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High School Environmental Science Unit 1: Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability T3CB1PO1 - Identify factors effecting population growth. T3CB2PO2 - Evaluate strategies for maintaining a sustainable society. T3CB2PO3 - Survey related case studies and national policies. T3CB3PO4 - Analyze the impacts of population growth on hunger, disease, the economy, resource use and habitat destruction. S3C1PO1 - Evaluate how the processes of natural ecosystems affect, and are affected by, humans. Unit 2: Science, Matter, and Energy T2C1PO1 - Describe the importance of the Law of Conservation of Matter. T2C2PO1 - Identify the forms of energy and their corresponding units. Unit 3: The Basics of Ecosystems Unit 4: Population Ecology T3C1PO1 - Identify the components of ecological niches. T4C1PO1 - Distinguish among roles played by species. T3C2PO1 - Analyze the importance of keystone species to communities. T2C3PO1 - Describe the law of thermodynamics. T3C3PO1 - Analyze the importance of species diversity to sustainability of ecosystems T3C4PO1 - Identify major characteristics of biomes including defining species, climate, and location. T4C1PO2 - Distinguish among and give examples of species interactions including interspecific competition, predation, and symbiosis. T4C1PO3 - Identify ways the populations change in size. T3C5PO1 - Identify the importance of the water, carbon and nitrogen cycles to ecosystems. S3C2PO2 - Recognize the importance of basing arguments on a thorough understanding of the core concepts and principles of science and technology. S3C2PO3 - Support a position on a science or technology issue. T3C6PO1 - Identify the importance of the sulfur cycle S3C3PO1 - Analyze social factors that limit the growth of a human population. S3C3PO2 - Describe biotic and abiotic factors that affect human populations. T3C8PO1 - Describe the importance of the Law of Conservation of Matter to ecosystems. S4C3PO1 - Identify the relationships among organisms within populations, communities, ecosystems, and biomes. S4C4PO1 - Identify the following components of natural selection, which can lead to speciation: S4C4PO3 - Describe how the continuing operation of natural selection underlies a population’s ability to adapt to changes in the environment and leads to biodiversity and the origin of new species. T3C7PO1 - Identify the importance of the phosphorus cycle T4C2PO1- Identify the limiting factors that determine the carrying capacity of a species. T4C3PO1 - Compare and contrast different reproductive strategies to include R-selected species, K-selected species, and their length of survivorship. T4C4PO1 - Examine historical population sizes, distribution, demographic transitions and fertility rates. T4C4PO2- Discuss how fertility rates influence population growth rates and doubling times. T4C4PO3 - Analyze age-structure diagrams. T4C5PO1 - Explore strategies for maintaining sustainable populations. T4C5PO2 - Survey related case studies and national policies. T4C6PO1 - Identify factors that impact population growth to include hunger, disease, economic effects, resource use, and habitat High School Environmental Science Unit 5: Sustaining Biodiversity T7C1PO2 - Evaluate how habitat loss, overuse and pollution affect biodiversity. Unit 6: Economics, Politics, and Worldviews T4CG1PO1 - Discuss the impact that a global economy has had on the environment T7C1PO3 - Evaluate how introduced species affect biodiversity. T4CG2PO1 - Explain the goals of the World Bank in relation to environmental issues and the methods to achieve these goals T4CG2PO1 - Explain how lack of ownership can lead to the tragedy of the commons T7C1PO4 - Summarize the impact that human actions have on number and rate of species becoming endangered and extinct. T7C2PO1 - Discuss how biodiversity can be maintained through conservation. T7C3PO1 - Evaluate the effectiveness of the relevant laws and treaties. S3C1PO5 - Evaluate the effectiveness of conservation practices and preservation techniques on environmental quality and biodiversity. T4CG4PO1 - Describe relevant laws and treaties to include economic devices such as trade restrictions, embargoes, tariffs and quotas. Include NAFTA, Cuban embargo. Unit 7: Food, Soil, and Pest Management Unit 8: Water and Water Pollution T4CA1PO1 - Analyze how the need to feed the global population contributed to environmental degradation including deforestation, increasing soil salinity due to irrigation techniques and loss of topsoil T4CA1PO2 - Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of various types of agriculture T1C1PO1 - Describe the available water resources on Earth and their distribution T4CA1PO3 - Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of genetic engineering in relation to crop production T1C5PO1 - Analyze how the distribution of fresh water has led to global water availability concerns T4CA1PO4 - Describe the Green Revolution, its goals and its effectiveness S6C1PO5 - Describe factors that impact current and future water quantity and quality including surface, ground and local water issues T4CA2PO1 - Evaluate the effectiveness of different types of pesticides to including the following factors: cost, benefits, drawbacks, relevant laws T4CA2PO2 - Evaluate the effectiveness of integrated pest management including biological controls, cultivation controls, benefits, and drawbacks S6C1PO6 - Analyze methods of reclamation and conservation of water. T6CA3viiiPO1 - Summarize the Clean Water Act T6CA3viiiPO2 - Discuss the success and deficiencies of the act. T1C3PO1 - Describe the uses of fresh water for agricultural, industrial and domestic purposes T6CA3iPO1 - Discuss the types and sources of water pollution T6CA3iiPO1 - Analyze the causes and effects of water pollution. T6CA3iiiPO1 - Analyze the causes and effects of cultural eutrophication. T6CA3ivPO1 - Analyze the causes and effects of ground water pollution. T6CA3vPO1 - Summarize the methods for maintaining water quality T6CA3viPO1 - Summarize the methods for purifying water T6CA3viiPO1 - Identify the methods of sewage treatment and septic systems High School Environmental Science Unit 9: Solid and Hazardous Waste Unit 10: Air Pollution, climate change, and ozone depletion T6CA4PO1 – Analyze advantages and disadvantages of the various methods of waste disposal. T6CA4PO2 – Identify the primary components necessary for waste decomposition. T6CA1iPO1 - Describe primary air pollutants. T6CA1viiiPO2 - Discuss the causes and effects of sick-building syndrome. T6CA1iPO2 - Describe secondary air pollutants. T5CB1PO1 - Analyze the historical use of energy. T6CA4PO3 - Identify methods of waste reduction T6CA1iiPO1 - Describe the major air pollutants including: carbon oxides, nitrogen oxides, nitric acid, sulfur dioxide, sulfuric acid, particulates, ozone, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), and radioactive radon. T6CA1iiiPO1 - Identify the units of measure for air pollution. T6CA1ixPO1 - Discuss remediation and reduction strategies for indoor and outdoor air pollution. T6CA1xPO1 - Summarize the Clean Air Act. T6CA1xPO2 - Discuss the success and deficiencies of the act T5CB2PO1 - Identify current global energy use. T6CA1ivPO1 - Describe how industrial smog is created and where it is usually found. S3C1PO2 - Describe the environmental effects of the following natural and/or human caused hazards: flooding, drought, earthquakes, fires, pollution, and extreme weather. T5CB3PO1 - Predict future energy needs based on anticipated increases in human population. T6CA1ivPO2 - Describe how photochemical smog is generated. S3C1PO4 - Evaluate the following factors that affect the quality of the environment: urban development T5CC1PO1 - Identify the earth processes that result in the formation of coal, oil and natural gas. T6CA1vPO1 - Discuss the causes and effects of acid deposition. T6CA1viPO1 - Discuss how temperature inversions form. T6CA1viPO2 - Analyze the impact of temperature inversions on outdoor pollution. T6CA1viPO3 - Discuss how heat islands are formed. T6CA1viiiPO1 - Discuss the health risks due to indoor air pollution. Unit 11: Energy Resources and Consumption T5CA1PO1 - Identify the forms of energy that are currently available. T5CB1PO2 - Identify turning points in history that caused changes in the types of energy available and the quantities of energy used. T5CC2PO1 - Analyze current extraction and purification methods to include the following factors: costs, environmental degradation, ease of extraction. T5CC3PO1 - Compare and contrast the current amount of fossil fuel available in the world and the global demand. T5CC4PO1 - Identify how synfuels are created. T5CC5PO2 - Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of synfuel use T5CD1PO1 - Describe the process of nuclear fission. High School Environmental Science Unit 11: Energy Resources and Consumption (continued) T5CD2PO1 - Describe the nuclear fuel cycle including the following components: acquisition and refining of uranium, use of uranium in creating energy, and storing the resulting waste. T5CD3PO1 - Describe how the process of nuclear fission results in electricity production. T5CD4PO1 - Describe the different types of nuclear reactors. T5CD5PO1 - Analyze the environmental advantages and disadvantages to utilizing nuclear power. T5CD6PO1 - Discuss the safety concerns to utilizing nuclear power. T5CD6PO2 - Survey case studies involving breaches in human safety at nuclear power plants including Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. T5CD7PO1 - Analyze the effect that radiation has on human health. weather. T5CD8PO1 - Discuss methods of storing radioactive wastes. T5CD8PO2 - Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the methods of storing radioactive waste. T5CD9PO1 - Discuss the process of nuclear fusion. T5CE2PO1 - Discuss the impact that dams can have on aquatic species such as salmon. T5CE3PO1 - Discuss the environmental impacts that dams can have such as silting. T5CF1PO1 - Discuss CAFE standards for increasing fuel efficiency in automobiles. T5CF2PO1 - Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of hybrid vehicles. T5CF3PO1 - Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of utilizing mass transit. T5CG1-7PO1 - Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energy sources. S3CC3PO2 - Describe the environmental effects of the following natural and/or human caused hazards: flooding, drought, earthquakes, fires, pollution, extreme Unit 12: Environmental Hazards and Human Health T6CB1iPO1 - Define risk analysis. T6CB1iPO2 - List examples of common human hazards. T6CB1iiPO1 - Compare acute (short-term) and chronic (long-term) effects. T6CB1iv-vPO1 - Describe how air pollutants and smoking can adversely affect human health.