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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 4 DQ 1<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 4 DQ 1<br />

View the Ch. 7 “Alien Invasion” Environmental Science video located on the<br />

student website.<br />

Explain the four factors that produce changes in population size.<br />

Which factors affect population size in the video?<br />

What do you predict will happen to the nutria population after the land is depleted<br />

of the food resource?<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 9 Individual Assignment Environmental Science Final Project<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 9 Individual Assignment Environmental Science Final Project<br />

Focus on a specific environmental problem within your selected topic. Your topic,<br />

for example, could be Atmospheric Issues, and your environmental problem could<br />

be global warming.<br />

Write a 1,750- to 2,100-word paper that formulates a mitigation plan for your<br />

specific environmental problem. Include the following:<br />

Detailed description of the problem<br />

Nonliving and living factors that contribute to or are affected by the problem<br />

Positive or negative human impacts<br />

Evaluation of current sustainability strategies and solutions<br />

Your plan to reach sustainability (See Appendix F)<br />

Benefits and challenges of your plan<br />

Required government, societal, and global support


Include at least four outside sources. Two of the four sources should be peerreviewed.<br />

If you need assistance with identifying a peer-reviewed article, review<br />

the Finding Peer-Reviewed Articles in the Library document.<br />

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 9 Capstone DQ<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 9 Capstone DQ<br />

Post your response to the following: If you were an environmental researcher and<br />

were given funding to assist with one environmental issue, which of the following<br />

topics would you choose to spend your funds on?<br />

o Human population<br />

o Atmospheric pollution<br />

o Water resources<br />

o Terrestrial resources<br />

o Energy conservation<br />

What influenced your choice? What would the ultimate goal of your research be?<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 8 Individual Assignment Energy Resource Plan<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 8 DQ 2<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 8 DQ 2<br />

Describe three renewable energy sources from Ch. 18 of Visualizing<br />

Environmental Science. What are the benefits and challenges of each of these<br />

energy sources?<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 8 DQ 1<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 8 DQ 1<br />

Describe three nonrenewable energy sources from Ch. 17 of Visualizing<br />

Environmental Science. What are the benefits and challenges of each of these<br />

energy sources?<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 7 Individual Assignment American Rangeland And Forest<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 7 DQ 2<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 7 DQ 2<br />

Choose one of the following terrestrial resource challenges: loss of<br />

agricultural land or reducing solid waste.


Address the following: What are the challenges of managing your chosen<br />

terrestrial resource issue? What human activities contribute to the problem?<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 7 DQ 1<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 7 DQ 1<br />

View the Don’t Say Goodbye<br />

Address the following: Identify a viewpoint given in the video that highlights the<br />

importance of biodiversity. Do you believe that every species is connected to one<br />

another as expressed in the video? Why or why not?<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 6 Individual Assignment The Water Resource Depleting Fish<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 6 DQ 2<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 6 DQ 2<br />

Choose an anthropogenic issue affecting the global oceans and summarize it for<br />

the class. Why is it important? How have humans caused or exacerbated this issue?<br />

What are the effects of this issue?<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 5 Individual Assignment Atmospheric Issues<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 5 Individual Assignment Atmospheric Issues<br />

Choose an atmospheric issue (ozone depletion, climate change, or acid rain, for<br />

example) and compare and contrast it to an indoor air pollution.<br />

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that does the following:<br />

Identifies an atmospheric issue and identifies an indoor air pollutant.<br />

Summarizes the causes and effects of each.<br />

Discusses the efforts to mitigate the effects of each.<br />

Discusses a current event related to the atmospheric issue and indoor air pollution<br />

issue.<br />

Format your citations consistent with APA guidelines.<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 6 DQ 1<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 6 DQ 1<br />

What is one way you are currently conserving water? What is one way that you are<br />

not conserving water? What actions and technologies could you employ to make<br />

your own water use more sustainable? Explain.<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 5 DQ 2<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 5 DQ 2


Review the variety of indoor pollutant hazards posted on the Environmental<br />

Protection Agency (EPA) Web site at<br />

http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/insidest.html#Refguide<br />

Address the following: Describe at least three potential indoor air quality (IAQ)<br />

hazards in your home. What are the possible health impacts of each hazard? Do<br />

you believe your health is at risk based on your exposure to the three IAQ hazards?<br />

Why or why not? What can you do to reduce exposure to the hazard?<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 5 DQ 1<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 5 DQ 1<br />

Enter assignment in this column Go to the Emissions Calculator Web site at Fill<br />

out the survey to the best of your knowledge to calculate the total pounds of air<br />

pollution your household emits.<br />

http://airhead.cnt.org/Calculator/?sid=a743a150a5f5ff4c72817e723b7c8c14<br />

Address the following: What was your highest contributor? What can you do to<br />

lower your total? What is your greatest challenge in lowering your total? When<br />

you review other students’ posts, suggest how they might control air emissions for<br />

their situations.<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 4 Individual Assignment The Benefits And Challenges Of<br />

Urbanization<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 4 DQ 2<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 4 DQ 2<br />

Which factor do you think would have a larger impact on the fertility rate: the<br />

increased education of men or of women? Why?<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 3 DQ 2<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 3 DQ 2<br />

Why is evolution a multigenerational, multiindividual process? What can evolution<br />

not take place in the lifetime of one individual?<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 3 Individual Assignment Lemurs In Madagascar<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 3 Individual Assignment Lemurs in Madagascar<br />

Watch the “Lemurs in Madagascar: Surviving on an Island of Change” video,<br />

located on the Week Three ERR page.Complete the corresponding worksheet.<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 3 DQ 1<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 3 DQ 1


View the biome maps in Ch. 6 of Visualizing Environmental Science. Determine<br />

the biome in which you live. What are the major biotic and abiotic factors in your<br />

biome? Describe a food web or chain that might be found in your biome. Be sure<br />

your chain or web has at least three trophic levels.<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 2 Individual Assignment Conservation And Preservation<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 2 DQ 1<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 2 DQ 1<br />

How does the precautionary principle fit into our current risk assessment model?<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 2 DQ 2<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 2 DQ 2<br />

How do the steps involved in a risk assessment keep the public safe? How could<br />

the steps of risk assessment be applied in the community environmental issue from<br />

Week One?<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 1 Individual Assignment Community Environmental Issues<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 1 Individual Assignment Community Environmental Issues<br />

Choose an environmental report about an issue in your state or community.<br />

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper answering these questions:<br />

1. What is the issue?<br />

2. Why is this an environmental sustainability issue?<br />

3. Whom does it affect?<br />

4. What are the causes of the issue?<br />

5. What are the environmental regulations related to this issue?<br />

6. How has this environmental issue been regulated or not regulated in the past?<br />

7. What solutions are proposed?<br />

Format your paper according to APA standards.<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 1 DQ 2<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 1 DQ 2<br />

Environmental science involves the fields of science, economics, and politics. Take<br />

a current environmental issue, such as the long-term cleanup from Hurricane


Katrina in New Orleans, and examine it from the scientific, economic, and political<br />

perspectives. Which perspective do you think wins out and why?<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Complete Course<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Complete Course<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 1 DQ 1<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 1 DQ 2<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 1 Individual Assignment Community Environmental Issues<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 2 DQ 1<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 2 DQ 2<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 2 Individual Assignment Conservation and Preservation<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 3 DQ 1<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 3 DQ 2<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 3 Individual Assignment Lemurs in Madagascar<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 4 DQ 1<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 4 DQ 2<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 4 Individual Assignment The Benefits and Challenges of<br />

Urbanization<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 5 DQ 1<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 5 DQ 2<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 5 Individual Assignment Atmospheric Issues<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 6 DQ 1<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 6 DQ 2<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 6 Individual Assignment The Water Resource Depleting Fish<br />

stock<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 7 DQ 1<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 7 DQ 2<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 7 Individual Assignment American Rangeland and Forest<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 8 DQ 1<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 8 DQ 2<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 8 Individual Assignment Energy Resource Plan<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 9 Capstone DQ


<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 9 Individual Assignment Environmental Science Final Project<br />

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<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 1 DQ 1<br />

<strong>SCI</strong> <strong>275</strong> Week 1 DQ 1<br />

What is the difference between overpopulation and consumption<br />

overpopulation? What components would you find in an overall plan for<br />

sustainability?<br />

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