1. draw age structure diagrams for: a country undergoing rapid growth, a country whose population is stable, and a country whose population is declining.
2. describe what is happening during each stage of the demographic transition; what cultural factors affect the demographic transition of a country
3. calculate population growth, CBR, CDR, doubling time
4. describe characteristics of K-strategists vs r-strategists; sketch population growth of a K-strategists, label carrying capacity
5. survivorship curves - three types
6. describe soil horizons, soil particle types, use a soil texture triangle to identify %sand %silt %clay
7. impacts of clearcutting on a forest
8. watersheds, groundwater recharge, how does urbanization affect the water cycle
9. sustainability - what is it? what practices/ changes would have greatest impact on achieving sustainability
10.steps of wastewater treatment - what happens and what is removed
11. biocontrol/ biological control - benefits? risks?
12. photochemical smog - how does it form? what are ingredients? what are hazards? how do thermal inversions impact it?
13. sources of CO2 - natural and anthropogenic
14. indoor air pollutants - identify the major ones and where they come from
15. point source pollution vs non point source pollution
16. oxygen sag curve - what is happening in each section
17. persistent organic pollutants (what are they? examples?), bioaccumulation vs biomagnification
18. LD50/ LC50 - read it from a graph, what does it mean, what is safe level of a toxin for environment? for humans?
19. eutrophication
20. stratospheric ozone depletion - what chemicals cause it? what are the impacts? how can it be prevented/ reversed?
21. describe two causes of sea level rise; what are impacts of sea level rise?
22. how does ocean acidification occur, how does it impact corals and other sea life?
23. list the threats to biodiversity? which is the greatest threat?
24. what is habitat fragmentation? how does it impact biodiversity?