Monday March 2nd 2020
SAT PRACTICE and Plant Investigation redo
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Friday Feb. 28th
Student Task for 2/28/20 Mr. McCormick Environmental Science
- Finish Reading and taking notes from Pages 589-595 in the textbook. Take notes on page 52 of your notebook Use additional paper and staple when you run out of room. You need at least one whole page of notes and more to go above and beyond.
- Create a TREE MAP on page 51
- Title your tree map “Ways to minimize solid waste”
- Title the three main branches: Recycling, Composting, and Waste Reduction
- Add detail for each. Use different colors
- Answer questions 1,2 and 3 on page 595 below your tree map. Fill up the entire page 51!
- Finish page 53 in your notebook:
- 2 questions
- Materials
- Procedure
- Hypothesis
- Update table of contents / finish other work in notebook.
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Tuesday 2/25/20
With a partner, obtain two red solo cups.
Write your name(s) and hour on each cup in permanent marker
Label one cup “fertilizer”
Label the second cup “no fertilizer”
Poke five holes in the bottom of each cup (make sure your holes are the same)
Fill each cup with soil to just under the 3rd line in the cup ( Make sure the amount of soil is the same in both)
Use your finger to create a wide 1-2 inch deep hole in the soil of each cup. (Make sure the holes are equal in each cup)
Place two seeds in each cup in the hole you made ( put them next to each other, as far as you can, not on top).
Gently cover seed with soil
Measure 75 mL of fertilizer water in a graduated cylinder
SLOWLY and GENTLY add the fertilizer water to the corresponding cup
Measure 75 mL of water from the sink
SLOWLY and GENTLY add the water to the corresponding cup
Place both cups back on your class tray and return to your seat.
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Friday 2/14/20
Have a great break! Get caught up on your notebooks during break!
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Study guide for tomorrow’s test
Short answer questions
What are sanitary landfills and why are they so important? (In other words, why do we have sanitary landfills instead of just plain dumps?)
List two problems or potential problems with sanitary landfills. ( If you can think of three list all three)
What is leachate, how is it formed and what happens to it in a sanitary landfill?
Identify and describe one example of waste to energy
Vocabulary
Waste
Industrial waste
Municipal waste
Hazardous waste
Groundwater monitoring
Liner
Water table
Aquifer
Leachate
Methane
Co2
Raw Materials
Synthetic
Sanitary landfill
Dump
Contaminate
Decomposition
Organic Matter
Impermeable
Permeable
Incineration
Waste to Energy
Input
Outputs
Boundaries
NIMBY
Perforated Pipes
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