COURSE DESCRIPTION:  This course focuses on the application of scientific process to environmental analysis; ecology; energy flow; ecological structures; earth systems; and atmospheric, land, and water science. Topics also include the management of natural resources and analysis of private and governmental decisions involving the environment.

QUARTERLY OBJECTIVES

QRT1: Nature of Science; Sustainability; Ecosystem Dynamics

QRT2: Food Soil, & Argriculture; Water Resources & Water Pollution; Geology & Mineral Resources; Nonrewable & Renewable Resources

QRT3: Biodiversity & Evolution; Species Interactions, Ecological Succession, & Population Control; Ecosystem & Climate; Saving Species & Ecosystem Services; Sustaing Biodiversity

QRT4: Human Population & Urbanization; Environmental Hazards & Human Health; Air Pollution, Climate Change, & O-Zone Depletion; Solid & Hazardous Waste; Economics, Politics, & Worldviews