Final Assessment

This may be done in any format except a paper--video to me, linoit, series of comics, etc.  120 points.

Benchmark: Sci.ES.01: Students will be able to identify and distinguish between the effects of population, pollution, natural resources, and cultural differences on the environment.

Pick a country (no one else can pick yours) and examine it's population pyramid, child mortality, life expectancy, culture, and top exports.  Comment on the sustainability of the country based on what you see.  Search the blog to see resources covered this past quarter.  Include a list of the web site URLs used.

Benchmark: Sci.ES.02: Students will be able to explain and contrast various biotic and abiotic relationships within an ecosystem.

Use your country and describe its major biomes, and a viable ecosystem for each.  Talk about the health of the carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles currently, based on the stability and environmental safeguards in the country chosen.  How does this affect the formation or resolution of poverty traps? Search the blog to see resources covered this past quarter.  Include a list of the web site URLs used.

Benchmark: Sci.ES.03: Students will be able to compare and contrast the effects of population and economic factors on the biosphere.    Benchmark: Sci.ES.04: Students will be able to integrate the effect of pollution on the atmosphere and hydrosphere and the resulting affect on the environment.

Describe at least three commons issues in this course and provide at least 3 solutions to each.  Solutions must include a response to pollution, human health, ecosystem health in the commons chosen.  Search the blog to see resources covered this past quarter.  Include a list of the web site URLs used.

Benchmark: Sci.ES.05: Students will be able to summarize the effects of the industrialization of agriculture on the environment.

Talk about the benefits and perils of  fertilizers, pesticides, and insectides as applied to the water cycle.  Search the blog to see resources covered this past quarter.  Include a list of the web site URLs used.

Benchmark: Sci.ES.06: Students will analyze the development of energy resources and alternative energy resources.

Contrast the pros and cons of three of the following energy resources:  

• wind
• coal
• passive solar
• nuclear
• geothermal
• hydroelectric
• active solar

Benchmark: Sci.ES.07: Students will compare and summarize the initiatives necessary to sustain a quality of life on this planet.  Compare the United States to your country of choice regarding these items.

• Which country, in your opinion, experiences more evidences tragedy of the commons/NIMBY/LULU outlines in BM .03?  For example, if poverty is a tragedy of the commons, is it a bigger problem in the US or your country of choice.
• Which country has a better plan for sustainability, and why do you think so?
• Which country has more renewable vs. nonrenewable resources
• Which country is further ahead in renewable energy sources that are not carbon-based?
• Look back on these 4 bullet points.  See if you can identify any logical fallacies, bias, or applications of Occam's razor.  DO NOT restate the points above, but DO let me know your logic