APES - IMPACT ON SOIL
Visit the websites below and complete the activities on your own paper (except #6).
1. The Vetiver Network
Information network focusing on soil and its conservation using vetiver grasses.
ACTIVITY: In your words, explain why vetiver Grass is widely used.
2. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
This nicely designed site deals with protecting natural resources such as soil, H2O, and air.
ACTIVITY: There are things you can do to help protect the environment and add beauty and interest to your surroundings. List 5 Backyard Conservation practices.
3. Soil Characteristics Laboratory
http://silva.snr.missouri.edu/~rficklin/labpage.html
This site explains soil characteristics of each county in Missouri.
ACTIVITY: What does it mean to characterize a soil? Why do you think it's important?
4. Sciences of Soil
http://www.hintze-online.com/sos/
Sciences of Soils provides an international peer-reviewed Online Forum focusing on a broad range of topics relating to the science of soil.
ACTIVITY: List 5 soil terms from this site.
5. Soil Association Home Page
Site focuses on the education, research and development of organic foods in the fight for human environmental healthy, safety.
ACTIVITIES:
a. What are 10 reasons one should support organic farming?
b. If you were an organic farmer, what would you grow? Why?
6. Miller Resources - Good APES textbook.
ACTIVITIES: Use the pull-down menus to do flashcards then quizzes for ch's 12 and 14.
| Chapter 16 Weblinks |
7. National Geophysical Data Center
What is geomagnetism?
Click on Snow and Ice - What's new in glacier and ice shelf research?
8. Worldwide Volcanic
Activity map
Where are the world's volacanic "hot spots"?
What's up in North America?
What's shakin?
10. Click on "Historical Perspective". Sketch Pangea.
11. How was the theory developed?
12. What causes the plates to move?
13. Describe "hot spots".
14. What questions are unanswered about plate tectonics?
15. How does plate tectonics affect the human poopulation?
16. You have discovered a deposit of valuable material in the earth on public land. How do you "stake your claim"?
Office of Surface Mining (US Department
of the Interior)
17. Click on "slide show" and take copious notes.
Information for mining activists
18. What is "new" in the world of mining activists? Do find this a fair or biased site? Explain.
19. Check out these flashcards.