Read and answer each item objectively. You write your answers in handwritten or typewritten.

Do not forget to “TURN IN” your answers.

1. Discuss the evolving technology, from the telegraph to fiber optics. What were the ideas
that sparked the development of the devices? What were the benefits and problems with
each? How did one device lead to the development of the next?

2. Discuss ways that the digital divide within your country could be reduced. How would the
system be paid for and managed? What effects do you think it would have on the quality
of Internet service? What social effects do you think it would have for people who are
now able to have broadband Internet access?

3. In terms of storage technology, what is the fundamental difference between non-

electronic media such as print, painting, or photography, and electronic media such as
radio, television, and digital media?

4. Choose a species of organism that you know about that lives in a river. What species did
you choose? Describe everything you know about this organism’s niche.

5. You have two identical bags and fill them with the same amount and type of leaves. You
put the identical bags in two different areas of a river. After several weeks, one set of
leaves has almost disappeared and the bag is full of organisms. The other set of leaves
is still mostly whole and the bag has few organisms in it.
a. What are some ways the two different areas of the river could be
different?
b. How might these differences explain why the leaf packs in one area have
more organisms than the leaf packs in another area?

6. A factory located near a river pumps heated water into the river. The heated water
decreases the amount of oxygen in the river. A STS class is discussing what this
decrease in oxygen would do to the river. Bam thinks less oxygen would change the
type of organisms that live in the river. Mel thinks the type of organisms would stay the
same, but there would be a lot less organisms.
a. Who do you agree with? Bam?Mel? both Bam and Mel?
b. Why are they right? What would happen if oxygen in a stream
decreases?