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Friday, January 28, 2011

The Case for Optimism in the Face of Climate Change

http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_brilliant_makes_the_case_for_optimism.html

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Environmental Science

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.
Component: Sci.ES.01.01: Explain the difference between linear and exponential growth and describe what is meant by a J curve.
Component: Sci.ES.01.02: Compare and contrast population growth in more vs.less developed countries.
Component: Sci.ES.01.03: Explain the difference between perpetual, nonrenewable, exhaustible and potentially renewable resources.
Component: Sci.ES.01.04: Explain the difference between recycling and reusing resources, giving examplea of economically depleted resources.
Component: Sci.ES.01.05: Explain what is meant by sustainable yield and environmental degradation and distinguish between absolute and relative scarcity of resources.
Component: Sci.ES.01.06: Explain the difference between point and non-point sources of pollution.
Component: Sci.ES.01.07: Compare and contrast degradable, inpersistant, biodegradable and non-degradable pollutants.
Component: Sci.ES.01.08: Compare input to output pollution control.
Component: Sci.ES.01.09: Compare and contrast using the three factor model equation the difference between people and consumption overpopulation, using the more and less developed countries as examples.
Component: Sci.ES.01.10: Explain the variables involved in the multiple-factor model of environmental impact.
Component: Sci.ES.01.11: Discuss the changes in culture that need to be made as the population moved from an agrarian society through the industrial revolution in order to have a sistainable earth.
Component: Sci.ES.01.12: Compare and contrast the frountier and the throwaway world views.
Benchmark: Sci.ES.02: Students will be able to explain and contrast various biotic and abiotic relationships within an ecosystem.
Component: Sci.ES.02.01: Correctly explain the terms ecesystem, biosphere, habitat, species, population, biological community, and exosphere as they relate to biogeochemical cycles.
Component: Sci.ES.02.02: Explain the relationship between producers, consumers, and decomposers.
Component: Sci.ES.02.03: Explain the law of tolerance and what is meant by range of tolerance.
Component: Sci.ES.02.04: Explain the limiting facor principle and give examples of limiting factors.
Component: Sci.ES.02.05: Illustrate the carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and water cycles.
Component: Sci.ES.02.06: Diagram the energy flow in an ecosystem.
Component: Sci.ES.02.07: Describe the three major terrestrial and five major aquatic ecosystems.
Component: Sci.ES.02.08: Discuss the interactive roles of species in an ecosystem.
Component: Sci.ES.02.09: Explain how carrying capacity, differential reproduction, natural selection, biological evolution, speciation, and extinction afect population dynamics.
Component: Sci.ES.02.10: Explain the role of inertia, persistance, and resilience in the response of living systems to environmental stress.
Component: Sci.ES.02.11: Explain the factors that influence crude bitrh rate, crude death rate, zero population growth, and total fertility rate.
Benchmark: Sci.ES.03: Students will be able to compare and contrast the effects of population and economic factors on the biosphere.
Component: Sci.ES.03.01: Explain from the perspective of resource utilization the trend of population distribution.
Component: Sci.ES.03.02: Explain how each of the following concepts effects sustaining the earth: economic good,economic need, economic want, economic resource, factor of production, GNP, NEW, internal costs, external benefits, external costs, and cost benefit analysis.
Component: Sci.ES.03.03: Using flowchart illustrate the poverty trap. and explain the changes proposed in government to dismantle the trap.
Component: Sci.ES.03.04: Explain how individuals can influence and bring about policy change.
Component: Sci.ES.03.05: Explain the relationships in terms of human health that a toxic substance may have and how the following terms are invilved: acute effects, chronic effects, epidemiology, transmissible disease, risk analysis, risk assessment, and risk management.
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.
Component: Sci.ES.04.01: Describe the make up of the atmosphere, troposphere, and stratosphere.
Component: Sci.ES.04.02: Explain the difference between indoor and outdoor pollution and list the nine classes of outdoor pollution.
Component: Sci.ES.04.03: Compare and contrast photochemical and industrial smog.
Component: Sci.ES.04.04: Using a diagram describe the events that occur in a thermal inversion and acid deposition.
Component: Sci.ES.04.05: Explain the effects of air pollution on human health, plants and aquatic life.
Component: Sci.ES.04.06: Discuss the effects of ozone depletion on the planet.
Component: Sci.ES.04.07: Explain the factors involved in the greenhouse effect and the ramifications they have on global warming.
Benchmark: Sci.ES.05: Students will be able to summarize the effects of the industrialization of agriculture on the environment.
Component: Sci.ES.05.01: Explain how each of the following effects the renewal of our water resource: surface water, zone of saturation, groundwater, water table, porosity, permeability, aquifers, natural recharge, recharge area, water withdrawal, and water consumption.
Component: Sci.ES.05.02: Describe water resource problems and the methods for managing water resources.
Component: Sci.ES.05.03: Explain the major types of water pollution.
Component: Sci.ES.05.04: Compare and contrast the pollution of lakes, streams, oceans, and ground water.
Component: Sci.ES.05.05: Explain the effects of soil contamination by salt and hazardous waste. Be sure to address the following terms: siol horizons, humus, soil texture, soil porosity, soil permeability, soil acidity, soil erosion, and soil conservation.
Component: Sci.ES.05.06: Explain the basic parameters involved in water quality.
Component: Sci.ES.05.07: Explain how soil conservation principles are applied to agriculture.
Benchmark: Sci.ES.06: Students will analyze the development of energy resources and alternative energy resources.
Component: Sci.ES.06.01: Compare and contrast industrialized agriculture, plantation agriculture, and substance agriculture.
Component: Sci.ES.06.02: Explain the difference between undernutrition, malnutrition, and over-nutrition.
Component: Sci.ES.06.03: Explain how water, soil, location, and insects become limitimg factors for increasing world food production.
Component: Sci.ES.06.04: Explain the concept of aquaculture.
Component: Sci.ES.06.05: Assess the differences between the commercial and ecological importance of forests.
Component: Sci.ES.06.06: Compare and contrast the use of pesticides or alternative methods of insect control.
Component: Sci.ES.06.07: Explain the benefits of reducing the destruction and degradation of tropical forests.
Component: Sci.ES.06.08: Discriminate between the methods of even and uneven forest management.
Component: Sci.ES.06.09: Relate the methods that will better manage and conserve our forests.
Component: Sci.ES.06.10: Explain the importance of rangeland.
Component: Sci.ES.06.11: Discriminate between a threatened and an endangered species and include the environmental factors that encourage extinction and the basic approaches for protecting wild species.
Component: Sci.ES.06.12: Explain the importance of wildlife resources.
Component: Sci.ES.06.13: Explain the relationship between the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the factors threatening the existence of the U.S. National Park System.
Component: Sci.ES.06.14: Explain the importance in wildlife management of the LAte, Mid, and Early successional species.
Component: Sci.ES.06.15: Explain the principles of sustainable agriculture.
Component: Sci.ES.06.16: Explain the mutual interaction between wildlife and agriculture, including the ecological benefits of integrating pest management.
Benchmark: Sci.ES.07: Students will compare and summarize the initiatives necessary to sustain a quality of life on this planet.
Component: Sci.ES.07.01: Explain the difference between an active and a passive solar heating system and design, diagram, and explain a solar home system.
Component: Sci.ES.07.02: Create a plan for evaluating energy resources.
Component: Sci.ES.07.03: Demonstrate at least five ways to increase energy efficency.
Component: Sci.ES.07.04: Explain four methods of creating hydroelectric power.
Component: Sci.ES.07.05: Assess the advantagess and disadvantages of using geothermal energy, hydrogen gas, wind power, or renewable biomass as a replacement for currently used fuels.
Component: Sci.ES.07.06: Explain the difference between primary and secondary oil recovery.
Component: Sci.ES.07.07: Assess the advantages and disadvantages of using natural gas, coal, oil, synthetic fuels, or nuclear fission as energy sources.
Component: Sci.ES.07.08: Assess the differences between surface, open pit, strip, dredging, and subsurface mining.
Component: Sci.ES.07.09: Explain the following terms: lithosphere, core, mantle, plate tectonics, and rock cycle in the formation of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.
Component: Sci.ES.07.10: Explain the difference between critical and strategic minerals.
Component: Sci.ES.07.12: Summarize the most common mental traps to indifference and inaction and recommend the personal initiatives that may lead to sustaining life on earth.

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The Case for Optimism in the Face of Climate Change

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