Sustainability
The ability of the biosphere to maintain its balance indefinitely, keeping life forms in check.
Sustainability
farmers work to increase the biodiversity-- crop rotation, planting cover crops, conservation plowing, companion planting, etc.
Farm Diversity
what is the result of one population
Gases in the atmosphere that trap gas; many of the compounds that move through the biogeochemical cycles
Change of global temperatures and weather patterns over time.
Climate Changes
What elements are constantly being absorbed by organisms and being released into the environment?
Water, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon, & Phosphorus
the over-enrichment of water bodies (such as lakes, estuaries, and coastal oceans) with nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus.
Eutrophication
What are the four major human factors that affect change in biodiversity?
What are the mose common greenhouse gases
carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, water vapor, ozone, and gases containing fluorine (chloroflurocarbons)
God promised after the flood- seedtime, harvest, cold, hot, summer and winter, day & night will continue without fail
(Gen 8:22)
The movements and interactions of the matter in the biosphere, geosphere (earth’s crust), and atomospere.
Biogeochemical Cycle
# of of individuals in a certain amount of space.
Population Density
A rate of population growth in which the population size multiplies at a constant rate at regular intervals
Exponential Growth
Scientists believe these gases trap heat in the atmosphere
Global Warming
Organisms that move into a habitat where they are not native and then compete with native species for resources.
Invasive Species
What cycle involves o2 in the air?
Oxygen Cycle
A factor that limits the growth of population
The maximum number in a population that an area can sustain.
Developed in 1992 - measure for how many resources people use and how quickly the planet can replenish
How we humans relate to Earth’s carrying capacity
Ecological Footprint
Technique that uses organisms to remove or neutralize hazardous materials.
Bioremediation
Fill in the water cycle
1) Evaporation
2) Condensation
3) Precipitation
4) Collection
what is the difference between emigration and immigration
Emigration: Leaving the population
Immigration: Joining the population
Succession that begins with a barren landscape.
Change in a biotic community over time (Mount St. Helens)
Plants and animals that are the first to return to an area.
Primary Succession
Succession
Primary Species
How many ways is the Ecological Footprint faulty?
2
What is the flood evidence of?
Fossils