AP Environmental Science (APES) Summer Assignment

 

1.        Watch the video “Home” on Youtube.com and answer the questions on the worksheet.  When finished save it by adding your last name to the title and send the document to lchsdre@gmail.com.

2.        Fill in a chart similar to the one below for each of the following pieces of legislation or treaties.  There will be a quiz on these laws the second week of school.

Name

Function of Legislation or Treaty

Unit  

Clean Air Act

Established primary and secondary air quality standards. Required states to develop implementation plans. Sets limits and goals to reduce mobile source air pollution and ambient air quality standards.

Air

 

Clean Air Act

Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Acts

Occupational Safety and Health Act

Clean Water Acts

Hardrock Mining and Reclamation

Ocean Dumping Ban Act

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation Liability Act

Kyoto Protocol

Oil Pollution Act

Consumer Product Safety Act

Law of the Sea Convention

Oil Spill Prevention and Liability Act

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species

Marine Mammal Protection Act

Pollution Prevention Act

Emergency Planning & Community Right-To-Know Act

Marine Plastic Pollution Research and Control Act

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

Endangered Species Act

Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act

Safe Drinking Water Act

Energy Policy Act

Montreal Protocol

Soil and Water Conservation Act

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

National Energy Act

Solid Waste Disposal Act

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act

National Environmental Policy Act

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act

Federal Water Pollution Control Act

National Park Act

Toxic Substances Control Act

Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act

National Wildlife Refuge System Act

Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

Food Quality Protection Act

Nuclear Waste Policy Act

Wilderness Act


3.        Make sure to visit the website at http://home.lcusd.net/lchs/mewoldsen/, but note that it may be changing through the summer.                   

 

Dr. E