Topic 7 Vocab
The largest population of any single species that an area can support
What is carrying capcity?
Energy harvested from the sun through solar panels
What is solar power?
The gas that becomes more abundant as a result of deforestation
What is Co2
A relationship in which two populations move up and down and react to each others population.
What is a predator-prey relationship?
air pollution that reduces visibility; described as a mix of smoke and fog
What is smog?
Fuel that comes from the remains of organisms that lived millions of years ago
What are fossil fuels?
A resource that cannot be replenished and there is a finite amount of it on earth
What is a non-renewable resource?
Daily Double
Wager any amount of your teams' score on a piece of paper.
What are Anthromes?
The result of two species occupying the same niche
The process of illegally hunting and killing endangered species
What is poaching?
The process of converting an economy into one in which large-scale manufacturing is the primary economic base
What is Industrialization?
The process of the mass replanting of trees and forests
What is reforestation?
The greenhouse gases are most responsible for global warming.
What is methane and CO2?
A species that is brought to a new habitat by humans
What is an invasive species?
The result of a decrease in biodiversity
What is ecological inbstablity?
The destruction of an organism or the removal of an organism from is habitat
What is Direct Harvesting?
The process in which animals are raised and protected in zoos.
What is captive breeding?
The process through which heat is trapped near the Earth's surface by substances known as 'greenhouse gases.
What is the Greenhouse effect?
Oxygen, Food and water are examples (hint: steady line on a population graph)
What are limiting factors?
The biodiversity threat in which a habitat is split into smaller disconnected pieces
What is habitat fragmentation?
An energy source that results from splitting atoms
What is Nuclear Fuel?
A human activity to most likely prevent certain species from going extinct
What is increaisng habitat prtection and/or wildlife management?
The chemical that causes ozone depletion
What are CFC's?
Close associations formed between pairs of species
What are symbiotic relationsips?
The places that are most endangered and where investing money will have the greatest impact
What are hot spots?