Study Target Areas For Last Lecture Section Component of Final Exam Environmental Geology - Spring 2010

Other material related to comprehensive component of final exam are included in previous study outlines

Final Exam will be 50% over the last lecture material and 50% comprehensive for a total of 200 points

Wetlands/Riparian Zones
-Importance of Wetlands as an Ecosystem (Wetland Function and Benefit)
-Categories of Wetlands (Coastal, Riverine, Glacial/Prairie Potholes and Wet meadows)
-Methods to protect and restore wetlands
-Riparian buffers - form and function

Waste Management
-Public perception about solid waste
-Three R's
-Municipal solid waste composition (not absolute numbers, relative ranking of categories)
-Disposal methods
-Landfill design
-Problems with landfills
-Engineered sanitary landfills
-Regulatory authority for landfills
-Hazardous waste
-RCRA and CERCLA
-Radioactive waste
-Low level vs. high level
-Disposal options
-Disposal criteria

Energy Resources
-Renewable vs. nonrenewable resources
-Reserves vs. resources
-Factors influencing reserves
-Estimated demand for energy by 2020
-Impacts associated with increased demand
-Why is natural gas favored over oil
-Major groups of fossil fuels
-Migration and accumulation of gas and oil (types of traps)
-General % of U.S. vs. world use
-Methods for increasing production
-Impacts of fossil fuel production and use
-Importance of oil shales and tar sands and what they are
-Grades of coal
-Alternate energy as % of total
-Types of alternate energy
-Advantages and disadvantages