Intro to APES

Essential Questions:

What is your environmental worldview?

What lessons can we learn from Easter Island?

What are some values of ecosystems?

What is the tragedy of the commons and how does it relate to most environmental problems?

What are externalities and how do they relate to the environment?

How do you design a good experiment?

Vocabulary:

worldviewsplanetary management, stewardship, environmental

Environmental indicators and sustainability(Module 2) Biodiversity, genetic diversity, species diversity, anthropogenic, per capita, sustainability, ecological footprint, externalities, tragedy of the commons

Scientific method terms (Module 3) purpose, hypothesis, null hypothesis, data, analysis, conclusion, replication, sample size, theory, control group, constants, dependent and independent variables, baseline data, dissemination, natural experiment, accuracy, precision, uncertainty

Ecosystem values(pages 657-660) Intrinsic, instrumental, provisions, regulating, support, resilience, cultural, monetary


Some math you should know:

Convert square km to square m.

Convert between metric prefixes (meters to kilometers...)

Assignments:

Essay - Sustainable Islands Google classroom

Essay - What is your worldview? notebook

Answers to end of chapter questions:

Chapter 1 Chapter 2

  1. d 1. b

  2. b 2. d

  3. b 3. e

  4. b 4. c

  5. c 5. a

  6. e 6. b

  7. b 7. e

  8. e 8. c

  9. d 9. b

  10. a 10. e

  11. 11. d

  12. 12. c

  13. 13. e

  14. 14. a