Three Weeks Test Review

 

Characteristics of renewable and nonrenewable resources

 

Pros and Cons of hydropower.

 

Ways to save energy in an existing building.

 Pros and cons of wind power.

 

 Environmental cost of renewable energy.

Pros and Cons of solar energy.

 

Pros and cons of damming rivers.

 

Solar energy in the biosphere.

 

What method would be effective in reducing the amount of water waste on farms for crops?

 

Desalinization process

 

 

What is:

Exxon Valdez

Santa Barbara

Chernobyl

Three Mile Island

Gaia Hypothesis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Water use % (graph or chart)

 

 

The level below which a potentially renewable resource can be used without reducing its available supply throughout the world or in a particular area:

 

Using the chart above, what energy source has the least environmental cost?

 

% of renewable energy sources used in the US.

 

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Properties of fuel cell vehicles.

 

Waste generated by renewable energy

 

 

 

Relative abundance of fossil fuels (graph)

 

First Law of Thermodynamics

 

Law of Conservation of Matter?

 

Methods for creating environmentally sustainable economies?

 

Green Design

 

 

Sun’s energy

 

 

 

Human impact on Earth

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cultural Eutrophication

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is another term for “drainage basin”

 

 

 

 

 

% of water sources on earth (graph or chart)

 

Specific Heat and Heat Retention

1/29/2014

The relationship between Specific Heat and Heat Retention

Specific heat of soil versus water 


Homework:

Preview the Free Response Question #4, and look for answers as you:

Complete the unit: Investigating El Nino Using Real Data


You don't have turn anything in.

Test Review and quiz link

Chapter 18 quiz


Chapter 18 review!

Desalinization setup

Second Week of the Fourth Six Weeks

1/13/2014

Just to keep you up with what's happening this week:

Mon: Chapter 17 Lecture

• First half
• Quiz

Tues: Chapter 17 Lecture

• second half
• Free Response Question

Wed: Chapter 17 Lab

Thurs: Chapter 17 Review

• Jeopardy?
• Free Response Question

Fri: Test day

• Test in class if not completed online before Friday Morning
• Friday activity

The End of Chapter 20

1/10/2013

Ugh. Still sick.

Jessica your make up test is on my desk. Please take care of this. We only have 12 days after Tuesday to change things.

Gabriel, and Adam please go get the COW from the library. They should be expecting you. Please let me know in the comments if that was not possible.

Okay. 13 of you must take the test in class today!

I am going to ask Ms. Everett. I'm linking a copy here. Worse comes to worse you can pull it up on the overhead, and write answers on a sheet of paper.

No exceptions.

Everyone else should work on your research paper. Don't forget the discussion board for posting your second research homework. Get cracking! This paper is due Monday, January 20th.

Chapter 17 will be available today.

Homework is the following Free Response Question. Due MONDAY.

Chapter 20 Review

Make sure your Free Response question about active and passive solar are in your folder.

Spend the first 20 minutes finishing e-learn, or your notes for Chapter 20.

Then the last 20 minutes is the review game for Chapter 20:

http://quizlet.com/15046060/chapter-20-vocabulary-flash-cards/

Start with flash-cards, then you can space race...or whatever you prefer. Remember, if you have not finished the test by class time Friday, you will be taking it in class. Make sure to get it submitted. 



Your homework is to research two other forms of sustainable energy, and post your summaries and URLs on Classjump. Pay attention to the Rubric for sources. The more reputable, less biased, and print-based sources will get you more points! In other words, you can get more points for taking something from your book, than from the Internet, because we know the credentials of the textbook writers.

Research Paper Specifics

Your assignment is to write a five page original research paper on the form of sustainable energy you think is most likely to replace nonrenewable energy.

I will be using technology to check the originality of your work. If a report shows copied material, I will return it to you, and you will penalized for lateness when you turn it again. Do it right the first time! Academic honesty is expected.

Standard MLA format includes:

Typed
Double-spaced
1 inch margins
12 point font

You are required to have at least 3 sources:

One of them must be print.
One of them needs to be a primary source.


Here's the rubric I will use to score your paper.

Notice that there is a title page and bibliography. These are not part of the page count.

The paper grade will be a project grade. 

Homework research requirements will be daily grades, and need to include summaries of what was read along with the URL's.

I will start a discussion on Class Jump and you can add these things where everyone can see them, or email is fine if you prefer privacy.

There are lists of online library resources right by the classroom front door. You may want to snap a quick pic...I will tomorrow if I recall.

Good luck.

Solar Power

Good morning! If you are reading this then you have made it!

8:45-9:00 Good job Kevin and Vivel!

Start the day with the quiz for Chapter 20. Email me that quiz. If you can not get the computers, then it is fine to do it as a class. If you must work from the overhead, only write the answers for the first 10 and turn in.

9:00-9:20
Return to your Open Space Groups. Share information and links on two forms of sustainable energy. You can add them to the blog under comments.

9:20-9:40
Click here ---> Answer the following Free Response Question on a sheet of paper and turn in to the teacher.


Times corrected. Yay! Stephanie!!

Homework: Use this online calculator to find out how many solar panels and batteries would be needed to fuel your home. 

http://www.freesunpower.com/system_sizing.php#startGrn

 

 

January 7