POLS 1101- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 20 pages long!)
6 Oct 2017
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Things to study for pols 1101 test: ch. 4 and 5, part 3 in bullock and gaddie. 2nd trophic level: consumers take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide. Chain: food web is rather than a food chain. Nutrient cycles: every bit of nutrient in you was in the environment at some point. Sulfur cycle: 2 amino acids hold sulfur in their structure. Effects on forests and plants: directly damages leaves suddenly be mobilized which is dangerous, mobilizes toxic metals in the soil with acid rain, the metals in the soil will. Major causes of sulfur deposition sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide: leaches nutrients from soil, excess nitrates over stimulates plants. Current directions in sox control: switching to low sulfur coal, using scrubbers to remove so2 emissions, washing coal removes up to 50% of the sulfur, advanced combustion technologies. Based on programs similar to national pollution elimination discharge system (npdes) State programs must be approved by the usepa.
