Category: Ecology

What environmental problems have occurred in the local area?What regulations are in place to help the cities air quality?

Polluted Cites Assignment

You will include the following information in your final report on your city:

Name of the city
Population of the city

Any topographical/climatic features around the city that contribute to poor air quality. Are there mountains or higher terrain that hold the air pollutants near the ground within the city?

Air quality index (if available for your city)
5. Levels of:
a. CO (Carbon monoxide)
b. NO2 (Nitrogen dioxide)
c. O3 (Ground level ozone)
d. SO2 (Sulfur dioxide)
e. Particulate matter

Pictures showing your cities air quality on “good” air quality days and “bad.”

Effects of the air quality on the local environment

What environmental problems have occurred in the local area?

Include respiratory disease incidence rates

Discuss any issues with acid precipitation

What regulations are in place to help the cities air quality?

Web sites that may be of use:
http://air.ipe.org.cn/en/index.aspx : Info on China
http://library.thinkquest.org/26026/Environment_Watch/air_pollution_statistics.html
www.environmentaldefense.org: Environmental Defense Fund
http://www.airnow.gov: Air Now – air quality indexes
http://www.euro.who.int/air: World Health Organization
http://econ.worldbank.org: World Bank
http://www.epa.gov/airtrends/index.html: EPA site on U.S air quality

What environmental problems have occurred in the local area?What regulations are in place to help the cities air quality?

Polluted Cities Assignment

Name of the city
Population of the city

Any topographical/climatic features around the city that contribute to poor air quality. Are there mountains or higher terrain that hold the air pollutants near the ground within the city?

Air quality index (if available for your city)
5. Levels of:
a. CO (Carbon monoxide)
b. NO2 (Nitrogen dioxide)
c. O3 (Ground level ozone)
d. SO2 (Sulfur dioxide)
e. Particulate matter

Pictures showing your cities air quality on “good” air quality days and “bad.”

Effects of the air quality on the local environment

What environmental problems have occurred in the local area?
Include respiratory disease incidence rates

Discuss any issues with acid precipitation

What regulations are in place to help the cities air quality?

What is the Carbon Footprint Score?Which car performed the best as far as CO2 emissions are concerned? Which has the worst?

Car emissions internet activity

What is the Carbon Footprint Score?

EPA Air Pollution Score?

Which car performed the best as far as CO2 emissions are concerned? Which has the worst?

Was there a trend among cars that had high CO2 output?

What surprised you about the cars you chose?

In your opinion, what is the most important output from cars? Why?

If you had the money, what would be your next car purchase? Why?

Will you change any habits as a result of this investigation? Why or why not?

 How does the technology work? Is it a centralized or decentralized solution? Would the system still be connected to existing the wastewater treatment system?Has the technology been successfully deployed? Can you find case studies or examples of the system operating under realistic conditions?

ACTIVITY
Put together a document that summarizes the finding of your research by addressing the following questions for each of the three alternatives you identify:

How does the technology work? Is it a centralized or decentralized solution? Would the system still be connected to existing the wastewater treatment system?

If available, what would the approximate cost be of installing this type of system?

Has the technology been successfully deployed? Can you find case studies or examples of the system operating under realistic conditions?

Is the technology suited to large-scale implementation? (for example on a dense college campus or large buildings)

What are the major benefits of this technology from a resource management perspective? Are there any useful byproducts from this particular strategy?

Does it have drawbacks that might be concerning?

What challenges might you anticipate with deploying an alternative like this?What might the various stakeholders in the use of water-based flush toilets and wastewater treatment think about this option?

How does this type of environment impact the organisms that live there (esturaries)?What types of stress does this place on the organisms?

In a word or google document, describe what you observed as you mixed these solutions and then continue to monitor the solution recording what you see happening each minute for 10 minutes. Make a data table of these observations.
Take pictures of the mixture immediately after mixing and then after 10 minutes. Place a copy of these pictures in your lab writeup and label the pictures.
Answer the following analysis questions.

Which solution was above the other?

Why did the solutions seperate and not mix?

How does this lab help to represent what happens in estuaries?

How does this type of environment impact the organisms that live there (esturaries)?

What types of stress does this place on the organisms?

Write up this lab as a FULL lab report

Describe the processes involved in your topic.Briefly describe the results of the paper (papers) you read on your topic. This should be a couple of paragraphs, at least. Be creative.

List your topic and subtopic.
Describe why this is an important topic in one paragraph.
Describe the processes involved in your topic.
Briefly describe the results of the paper (papers) you read on your topic. This should be a couple of paragraphs, at least. Be creative.
List your sources (sources should also be cited in the text – see citation documents). All the text should be in your own words and you should cite all your sources of information.

Pick whichever topic you feel most comfortable with. Similar assignment to order #630824

Examine how humans will meet their energy needs in the future in a way that will enable maintenance of a sustainable, habitable atmosphere and climate.

The Journey to Sustainability

Your paper will consist of seven paragraphs using the format below to address the elements with the assumption that environmental sustainability has been achieved:

Paragraph 1:

Describe how the human relationship to nature will be different from what it is at present.

Examine how humans will cope differently with the ways that natural phenomena like hurricanes affect lives.
Paragraph 2:

Describe what Earth’s biodiversity and ecosystems will look like in a sustainable future.

Explain what humans have done differently to enable biodiversity and ecosystems to function sustainably.
Paragraph 3:

Examine how agricultural production will be different in a sustainable future.
Paragraph 4:

Differentiate between how humans will manage water resources (fresh water and ocean) in the sustainable future compared to how it is done now.

Paragraph 5

Examine how humans will meet their energy needs in the future in a way that will enable maintenance of a sustainable, habitable atmosphere and climate.

Indicate the changes that humans have made that are enabling them to maintain a healthy atmosphere and climate for all.
Paragraph 6:

Describe how waste management will be different in a sustainable future.

Indicate the changes have been made to how humans think about and treat what is currently called “waste.”
Paragraph 7:

Summarize some of the major social, economic, political, and ecological choices and tradeoffs that will need to be overcome for this sustainable future to arrive.

What are some of the major issues and challenges humans will have to face in order to achieve sustainability on a global scale?

The Journey to Sustainability final paper

Must be seven paragraphs in length (700 to 1400 words) (not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in theWriting Center’s APA Style

Must incorporate all four of your previously selected terms.

Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice resource for additional guidance.

Include two scholarly sources including the course text.

The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types.

If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper.

Can include, as an option, a separate references list that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in theWriting Center.

See the APA: Formatting Your References List resource in the Writing Center for specifications.

What is described as the principal threat to biodiversity as the global economy and human population grows? Is economic growth necessarily bad for our planet? What points suggest that economic growth can benefit biodiversity?

SLP 2

You learned about the negative impact of economic growth and human utilization of resources that can lead to global climate change and extinction.

In your Case Assignment, you reviewed many pieces of evidence and developed your own conclusions about the relationship between human activities and global climate change.

Now review the conclusions that have been drawn by NASA regarding this information at NASA Climate Part I:

A Closer Look at the Evidence For the first part of this assignment, answer these questions using the NASA website: Describe the graph on the NASA website.

What does it show us about the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere? According to the following site (the United Kingdom's

National Meteorological Service), what recent event contributed to the rising carbon dioxide levels? Met Office The supporting data on climate change are grouped into different categories on the NASA website.

How are these groups labeled? Is there agreement on these categories between the NASA website and the UK website (Met Office).

If not, how do they differ? Select the “Effects” tab at the top of this web page: https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/.

Summarize the effects of climate change listed here in one paragraph.

Be sure to address the effect of climate change on our weather and water resources.

Part II: How Can Economic Growth Become Part of the Solution?

Read the following article then answer the questions below: Saltre, F. & Bradshaw, C. (2019). Are We Really in a 6th Mass Extinction? Here’s the Science.

Science Alert. https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-how-biodiversity-experts-recognise-that-we-re-midst-a-mass-extinction Now answer the following questions regarding economic growth and climate change discussed in this article in paragraph format.

How does economic growth negatively impact other species?

What is described as the principal threat to biodiversity as the global economy and human population grows? Is economic growth necessarily bad for our planet? What points suggest that economic growth can benefit biodiversity?

Conclude your summary by drawing connections between economic growth, climate change, habitat loss, and biodiversity. Required Readings: https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/climate-change/causes-of-climate-change https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

What is described as the principal threat to biodiversity as the global economy and human population grows? Is economic growth necessarily bad for our planet?

Mod 2 SLP

You learned about the negative impact of economic growth and human utilization of resources that can lead to global climate change and extinction. In your Case Assignment, you reviewed many pieces of evidence and developed your own conclusions about the relationship between human activities and global climate change.

Now review the conclusions that have been drawn by NASA regarding this information at NASA Climate

Part I: A Closer Look at the Evidence

For the first part of this assignment, answer these questions using the NASA website:

Describe the graph on the NASA website. What does it show us about the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere? According to the following site (the United Kingdom's National Meteorological Service), what recent event contributed to the rising carbon dioxide levels? Met Office

The supporting data on climate change are grouped into different categories on the NASA website. How are these groups labeled? Is there agreement on these categories between the NASA website and the UK website (Met Office). If not, how do they differ?
Select the “Effects” tab at the top of this web page: https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/. Summarize the effects of climate change listed here in one paragraph.

Be sure to address the effect of climate change on our weather and water resources.

Part II: How Can Economic Growth Become Part of the Solution?

Read the following article then answer the questions below:

Saltre, F. & Bradshaw, C. (2019). Are We Really in a 6th Mass Extinction? Here’s the Science. Science Alert. https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-how-biodiversity-experts-recognise-that-we-re-midst-a-mass-extinction

Now answer the following questions regarding economic growth and climate change discussed in this article in paragraph format.

How does economic growth negatively impact other species?

What is described as the principal threat to biodiversity as the global economy and human population grows?
Is economic growth necessarily bad for our planet?

What points suggest that economic growth can benefit biodiversity?
Conclude your summary by drawing connections between economic growth, climate change, habitat loss, and biodiversity.

Required Readings:

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/climate-change/causes-of-climate-change

https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/