Answers:HW1

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Answers to homework #1 will appear here after ~5pm on Wednesday, Jan. 25.

(1) Internet Lookup: Use a (school or personal) computer connected to the internet to search using Yahoo, Google, or your-favorite-search-engine and find the web addresses for the following. Click on the link and go to the main page for each site, then write the web address from the browser’s URL box for each in the blank provided. (10 points total, 1 point each)

Sample:

• National Climatic Data Center - [httP://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ www.ncdc.noaa.gov]

• National Park Service - www.nps.gov/
• US Fish and Wildlife Service - www.fws.gov/
• US Geological Survey - www.usgs.gov/
• AIRNow - Airnow.gov/
• National Drought Mitigation Center - www.drought.unl.edu/about.htm
• Climate Prediction Center - www.cpc.noaa.gov/
• US Department of Energy - www.energy.gov/
• National Weather Service - weather.noaa.gov/

- www.nws.noaa.gov/

- www.srh.noaa.gov/

- www.crh.noaa.gov/

- www.wrh.noaa.gov/

- www.erh.noaa.gov/

- www.prh.noaa.gov/

- www.arh.noaa.gov/

• US Department of Interior - www.doi.gov/
• Environmental Protection Agency - www.epa.gov/ or many other state/country EPA's

(2) Fill in the blank: Read chapter 1 of the textbook, Environment by Raven & Berg, and then complete the following problems by filling in the correct answer for each sentence. (5 points total, 1 point each)

a) hormone disruptors or endocrine disruptors

b) Ecology

c) invasive species

d) stratospheric ozone depletion

e) Sustainable development or Environmental sustainability