Everything said on the last review sheet goes the same for this exam.  Your exam will be similar to the last exam with the following exceptions:

1. The exam may be shorter overall.

As with the last exam, I encourage you to come talk to me about material you don’t understand or questions that you have. 

Major themes

 

Specific concepts

Not necessarily an all inclusive list of concepts. Go through the lecture outlines and your textbook for additional concepts that I may have left off this list .

Watershed, estuary, hydrologic cycle, evaporation, transpiration, evapo-trasnpiration, aquifers, dissolved oxygen, DO saturation, anoxic water. Biological Oxygen Demand, point source and non-point source pollution, Primary treatment, secondary treatment. Have a broad understanding of the Thames Estuary case study and of how John Snow's map helped to determine the cause of the Cholera epidemic,  hydrologic cycle, watersheds, groundwater, freshwater, aquifers, safe aquifer yield, saltwater intrusion, unconfined aquifers, confined aquifers, Ogallala aquifer, Aral Sea crisis.  Wetlands, Feedback, positive and negative feedback, turbidity, filter feeders, salinity, limiting nutrients, natural eutrophication, cultural eutrophication, reaeration, advanced wastewater treatment.  Troposphere, aerosols, stratosphere, ozone, mesosphere, thermosphere, importance of oxygen, negative and positive lapse rates, thermal inversion, particulate matter, incomplete combustion. Sources and effects of the following air pollutants: particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, atmospheric hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxide, ozone, photochemical smog, carbon dioxide, methane. Acid rain. primary and secondary air pollutants.History of air pollution in Pittsburgh, Clean Air Act of 1970, ambient air quality standards, National Ambient air Quality Standards, Clean Air act of 1990, Difference between command and control and market-based strategies. Long range transport. International/global air pollution issues. Connection between energy production and air pollution.

Case Studies

Here is a list of the case studies and examples we discussed in class or that are in your book.  See how well you can reconstruct these on your own.

Pollution on the Thames River
Pollution in Chesapeake Bay
The Aral Sea
Water Use in the West and in Arizona (Klamath River, Colorado River/Central Arizona Project)
Air pollution in Pittsburgh, London, LA, Denver, and Chesapeake Bay, Houston
Air pollution legislation in the United States
International air pollution issues

Discussion Topics

Watersheds—Klamath River and Lake Michigan Water
Air Pollution