AP Environmental Science

Good morning and welcome to APES. Here are your questions of the day:

1. Fish is the third major source of food for humans, after grain and meat. A graph shows global production of fish increasing by about 20% since 1980. How is this possible with the rapid decline of wild caught fish in the ocean?

2. High density animal farming, especially CAFOs, are very efficient in growing lots of beef and chicken in small areas. What are the drawbacks (name three) to this practice?

Have a great day. Please submit your answers to the Remind app.

Stay healthy and Stay Breezy

T. Brown

Good morning and welcome to APES. Today’s question will involve a little more detail, so when you answer in Remind, it might take two or more posts given its length restrictions.

Part 1. In Chapter 11, a Figure denotes the Pesticide Treadmill. Please send me a description of each step of the PT starting with 1. Crop infested with pests.

Part 2. How can farmers get off the Pesticide Treadmill? Name at least two possibilities.

Thank you.

Stay healthy and Stay breezy

T. Brown

Happy Wednesday! Have you lost track of the days, yet?

Keep doing the QuizUp and reading the textbook.

Question of the day (answer in Remind): On page 299, a wasp has paralyzed a caterpillar. For what nefarious reason has it done this dastardly deed?

Stay healthy and Stay Breezy!

TB

Hey!

If you haven’t turned your optional Regulations Around the World google presentation, you should do so today.

Also, many of you have sent your five QuizUp attempts from yesterday. Please send five new ones today. A screenshot of your score. Oh, and are you on the Michigan leaderboard?

Also, you should be reading Chapters 11-13. It’s fascinating reading. Chapter 11 is all about food and farming. Wasn’t “Biggest Little Farm” an excellent video?

Chapter 12 is about Nonrenewable Energy Sources. Like oil

Chapter 13 is kind of the antithesis of Ch. 12. It’s called Achieving Energy Sustainability. So…solar, wind, geothermal… None are perfect. You should know why.

That’s all for today.

Stay healthy and Stay breezy.

T. Brown

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Good morning and welcome to APES. We know this situation with the corona virus is serious, dangerous and unpredictable. Please be patient with me, the administration and with each other as we try to make the best of a difficult situation.

Your optional assignment was due today. Zahra A. gave me her first draft and I see now that the 10-slide maximum won’t work. Make it as long as necessary. Include license costs and fines for breaking regulations. Like going over the bag limit, getting too small of a deer or fish, or hunting/fishing out of season.

Please submit your final Google slides presentation by noon tomorrow. Thank you.

Now is the time where you can get outdoors, away from other people, and get 15 more species in your Seek app. Try to get five of your species in the non-plant variety. Put them in another Google slides presentation and share with brownt. Include a little information on each one like where you found it and is it native to Michigan, or is it invasive. The crocuses next to my house have bloomed, so Spring is in the air. The official start of Spring is March 19th this year. Very early!

Over the next three weeks you should read chapters 11-13 and be prepared for a 3-chapter test once we return. To get through all required 16 chapters, this will be necessary.

To get you ready for the AP exam and for the final exam in APES you now must download the “QuizUp” app and begin playing the National APES Review created by K. Sturges. Please make sure you change your setting to “Michigan”. For some reason it defaulted me to California.

Your assignment that is due by Tuesday at 11:00 p.m. is to play QuizUp five times, take a screenshot of your final results and send them to me in one e-mail. brownt@dearbornschools.org This will be five summative points. If you fail to send me results by the deadline, I am required by Mr. Martin to send him your name so he can contact you.

Also, make sure you are on the Remind by texting @c248ee to 81010.

Finally, check out the APES iLearn (a work in progress) for class notes. If you have trouble viewing them for chapters 11-13, let me know.

Thanks and stay healthy.

T. Brown

The Seek Project

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11WPGO4vLFZdMF0ffwtZ2fdaojUSZDePHGsDVXtyRZzA/edit?usp=sharing

Do the best you can.  Hoping to post grades by Monday.

TBB

Tomorrow.  Read the chapter.

Good luck

Today we begin learning about populations.  Vocabulary Quiz Thursday.

Also, today we have several newspaper articles circulating through class from the Ann Arbor News this past week.  We’ll be summarizing the articles.  Should be interesting.

Chapter 6 Test is Next Tuesday.