'Understanding the Environment' Reading & Questions Part II

(turn to next open left/right hand pages in notebook)
WARM UP (left side) 10/24/16
1. What is environmental science?
2. List 5 major fields of study that contribute to environmental science.
3. Describe one characteristic and one major environmental effect of: 
hunter-gatherers- 
agricultural revolution-
Industrial Revolution-

Standing up, find your Clock Partner and share your answers to the WARM UP questions (stay standing!) :) 

Share out of answers...

*Unit 2 Test & Notebook Check: November 1st/2nd!
*Last day to turn in Quarter 1 work: November 2nd!
*Come to tutorial tomorrow in C28!

-Finish the 'Understanding the Environment' READING packet, read pages 12-15
from 'Spaceship Earth' to 'Loss of Biodiversity.'

-Answer these questions and glue into the right hand side of your notebook:
1. Two potential problems of a closed system such as Earth are ______ & _______.
2. Factors that have contributed to rapid human population growth are ________, _________, ________, & _________. 
3. Environmental problems such as _______ and ______
are a result of feeding the world in the 20th century.
4. _________, _________, & __________ are the three general groups of environmental problems.
5. A renewable resource is ________ (like _______), while a nonrenewable resources is ________ (like________).
6. Pollution is defined as ________.
7. There are two types of pollutants. One example of a biodegradable pollutant is ______; an example of a nondegradable pollutant is_____. 
8. ______ is the number and variety of species that live in an area.
9.______ is the term for the complete disappearance of a species, which can be natural or caused by human influence.

-Glue into notebook on right hand side and get checkmark when finished.

-Now do color processing about these ideas on the left hand side, showing your interpretation of what you learned clearly.