EAS 1XXX Study Guide - Final Guide: Ap Environmental Science, Resource Consumption, Daksha

• School: Georgia Tech
• Department: Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• Course: EAS 1XXX
• Professor: Arnold

Document Summary

In this lab, you will be modeling resource consumption using cereal and spoons. You will then design your own simulation and make some inferences about resource consumption in the real world. As you go through the lab, imagine that the cereal you are using is a real resource such as water, food, energy, land, minerals, coal, lumber, or wildlife. Be sure to: follow safe practices during this investigation, think about what you are modeling as you go through the investigation. The pieces of cereal represent a real-life resource. Keep in mind that the cereal could be water, food, minerals, land, or other resources. Set up and perform the three tests described below. These tests are part of an experiment designed to test the independent variable of placement of natural resources and its effect on the rate that resources can be obtained. Even distribution of nearby resources: spread 100 pieces of cereal relatively evenly across the surface of the table.