APES SUMMER ASSIGNMENT Dear AP Environmental Science Classes of 2015-2016, Welcome to AP Environmental Science!!! Students who enroll in APES should be ready and willing to devote sufficient time, focus & energy to class assignments, including daily text readings, taking notes in and outside of class, preparing for frequent exams and quizzes, participating in laboratory and field experiments, writing reports, giving oral presentations, participating in class discussions and doing other various class assignments. Some work over the summer is required in order to be better prepared in the fall. The purpose of these tasks is to help prepare you for your studies for the upcoming school year. Please complete the following assignments this summer. There will be a test on the material covered in the summer assignment on the first day of school. Part I. Chemistry Review Chemistry is a prerequisite for this class. Please write out the name of each molecule below. Write out the chemical formula and full name of each of these chemical abbreviations on a separate sheet of paper: CO 2 P CO PO 4 3 C 6 H 12 O 6 S CH 4 SO 2 SO 3 N 2 H 2 SO 4 Pb K As NO 2 NaCl NO 3 NH 3 NH 4 + Rn Rn O 2 Hg O 3 Cl U H 2 Fe C H 2 CO 3 CaCO 3 NO H+ H 2 O HNO 3 N 2 O SO 4 2 H 2 S Part. II. APES Math Review – You CANNOT use a calculator on any math in APES. This is a rule set by College Board. On your test you will be expected to show all work. APES Dimensional Analysis – SHOW ALL WORK 1 km = 1000 m 1 hour = 60 min 1 min = 60 s 1 m = 100 cm 1 km = 0.62 mi 1 in = 2.54 cm 1 mL = 1 cm 3 1 gal = 3.8 L 1 yr = 365 days 1 wk = 7 days 1 day = 24 h 1 dozen = 12 “things” 1. Convert 2200 m to km 2. It took 1800 seconds to get to school today. How many hours is that? 3. If a car is driving 98 km/h in France, what is the speed in miles per hour? 4. Convert 3.04 m to inches. 5. How many minutes are in 4 weeks?
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APES SUMMER ASSIGNMENT
Dear AP Environmental Science Classes of 2015-2016,
Welcome to AP Environmental Science!!! Students who enroll in APES should be ready and willing to devote sufficient time, focus & energy to class assignments, including daily text readings, taking notes in and outside of class, preparing for frequent exams and quizzes, participating in laboratory and field experiments, writing reports, giving oral presentations, participating in class discussions and doing other various class assignments.
Some work over the summer is required in order to be better prepared in the fall. The purpose of these
tasks is to help prepare you for your studies for the upcoming school year. Please complete the following assignments this summer. There will be a test on the material covered in the summer assignment on the first day of school.
Part I. Chemistry Review Chemistry is a prerequisite for this class. Please write out the name of each molecule below. Write out the chemical formula and full name of each of these chemical abbreviations on a separate sheet of paper: CO2 P CO PO4 3 C6H12O6 S CH4 SO2
SO3 N2 H2SO4 Pb K As NO2 NaCl
NO3 NH3 NH4 + Rn Rn O2 Hg O3
Cl U H2 Fe C H2CO3 CaCO3 NO
H+ H2O HNO3 N2O SO4 2 H2S
Part. II. APES Math Review – You CANNOT use a calculator on any math in APES. This is a rule set by College Board. On your test you will be expected to show all work. APES Dimensional Analysis – SHOW ALL WORK 1 km = 1000 m 1 hour = 60 min 1 min = 60 s 1 m = 100 cm
1 km = 0.62 mi 1 in = 2.54 cm 1 mL = 1 cm3 1 gal = 3.8 L
1 yr = 365 days 1 wk = 7 days 1 day = 24 h 1 dozen = 12 “things”
1. Convert 2200 m to km
2. It took 1800 seconds to get to school today. How many hours is that?
3. If a car is driving 98 km/h in France, what is the speed in miles per hour?
4. Convert 3.04 m to inches.
5. How many minutes are in 4 weeks?
6. If, gasoline costs $0.293 per liter, how much would it cost to fill an 18 gallon tank?
Dimensional Analysis Word Problems – SHOW ALL WORK
7. Every three times I clean my bedroom, my mother makes me an apple pie. I cleaned my bedroom 9 times. How many apple pies does she owe me? (What? Your mother doesn't reward you for cleaning your bedroom? Aren't there child labor laws? To make up for that injustice, you may have this very easy extra credit problem.)
8. A chemistry teacher working at a golf camp during the summer found a liquid, which caused him to slice ball after ball into the water without disturbing him at all. He thought that this was an important liquid to identify so he set out to determine its density. He found that a sample of the liquid had a mass equal to 455 golf balls and occupied a volume of 620 water cups that he obtained at the 7th hole. Each golf ball massed 50 g and the water cups at the 7th hole of the golf course held 45 mL each. What is the density of the unknown liquid?
9. How much force, in g cm / s2 , is exerted by a golf ball described in problem 2 striking a tree while accelerating at 20 cm / s2 ? Show how you can solve this problem without knowing that F = m a. Explain your solution.
10. Because you never learned dimensional analysis, you have been working at a fast food restaurant for the past 35 years wrapping hamburgers. Each hour you wrap 184 hamburgers. you work 8 hours per day. you work 5 days a week. you get paid every 2 weeks with a salary of $840.34. How many hamburgers will you have to wrap to make your first one million dollars? [You are in a closed loop again. If you can solve the problem, you will have learned dimensional analysis and you can get a better job. But, since you won't be working there any longer, your solution will be wrong. If you can't solve the problem, you can continue working which means the problem is solvable, but you can't solve it. We have decided to overlook this impasse and allow you to solve the problem as if you had continued to wrap hamburgers.]
METRIC REVIEW – SHOW ALL WORK
11. 0.0450 m = _________ km
12. 5.38 x 10-15 cm = ___________ nm
13. 2.00 x 1024 L = ___________ kL
14. 7.22 kg = ____________ g
15. 8.827 mmol = ___________ mol
16. What is the average speed in miles per hour of a sprinter who runs the 100.00 meter dash in 9.92 seconds?
17. A 1.000 m strip of magnesium ribbon has a mass of 1.200 g. How many feet of ribbon are in an 8.00 oz roll?
18. A tank at Sea World is cleaned twice daily (entire volume is filtered every ½ day). The filter can clean 0.5000 L of water per second of operation. What is the volume of the tank in kL?
19. A pool of water is 20.0 ft long, 12.0 ft wide, and 250.0 cm deep. If it is completely filled with pure water, what is the mass in kg? the volume in cm3?
Scientific Notation:
Convert each number from scientific notation to standard notation:
20. 1.3136 X 100 25. 1.2363 X 101
21. 8.9512 X 10-5 26. 6.865 X 109
22. 6.773 X 10-3 27. 3.293 X 101
23. 8.4573 X 10 -6 28. 5.141 X 10-9
24. 1.1998 X 108 29. 9.4322 X 1012
Convert each number from standard notation to scientific notation:
30. 794,940 32. 0.038942
31. 0.14381 33. 00000000000006153
Calculate – SHOW ALL WORK
34. (2.53 X 103)(0.24 X 104) 35. (2.53 X 103) / (0.24 X 104) 36. (2.53 X 103) + (0.24 X 104) 37. (2.53 X 103) – (0.24 X 104)
Part III. Chapter 1 and 2 Review
You are two read chapters 1 and 2 from Withgott and Brennan: Environmental Science the Science behind the Stories. These two chapters are found at the end of this document. Answer the following questions after reading each chapter.
● Chapter 1 Questions:
1. What do renewable and nonrenewable resources have in common? How are they different? Identify two renewable and two nonrenewable resources.
2. How and why did the agricultural revolution affect human population size? How and why did the industrial revolution affect human population size? Explain what environmental impacts have resulted.
3. What is the tragedy of the commons? Explain how the concept might apply to an unregulated industry that is a source of water pollution.
4. What is environmental science? Name several disciplines involved in environmental science.
5. Describe the scientific method. What is its typical sequence of steps? Explain the difference between the independent variable and dependent variable.
6. Give examples of three major environmental problems in the world today along with their causes. How are these problems interrelated? Can you name a potential solution for each?
7. How can sustainable development be defined? What is meant by the triple bottom line? Why is it important to pursue sustainable development?
● Chapter 2 Questions:
1. What are the basic building blocks of matter? Provide several examples using chemicals common in Earth’s physical or biological systems.
2. Describe two major forms of energy and give examples of each.
3. State the first law of thermodynamics. Now compare it to the second law of thermodynamics.
4. Describe three major sources of energy that power Earth’s environmental systems.
5. What substances are produced by photosynthesis? By cellular respiration? By chemosynthesis?
6. Name the primary layers that make up our planet. Which portions does the lithosphere include?
7. Describe what occurs at a divergent plate boundary. What happens at a transform plate boundary. Compare and contrast the types of processes that can occur at a convergent plate boundary.
8. Name the three main types of rocks, and describe how each type may be converted to the others via the rock cycle.
9. What causes earthquakes? What is a tsunami, and what causes them? How does a Hawaiian volcano such as Kilauea differ from a volcano in the Cascades of North America such as Mount Saint Helens?
Part IV. APES: Biome Cards Assignment
Devise a way to study the information on each of the biomes listed below. This information should include biome locations, climate conditions, and unique environmental conditions specific to a given biome (ie permafrost in the tundra), types of flora and fauna present and adaptations required by the flora and fauna to survive in the given biome.
• Chemistry: studies types of matter - Along with how they interact
• Chemistry is crucial for understanding:- How gases contribute to global climate change- How pollutants cause acid rain- The effects on health of wildlife and people- Water pollution- Wastewater treatment- Atmospheric ozone depletion - Energy issues
• Element = a fundamental type of matter - A chemical substance with a given set of properties
• Atoms = the smallest components that maintain an element’s chemical properties
• The atom’s nucleus (center) has protons (positively charged particles) and neutrons (particles lacking electric charge)- Atomic number = the number of protons
• Electrons = negatively charged particles surrounding the nucleus
• Half-life = the amount of time it takes for one-half of the atoms to give off radiation and decay- Different radioscopes have different half-lives ranging
from fractions of a second to billions of years- Uranium-235, used in commercial nuclear power, has
• Carbohydrates = atoms of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
• Sugars = simple carbohydrates of 3–7 carbons- Glucose = provides energy for cells
• Complex carbohydrates build structures and store energy- Starch = stores energy in plants- Animals eat plants to get starch- Chitin = forms shells of insects and crustaceans- Cellulose = in cell walls of plants
• Plastics = synthetic (human-made) polymers- Best known by their brand names (Nylon, Teflon,
Kevlar)• Many are derived from petroleum hydrocarbons• Valuable because they resist chemical breakdown• But they cause long-lasting waste and pollution
- Wildlife and health problems, water quality issues, harmful to marine animals, waste issues
• We must design less-polluting substances and increase recycling
• An energy source’s nature determines how easily energy can be harnessed- Fossil fuels provide lots of efficient energy - Sunlight is spread out and difficult to harness
• Energy conversion efficiency = the ratio of useful energy output to the amount needing to be input- Only 16% of the energy released is used to power
the automobile – the rest is lost as heat- 5% of a lightbulb’s energy is converted to light- Geothermal’s 7–15% efficiency is not bad
Landslides are a form of mass wasting• Landslide = a severe, sudden mass wasting
- Large amounts of rock or soil collapse and flow downhill
• Mass wasting = the downslope movement of soil and rock due to gravity- Rains saturate soils and trigger mudslides- Erodes unstable hillsides and damages property- Caused by humans when soil is loosened or exposed
• Lahars = extremely dangerous mudslides - Caused when volcanic eruptions melt snow- Huge volumes of mud race downhill
• On December 26, 2004 an earthquake off Sumatra triggered a massive tsunami that hit Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, and African countries- Killed 228,000 and displaced 1–2 million more
According to the first law of thermodynamics:a) Energy cannot be created or destroyed b) Things tend to move toward a more disorderly statec) Matter can be created, but not energyd) Kinetic energy is the most efficient source of energy