Download Final Exam Study Guide 2016-17

Final Exam Study Guide 2016-17
PowerPoints and notes can be found on my teacher webpage.
Human Populations
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Demographics
History of Human population growth
Population growth factors
Total Fertility Rate
o Factors that affect rates
Death rates and life expectancy
o Factors that affect rates
Migration, immigration, and emigration
Age structure diagrams
o Future population growth
o Baby Boomer generation
Slowing population growth
Demographic Transition
o Four Stages
Empowering women
o Fertility rates
o Growth rate with women’s rights
Urbanization
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Current trends
Advantages and disadvantages of urban life
United States urbanization
Urban sprawl
Urban climate
IPAT model
Smart growth
Ecocities
o Characteristics
o Advantages and disadvantages
Climate and Pollution
- Weather vs. climate
- Atmosphere composition and structure
- Atmospheric processes
- Air pollution
- Primary vs. Secondary
- Sources (stationary vs. mobile)
- Classes of air pollutants
- Particulate Material
- Nitrogen Oxides
- Sulfur Oxides
- Carbon Oxides
- Hydrocarbons
- Ozone
- Smog
- Photochemical vs. Sulfurous
- Thermal inversion
- Health effects of air pollution
- Air Quality index (AQI)
- Controlling pollution
- Electrostatic precipitators and scrubbers
- Automobiles (catalytic converter)
- Clean Air Act
- Ozone depletion
- Indoor Air pollution
- Sources
- Controlling indoor pollution
Climate Change
- How we study climate
- Historical records
- Ice cores
- Tree rings
- Sediment
- Coral
- Greenhouse effect
- Ocean’s effect on climate change
- Global surface temperature
- Polar amplification
- Atmospheric CO2 concentration
- Potential Effects
- Changes in river flow
- Sea level rise
- Glacial and ice cap melting
- Changes in biodiversity
- Agriculture production
- Adjusting to climate change
- Adapt or mitigate
- CO2 emissions reduction
- Reforestation
- CO2 capture