FOR 365 -- Issues in Natural Resources Conservation -- OSU Extended Campus

Unit 10-Air

Objectives

To identify sources and types of air pollutants.

To examine the ecological, climatic, and human health effects of air pollution.

To study methods of air pollution control.

To weigh the evidence for global climate change.

To consider methods for slowing or preventing global warming.

To examine the sources and ecological effects of acid deposition.

To consider methods for reducing acid deposition.

To understand the chemical reactions leading to stratospheric ozone depletion.

To consider the effects of ozone depletion on human health and ecological systems.

Readings

Natural Resource Conservation (text)

Sections 18.1-18.2 and 18.5-18.6 (including A Closer Look 18.1 and Case Study 18.3)

Chapter 19 (including Ethics in Resource Conservation 19.1)

Assignments

1. Take the final exam.

The final exam will be open from 8am PST Monday until 12pm PST Sunday. THERE WILL BE NO SECOND CHANCES. If you miss this deadline, you will not able to take the final exam.

Exam questions will be based on the textbook readings from Units 6-10. The exam will consist of 50 multiple choice, true/false and short answer questions. You will have one hour to complete the final exam.

2. Complete a course evaluation.

In week 10, the opportunity to evaluate this course is provided with instructions . Please help our teaching staff improve the quality of this course by filling in the evaluation in the Online Student Services area of the OSU web site. Thank you.

Supplemental Research

The following are links to sites containing material related to this week’s unit topic. They are provided for your information only and are not assigned reading.

Tiny Tuvalu steps up threat to sue Australia, U.S.

Opens newspaper article describing the island nation of Tuvalu's threat to sue Australia and the U.S. over their greenhouse gas emmissions.

The prospect of sudden climate change

Opens NASA article on the science and probability of sudden climate change, resulting in large part to the release of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels.