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Help with Race to Save the Planet
#1
This is my last class, and I've read through most of the posts regarding the subject material.

Can anyone give me a heads up on this test? I haven't tested in about one year, and this being my last class to pass, I want to get in and get out with as much ease as possible. I'm using IC and Pass your Class material, plus I'll review the material from the suggestions section within this site.

If you took the test - please provide some heads up material. I'm a little nervous about the test - at a time when my personal life is a bit off kilter.

Thanks,

Cal
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#2
It's been a couple of years since I took it but I remember not studying much and it being mainly common sense. I got a 55. Thea ACE cutoff is 46. I rented the study video from the base library and the book but I don't think I even opened the book. I'm not very up on environmental issues either.
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#3
google all these topics below and know them and you will pass, I got a 50 just like that:

Be familiar with the Chernobyl nuclear plant meltdown

Eutrophication

Know about the Ozone layer, where it's located

Biomagnification

Subsidence - Sinkholes, etc.

Population - Death Rate/Birth Rate

Primary and Secondary Succession

Wastewater Treatment


Know what nonpoint source pollution is.
Know what the current % of world population growth is.
Know the difference between strip cropping and contour cropping.
Know which region of the US is MOST affected by Acid Rain.

Be familiar with the term "Cultural Euthrophication "

Know the role of the EPA

Recognize what form of transportation is NOT considered mass transit

Be familiar with the causes and effects of infant mortality in developing nations- I chose "poverty"

What is an "omnivore"?...Oink-oink

Layers of the atmosphere and how ozone effects certain layers

How a law is formulated in Congress

Effects of U.S. government subsisdies for "Big Oil" corporations

What country is the biggest producer of Hazardous Waste
The feature found in "state of the art" landfills

The primary suggested method of disposing municipal solid waste as per EPA guidelines

What region of the U.S. is most affected by acid rain

Where the "Taiga" biome figures in as related to temperate climates

The two main factors that influence a region's climate

The definition of "ecology"



The effect industrialization initallly has on birth and death rates--a VERY confusing set of answers...read carefully

Where "screening" fits into wastewater treatment

I also recall 2 questions about phosphorous and how it figures into cultural euthrophication and wastewater treatment

The ocean water pollutant that is the most damaging- I chose Raw Sewage

The version of the test I took had no questions on the following:

Soil composition
Prehistoric man
The Green Revolution
Rain shadows
The person who started the phrase: "Greeenhouse Effect"
These points were covered on the DSST practice exams, so i would be familiar with them-it could not hurt

Mass transit is a vehicle that transports more than a few people, you should see the obvious answer.

Be familiar with the causes and effects of infant mortality in developing nations- all the answer except one are a cause of the real answer, poverty .

What country is the biggest producer of Hazardous Waste (ask president Bush ).

The ocean water pollutant that is the most damaging- You missed this one since you chose raw sewage. Call Exxon and ask them the effect of the Valdez .


The effect industrialization initally has on birth and death rates--a VERY confusing set of answers...read carefully (decrease in death, decrease in birth ).

• trophic levels (food chain, food web, producers, consumers)
• greenhouse effect (cause and effects)
• waste management in US
• ozone layer (many questions here)
• climate & temperature (how changes occur)
• atmosphere, stratosphere, troposphere (how each is affected)
Eutrophication (natural and cultural) was a big topic

The different green house gasses was at least 10 questions

Role of Ozone

Carbon monoxide vs dioxide and what they do

Waste water plants were big too, know the different parts and how the sludge is effected in which parts
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#4
Geez Ali4nia -

Impressive list - and thank you.

I will give myself the task of getting this material memorized.

This is my last class and I'm home free - BUT, I haven't taken any tests for over a year and I'm a little apprehensive.

Cheers,

Cal
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#5
I may be able to help you.
Linda

Start by doing what is necessary: then do the possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible  St Francis of Assisi

Now a retired substitute Teacher in NY, & SC

AA Liberal Studies TESC '08
BA in Natural Science/Mathematics TESC Sept '10
AAS Environmental safety and Security Technology TESC  Dec '12
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#6
Ok - I'm all eyes and ears on any help I can get.

So far this is just memorization and reading, reading, reading.

Cal
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#7
YouTube - SUNY-ESF TV / Global Environment - Eutrophication (p1)

YouTube - SUNY-ESF TV / Global Environment - Eutrophication (p2)


YouTube - SUNY-ESF TV / Global Environment - Eutrophication (p3)

YouTube - SUNY-ESF TV / Global Environment - Biomes (P1)

YouTube - SUNY-ESF TV / Global Environment - Biomes (P2)

YouTube - SUNY-ESF TV / Global Environment - Biomes (P3)

YouTube - SUNY-ESF TV / Global Environment - Biomes (P4)

YouTube - The Greenhouse Effect

Waste Water Treatment Plant
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#8
Wow - YouTube - I would have never guessed - Thanks - that a nice learning tool!!!

Cal
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#9
I'd never have thought of youtube as a learning tool! Heck, I'd never have thought of renting study videos.... I guess I'm getting on a bit.

Is youtube now a common study source for things like the CLEP tests?
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#10
every thing providing you knowledge, can be a common study source for clep Wink
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