<p> Environmental Issues worksheet</p><p>Issues Organizer</p><p>(Counterpoints Pages 423-443)</p><p>Name: ______Block: ______</p><p>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)</p><p>What is fresh water, where is it found?</p><p>What are the issues?</p><p>What are possible solutions? Ozone layer: (Vocabulary: Ozone, ultraviolet, plankton, northern and southern poles, chlorofluorocarbons – CFCs, Montreal Protocol)</p><p>What is it?</p><p>What are the issues?</p><p>What are the possible solutions? Global Warming: (Vocabulary: Greenhouse effect, fossil fuels, permafrost, Kyoto Protocol – 1997)</p><p>What is it?</p><p>What are the issues?</p><p>What are the possible solutions?</p><p>Agriculture and Soil: (Desertification, pesticides, Herbicides, genetically altered/modified foods) What are Desertification, chemical dependence, and genetically altered foods?</p><p>What are the issues?</p><p>What are the solutions?</p><p>Declining Forests: (Vocabulary: Deforestation, Biodiversity, tropical rainforests, temperate forests (Boreal)) What is happening?</p><p>What are the issues?</p><p>What are the solutions?</p>