66-246 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Agriculture, Smog, Phosphorus

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Course: ESCI 2610
• Professor: Frank Simpson

Document Summary

Going from resources of higher purity to lower purity are related to changes in the earth system, especially climate change. Setting the standard for future generations has many different dimensions, social political and economic and technological. The second law of thermal dynamics says the level of disorder in the universe is increasing. It also means that natural systems go from an ordered behaviour to a more random behaviour as they change (ex: setting a wood on fire). Entropy is associated with a loss of energy. The bermuda soils show traces of materials which have been transported in the atmosphere from winds from central africa (sahara). The soils of the hawaiian islands they show traces of materials from the desserts of central asia (ex: mongolia). Traces of pesticides that are outlawed in many parts of the world but not in africa, soil fungi, and air pollution.