Unit 1
This term describes something living
Biotic
What does this describe: how much water, space, food sunlight it needs, what it feeds on, the temperatures and other conditions it can tolerate
Ecological Niche
species can thrive only in a narrow range of environmental conditions or has a limited diet.
What is it called when plates are moving towards one another?
Convergent
area of consumption that has the biggest effect on your water footprint
Beef
Which biome is decribed as medium rainfall and "arctic"
What type of ecosystem service is air quality and waste treatment?
Regulating
reproduce later in life and have a small number of offspring with longer life spans.
K Selected Species
O layer
a shift to new agricultural strategies and practices in order to increase food production, with both positive and negative results. Some of these strategies and methods are mechanization, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), fertilization, irrigation, and the use of pesticides
Green Revolution
eat small dead stuff
Detritivores
Species that provide early warnings of damage to a community or an ecosystem
Indicator
Which demographic transition is this: population grows rapidly because birth rates are high and death rates drop because food production and health increase
Stage 2: Transitional
effect describes the pattern of deflection taken by objects not firmly connected to the ground as they travel long distances around Earth.
Coriolis effect
involves flooding an agricultural field with water
Pro: Depends on crop (e.g. cranberries)
Con: 20% of the water lost to evaporation and runoff, can lead to waterlogging
Flood Irrigation
Name a major reservoir of Phosphorus
rock and sediments that contain phosphorus-bearing minerals
What does HIPPCO stand for?
H- Habitat Destruction/degradation/fragmentation
I- Invasive* (*nonnative species that are harmful) species
P- Population Growth → Use of resources
P- Pollution
C- Climate Change
O- Overexploitation
the average number of children born to the women in a population during their reproductive years.
Total Fertility rate
The primary reason we have seasons (need a complete answer)
23.5 degree tilt
Round up ready is a form of?
Pest Control
How nitrogen is released into the atmosphere
Denitrification
This process occurs when increasing human population density leads to the division of large ecosystems into smaller, isolated patches, reducing species diversity and disrupting migration patterns—often as a result of urbanization and agricultural expansion.
Habitat Fragmentation
This type of population growth begins exponentially when resources are abundant but slows and stabilizes as the population reaches the environment’s carrying capacity, forming an S-shaped curve.
What is logistic growth?
What do we see around 0 degrees on the globe due to convection cells?
Green!! Lush - warm and wet tropical regions
This practice involves removing all trees from an area in a single event, often increasing short-term economic gain but leading to soil erosion, loss of biodiversity, and disrupted water cycles.
Clear cutting