Study Guide Exam 2

Study Guide Exam 2 Vogl’s Principle’s – Pages: 38 # 2, 62 # 13, 66 # 18, 74 #1, 76 # 4, 84 # 18, 86 # 19, 104 # 15, 106 # 17, 106 # 19, 108 #20, 108 # 21 111 # 28, 118 # 4, 122 # 11 - Memorized and Understood

Chapter 2 – know the two types of energy. Know the two laws of thermodynamics. Know the material given on nuclear power. Know the material given on nuclear war. Know the dot diagram and what it means. Know nuclear fusion and nuclear fission. Know the two bombs dropped in WWII. What is Nuclear Famine? Chapter 5 (pp. 91 – 96) – Know the following terms: limiting factors, Population density, exponential growth (J-shaped curve), logistic growth (S-shaped curve), carrying capacity. What is the difference between an r-selected and K-selected species? Where do humans fit in? Why do California’s Southern Sea Otter face an uncertain future? Chapter 6 – What are the three factors that account for the quick rise in the human population? What are the three important trends related to the current size and impact of the human population? How do you calculate population change? What is TFR? How large is the U.S. population? How do we rank with the rest of the world? What affects birth and fertility rates? What affects death rates? What are some ways we can slow human population growth? What are the three major trends in urban population dynamics in relationship to urban growth? What is urban sprawl? What are the advantages of urbanization? Disadvantages? Chapter 15 & 16 – Terms: Troposphere, Stratosphere, Ozone Layer. What is the difference between weather and climate? What is happening to the ice on Greenland? How high would the sea level rise if it were all to melt? What are the three major conclusions come to by the IPCC? What is the difference between primary and secondary pollutants? Know the difference between the major outdoor air pollutants. How are they produced and what are their effects? (Carbon oxides, Nitrogen oxides and nitric acid, Sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid, Particulates, Ozone, and Volatile Organic compounds (VOC’s)). What is industrial smog? What is photochemical Smog? What type do we have here in Southern California? What are the five factors that reduce outdoor pollution? What the six factors that increase outdoor pollution? What is the grasshopper effect? What is a temperature inversion? What is acid deposition? Where is this worse in the U.S? What are the harmful effects? How can it be reduced? According to the World Health Organization (WHO), what is the most serious air pollution problem? Especially for who? What are the four most dangerous indoor air pollutants in developed countries? How can we reduce outdoor air pollution? How do we reduce indoor air pollution? What is global warming? What are the three major conclusions supported by the 2014 U.S. National Climate Assessment (CSA)? What is their evidence for this? What is the greenhouse effect? What are the four major greenhouse gases? What are the three largest emitters of energy-related CO2? How much has the atmospheric concentration of CO2 increased between 1880 and 2012? What is a carbon footprint? Who has the largest footprint? What are the consequences for a warmer atmosphere? What are the two basic approaches to dealing with the projected harmful effects of global climate disruption? What is considered to be the climate change tipping point? What is threatening the ozone layer? What damage does it do? How can we reverse it? What is E-waste? Where is the U.S waste going? What is the cradle to grave approach? What is solid waste? What are the two types? What is hazardous or toxic waste? What % of the world’s solid waste does the the U.S. produce? How much “MSW” does the U.S. generate each year? What is integrated waste management? What are the four R’s? What are the two types of recycling? How much of the MSW does the U.S. recycle? What are the advantages and disadvantages of recycling? Know the notes from the movies and websites shown Racing Extinction The Last Epidemic Inconvenient Truth Nuke Map Human Footprint