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EnviroSci Home

Syllabus

Extra Credit

Student Weebly's

Online Textbook

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Turlock Triangle Design

• Project Details: PDF
• Blue Print Top View_

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Review Resources:

Practice Tests

Practice Test #1 (Good explanations, but questions will be better written and more relvant than this one)

Quizlet Vocab Reviews

• Quizlet #1 (General Review)
• Quizlet #2 (Populations - no pics)
• Quizlet #3 (Geologic Stuff)
• Quizlet #4 (Ecology Stuff)
• Quizlet #5 (Nutrient Cycles)
• Quizlet #6  (more ecology w/pics)
• Quizlet #7 (Biomes)
• Quizlet #8 (Human Health & Risks)
• Quizlet #9 (Laws and Treaties)

Review PP Images\Diagrams

• Good Overall Review PowerPoint (I didn't make this one)

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8_

• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16

• Chapter 17
• Chapter 18
• Chapter 19​

Review games

• Environment Millionaire Game
• Ecology Millionaire Game
• Aquatic Ecosystems Millionaire Game
• Ecology, Populations and Biodiversity Millionaire Game
• Ecosystems and Biomes Millionaire Game
• Biomes and Ecosystems Millionaire Game
• Biodiversity Hangman
• Municipal Sewage Treatment Matching and more
• Nuclear Power Plant
• Coal Fired Electrical Power Plant

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Unit 11 Air Pollution and Human Health

Required Readings:

• Chapters 17 & 18

Handouts:  

• Unit 11 Vocab & SGQ's.

Labs:

• Toxicity Lab (LD50)
• Tropospheric Ozone Lab
• Particulates Lab
• Smog City Lab

Online Resources:

• CalEnviroScreen 2.0
• Lung Attack
• Turlock Real-Time Air Quality from ValleyAir.org
• EPA Ozone Explainer
• American Lung Association State of the Air

Videos of Interest​:

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Unit 10 - Renewable Energy Resources

Required Readings:

• Chapter 16 in the book
• Ethanol Stories:
  -Virtual Ethanol Plant Tour
  -Ethanol Infographic 1
  -Ethanol Energy Balance (Read Abstract)
• Solar Power
  - Solar Power Towers in Ivanpah Not Meeting Expectations
  - Solar Plants Roasting Birds in Flight
  - A Tough Road Ahead for Concentrated Solar Power

Online Resources:

• CalEnviroScreen 2.0
• Lung Attack​
• American Lung Association State of the Air

Videos of Interest

• Switch Energy Project: Solar
• Switch Energy Project: Wind
• ​Switch Energy Project: Hydro
• Switch Energy Geothermal
• Switch Energy Biofuel

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Unit 9 Geology, Minerals and Nonrenewable Resources

REQUIRED READINGS:

• Chapter 14 in Book
• Chapter 15 in Book

Handouts:

• Chapter 14-15 Vocab & SGQ's

Labs:

• Plate Tectonic Features Using Google Maps 
• Energy Inventory
• Virtual Earthquake
• Cookie Mining | Lab PPT

PowerPoints:

• Plate Tectonics
• Volcanoes/Hot Spots
• Earthquakes
• Non-Renewable Fossil Fuels /Minerals
• Nuclear

Online Tools & Data

• TID Generation Facilities 
  (Where Your Power Comes From)
• Mapping How the US Generates Electricity (2015)
  • Fracmap
    • Fracking Incidents Map
    • Shale Play Maps
    • CA fracking regulations

Click to Run

Videos of Interest

• Switch Energy Project: Environmental Impacts
• Switch Energy Project: How Oil is Made
• Switch Energy Project: Coal
• Switch Energy Project: Natural Gas
• Switch Energy Project: Oil
• Switch Energy Project: Unconventional Oil
• Switch Energy Project: Nuclear Energy
• Switch Energy Project: How Nuclear Works
• Switch Energy Project: Nuclear Risks

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Unit 8: Surface Water / Groundwater / Water Pollution

Required Readings

• "My 417 Mile Journey Down the Apocalypse River" 
• "Contamination Plume Heads towards Tuolumne River" 
• "Untapped Potential of California's Water" 
• "Pilots Brave Winter Storms in Cloud Seeding Program"
• St Francis Dam Disaster
• The heroic professor who helped uncover the Flint lead water crisis​ has been asked to fix it
• ​Confessions of a Waste Water Operator

Handouts

• SGQ's and Vocab

Labs

1. Water Use Inventory file
2. Surface Water & Stream Gauges Lab
   • ​​California Stream Gauge Map 
   • Snow Cover Maps
3. Virtual River Activity (EXTRA CREDIT 10% on TEST)
4. Go With the Flow GW Lab
5. Groundwater Simulation Lab.

PowerPoints

• Chap 13.1 - 13.3
• Chap 13.4 - 13.7
• Chap 20

Quizzes

Online Tools and Data

City of Turlock Resources

• Regional Water Quality Control Facility (PDF)
• Water Quality Annual Report 2014
• Link to City of Turlock Utility Billing to get Water Bill

Videos of Interest

• KCRA 3 Reports: Who Owns the Water?
• OTL:  The Promise Rio Couldnt Keep
  • Rio Water Mess

Unit 7: Farming, Soils and GMO's

Required Readings

1. Product of Mexico -LA Time
2. NASA Satellite Set to Get the Dirt on Soil Moisture
3. San Joaquin Valley Farmers Reach Secret Deal in Water Dispute
4. Bees threatened by a common pesticide, EPA finds
5. GMO Potatoes Have Arrived. But Will Anyone Buy Them?

Handouts

• Vocab and SGQ's (DUE Friday Jan 22)
• Soil Texture Triangle Practice 

Labs

• Soil Texture Classification
• Soil Salinity and Seed Germination DIY Lab (Due Thursday 1/21/16)
• Soil Permeability Lab
• IPM Computer Lab Investigations (Due Monday 1/25) 

PowerPoints

• Chapter 12 PPT

Quizzes

1. Product of Mexico Reading Quiz  (Due Friday 1/8)_
2. Food Production Chap 12.2  (Due Tuesday 1/26)
3. Farming Conservation Practices Quiz (Due Tuesday 1/26)

Online Tools and Data

1. What is IPM? UC Davis Integrated Pest Management
2. UC Davis Natural Enemies IPM page
3. UCD Parasites
4. UCD Fruit Pests
5. UCD Veggies Pests

• Conservation Farming Practices - A list of every way it is done!
• PBS: Engineer Your Food
• PBS: Should We Grow GMO:  Opinion Quiz 

Videos of Interest

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Unit 6: Biodiversity

Final Project Haiku Information!

Required Readings

• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• "Native Ecosystems Blitzed by Drought"

Handouts

• SGQ's & Vocabulary
• Lorax Questions

Labs

• Habitat Loss Lab (We'll fix my mistakes in class)
• Invasive Species Wanted Poster

PowerPoints

• Chapter 9
• ​Chapter 10

Quizes (NEW)

• Reading Quiz #1 (Chap 9-1) . Due 12/2 by 8am.
• Reading Quiz # 2 (Chap 9.2 - 9.3)  Due 12/10 by 8am
• Reading Quiz # 3 (Chap 10.2-10.5) Due 12/17 by 8am

Online Tools and Data

• California Invasives (short list)
• California Invasives Long List

Videos of Interest

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Unit 5: Population Dynamics

Required Readings

• Chapter 5 in your book.

Handouts

• Unit 5 SGQ's and Vocab

Labs

• Oh Deer
• Ungulate Craps

PowerPoints

• Chapter 5 PPT

Online Tools and Data

Videos of Interest

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Unit 4:  Biomes Physical Climatology & Aquatic Biodiversity

Unit 3:  Life on Earth - Organization  and Evolution

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Labs

• Wooly Worms
• Food Webbing The Sierra's
• Parking Lot Species Diversity
• Nerds Tagging and Recapture

Required Readings:

• Textbook Chapter 3
• Textbook Chapter 4
• OpenTreeOfLife.org
• Sierra Nevada Yellow-Legged Frog and Yosemite.
• CNN: Endangered River (There's a surprise half-way through)

PowerPoints

• Chapter 3-1 & 3-2
• Chapter 3-3 & 3-4
• Chapter 3-5 & 3-6
• Chapter 4

Handouts:

• Vocab and SGQ's
• Endangered Species Brochure

Online Tools and Data

• California Endangered Species PDF
• California Endangered Species website

Videos of Interest

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Unit 2: Global Warming /  Ozone Layer Depletion / Solving anthropogenic-caused atmospheric problems. 

REQUIRED READINGS:

Handouts:

PowerPoints:

• Chapter 2 - Scientific Method and Feedback Loops
  
• Radiation and Temperature Controls
• Chapter 19.1 & 19.2 - Global Warming Evidence and Data
• Chapter 19.3 - Solutions to Global Warming - Preventative and Adaptive.
• Chapter 19.4 - Ozone Layer Hole and How we Fixed a Man-Made Problem

• Chapters 2 & 19
• Climate Feedbacks
• Ice Core 101
• Global Warming and Climate Change Myths

Labs:

1. Interactive Carbon Cycle ("Carbon Moves")
2. Global Warming in a Bottle
   - Useful links to help answer lab questions:
   -Greenhouse Effect & another Greenhouse Effect
   - CO2 warming interactive
   -Greenhouse Gasses Primer
   -Global Warming (funny video)
   -Global Warming

Online Tools & Data

• Climate.gov
  
• Yale Climate Project on Change Communication
• University of Maine Climate Change Institute

Videos of Interest:

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Unit 1: Introduction to Environmental Science

REQUIRED READINGS:

Slate Article: How Natural Disasters Harm the Poor More than the Rich

Handouts:

• Unit 1 Vocabulary and SGQ's (Due Tuesday 9/1)
• Cover it Up - Text Book Cover Art Contest
• Exponential Population Growth Worksheets (1 & 2)
• Population Statistics (Due Wednesday 8/26)
• Population Pyramids -Alaskans (Due Thursday 8/27)

Labs:

• Fishing in the Commons (Due Friday 8/21)
• Fishing Data Spreadsheet and Calculator (need google docs!)
• Environmental Footprint Calculator (Due with SGQ's on 8/31)
• National Ecological Footprint Shoe (Due Monday 8/31) 
• Risk Assessment (Due Wednesday 9/2) 

PowerPoints:

• 1-2 to 1-3 Natural Capital, Sustainability and Exponential Growth
• 6-1 Human History / Population Growth (Monday 8/24)
• 6-2 to 6-4 Population Stats (Tuesday 8/25)

Online Tools & Data

• Environmental Footprint Calculator
• Nationmaster.com Footprint Data

Videos of Interest

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Tales of the San Joaquin: A River Restored.