SUST 100- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 35 pages long!)

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Sustainability
• Course: SUST 100
• Professor: Matthew Nelson

Document Summary

Outdoor (ambient: household pollution, cooking and heating with solid fuel, poor ventilation, also tobacco smoke, ambient pollution, sources vary greatly with region, air quality can affect multiple regions from pollution in one region. Major air pollutants: primary pollutants, volatile organic compounds. 2: particulate contained in smoke and gets deposited somewhere, carbon oxides, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, lead, air toxics, secondary pollutants, ozone, peroxyacetyl nitrates (pans, photochemical oxidants. Acid rain (deposition: acid deposition, causes, smokestacks, could create taller smokestacks (regionally rather than local problems, coal-burning, cars, dry deposition. Describing the land: biomes: assemblage of plants, animals, and other organisms that occupy a region, defined by their climate and dominant vegetation. Grasslands (cold and warm: okanagan is a semi-aired grassland. Deserts (cold and warm: antarctica or savanna. Grown naturally following some disturbance (fire, diseases, etc. : ecosystem / economic services, provide these for humans, forestry is necessary argument cannot be total conservation.