 NO SCHOOL Tuesday 4/23 Name the Legislative Act for the following descriptions: cradle-to-grave system Wednesday 4/24 sets maximum permissible amounts of water pollutants Thursday 4/25 Ozone phase out; management of marine fisheries Friday 4/26 Superfund

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 34 Monday 4/29 What is the difference between restoration and remediation? Tuesday 4/30 Give an example of a positive and a negative feedback loop. Wednesday 5/1 What is the difference between groundwater and surface water? Thursday 5/2 What are 3 characteristics of an endangered species? Friday 5/3 What are 3 causes of extinction?

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 36 Monday 5/6 What is a legume? Tuesday 5/7 What is the difference between euphotic and benthic? Wednesday 5/8 What does fragmentation due to genetic drift? Thursday 5/9 What are three reasons we live longer? Friday 5/10 Put up divider, get out pencil, and chill!

WARM UP QUESTIONS – WEEK 37 Monday 5/13 What energy type is not directly or indirectly derived from solar energy? Tuesday 5/14 What does the presence of fecal coliform in river water suggest? Wednesday 5/15 What factor is fundamentally responsible for seasons on Earth? Thursday 5/16 If nitrates and phosphates freely flow into a body of water what is the likely result? Friday 5/17 LAST DAY FOR SENIORS Two chemicals when used separately are considered safe. When used together, they are dangerous. What is this called?