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Go to Netscape and click on OPEN. Type in http://drylands.nasm.edu:1995/aral.html
Answer the following questions:
1. Where is the Aral Sea?
2. Why is the Aral Sea drying up?
3. How has the Aral Sea decline affected fishing and the health of the people?
Go to http://www.oneworld.org/patp/people_aralsea.html
4. Explain all the health risks to those people living in the Aral Sea area.
5. Relate to Chapter 9 in section dealing with agricultural pesticides.
Go to Net Search and one of the search engines and type in "Aral Sea" and find a site of interest and:
6. (a)Identify site and title and http address
(b)Summarize site (abstract it)
(c)Relate site to above sites and idea of environmental consequences of poor agricultural management as related to Chapter 9.
(d)Opinion of site
Go to http://climate.konza.ksu.edu/region.html
7. What is and where is the Konza Prairie Research Area?
8. What are the management techniques that Konza personnel use to maintain the grasslands?
Go to Net Search and type in "Konza". Find one site of interest and:
9. (a)Identify site and http address
(b)Summarize site
(c)Relate to grassland management and to KSU Konza site above
(d)Opinion
Go to http://www.co.blm.gov/blm-50.htm
10. Summarize the page by explaining history, Taylor Grazing Act, multiple-purpose activities, etc.
Go to Net Search and search for "Rangeland Management" and find a site of interest and:
11 (a)Title and http address
(b)Summarize
(c)Relate
(d)Opinion
Go to Net Search and type in "Riparian Buffer Strips" and find a site. After reviewing pages 211-215 of your text (note the photographs in text), do the following:
12. What are Riparian Buffer Strips?
13. Find a site about Riparian Strips and:
(a)Title and http
(b)Summarize
(c)Relate to concepts discussed on pp.211-215 of text
(d)Opinion

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