Unit 1
The five main oceans.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern oceans?
Systematic approach used by scientists to investigate the natural world.
What is the scientific method?
Average measurement of the number of organisms
in a given area.
What is population density?
Ecological community or ecosystem type.
What is a biome?
Formed by the remains of plants and animals.
What are fossil fuels?
To meet the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future
generations to do the same.
What is sustainability?
The three age group categories of dependency.
What are young dependents, economically active, and elder dependents?
Forest, Grassland, Desert, Tundra
What are the four major terrestrial biome classes?
When all people, at all times, have access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food.
What is food security?
The four layers of the atmosphere.
What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere?
Policies promoting childbirth.
What are pronatalist policies?
First species to colonize new land.
What is a pioneer species?
The formula for aerobic respiration.
What is C6H12O6 + 6O2 -> 6CO2 + 6H20?
Involves the study of how populations change in size and structure over time.
What are population dynamics?
Process that occurs when newly formed or newly exposed land with no species present is gradually colonized.
What is primary succession?
Reliable availability of energy sources at an affordable price, taking sustainability into account.
What is energy security?
The producer highest in numbers.
What is phytoplankton?
The rate at which energy is stored in plant biomass.
What is net primary productivity?