Environmental Issues Worksheet: Issues Organizer

Environmental Issues worksheet

Issues Organizer

(Counterpoints Pages 423-443)

Name: ______Block: ______

Directions: Over the course of the week, it will be up to all students to read pages 423-443 and fill in the organizer which follows in point form. Water: (Vocabulary: Ground water, aquifers, permeable, sewage, agricultural waste, industrial waste, recycled water, desalinated water)

What is fresh water, where is it found?

What are the issues?

What are possible solutions? Ozone layer: (Vocabulary: Ozone, ultraviolet, plankton, northern and southern poles, chlorofluorocarbons – CFCs, Montreal Protocol)

What is it?

What are the possible solutions? Global Warming: (Vocabulary: Greenhouse effect, fossil fuels, permafrost, Kyoto Protocol – 1997)

What is it?

What are the possible solutions?

Agriculture and Soil: (Desertification, pesticides, Herbicides, genetically altered/modified foods) What are Desertification, chemical dependence, and genetically altered foods?

What are the solutions?

Declining Forests: (Vocabulary: Deforestation, Biodiversity, tropical rainforests, temperate forests (Boreal)) What is happening?

What are the solutions?