Potpourri
Biodiversity
Pollution/Climate Change
Water
Energy
100
This is financial support offered by the government to offset high initial costs of a good or service, could be a cash grant or low interest loan.
What is a subsidy?
100
Of the following biomes, it has been most disturbed by human activities? a. tundra b. tropical rain forest c. coniferous forest d. temperate forest e. taiga (boreal forests)
What is d. temperate forest?
100
Sea level rise can result from melting glaciers, a _______ feedback loop for climate change, and also from ________ expansion.
What is positive and thermal?
100
Any significant amount of water gathered underground in permeable rock and loose gravel/sand that can be extracted.
What is an aquifer?
100
The high cost of materials to make high efficiency electricity producing devices has limited their widespread use, even though when used with hydrogen (also costly to produce as a pure fuel in large, concentrated amounts) their only by-product is water.
What are fuel cells?
200
The respective agricultural techniques that aid in various aspects of soil quality where (1) you alternate rows of regular crops with nearby rows of a cover crop (2) you plant trees around the field (3) plowing and planting rows with the slope of the land instead of up and down (4) plant legumes in between rows of shady fruit bearing shrubs/trees (5) greatly minimize or eliminate the need for plowing/tilling the soil
What are strip cropping, windbreaks/shelterbelts, contour planting, alley cropping/agroforestry, and conservation-tillage farming?
200
An inherited characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment
What is an adaptation or adaptive trait?
200
The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has varied naturally by this difference in ppm between glacial and inter-glacial times although is now at this artificially high amount in ppm due to anthropogenic effects.
What is 80-100 ppm and 400 ppm? CO2 has swung from 80-100ppm glacial to 280 ppm inter-glacial (pre-industrial revolution) and now we're at 400ppm!
200
The largest of five, this ocean contains more than one-half the earth's water and covers one-third of the earth's surface.
What is the Pacific Ocean? (Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Ocean are the other 4)
200
The respective country(ies) which contain the largest conventional reserves of oil, coal, and natural gas?
What are Venezuala/Saudi Arabia; USA (Russia,China); and Russia (Middle East: Iran/Qatar)?
300
Major complaints about these include increased herbicide use that can lead to herbicide resistant weeds and decreased genetic variety in crops.
What are GMOs?
300
Classification of organisms that eats both plants and animals
What is omnivore?
300
HIGH or LOW: The nutrient enrichment of waters leads to _____ amounts of primary productivity, followed by _____ amounts of microbial activity to decompose the plant material which are measured as ______ BOD levels and then lagging behind ______ DO levels occur which is unhealthy for consumers in ______ trophic levels because they do not have enough oxygen for respiration.
What is high, high, high, low, high? Eutrophication can lead to fish kills because the oxygen is used up by decomposers!
300
The three major processes in the hydrologic cycle.
What are precipitation, evaporation, and transpiration?
300
The percentage of energy which DOES NOT move on to the next trophic level.
What is 90%?
400
These are a growing threat because of genetic immunity to antibiotics and climate change that will allow for warmer and more favorable conditions.
What are infectious diseases?
400
An ecosystem with high net primary productivity and low soil nutrient content.
What is the tropical (rain)forest?
400
U.S. Law(s) that regulates air pollution, surface water pollution, and contaminants in drinking water?
What is The Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Safe Drinking Water Act?
400
The three categories of water treatment and their basic function in a water treatment facility.
What is primary treatment (physical-- removal via filtering, skimming, gravitational settling), secondary treatment (biological-- removal of organic wastes in aeration tanks), and advanced or tertiary treatment (chemical treatment-- adjust pH, remove toxic chemicals, can use Cl or O3)?
400
The fundamental source of energy for the Earth.
What is the sun?
500
A natural example is isoprene and anthropogenic examples include emissions from fossil fuel power plants, industrial processes such as chemical manufacturing and refining, vehicles, and farm machinery; they react with NOx and sunlight to form tropospheric ozone
What are VOC's or volatile organic compounds?
500
The way two organisms of different species biologically interact in a relationship in which each individual derives a fitness benefit, example is a remora and a shark.
What is mutualism?
500
Of the following it does not increase carbon dioxide in the atmosphere: respiration, photosynthesis, combustion, decomposition, deforestation
What is photosynthesis?
500
Over-pumping of groundwater results in __________ of land and, near coasts, ________ of saltwater in the aquifer.
What is subsidence and intrusion/contamination?
500
Drifting organisms in the ocean which are made up of the primary producers responsible for up to 70% of primary productivity near the ocean surface and their heterotrophic counterparts that do respiration?
What is plankton? (phytoplankton and zooplankton)
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