ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE - INFORMATION ABOUT OUR FINAL EXAM Coverage: Everything since Exam #2 AND Climate Change AND Energy
õ WHEN: Tuesday, May 9, 8:30-11:00 a.m.
o WHERE: BC 101 à NOT in our regular classroom
õ No Make-up Exams except under emergency circumstances verified by physician or dean.
õ FORMAT: Like previous exams and similar in length with short-answer questions, graphs, matching, multiple choice, true/false (on news). Slightly longer than earlier exams.
õ WEIGHT: The final carries the same weight as our other exams.
All CLASS SESSIONS AND EXPERIENCES
Campus Ecotour (if you missed this, arrange with me to make it up)
News presentations since previous exam: Take time to review main points!
All project presentations: Not numbers and statistics, but major points about environmental issues and scientific insights. Understand connections with topics we’ve studied.
Your environmental service and environmental event experiences
Scientific methods and literacy: Text citations, interpreting scientific articles, reading and building graphs, statistics (see PowerPoint file and notes)
All other class sessions, including these PowerPoint files:
Climate Change Part 1
Climate Change Part 2
Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Energy
Mining and Energy from Fossil Fuel
ð Nuclear Energy
ð Water pollution
ð Water Resources
ð Protecting Biodiversity: Species
ð Food and Farming
ð Biological Invasions
ð Restoration Ecology (if we get to this)
READINGS:
Ø In “Living Downstream”: Chapters 7/Earth and 9/Water : major points, with specifics.
o This test will not have questions about other chapters.
Ø Article “Reforestation and a partnership grows at Drew University” (on Moodle)
Ø Article: “Invasive plant suppresses growth of native tree seedlings...” (on Moodle): main points and results
READINGS, “Environmental Science" Textbook: new chapters and Case Studies since exam 2 only.
DON’T SKIP IF YOU WANT AN A OR B ON THE TEST!
· 18/Water pollution
· 17/Water resources and problems
· Chesapeake Bay (pp.52-53)
· 5/Biomes, pp.110-115 (Marine; Wetlands)
· 9/Food and Hunger
· 10/Farming
· Invasive species: p.234-236; Bait (p.92)
· 11/Biodiversity: Species
· 12/Biodiversity: Preserving Landscapes
· 13/Restoration Ecology; and page 11/Spreading Green Across Kenya
· OMIT: Chapter 24, 25
Don’t Miss These Case Studies – Expect test questions about all Case Studies within chapters AND:
· p.92: Harm in Unused Bait
· p. 100: Spreading Green across Kenya
· P.124: Too Many Deer?
· p. 52-53: Chesapeake Bay/Pollution
· pp. 540-541: Can Policy Protect Elephants?