APES…please take out your Mania questions

Please read the paper on “Book Club” The first step is signing up for a book. You will read in pairs and then discuss and finally present to the class how it relates to the

topics explored in APES

Connections• Tie everything together…”the cows trample the ground causing less

INFILTRATION so more RUNOFF, causing the TURBIDITY (SUSPENED SOLIDS) to increase, decreasing PHOTOSYNTHESIS which decreases the amount of DO which puts stress on the INTOLERANT organisms like stoneflies, trout, etc.. The runoff from the farm could also carry fertilizers like NITRATES and PHOSPHATES, which could cause EUTROPHICATION which in turn could cause an ALGAL BLOOM causing an OXYGEN SAG directly downstream from the runoff. FECAL COLIFORM would also increase raising the BOD and placing possible PATHOGENS in the river. Again DO would lower because DECOMPOSERS would break down the BOD using oxygen thus decreasing INTOLERANT organisms.”

Terms/Concepts/Projects for water

• Ogallala Aquifer• Three Gouges Dam• Desalination plants…Saudi Arabia• pH scale• Watershed• Reservoir• Water Table• Recharge• Aquifer

Continued

• Hypoxia• Distribution of water• Use of water• Sublimation• Evaporation• Infiltration• Discharge• Transpiration• condensation

Continued

• Pharmaceutical chemicals and waste water

• Cone of depression

• RCRA, CERCLA, SARA

• Large Dams pros and cons

• Mono Lake, James Bay Project, Hetch Hetchy, Loves Canal

• Oligotrophic vs. Eutrophic

Continued• Hydric soil, hydrophytes, hydrology• Biomagnification• Lake Chad, Lake Baikal, Lake Titicaca• Nonpoint source vs. point source pollution• Planktic, benthic, littoral zone, thermocline, epilimnion, hypolimnion• Saltwater intrusion• Subsidence• Best management practices…• Salinization, desterification• Temperature and DO relationship• Pollution “plume”• ppm