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Environmental Science Final Exam Outline The final exam will consist of around 20 open-ended questions. There will also be some insect larvae and tree identification exercises. Below is a series essential questions you should be able to answer. Please understand that these are just the basic questions; on the test more detailed questions will be asked based on the homework summaries, worksheets, and notes from class presentations: A) Aquatics: Chapter 12 essential questions: - What do we know about aquatic biodiversity and what isi its economic and ecological importance? - How are human activities affecting aquatic biodiversity? - How can we protect and sustain marine biodiversity? - How can we manage and sustain the worlds marine fisheries? - How can we protect, sustain and restore wetlands? - How can we protect, sustain and restore lakes, rivers, and freshwater fisheries? Be able to identify aquatic invertebrates using an identification guide. B) Soil Chapter 13 essential questions: -How serious are malnutrition and overnutrition? - How is the worlds food produced? - How are soils being degraded and eroded, and what can be done to reduce these losses? - What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the green revolution to produce food? - What area the advantages and disadvantages of using genetic engineering to produce food - How can we produce more meat, fish and shellfish? - How can we protect food resources from pests? - How can we produce food more sustainably? Connecticut soil primer and soil presentations: What is soil and how is it formed? The physical nature of soil The chemical characteristics of soils How soils are classified and named. Soil erosion. Nutrient and nutrient cycling in soils Composting Pest management Reading Topographical maps C) Making the Envirothon Forest. D) Wetlands: Bog Salt Marshes Wetland Functions

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