AP Environmental Science E Remediating a Toxic Earth – WALL ___________ 1. What is BnL and what does it stand for? ____________________________________________ 2. What is WALLE and what does the name WALLE mean? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Why did the humans leave Earth? What is the primary cause of Earth’s demise? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What is EVE, what is her mission and what does her name mean? Symbolism? ___________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. How did the filmmakers depict Earth’s atmosphere? Why? Relate this to our study of biogeochemical cycles. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ 6. EVE has been designed with remote sensing technology. She is searching for plant life in a way some of our real probes have tried to detect organic chemicals on Mars. What kinds of chemicals could a plant-sensing probe detect that makes the plants decidedly different from animals, fungi and or bacteria? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Why are all the humans in this movie obese and why are they incapable of walking? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. The humans in this movie are representative of the “obesity paradox”. This occurs in the developed (industrialized) world. Explain this paradox and why so few characters are being shown as “old” in this movie. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. What do you notice about the timeline of ship’s captains? (the series of portraits) ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. Relate this modern tale to the parable of Easter Island. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 11. In your mind what are the trappings of becoming dissociated from the production of one’s own food? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Created by J. Rodewald – jrodewald@ncolonie.org – May 2010 – Shaker High School, Latham NY 12110
