Environmental Science, 10th Edition (Cunningham)

Chapter 1: Understanding Our Environment

GE Exercise: Beijing Olympic Village

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To continue:
- Make sure you have the Google Earth software installed and running.
- Copy the following latitude and longitude and paste into the "Fly to" field under the Search tab.
- Hit “Enter” for Google Earth to take you to the specified coordinates, then come back here and read the following overview.

Latitude/Longitude: 39.9957, 116.391

Overview: Beijing Olympic Village, p. 15

The Chinese Government intends to make the 2008 Olympics the “greenest” ever. Plans for sustainable resource use and minimal environmental effects include buildings constructed with environmentally friendly materials and the latest energy-saving technology. Solar water heaters will provide hot showers for athletes, while windmills and photovoltaic cells will contribute 20 percent of the electricity used in the Olympic Village. Rain will be collected and used to water playing fields. Toilets will use recycled water. New wastewater treatment plants will reduce sewage effluents, and two new recycling plants will reduce solid waste disposal. Reforestation projects and fuel-switching are expected to offset carbon dioxide emissions and make the games climate neutral. Thirty new parks are being built on the outskirts of Beijing. There will be one every 3 km along the 4th Ring Road, which crosses the outer edge of the Olympic Green.

You can see the Olympic green in Google Earth, but facility development had only just begun when the satellite image was made. In this view, the Olympic Sports Stadium and the Olympic Gymnasium were under construction. Other facilities will fill most of the green open space north of the stadium. You can see a map of venues at http://en.beijing2008.cn/46/67/column211716746.shtml.

1
If you travel 8.5 km straight south from the Olympic Village, you reach a rectangular structure surrounded by a moat that encloses a number of buildings where the Emperor once lived. What is the name of this structure? (Research this online to find the answer.) 
A)Buckingham Palace 
B)Versailles 
C)Beijing Palace 
D)The Forbidden City 
E)The Taj Mahal
2
Is there open space available for the city parks to be built every 3 km along the 4th ring road, and if not, what needs to be done first?
A)Nothing needs to be done because the parks are already built.
B)Nothing needs to be done because the park locations have been established and the parks are currently being built.
C)There isn’t any open space available; many existing buildings will need to be cleared away before construction of the parks can begin (a process called “urban renewal”).
D)There isn’t any open space available, so the parks will need to be very small.
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