Terms and Definitions
The intimate relationship between different species
What is symbiosis?
The nuclear power plant leak that occur on April 26, 1986
What is the Chernobyl Power Plant leak?
A measure that reflects the environmental health of a system
What is an environmental indicator?
A factor that affects population growth
What is CBR, CDR, Growth Rate, TFR, TDouble, IM, or LE?
Result of primary pollutants transformed by chemical reactions.
What is secondary pollutants?
An objective method to explore the natural world, draw inferences from it, and predict the outcome of certain events, processes, or changes
What is the science method?
The year the IPCC was established
When is 1988?
The last step of the scientific method
What is "Test a hypothesis with an experiment"?
Definition of replacement fertility rate
What is the number of children each woman must have on average to replace the current population?
Definition of photochemical air pollutants
What is a class of air pollutants that are formed as a result of action by the Sun on compounds that are oxides?
The ability of a system to recover from disturbance
What is resilience?
The year the EPA was established
When is 1970?
Inputs - outputs = ?
What is "total flux"?
The equation for calculating growth rate.
What is (births + immigration) − (deaths + emigration) 100 / the total population = GR% OR CBR-CDR/10 = GR% ?
The negative side effects of products containing lead.
What is can adversely impact an animal’s blood production, producing anemia, and has a wide range of adverse neurological impacts particularly on young children?
AndA dominant species in a community, usually a predator, with an influence on structure and function that is highly disproportionate to its biomass
What is a keystone species?
The date the US Clean Air Act was put into effect
When is December 31st, 1970?
The average amount of time a substance spends in a system before it's eliminated
What is Mean Residence Time?
Name the four layers that make up the Earth's structure
What is crust, mantle, inner core, outer core?
AnAccounts for about 36 percent of the total energy used in the U.S. and over two-thirds of oil use.
What is transportation or vehicles?
The fixation of energy by primary producers within an ecosystem
What is gross primary productivity (GPP)?
The year the National Forest Management Act (NFMA) was passed
When is 1982?
Net population change = x + y. Name x and y
What are inputs (births + immigration) - outputs (deaths + emigration)
The five state variables of soil formation.
What is parent material, climate, and topography, as modified by organisms over time?
Definition of electric power grid.
What is electricity-generating power plants located throughout the country in a large delivery system?