Week 4 Participation Assignment Questions and Answers Q1: What happened to the Peruvian anchovy fishery in 1997, an El Nifio year? (20 points) Ans: The Peruvian fishers had learned that to keep fishing during an El Nifio could cause a collapse of the fishery for many years. They voluntarily curtailed the fishery, and the fish stock recovered after only one year. (Hannesson, 2008) Q2: What two things characterize common pool resources? (20 points) Ans: Excludability and subtractability (Heikkila & Carter, 2017) Q3: What does conservation of energy mean to scientists? (20 points) Ans: That energy is neither created nor destroyed (EIA, n.d.) Q4: What is the relationship between Joules and Watts? (20 points) Ans: Joules are units of energy; Watts are units of power. 1 Joule = 1 Ws (Snurr & Freude, n.d.) Q5: Conversion of one form of energy into another form of energy always produces what? (20 points) Ans: Useable (useful) forms of energy and unusable (unuseful) forms of energy (EIA, n.d.) References Energy Information Administration. (n.d.) What is energy? Laws of Energy. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/what-is-energy/ Hannesson, R. (2008). Sustainability of fisheries. The Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development. 1(2), 13-22. http://www.blc.arizona.edu/courses/schaffer/302/Sustainability%200of %20Fish pdf Heikkila, T. & Carter, D. P. (2017). Common pool resources. Oxford Bibliographies. https://DOI: 10.1093/0bo/9780199363445-0011 Snurr, R. & Freude, D. (n.d.) Energy Fundamentals. https://home.uni-leipzig.de/energy/ener fundamentals/03.htm
