Populations
Earth Systems
Land and Water Use
Energy Resources
Global Change
100
The type of survivorship curve that is typical of bird species
What is type II or constant-loss?
100
The name of the effect that explains why wind patterns deflect to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and deflect to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
100
The name of the forestry strategy in which controlled forest fires are deliberately set to reduce natural fires.
What is prescribed burn?
100
The renewable energy source that is most common in developing countries.
What is biomass?
100
The layer of the atmosphere in which beneficial ozone is located.
What is the stratosphere?
200
When a population exceeds carrying capacity, _________ occurs, which can then lead to _______ of the population.
What is overshoot and dieback?
200
The type of plate boundary that leads to the formation of new seafloor crust.
What is a divergent boundary?
200
The law that relates to mining companies taking full responsibility for the waste generated during operations from start to finish
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)?
200
Name TWO laws or regulations that are relevant to the power generation via renewable or nonrenewable energy sources.
Clean Water Act
Clean Air Act
RCRA
Kyoto Protocol
200
Invasive species are typically this type of niche species.
What is generalist?
300
Competition is usually higher in the habitats of species with this type of reproductive strategy.
What is K-selected species?
300
The name of the effect that results in desert climates often forming on the side of a mountain opposite from where the winds are blowing.
What is the rain shadow effect?
300
Name two Green Revolution practices that contribute to air pollution.
Mechanization, fertilizer use, pesticide use
300
Name TWO types of pollution that nuclear energy generates.
Hazardous solid waste
Thermal pollution
300
Name TWO consequences of ocean warming.
Coral bleaching
Less O2 can dissolve
Loss of habitat
Metabolic and reproductive changes
400
The stage of demographic transition for a country in which death rates are decreasing and birth rates remain relatively high
What is stage 2 or transitional stage?
400
The name of the region near the Equator in which trade winds converge and lead to heavy rainfall and thunderstorms due to receiving high amounts of solar radiation.
What is the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ)?
400
Name TWO strategies for reducing urban runoff.
Permeable pavement, rain garden/rooftop garden, more public transportation, building UP not OUT
400
Name TWO drawbacks of geothermal energy.
High initial costs
Releases hydrogen sulfide
Drilling can pollute water with heavy metals
Noise pollution
400
Name the THREE greenhouse gases with the highest global warming potential.
CFCs, nitrous oxide (N2O), methane (CH4)
500
Name two specific density-dependent factors and two specific density-independent factors.
Density-dependent: food, disease, territory size, clean water
Density-independent: weather changes/events, natural disasters
500
Describe the weather conditions of Southeast Asia and Australia during El Niño and La Niña.
Southeast Asia and Australia experience droughts during El Niño and heavy rains and floods during La Niña.
500
Name TWO agricultural strategies for reducing soil erosion and ONE agricultural strategy for improving soil fertility.
Soil conservation: contour plowing, windbreaks, terracing, no-till agriculture, perennial crops
Soil fertility: crop rotation, intercropping
500
Name the FOUR stages of coal development from least energy to greatest energy.
What is peat, lignite, bituminous, anthracite?
500
Describe the chemical process by which CFCs damage the ozone layer.
Cl + O3 => ClO + O2
UV-C breaks O2 into O + O
ClO + O => Cl + O2
cycle continues