Enviro Unit 1
What percentage of energy gets transferred between each level of a food pyramid?
What is 10% of energy?
What is the fastest way evolution occurs?
Through artificial selection
What is replacement level fertility rate?
The average number of children a women needs to have in order to replace the current population
What does a large scale map focus on?
It focuses on a small area with a lot of detail.
What is physicological density?
The amount of people to arable land
List the following classifications in order from least productive to most productive: Eutrophic, Oligotrophic, Mesotrophic
What is Oligotrophic, Mesotrophic, Eutrophic
What are the two measures that determine the biodiversity of a community?
Species richness and species evenness
Name three differences between r and k selected species
R selected species have shorter life spans, have more children, reach sexual maturity younger, don't nurture their young, are more likely to be an invasive species, more likely to be a niche generalist species, will have a survivor-ship three curve (K will have a survivor-ship 1)
Which projection spreads distortion throughout the entire map?
Peterson's Projection
What does the "rule of 70" allow us to determine
The doubling time of a population if natural increase rate remains the same
What is the limnetic zone?
A zone in a lake where emergent plants cannot survive but sunlight is still present, phytoplankton live there.
Which of the following is an example of a keystone species: Sea Urchin, Otter, Bear, Porcupine
Otter
Is disease a density-dependent or density-independent factor
Give the definition for ONE of the following vocabulary words: Environmental Determinism, Possibilism
Environmental Determinism: Your environment controls your entire culture
Possibilism: Your environment affects your culture but you control it
What ways are used to encourage the population in Pro-Natalist countries?
Long Maternity leaves, tax breaks, free daycare or school, payouts, more child services
What makes the phosphorus cycle different other cycles such as nitrogen, carbon, hydrologic.
It doesn't have an atmospheric phase
What does secondary succession have that primary succession doesn't?
Secondary succession starts with soil
What two measurements most helps demographers determine health conditions in a country?
Life expectancy and Infant Mortality Rate
Give an example of a perceptual region
A region where an implied characteristic exists in imagination
Examples: China Town, Bible belt
What are the major causes of death in countries that are in stage 5 of the epidemiological transition model?
Cardiovascular diseases and cancer
There are six symbiotic relationships, name five of them.
Mutualism, Parasitism, Commensalism, Predation, Herboviry and Competition
What are the four ecosystem services?
Regulating, Cultural, Supporting, Provisioning
What stages of the Demographic Transition Model have equilibrium?
Stages 1 and 4
The dymaxion map that projected the world in a icosahedron style was created by who?
Fuller
What are the four sparsely populated regions?
Dry Land
Wet Land
Cold Land
High Land