Europe Map Practice…
Test COMING SOON
• Turn to the next blank page in your
Europe Section and number 1-15 for
Political Map Practice.
• Under that, number 1-10 for Physical
Map Practice.
Opening
• What are “environmental issues?”
• Are there any that affect you and your
family?
Possible Problems
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Pollution in air
Pollution in lakes, rivers
Littering
What else?
SS6G9
The student will discuss
environmental issues in Europe
a. Explain the major concerns of Europeans regarding
the issues such as acid rain in Germany, air pollution in
the United Kingdom, and the nuclear disaster in
Chernobyl, Ukraine.
Learning Target
• I will be able to explain the impact of smog
on the economy and population of the
United Kingdom.
Make this chart on the next blank page
in your Europe section.
SMOG in U.K.
Causes
Effects on the
Environment
Effects on the People
Solutions
Causes
• Smoke + fog = SMOG
Air Pollution in the United Kingdom
• What are the primary causes of air pollution in the U.K.?
Power stations
Vehicle emissions
Bad coal
• What effects does air pollution have on the environment
of the U.K. and that of neighboring countries?
Damage to vegetation
Pollutes the atmosphere
Damage to fish stocks, forests, etc
Examples of Air Pollution in the
U.K.
Effects of Air Pollution on People
• Harmful to humans
• Creates acid rain
• Causes respiratory disease
Brainstorm
Talk with your neighbor about possible solutions to this smog…
Europe’s Environmental Issues: SS6G9
What is it?
Causes
-Factories
and power
plants
Creates
-Vehicle
smog when
exhaust
it is
-Dense
concentrated population
(city)
-Exhaust +
-Exhaust
NoX +
-trapped air
Sunshine =
-over
Smog
production
(Industrial
Revolution)
Air
Pollution
Effects on
the
Environme
nt
Effects to
the people
Solutions
to the
problem
Real
Historical
Examples
-seeps in
everywhere
-deaths &
respiratory
diseases
(lungs)
-Blackout
(can’t see)
-eyes and
throat
burning
-closed
business =
no work
-HUGE $
loss
-car
emission
laws
Dec. 1952
Great
London
Smog (U.K.)
-greatly
harms
plants and
animals
(food
supply)
-dense fog
blanket
-Cleaner
energy
-sources
-Carpooling
-Less
production
Smog in the UK: SS6G9
• What Causes Smog? (3 min) news report on
Youtube:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVcFps_gW
pk
• 13 min Documentary on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkx-2mT1-q4
• Primary Source Pictures (use OPTICS to
analyze):
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery
/2012/dec/05/60-years-great-smog-london-inpictures
Ticket out the door!!!!
• In your own words, you need to explain
the IMPACT of smog on the UK’s
population, environment, and economy.
Opening:
Write a caption that explains each of
these pictures (separately). Write what
YOU THINK is happening here & why.
Acid Rain in Germany
Causes of Acid Rain
Effects on People
Effects on
Environment
Solutions
Learning Target
• I will be able to explain the impact of acid
rain on the economy, environment, and
population of Germany.
SS6G9: Acid Rain in Germany
• Video explaining how air pollution creates acid rain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2ryRDgCgCs
• How does Acid Rain affect plants?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RValqMHlmsg
• Informative Websites on Acid Rain
– Generally with diagrams and reasons:
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/acidrain.html
– in Germany: http://acidraingermany.webs.com/
• Prezi on Acid Rain in Germany:
http://prezi.com/d2dt9779sjbx/acid-rain-in-germany/
Acid Rain in Germany
• What causes acid rain?
Acid rain occurs when factories’ smoke or
vehicles’ exhaust containing sulfur dioxide
and nitrogen oxides go up into the
atmosphere and comes back down to
earth in the form of harmful precipitation
(rain, snow, etc.)
Dry deposits also fall from the sky when
there is no precipitation.
Illustration of how acid rain occurs
Effects of Acid Rain
• What effects does acid rain have on the
environment of Germany and that of neighboring
countries?
 Damage to vegetation
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Damage to lakes, rivers and streams
Contamination of drinking water
Damage to buildings and monuments
Sulfur deposits from acid rain are carried through
the air causing acid rain in other countries in
Europe.
Effect on Humans?
• Just read... No notes yet!
Damage Due to Acid Rain
How does ACID RAIN affect the
economy of Europe TODAY?
 Damage to fish stocks and forests have great
economic impact to local economy and
international trade.
 Damage to buildings resulting in money having to
be spent to renovate.
 Closure of many factories resulting in lost wages.
All of these “fixes” cost money!!
What can be done about air pollution?
• Use of cleaner fuels, emission controls
and advanced engine technologies.
• European Union members have agreed to
the Kyoto Protocol, or reduce emissions
of greenhouse gasses
• Find alternative energy sources
• Conserve resources
Acid rain and smog??
Cousins???
• How are acid rain and air pollution related?
Air pollution rises into the air and returns as acid
rain in the form of precipitation or
a “dry fall”.
Air pollution is carried from the U.K. to
other countries by air currents resulting
in acid rain in those countries as well.
Europe’s Environmental Issues: SS6G9
What is it? Causes
Acid
Rain
Air
Pollution
(smog/
NOx)
mixes
with
Rain
Clouds
Air
Pollution
& Smog
(see air
pollution
notes)
Effects on
the
Environmen
t
Effects on Solutions
people
to the
problem
Real
Historical
Examples
Destruction
of Buildings,
statues,
monuments
…etc.
Contamina
ted food &
Water
sources
Germany:
Monuments
-Buildings
-Black
Forrest
destroyed
Cut down
on the
pollution
(see air
pollution
notes)
Massive $
Diseased soil loss
Excessiv = damages
(restoration Use of
e Burning plants
s&
Clean
of Fossil
repairs)
Energy &
Fuels
Diseased
Clean
(NOx)
Animals &
Fuels
fish
Reflection
• On the next blank page, create a warning
poster/cartoon warning residents in
Germany or UK of the dangers of smog or
acid rain.
Optional Closing: Answer these ?s in complete
sentences:
1) Find UK and Germany on a map. How
does Air Pollution in one place create
Acid Rain in another?
2) Would it be fair to blame the people of the
UK for the effects from the Acid Rain that
Germany has? Why, or why not?
3) Would it be reasonable to charge those
people of the UK renovation taxes ($$)?
Why, or why not?
Writing JournalPut on next blank page in Europe Section of
notebook.
If you were told that you HAD to evacuate your home and you
would NEVER be able to return, what is the one thing other
than family you would take with you and why?
Learning Target
I will be able to explain the causes and
effects of the Chernobyl disaster.
Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
April 26, 1986
What was Chernobyl?
When did it happen?
How did the disaster occur?
Consequences on people
Consequences on environment
What DID the government do and what
should they have done differently?
A Cleaner Energy Source…
• Nuclear power, or nuclear energy, is the
use of exothermic nuclear processes, to
generate useful heat and electricity
• Cheaper and cleaner energy … as long as
everything works correctly…
•
What is nuclear energy?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7LO8l
L4Ai4
Nuclear Plants around the Earth
Chernobyl
What and How?
• Chernobyl is a nuclear power plant in Ukraine,
and on April 26, 1986, the nuclear power plant
outside of this town had the worst nuclear
disaster in history.
• An explosion occurred when scientists were
doing an experiment.
• The explosion released radioactive material into
the atmosphere.
• The release of this material resulted in long term
environmental consequences in Ukraine and
other countries across Europe.
Radiation Plume from Explosion
How Radioactive Materials Spread
Through the Atmosphere
General Map of Chernobyl Fallout
Throughout Europe
1996
Radiation Animation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=_USpAPkAd5A
Observations, Predictions…
Chernobyl Disaster, cont.
• Most deaths were attributed to nuclear fallout which was more than
400 times more than the amount of nuclear fallout caused by the
bomb over Hiroshima.
• Evacuation and resettlement of over 360,000 people… didn’t start
until 3rd day after explosion!
• The Soviet Union tried to cover up the critical nature of the
accident.
– Firefighters did not know that the fire they were fighting
contained deadly amounts of radiation poison.
• Most of these men died within 3 months after the accident.
Chernobyl Disaster, cont.
• The residents of the city of Pripyat, where the reactor was
located, were told that the evacuation would only be
temporary. To this day there are still personal belongings
in homes in the city.
• Radioactive fallout experienced as “pieces” on people’s clothes all
over Europe.
• By December, 1986, a huge concrete dome had been constructed to
entomb the reactor.
How did Chernobyl affect the people?
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Agriculture in other parts of Europe suffered.
Affected land made useless in the Soviet Union.
Loss of jobs due to closed reactors
Evacuation of homes
Health issues- cancer, birth defects, death
What were the effects on the
agriculture and economy?
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•
•
•
Land Contamination
Economic impact on East and North European farmers
Payments to victims and high medical costs
Did not effect just Chernobyl, but spread to surrounding
countries by air currents.
• This disaster still effects people and land TODAY.
• This nuclear disaster was the worst in history.
Health Effects Video (4 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPs2GSgeV6I
Europe’s Environmental Issues: SS6G9
What is
it?
Causes
Effects on
Environment
Effects
Solutions
on people
Real
Historical
Examples
Nuclear
Disaster
Nuclear
Power
Station,
creating
cleaner &
cheaper
energy,
made a
mistake
and one of
the 4
reactors
blew up
filling the
air with
radiation.
Everything
contaminated
(water, plants,
animals,
food…etc.)
-Cancers
& other
sickness
&
diseases
Chernobyl
in Pripyat,
Ukraine:
April 26,
1986 
nuclear
power
plant
exploded
spreading
toxic air all
over
Europe
*Long wait
time in
tasking
action
against the
problem
Deformed
- Had to caused
plants and
move
bad
animals
(refugees effects.
)
*Spread all
over Europe
-Mental & Evacuation
contaminating physical -wearing
other
disabilitie gas masks
countries
s
-Spreading
info
-Gov.
-Laws
Photos of the Effects of the Chernobyl Disaster
Articles:
•http://www.nuclear.com/ar
chive/2012/07/03/2012070
3-002.html
•http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
europe/4925838.stm
•http://www.wecf.eu/english
/press/coverage/2011/fresh
outlook-nuclearwecf.php
The USSR Gov’. covered it up!
• Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPs2GSgeV6I
• Secret Documents:
http://www.dianuke.org/secret-chernobyldocuments-expose-the-cover-up/
• Articles:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=w
orlds-largest-movable-structure-seal-chernobylreactor
Media & Videos
• What Really Happened:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfKm0XXfiis
• 10 Interesting Facts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWwhRjGBNb4
• Websites:
– http://www.paperlessarchives.com/chernobyl_nuclear_ac
cident_doc.html
– http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/action/urgentactions/chernobyl/
– http://www.cbsnews.com/news/chernobyl-thecatastrophe-that-never-ended/
Smog
Similarities
Acid Rain
Chernobyl
EQ: How is a political cartoon different
from one you would find in the Sunday
paper?
Steps to Analyzing a Political
Cartoon
• Look at your two-sided sheet…
Learning Target
• I will be able to construct a paragraph
about the Great Smog in the UK.
Before Reading a Nonfiction
Article
• Place boxes around the title and subtitles.
• Number the paragraphs. (11 of them)
How will this help you?
“The Great Smog of 1952”
• Circle key terms (vocabulary).
• Underline causes of the smog.
• HIGHLIGHT the effects of the Smog.
Bubble Map
Causes
NEW
Smog
of
1952
Solutions
Effects
For a Grade
• Using ONLY the information put on your
bubble maps, write a chunked paragraph
about how the smog impacted the United
Kingdom.
• But I have a surprise about the writing!
Guess what it is?
Chunk Paragraph
Sentence #1: TS = Topic Sentence
• Tells what your paragraph is about
• Responds directly to the prompt in your own words
Sentence #2: CD = Concrete Detail
• Provides an example from text to support your main idea
• “For example…”
Sentence #3 and #4: CM = Commentary Sentences
• “This shows that…” or “This is important because…”
• Thoughts about your Concrete Detail in your own words
Sentence #5: CS = Concluding Sentence
• “As a result” or “Further more”
• Wraps up your paragraph
• The last sentence in a body paragraph
• ALL Commentary. No new information or facts