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Answer module review questions module 7.
Read article regarding disposal of lithium batteries, discuss the different approaches and methods being used. Review the chemistry of lithium and how it is reactive with moisture, forming hydrogen which becomes highly flammable when the batteries are removed from a device.

Discuss how nitrogen is a limiting nutrient and excess inputs can have consequences.
Discuss leaching, fertilizer additions, colonization by new species.
Read review article on recycling of lithium batteries, new methods used to recycle

View diagrams and discuss the importance of nitrogen cycle to the biosphere, as well as 5 major transformations which occur in the cycle. These are nitrogen fixation, nitrification, assimilation, mineralization, and denitrification. Each is discussed in detail.

List and discuss the pre-industrial steady state carbon exchange between the lithosphere and the atmosphere.
List and discuss the post industrial revolution activity which changes the steady process state.
Discuss the effects of fossil fuel combustion and the release of stores carbon into the atmosphere upsetting the balance.
Relate the upset to global warming.
Discuss the reasons for tree harvesting along with cutting and burning.
Elicit how the destruction of forests add carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

How human activity shifts carbon from the lithosphere into the atmosphere.
List and discuss pre industrial movement of carbon exchange as a steady process state.
List and discuss post industrial revolution exchange of carbon dioxide brought about by human activities.
Discuss the combustion of fossil fuels and increases in heat retention within the biosphere.
Discuss tree harvesting, cutting and burning allowing more carbon into the atmosphere,
From a diagram of the carbon cycle, discuss how some of this increase is offset by absorption of carbon into the oceans.

We worked on FRQ Questions and textbook work for him to complete. JPaul had already completed it in the first session of his class earlier today. I had him work on the math homework I assigned him earlier in the day. I was able to help him through the problems when he was stuck.

This morning, Matthew immediately got to work answering questions about environmental science. He used the Internet and his textbook to research the questions and wrote his answers on an activity sheet. The questions pertained to plant productivity, matter, and biogeochemical cycles. Matthew worked independently and at a consistent pace.

free response test covering information found in modules 1-5

Test, using free response questions, covering modules 1-5