Warm-up for 03.20.12 – Which letter below shows The Gobi Desert?

1. Warm-up for 03.20.12 – Which letter below shows The Gobi Desert? A C B D

2. Warm-up for 03.20.12 – Which letter below shows The Gobi Desert A

3. POLITICAL – SOUTH AND EAST ASIA

4. TONIGHT’S HW: STUDY FOR QUIZ ON SOUTH AND EAST ASIA’S BODIES OF WATER THIS THURSDAY!!!!

5. SS7G10: The student will discuss environmental issues across South & East Asia. Describe the causes and effects of pollution on the Yangtze and Ganges Rivers. Describe the causes and effects of air pollution and flooding in India and China.

6. Pollution in China By Lu Guang Lu Guang (卢广) is an award-winning freelance photographer. Originally a factory worker, he later started his own photo studio and advertising agency. Skilled at documenting society through a camera, his insightful, creative ,and artistic work often focuses on “people living at the bottom of society”. Over the years, he has attracted the attention of the national photography circle and the media.

7. THE AIR

8. At the junction of Ningxia province and Inner Mongolia province, I saw a tall chimney puffing out golden smoke covering the blue sky. Large tracts of the grassland have become industrial waste dumps; unbearable foul smell made people want to cough. Surging industrial sewage flowed into the Huang Hu River…”

9. Fan Jai Zhuang in Anyang City, Henan province, (河南安阳市范家庄) there is only one wall separating this village from the steelmaking furnaces. The villagers live in this heavily polluted environment where the village is under the iron rain every day. March 24, 2008 Fan Jai Zhuang in Anyang City, Henan province, (河南安阳市范家庄) there is only one wall separating this village from the steelmaking furnaces. The villagers live in this heavily polluted environment where the village is under the iron rain every day. March 24, 2008 Fan Jai Zhuang in Anyang City, Henan province, (河南安阳市范家庄) there is only one wall separating this village from the steelmaking furnaces. The villagers live in this heavily polluted environment where the village is under the iron rain every day.

10. Shizuishan Industrial district in Ningxia province (宁夏石嘴山湖滨工业园区), the tall chimneys spit out smoke and dust. Residents protect themselves from the dust falling from the sky when going outside.

11. Hebei Province Shexian Tianjin Iron and steel plant is a heavily polluting company. The company is still growing, seriously affecting the lives of local residents.

12. Longmen town in Hanchen city, Shaanxi Province has large-scale industrial development. The environment is seriously polluted there.

13. In Inner Mongolia there were 2 “black dragons” from the Lasengmiao Power Plant (内蒙古拉僧庙发电厂) covering the nearby villages. 

14. Soil by the Yangtze River was polluted by Anhui Province Ma’anshan Chemical Industrial District.

15. Beijing Beijing air on a day after rain (left) and a sunny but Smoggy day (right)

16. INDIA air pollution Many cities are being choked by a cocktail of dust and chemical particles in the air. Every day 1.5 billion people are exposed to levels of air pollution well over the safety limits.

17. Indian cities are polluted by vehicles and industry emissions.

18. Asian Brown Cloud A blanket of pollutants nicknamed, the "Brown Cloud" smothers large parts of the region, causing severe health problems for the people there.

19. Asian Brown Cloud • Extends over South, Southeast and East Asia • Haze hovers about 4 miles above the surface of the earth & can travel halfway around the globe in less than a week • 75% of the cloud is man-made: forest fires, inefficient cooking fuels (woodstoves), factories, cars

20. Thick haze blown off the Eastern coast of China, over Bo Hai Bay and Yellow Sea. The haze likely results from urban and industrial pollution.

21. India &Himalayan Mountains

22. THE WATER

23. Huang He Yangzte

24. Chemical waste from Jiangsu Taixing Chemical Industrial District (江苏泰兴化工园区) dumped on top of the Yangtze River bank. May 15, 2009 Elder shepherd by the Yellow River cannot stand the smell .

25. Guiyu, Guangdong province, rivers and lakes have been contaminated. The villager is washing in a seriously polluted pond.

26. Industrial sewage of Zhejiang Xiaoshan Industrial District (浙江萧山化工园区) eventually flowed into Qiantang River.

27. Henan Anyang iron and steel plant’s (河南安阳钢铁厂) sewage flows into Anyang River.

28. Chemical waste from Jiangsu Taixing Chemical Industrial District dumped on top of the Yangtze River bank.

29. On the Yellow Sea coastline, countless sewage pipes buried in the beach and even extending into the deep sea pollute the water, killing fish and other marine life.

30. In Ma’anshan, Anhui province (安徽马鞍山), along the Yangtze River there are many small-scale Iron factories and plastic processing plants. Large amounts of sewage are releasedinto the Yangtze River.

31. Changshu City Fluorine Chemical sewage treatment plant is responsible for collecting and processing industrial sewage. However they are not. Theirsewage pipe extends1500 meters under the Yangtze River and releases the sewage there.

32. Large amounts of industrial wastewater flow to the Huang Hu (Yellow) River from Inner Mongolia Lasengmiao Industrial District (内蒙古拉僧庙工业园区) every day.

33. Large amounts of chemical wastewater seep into the Yangtze River from Zhenjiang Titanium mill (镇江市钛粉厂) every day. Less than 1,000 meters downstream is where the water department of Danyang City gets its water.

34. In Haimen city, Jiangsu province Chemical Industrial District sewage treatment Plant discharges wastewater into theYangtze River.

35. There are over 100 chemical plants in Jiangsu province coastal industry district. Some of them release wastewater into the ocean while some heavily contaminated sewage is stored in 5 “Temporary Sewage Pools”. Unfortunately, during the 2 high tides in every month, the sewage leaksinto the ocean with the tides.

36. Anhui Province Cihu Chemical Industry District (安徽省慈湖化工园区) built a underground pipe to discharge wastewater into the Yangtze River. The wastewater sometimes is black, gray, dark red, or yellow, wastewater from different chemical factories has different colors. June 18, 2009 Anhui Province Cihu Chemical Industry District built a underground pipe to discharge wastewater into the Yangtze River. Wastewater from different chemical factories has different colors; so the wastewater is sometimes black, gray, dark red, or yellow.

37. Girl collects water from a ditch in the suburb Wuhan of Hubei Province in China. nearly 700 million people throughout china lack access to clean water

38. Yangtze River

39. Warm-up for 03.21.12 – Which letter shows where the Mekong River is located? A D B C

40. Warm-up for 03.21.12 – Which letter shows where the Mekong River is located? C

41. TONIGHT’S HW: STUDY FOR BODIES OF WATER QUIZ TOMORROW!

42. Ganges map

43. Ganges River

44. Essential question We can send a shuttle into space, we can build the Delhi Metro. We can detonate nuclear weapons. So why can't we clean up our rivers? ~ Rakesh Jaiswal, Founder of EcoFriends He gave up working on his doctorate to fight for the cause of restoring the Ganges River.

45. Thousands of Indian people throng to the Ganges River everyday.

46. considered Holy,worshiped by Hindus

47. bathing

48. Many Hindus believe that the water from the Ganges can cleanse a person's soul of all past sins, and that it can also cure the ill.

49. washing laundry

50. cremated remains