Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Chapter 11 key issue 3 pollution project grade. Comment individually as well.

Group 1 Noah, tilton, Bowden 
1. What are the differences between point source pollution and no point source pollution?  Give examples.
2.  Why has the Aral Sea shrinking?
3.  What is BOD?  
4.  What happens when water becomes loaded with municipal sewage or industrial waste?
5.  How can non polluted warm water affect fish?
6.  Give an example from Youtube clip of a place with air pollution.  Was it in a developed country or developing country? What stage of the Demographic transition is the country in?

Group 2 Mac lisicia, Mahoney, carver
1.  Why are geographers particularly interested in the effects of acid precipitation?
2.  What are the three basic components of urban air pollution? 
3. Where is the worst area in the US for concentrations of particulates?
4.  The ten most polluted cities are in _____________ regions! including 4 each in _______ and ________.
5.  What has the US government done to help with hair pollution?
6.  Give an example from Youtube clip of a place with waste pollution.  Was it in a developed country or developing country? What stage of the Demographic transition is the country in?

Group 3 clay, Gregar, kochanik
1. What is the stratosphere?
2.  What does the ozone layer do?
3.  Give some examples of CFCS.  Why are they so threatening to the environment?
4.  Where is the country of Kiribati?  
5.  How is global warming damaging the island country of Kiribati?
6.  Give an example from Youtube clip of a place with water pollution. Was it in a developed country or developing country? What stage of the Demographic transition is the country in?

Group 4 Tate, Hughes, chu 
1.  What is air pollution.  
2.  When a country's per capita income increases so does it's what?  Some wealthy countries located where are exceptions?
3.  What is the cause of global warming and why is global warming something to worry about?
4. Most air pollution is generated by what?
5. What is the greenhouse effect?  
6.  What was the most polluted place on the video and was it in a developed country or developing country? What stage of the Demographic transition is the country in?

Monday, March 24, 2014

Chapter 11 key issue 2 group questions. Get in your groups and complete questions for project grade! 3/25/14

Group 1 Noah, tilton, Bowden 
How do site and situation factors affect cost for companies?
Minerals are one of two types.  Name the two types and give three examples of each.
What is the difference between ferrous and nonferrous metals? Name three of each and where they are mainly located.

Group 2 Mac lisicia, Mahoney, carver
What is a bulk gaining industry?
List some fabricated goods you have in your homes.  
What is the major principal input placed in beverage containers?
What are single market manufacturers? Give examples as well.
Give four examples of perishable products you or your families use.
What are the four ways that puts and products are transported?  List them from most expensive to least expensive!
What is break of bulk point and give an example.  

Group 3 clay, Gregar, kochanik
List and explain the four steps of copper production.  
2/3s of U.S. Copper is mined in what state?
What are the two principal inputs in steel production?
Explain the distribution of steel production in terms of why it changed and where it changed?
What are minimills?
What are the 10 car makers that control 85% of the world's sales? Where are they located?

Group 4 Tate, Hughes, chu 
List and explain the three site factors.  
What is a labor- intensive industry? Give examples.
What are the three principal steps of textile and apparel production?


Chapter 11 Key Issue 1 group questions. Just post the answers!

1.  Define Industrial Revolution.  (include dates, where it started, major people, inventions, etc..)
2.  How did people acquire there household tools and agriculture equipment prior to the Industrial Revolution?
3.  What is a cottage industry? Give two examples.
4.  Name the regions in which industry is concentrated in.  What do these areas have that make them industrial centers?
5. Where is most of the industry in the U.S.?
6.  Where is the most of the industry in East Asia?

Monday, February 10, 2014

Chapter 8 group questions

Post your group member's names, the questions, and the answers here.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Ethnicity Group Project

Please post all your answers here for the Ethnicity Group Project.