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Precipitation with a low pH
What is Acid Rain?
A by-product of combustion and respiration
What is CO2?
The transformation of arable, productive low precipitation land to unproductive land due to climate change or destructive land use such as overgrazing or logging.
What is Desertification?
EPA
What is the environmental protection agency?
Not acidic or basic.
What is pH 7?
A trait that improves an organism's fitness.
What is Adaptation
The population limit in a specific area due to the availability of abiotic and abiotic resources, also denoted as K.
What is Carrying Capacity?
How to determine the safe amount of a substance using LD50.
What is (10%) divide the LD50 amount by 10 or multiply the LD50 amount by 0.10?
VOC
What is Volatile Organic Compounds? (VOCs) are a large group of chemicals that are found in many products we use to build and maintain our homes.
What is CO2?
The process that cells use to create ATP energy, CO2, and H20.
What is Aerobic Respiration?
A method of harvesting autotrophs that involves removing all of them in a specific area
What is Clear-cutting?
Methane plus oxygen producing water and carbon dioxide.
What is combustion?
CFC
What is chlorofluorocarbon, CFCs cause damage to the ozone layer
The process that produces CO2.
What is respiration and combustion?
The process that organisms use to create ATP and CO2 in the cytoplasm of the cell without O2.
What is Anaerobic Respiration?
This is the final stage of succession.
What is Climax Community?
Product of ocean acidification.
What is carbonic acid?
CAFO's
What is Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations?
The formula for ozone.
What is O3?
The layer of Earth located in the outer part of the mantle, composed of semi-molten rock.
What is the Asthenosphere?
A unit of measure for radiation.
What is Curie?
Rule of 70.
What is how to predict the doubling of a population?
CERCLA
What is Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability?
CH4
What is methane?