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Environmental Science 101
- Course Info
  - Course Outline
  - Grading
  - Term Paper
  - Testing
- Earth systems & resources
  - Soil & soil dynamics
    
    Composition
    
    Erosion and Other Soil Problems
    
    Formation
    
    Main Soil Types
    
    Physical and Chemical Properties
    
    Rock Cycle
    
    Soil Conservation
  - Global water resources & use
    
    Freshwater
    
    Saltwater
    
    Ocean circulation
    
    Agriculture, industrial, & domestic use
    
    Surface & groundwater issues
    
    Global problems
    
    Conservation
  - The Atmosphere
    
    Composition
    
    Structure
    
    Weather & climate
    
    Atmospheric circulation & Coriolis Effect
    
    Atmosphere-ocean interactions
    
    El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
  - Earth science concepts
    
    Geologic time scale
    
    Seasons
    
    Plate tectonics
    
    Earthquakes
    
    Volcanism
    
    Solar intensity & latitude
- The Living World
  - Chapter 3 Systems: Why Are Environmental Problems so Difficult to Solve?
  - Ecosystem diversity
    
    Biodiversity
    
    Ecosystem services
    
    Evolution
    
    Natural selection
  - Ecosystem Structure
    
    Biological populations and communities
    
    Ecological niche
    
    Interactions among species
    
    Keystone species
    
    Major terrestrial and aquatic biomes
    
    Species diversity and edge effects
  - Energy flow
    
    Ecological pyramids
    
    Food webs and tropic levels
    
    Photosynthesis and cellular respiration
  - Natural biogeochemical cycles
    
    Carbon
    
    Conservation of matter
    
    Nitrogen
    
    Phosphorus
    
    Sulfur
    
    Water
  - Natural ecosystem change
    
    Climate shifts
    
    Ecological succession
    
    Species movement
- Population
  - Human Population
    
    Age-Structure Diagrams
    
    Demographic Transition
    
    Distribution
    
    Fertility Rates
    
    Growth Rates and Doubling Times
    
    Historical Population Sizes
    
    Human Population Dynamics
  - Population Biology Concepts
    
    Carrying Capacity
    
    Population Ecology
    
    Reproductive Strategies
    
    Survivorship
- Land & water use
  - Agriculture
    
    Controlling pests
    
    Costs and benefits of pesticide use
    
    Integrated pest management
    
    Relevant laws
    
    Types of pesticides
    
    Feeding a growing population
    
    Deforestation
    
    Genetic engineering and crop production
    
    Green Revolution
    
    Human nutritional requirements
    
    Irrigation
    
    Sustainable agriculture
    
    Types of agriculture
  - Fishing
    
    Aquaculture
    
    Fishing techniques
    
    Overfishing
    
    Relevant laws and treaties
  - Forestry
    
    Forest fires
    
    Forest management
    
    National forests
    
    Old growth forests
    
    Tree plantations
  - Global economics
    
    Globalization
    
    Relevant laws and treaties
    
    Tragedy of the commons
    
    World Bank
  - Mining
    
    Extraction
    
    Global reserves
    
    Mineral formation
    
    Relevant laws and treaties
  - Other land use
    
    Land conservation options
    
    Mitigation
    
    Preservation remediation
    
    Restoration
    
    Public and federal lands
    
    Forests
    
    Management
    
    National parks
    
    Wetlands
    
    Wilderness areas
    
    Wildlife refuges
    
    Sustainable land-use strategies
    
    Transportation infrastructure
    
    Canals and channels
    
    Ecosystem impacts
    
    Federal highway system
    
    Roadless areas
    
    Urban land development
    
    Planned development
    
    Suburban sprawl
    
    Urbanization
  - Rangelands
    
    Deforestation
    
    Desertification
    
    Federal rangelands
    
    Overgrazing
    
    Rangeland management
- Energy resources & consumption
  - Energy concepts
    
    Conversions
    
    Energy forms
    
    Law of Thermodynamics
    
    Power
    
    Units
  - Energy Conservation
    
    CAFE standards
    
    Energy efficiency
    
    Hybrid electric vehicles
    
    Mass transit
  - Energy consumption
    
    Future energy needs
    
    History
    
    Energy crisis
    
    Exponential growth
    
    Industrial Revolution
    
    Present global energy use
  - Fossil fuel resources and use
    
    Environmental advantages-disadvantages of sources
    
    Extraction-purification methods
    
    Formation of coal, oil and natural gas
    
    Synfuels
    
    World reserves and global demand
  - Hydroelectric power
    
    Dams
    
    Flood control
    
    Other impacts
    
    Salmon
    
    Silting
  - Nuclear energy
    
    Electricity production
    
    Environmental advantages-disadvantages
    
    Nuclear fission process
    
    Nuclear fuel
    
    Nuclear fusion
    
    Nuclear reactor types
    
    Radiation and human health
    
    Radioactive waste
    
    Safety issues
  - Renewable Energy
    
    Biomass
    
    Environmental advantages-disadvantages
    
    Geothermal
    
    Hydrogen fuel cell
    
    Ocean waves and tidal energy
    
    Small-scale hydroelectric
    
    Solar electricity
    
    Solar energy
    
    Wind energy
- Pollution
  - Economic impacts
    
    Cost-benefit analysis
    
    Externalities
    
    Marginal costs
    
    Sustainability
  - Impacts on the environment and human health
    
    Hazardous chemicals in the environment
    
    Biomagnification
    
    Cleanup of contaminated sites
    
    Relevant laws
    
    Treatment-disposal of hazardous waste
    
    Types of hazardous waste
    
    Hazards to human health
    
    Acute and chronic effects
    
    Air pollutants
    
    Dose-response relationships
    
    Environmental risk analysis
    
    Smoking and other risks
  - Pollution types
    
    Acid deposition: causes and effects
    
    Air pollution
    
    Clean Air Act and other relevant laws
    
    Heat island and temperature inversions
    
    Indoor air pollution
    
    Major air pollutants
    
    Measurement units
    
    Noise pollution
    
    Control Measures
    
    Effects
    
    Sources
    
    Remediation and reduction strategies
    
    Smog
    
    Soil waste
    
    Disposal
    
    Reduction
    
    Types
    
    Sources: primary and secondary
    
    Water pollution
    
    Clean Water Act and other relevant laws
    
    Cultural eutrophication
    
    Groundwater pollution
    
    Maintaining water quality
    
    Sewage treatment-septic systems
    
    Sources, causes, and effects
    
    Types
    
    Water purification
- Global change
  - Global warming
    
    Greenhouse gases and the greenhouse effect
    
    Impacts and consequences of global warming
    
    Reducing climate change
    
    Relevant laws and treaties
  - Loss of biodiversity
    
    Habitat loss
    
    Endangered and extinct species
    
    Introduced species
    
    Oveuse
    
    Pollution
    
    Maintenance through conservation
    
    Relevant laws and treaties
  - Stratospheric ozone
    
    Causes of ozone depletion
    
    Effects of ozone depletion
    
    Formation of stratospheric ozone
    
    Relevant laws and treaties
    
    Strategies for reducing ozone depletion
    
    Ultraviolet radiation
- Student Portfolios
  - Michael Smith's Student Portfolio (Live Cross Published)

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