AP Environmental Science Agenda

May 4, 2018:Friday:A Day

WARM-UPS:

  1. BE SURE you have your power point 7.5 Air Quality – Toxicology
  2. You will receive 2 new POWER POINTS: Water Pollution & Waste Water Treatment Plant
  3. Keep these for next class
  4. Take out your Modeling Climate Change Lab
  5. THIS IS DUE AT THE END OF THE CLASS!!!!

OBJECTIVES: Climate Change/Pollution

  1. WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM – 3rd BLOCK – HOPE it works today!!!
  1. Global climate CHANGE -2ND & 3RD BLOCKS

climate change short documentary (silent)

  1. A. NON-APES TEST PARTICIPANTS:MONTREAL PROTOCOL Reading and responses
  2. Read the information and answer the questions using the information from the reading
  3. TURN IN THE QUESTIONS AT THE END OF CLASS!!

B. APES TEST PARTICIPANTS: Use your device or the 2 class room computers to go to my website and use this time to prep for the APES exam

You may also log into CollegeBoard and choose practice tests.

I am giving you a copy of a released test – see me to get answers

Review the waste water treatment plant videos/descriptions I just added to your resources

  1. ALL BLOCKS:CHOOSE from the following options AFTER you complete the Montreal Protocol responses.
  2. Complete the Modeling Climate Change Lab – turn it in as soon as it is completed.
  3. Deadline = end of class
  4. Work on your children’s book

HOMEWORK:

  1. Read pages 493-510, and 523-24 in your text book
  2. Outline the relevant laws/treaties dealing with Climate Change
  3. PREVIEW Notes:
  4. 7.5: Air quality/toxicology
  5. 8.6 Water pollution
  6. 8.7 Wast water treatment plant
  1. REVIEW these

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases

Bill Nye

AP Exam Participants

Energy Review VERY IMPORTANT to do these and understand how each works!!

nuclear energy

Hydroelectric energy

renewable energy

energy concepts

energy consumption

energy reduction

fossil fuels

NEW: waste water treatment plant operations: Understand the process involved and differences in primary, secondary, and tertiary treatment

boring but good graphic

Tipping Point Concept: tipping point: the critical point in a situation, process, or system beyond which a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes…

Positive and Negative Feedback loops: Paul Anderson

Bozeman air pollution

global climate change

climate change short documentary (silent)

Laws

Laws written by Congress provide the authority for EPA to write regulations.

  • Clean Air Act
  • Clean Water Act
  • Toxic Substances Control Act
  • More Law Summaries

Ground-level Ozone

  • Ozone Pollution
  • Setting and Reviewing Standards
  • Scientific and Technical Documents
  • Implementing the Standards
  • Air Quality Designations

Particulate Matter

  • Particle Pollution
  • Setting and Reviewing the Standards
  • Scientific and Technical Documents
  • Implementing Standards
  • Air Quality Designations

Carbon Monoxide

  • Carbon Monoxide Pollution
  • Setting and Reviewing Standards
  • Scientific and Technical Documents
  • Implementing the Standards
  • Air Quality Designations

Lead

  • Lead Pollution
  • Setting and Reviewing Standards
  • Scientific and Technical Documents
  • Implementing the Standards
  • Air Quality Designations

Sulfur Dioxide

  • Sulfur Dioxide Pollution
  • Setting and Reviewing Standards
  • Scientific and Technical Documents for Primary Standards
  • Scientific and Technical Documents for Secondary Standards
  • Implementing the Standards
  • Air Quality Designations

Nitrogen Dioxide

  • Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution
  • Setting and Reviewing Standards
  • Scientific and Technical Documents for Primary Standards
  • Scientific and Technical Documents for Secondary Standards
  • Implementing the Standards
  • Air Quality Designations

Summary of the Energy Policy Act

  • PDF of the Energy Policy Act, from U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) (550 pp, 1.3MB, About PDF)
  • The official text of the EPA is available in the United States Code on FDSys, from the U.S. Government Printing Office.

42 USC §13201 et seq. (2005)

The Energy Policy Act (EPA) addresses energy production in the United States, including: (1) energy efficiency; (2) renewable energy; (3) oil and gas; (4) coal; (5) Tribal energy; (6) nuclear matters and security; (7) vehicles and motor fuels, including ethanol; (8) hydrogen; (9) electricity; (10) energy tax incentives; (11) hydropower and geothermal energy; and (12) climate change technology. For example, the Act provides loan guarantees for entities that develop or use innovative technologies that avoid the by-production of greenhouse gases. Another provision of the Act increases the amount of biofuel that must be mixed with gasoline sold in the United States.

The Office of Underground Storage Tanks (OUST) carries out a Congressional mandate to develop and implement a regulatory program for underground storage tank (UST) systems. OUST implements provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Questions: Montreal Protocol Reading

General Science Questions

1) What is the ozone layer and where is it in the atmosphere?

2) When was the problem of ozone layer depletion first recognized?

3) What kinds of human activities lead to depletion of the ozone layer?

4) How is ozone measured in the atmosphere?

5) Why has an “ozone hole” appeared over Antarctica when ODS are present throughout the stratosphere?

6) Do changes in the sun and volcanic eruptions affect the ozone layer?

7) Does depletion of the ozone layer lead to an increase in UV radiation?

8) What’s the difference between ground-level ozone and stratospheric ozone?

Policy/Regulatory Questions

1) What is the Montreal Protocol and why has it been successful?

2) Has the Montreal Protocol been successful in reducing ozone-depleting gases in the atmosphere?

3) What has EPA done about ozone layer depletion?

4) What substitutes are available for ODS?

5) In addition to regulating industry, what is EPA doing for consumers and the general public?

Questions about the Future of Ozone Protection

1) Does ozone layer depletion cause climate change?

2) When is the ozone layer going to recover?

3) What about skin cancer rates increasing?

4) What does EPA plan to do next?

5) Many of the alternatives to ODS have high global-warming potential (GWP). Why is the climate system being damaged this way?

6) The U.S. is still requesting exemptions for CFCs in metered-dose inhalers (MDIs) and methyl bromide. Why haven’t these been phased out yet?

7) Methyl bromide is a naturally occurring substance in the oceans, and the U.S. requests always are cut at the international meetings. Why are American farmers being squeezed out of this chemical when the substance already is produced by natural means?

8) If 2006 was the largest hole on record, how is the ozone layer recovering?