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These essays are worth 40% of the grade for Exam 4. Please be sure to answer every part of the question.

Section 1: Critical thinking: choose ONE question to answer for 25 points. Be sure to provide solid facts to support your answers. This essay requires that you cover materials from the beginning of the class.

Section 2: select and answer 3 (three) questions from the list provided. Please be sure that any descriptions requested completely describe the item. Please show the question you are answering.

Don’t forget to include complete and appropriately formatted references even if they are only the lecture and/or text. Remember you automatically lose a point for incorrect formatting and 2 for no references at all.

Section 1: Critical Thinking

Select EITHER question 1 or question 2. Your answer should be at least 1 single-spaced page in length and not exceed 1.5 pages.

Please answer both parts of this question.

List the following environmental threats in order of decreasing importance to you (most important first, least important last). Indoor air pollution, outdoor air pollution, depletion of the ozone layer, global climate change, persistent organic pollutants (toxic chemicals) in air, water and soil, drinking water pollution, surface water (lakes, rivers, streams) pollution, abandoned toxic waste sites, acid rain, nuclear-waste build-up, coal-burning power plants, global overpopulation, over consumption in the developed world, tropical deforestation, loss of species and ecosystems, the presence of hormones and antibiotics in our meat.

For each of your top three choices, explain the problems that exist today and why you consider them the most important to you. Discuss steps we can take to help solve the problems.

Discuss the relationship of consumption (being a consumer) and negative environmental impacts. Every item we purchase has an environmental impact. Are consumers responsible for environmental stewardship? These questions and the essay response require you to consider the impact of what you buy on the environment. In answering this question, consider air, water pollution and soil degradation, solid waste, species and ecosystem endangerment, global warming, the ozone hole, the impact of agriculture, and human health and well being (absence of poverty, strife, ability to provide the basics for oneself and one’s family, our health). Do we have a responsibility to humanity as a whole to limit or research what we buy or use?

Section 2

Answer any (and only) 3 of the following questions. Each is worth 5 points. You may use bullets or paragraph form.

Define primary and secondary air pollution and provide an example of each.

Of the 7 operating principles of sustainability, list the five that you think are the most important and explain why. Be sure you refer to the correct set or principles here; two sets are defined in Chapter 2 of our text.

Ozone (O3) is beneficial in large concentrations in our atmosphere. Ozone is also very destructive in the atmosphere. Explain how both statements can be true.

What are the differences between the GNP and the GPI? Define both terms in your answer.

What is the definition of a sustainable city? What characteristics must a sustainable city exhibit?

List 3 human activities that are adding more than natural levels of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. b) In a sentence, explain how each of these activities increases the concentrations of greenhouse gases.

What does NEPA require? What was its intended purpose? What impact does it have on federal or federally funded projects?

Fall 2015

BIO 110 Exam 4

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