Environmental Last Test Information

NOTE: Make sure you go over all of these including re-watching the short movies. Some of the material was not assigned in class, but is an important review for material I did cover (such as the bullet "Information on Hormone Disrupters") At the very least, consider them to be outside reading assignments that can be covered in the test.

• Human Impact on Ecosystems (This version has removed all the links you do not need. You should follow the remaining links on the page)
• Global Warming and Climate Change (This version has removed all the links you do not need. You should follow the remaining links on the page)
• 20/20 Stossal-Gore Debate
• Audio Resource: California Warming
• Audio Resource: Rapid Glacial Melting
• "Crude- The Incredible Journey of Oil" If you missed the lab you can watch the whole movie here with interviews and other shorts.
• Bush's Greenhouse Emissions Speech (16 April 2007- Last Wednesday)
• New York Times analysis of Bush's greenhouse emissions speech: Empty Promises on Warming
• Hormones in the Environment Lecture Pix
• Information of Hormone Disruptors is HERE. Be sure to read all eight pages!
• Videos

  • Estrogens and Cancer (~ 2 min)

  • Bisphenol A (~ 2 min)

  • Chemicals in the environment (part 1)

  • Chemicals in the environment (part 2)

  • Pesticides and Male Fertility (~ 2 min)

• Choose two and read them

  • Intersex Fish

  • More frog troubles: Herbicides may Emasculate Wild Males

  • The Gender Benders (Alligators)

  • Polar bears

  • The Demise of Human Sperm

• Kermit to Kermette?   NOTE: Something related to this will be on the test. E-mail me the answers by 25 April. You may work in pairs.

Presentation on Wednesday (8:00-11:00)

• Your PowerPoint presentation should be run in about 5 minutes. I'll give you a little lead-way if you go a bit over, but we won't be able to finish the presentations within the 3 hours if I let you go on too long. Those working in groups should shoot for 8 min. DO A PRACTICE RUN TO MAKE SURE YOU CAN FINISH IN THE ALLOTTED TIME!
• Both the PowerPoint and your paper are due on Wednesday. You should submit both by e-mail.
• General considerations for a presentation
  • Don't change fonts (or font size). If you do that too often, your presentation begins to look like a ransom note (generate your own here).
  • Make SURE that the text is high-contrast. Often, if you use a picture as a background, portions of your talk will be obscured.
  • If you save a graph, do so in GIF format (jpegs blur a graph). Also, generate the graph in the size you want for use since re-sizing graphs will often make portions of it unusable (especially line graphs).
  • Pictures should be scaled in a paint package, not scaled in PowerPoint. Making a really big picture smaller in PowerPoint does not decrease it's file size.
  • Don't use effects like sentences zooming around the screen, slide transitions, and sound effects. They only detract from your talk.
  • Don't write what your going to say on the screen (that's for your note cards). Make an outline instead.
  • Save a copy of the presentation on your thumb drive along with any movies, etc. that you need. Make sure the presentation works on your thumb drive (preferably on another computer).
  • Also save a copy on your W drive (just in case).
  • Use the thumb drive for your presentation so we don't have to wait for you to log on/log off. The W drive is only a backup.
  • And no, I won't take off for these. They're just good sense.
  • All your base are belong to us.
• Figure on 5-8 pages for your paper or 10-12 if working in groups.