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Mr. Dickerson
AP Environmental Science 17-18
Contact me at [email protected] with any questions.
AP Environmental Science
Summer Assignment
The summer assignment is to give you an overview of AP Environmental Science. The
laws will be discussed though-out the year and will be a good reference to use with the
various topics we will cover. (Should be your work only and only done by you!!!)
*****Two and Three should be typed in 12 font in Times New Roman and put on a
FLASH DRIVE that can be turned into me for a few days and then returned when done
grading****** DO NOT PRINT OUT!!!!! Put them in the same folder labeled
Student Last name, first name, APES SUMMER ASSIGNMENT. Please label the
flash drive with your name.
1) I. (100 points) case studies
II. (90 points) influential people in environmental history.
2) III. (85 points) Create a chart like the one on Legislation and treaties in Microsoft
Word or Excel. Follow instructions given on that page.
3) IV. (25 points) Create vocabulary flash cards for the terms listed on page 4. Use 3 ½
x 5 inch notecards. Punch a hole in the top right corner and tie together.
*****This is an individual assignment and should be done all by you*****
*****Worth 3 test scores*****
**** (things we can discuss) **** As you travel this summer take pictures or video of
the various environments you are in. It can have positive or negative effects of the
environment. I like to see beautiful scenes in nature just as must as ugly
environmental effects of humans. Be observant of your surroundings and notice the
beauty of nature.
I. (10 pts each) Choose ten case studies from the following list. Research and write a 400
word summary in your own words for each case study. Focus on the key environmental
issues with each situation.
Chernobyl 1986 Colorado River
Dust Bowl 1930’s Ogallala Aquifer
3 Gorges Dam
Peppered Moth
Galapagos Finches
India 1952 family planning
China 1972 and 2000 population
Uganda – HIV
Arial Sea 1970
Aswan Dam, Egypt
Bangladesh
Gulf Oil Spill
Love Canal
3 Mile Island 1979 James Bay
Mt. St. Helen’s 1980
Tsunami Dec. 26th , 2005 BST
GMF’s (Roundup Ready Foods)
Irish Potato Famine
Minamata
Coral Reefs
Bhopal, India 1984
DDT 1939
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
Exxon Valdez
Khian Sea 1986
Easter Island
II. (10 pts each) Write a brief summary (1/2 page) outlining the environmental
contributions of each of the following names:
Rachel Carson
Ansel Adams
Aldo Leopold
Gifford Pinchot
Upton Sinclair
John Audobon
Garrett Hardin
John Muir
Theodore Roosevelt
Henry David Thoreau
Legislation or Treaties
III. Create a chart similar to the one below for each of the following pieces of
legislation or treaties.
***Set up like this in Word or Excel***
Name Function of Legislation or Treaty
Established primary and secondary air quality standards. Required states to develop
Clean
implementation plans. Sets limits and goals to reduce mobile source
Air Act
air pollution and ambient air quality standards.
Year
1990
Clean Air Act
Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Acts
Occupational Safety and Health Act
Clean Water Acts
Hardrock Mining and Reclamation
Ocean Dumping Ban Act
Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation Liability
Act
Consumer Product Safety Act
Kyoto Protocol
Oil Pollution Act
Law of the Sea Convention
Oil Spill Prevention and Liability
Act
Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species
Marine Mammal Protection Act
Pollution Prevention Act
Emergency Planning & Community
Right-To-Know Act
Marine Plastic Pollution Research
and Control Act
Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act
Endangered Species Act
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
Safe Drinking Water Act
Energy Policy Act
Montreal Protocol
Soil and Water Conservation Act
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
Act
National Energy Act
Solid Waste Disposal Act
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and
Rodenticide Act
National Environmental Policy Act
Surface Mining Control and
Reclamation Act
Federal Water Pollution Control Act
National Park Act
Toxic Substances Control Act
Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act
National Wildlife Refuge System
Act
Nuclear Waste Policy Act
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
Food Quality Protection Act
Wilderness Act
IV. Vocabulary flash cards – (.5 points each) create vocabulary flash cards with the following
terms.
Bio-accumulate
Bio-magnify
Fugitive Emissions
Death Rate
Birth Rate
Grasshopper effect
Synergistic Effects
Effluent
Green Revolution
Chronic
Acute
Influent
Pandemic
Endemic
Oxygen Sag
Emergent
Eutrophic
Criteria pollutant
GMF
GMO
Rehabilitate
Remediate
Reclamation
IPM
Sustainable
BMP
Point Source
POP’s
Non-Point Source
Exotic organism
Invasive species
LD50
Endangered species
Threatened species
ecological footprint
resilience
Conservationist
Preservationist
morbidity
mortality
Soil profile
aquaculture
1st law of thermodynamics
Salinization
desertification
2nd law of thermodynamics
Anemia
famine
organisms
clear cutting