Environmental Justice and Agriculture Discussion
Students should answer the following prompt:
Reflect on your local community in the Cayman Islands. Describe your community’s options for gaining access to high quality food (including produce and meats). Include in your reflection the answers to these following questions —
[1] Where does most of your food come from? Is it grown locally or imported?
[2] If it is grown locally, do you know what type of farm it comes from?
[3] How would you rate the quality of the food, on average, in your community?
[4] How does your community compare to other areas?
[5] What are some local issues you are concerned about, with respect to accessing healthy food?
[6] Do you feel access to quality food is a fundamental human right which all people should be given — or is it a commodity that should be capitalized on? Explain your reasoning.
Concept of Half Life of An Unstable Atom Discussion
I’m stuck on a Environmental Science question and need an explanation.
Define the concept of half life of an unstable atom. If you have 24 grams of an unstable atom with a half life of 5,000 years, how many grams would be left after 15,000 years? Explain how an isotope of Uranium can be used to date the age of the earth earth. About what is the age of the earth by this method?