Chapter 14 Overview
Plate tectonics and the rock cycle shape the Earth and its resources. Mining Earth’s resources creates environmental issues. All AP students should know the environmental and economic costs/benefits of mining. Conservation of resources is a fundamental AP topic. Geologic hazards, including earthquakes, tsunamis,
and floods have devastating effects on natural ecosystems.
Chapter 14 Powerpoint
Cornell Notes Questions due Friday. This is a required grade. I will check these questions. This is homework.
Freyer Model for the Case Study for Chapter 14 due Wednesday
Plate Discovery Activity due end of class Wednesday
Photocopy a map of the world (we will use the globes) and provide a copy to each student. Provide students with either 2 different colored dot stickers (yellow and red) or 2 different colored markers. Using the internet and the USGS website, students will find research and discover the earthquakes for the last 20 years. Have them place a yellow dot on each location. Students will put a red dot on the map for the locations of volcanic eruptions in the last 20 years. When the students are finished have them compare their maps to Figure 14.3 in the textbook. The students should be able to discuss the similarities and differences of the two maps.
You will turn in a Venn Diagram
Coal Investigation Lab
Visit the Department of Energy's (DOE) website and learn about the how coal is formed and the four types of coal. Read about the clean up, and relate this information to air-quality issues in Bejing.
Check out Bejing's current PM2.5 particle pollutants
Check out Dallas' current PM2.5 particle pollutants. Texas ranks high in coal production. Are we a coal state? Are we headed in the same direction as Bejing?
Write a feature article for the school newsletter addressing our coal use and possible outcomes. No more than 200 words. Turn in Thursday.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Mining Lab
Turn in Friday
Cornell Notes Questions for Review:
1. What is the 1977 federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
(SMCRA)?
2. How does resource extraction affect water quality? Give a specific example.
3. What are two environmental impacts of mining?
4. How can recycling save energy as well as resources?
5. Why are floods considered the greatest geological hazard?
DOL Questions: Included in the notes
Practice Questions
Multiple Choice:
Directions for questions 1-5: The lettered choices below correspond to the descriptions given in questions 1-5. Select the one lettered choice that best fits each statement. Each choice may be used once, more than once, or not at all.
Several recent geological hazards have occurred during the last 10 years. Use the map below to match the geological hazard.
1. earthquake that lead to an outbreak of cholera
2. nuclear plant meltdown as a result of a tsunami
3. flooding as the result of a hurricane
4. volcanic eruptions currently occurring
5. mass wasting as a result of drought and then torrential rainfall
Cunningham, Environmental Science: A Global Concern, 12th Edition 165
6. Which of the following geologic hazards can produce an acidic aerosol?
(A) Volcanic eruption
(B) Earthquake
(C) Tsunami
(D) Landslide
(E) Flooding
7. This process removes gold from ore by spraying a large pile of ore with
cyanide.
(A) gold removal process
(B) placer process
(C) cyanidification
(D) ore separation process
(E) heap-leach process
8. In the automobile industry, steel and iron are being replaced by
______________.
(A) polymers
(B) copper
(C) stainless steel
(D) titanium
(E) vanadium
9. To reach coal deposits, mountaintop removal is used primarily in this region
of the United States.
(A) The upper mid-west
(B) The Rocky mountains
(C) The Appalachian mountains
(D) The Cascades
(E) The Sierra Nevada mountains
10. The ancient supercontinent was called ______________.
(A) Laurasia
(B) Pangaea
(C) Gondwana
(D) Pagonaland
(E) Eurasamafric
The test for Chapter 14 will be administered in the library Monday, Jan 11. This will be a computer administration, but we will have computers available. This six weeks, we are completing all tests and I'm dropping your lowest.
CHAPTER 13 RESTORATION ECOLOGY
must complete 3 daily grades
options(1 of them must be notes or Learn Smart Activity):
notes or Learn Smart
case study
free-response question
Chapter 13 quiz
Pick 1 project grade
Test is due next Wednesday. This is not your final.
options:
Ecotourism Brochure Activity
Design a tri-fold ecotourism travel brochure for an assigned restoration area. The idea is to
include information on how their company is restoring this ecosystem and why
tourists would want to visit and hire this company to take them on the trip. The
information to be included in the brochure can be found in the worksheet.
Restoration Activity
Research the effects of an oil spill, damage control of the
oil spill, remediation, and restoration of the fragile gulf ecosystems. Create a presentation answering all questions on the worksheet for this activity.
Extended Case Study Research Paper
500 word feature article that includes additional research into one of the four case studies for this six weeks. Must include bibliography.
Carbon Lab
You will complete all three lessons.
Chapter Overview and PPT
Restoration is an important AP topic. The idea of resilience reinforces the
concept of secondary succession. Understanding the role of fire in maintaining
natural ecosystems and the connections to the cycling of nutrients are essential
concepts. The restoration of vital ecosystems maintains biodiversity.
1. Illustrate the ways that we can help nature heal and that nature is resilient.
2. Justify restoration, mitigation, and replacement of natural areas damaged by
humans.
3. What are the four aspects of restoration ecology? What human activities
could have caused the disturbances in each aspect?
4. Why is maintaining biological diversity a key component of ecosystem
management?
5. Summarize plans to restore prairies and understand the role of fire in
maintaining ecosystems.
6. Why is fire suppression a controversial practice?
7. Why is wetland restoration a challenging project?
8. Compare approaches to restoring wetlands and streams.
9. In what way is the American bison a keystone species?
DOL Questions
Practice Questions
Multiple Choice:
Directions for questions 1-5: The lettered choices below correspond to the
descriptions given in questions 1-5. Select the one lettered choice that best fits
each statement. Each choice may be used once, more than once, or not at all.
(A) John Muir
(B) Aldo Leopold
(C) Rachel Carson
(D) Gifford Pinchot
(E) John F. Kennedy
1. author of “Silent Spring” that presented the dangers of pesticide use
2. author of “Sand County Almanac”
3. founder of the Sierra Club
4. his/her Land Ethic philosophy reflects the existence of an ecological
conscience
5. first head of the U. S. Forest Service
6. Compensation for destroying a site is called ______________.
(A) mitigation
(B) restoration
(C) rehabilitation
(D) remediation
(E) re-creation
7. In the early 1900s logging companies devastated regions without any
reclamation or replanting. This was called ______________.
(A) here and there
(B) logging production rights
(C) cut and run
(D) cut and cut more
(E) select cut
8. Native areas frequently regenerate themselves through the process of
__________.
(A) natural selection
(B) secondary production
(C) succession
(D) primary production
(E) rejuvenation
9. Which of the following is NOT a step in ecological restoration?
(A) Picking up litter
(B) Removing invasive species
(C) Replanting native species
(D) Clean up of a local river
(E) Planting exotic species
10. One of the most expensive restoration projects is _______________.
(A) the University of Wisconsin’s Curtis Prairie
(B) the damming of the Mississippi River
(C) the Okefenoke Swamp
(D) the Everglades
(E) the Great Lakes Forest
Free-Response Question:
Directions: Answer all parts of the following question. Where explanation or
discussion is required, support your answers with relevant information and/or
specific examples. When a calculation is required, be sure to show how you
arrived at your answer.
1. The Knightland logging company has clear cut an area in a national forest.
Answer the following questions pertaining to restoration and ecosystem
management.
(a) Describe two environmental problems that result from the clear cutting of
the forest.
(b) Describe two sustainable logging practices that might lead to restoration.
(c) Identify three ecosystem services obtained from the forest.
(d) What is the role of the forest in the carbon cycle?
(e) Explain two economic benefits from the logging company’s operation.
