Units 1-3
Unit 4-5
Unit 6
Unit 7-8
100
Describe the equation for Net Primary Productivity?
NPP = GPP - R
Net = Gross - that which is lost due to respiration
100
Identify the concept defined as:
"the tendency of a shared, limited resource to become depleted because people act from self-interest for short-term gain"
The Tragedy of the Commons
100
Identify the three fossil fuels.
Oil, Coal, Natural Gas
100
Identify the primary way humans deal with solid waste.
Landfills.
200
Identify the 3 primary types (levels) of Biodiversity.
Genetic, Species, Ecosystem
200
Describe one property of soil.
Texture, permeability, porosity, and nutrients
200
Identify the renewable energy generated by harnessing the heat from the Earth's core.
Geothermal
200
Identify the type of soil used to line landfills
Identify the property that it possesses which makes beneficial for this purpose.
Identify the name of the liquid that it prevents from escaping into groundwater.
Clay
Low permeability
Leachate.
300
Identify the demographic transition stage in Ghana, based on this Age Structure Diagram?
Stage 2
300
Describe three types of plate boundaries and Identify a geologic feature common at each of them.
Convergent - coming together (mountains, island arcs, earthquakes, and volcanoes)
Divergent - moving apart (seafloor spreading, rift valleys, volcanoes, and earthquakes)
Transform/Slip Plate - sliding anti-parallel (Earthquake)
300
Identify the largest renewable energy source utilized by humans globally.
Hydroelectricity
300
Identify the common name for The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).
Superfund
400
Describe the difference between species richness and species evenness.
Richness - the # of different species in an area
Evenness - the relative abundance or proportion of each species in the community
400
Identify the 3 major convection cells in our atmosphere, ordered from the equator towards the poles.
Hadley Cells
Ferrell Cells
Polar Cells
400
Identify the three factors that influence energy consumption.
Price, Availability, and Government Regulation.
400
Identify the Six Criteria Air Pollutants
Sulfur dioxide (SO2)
Particulate Matter (PM)
Lead (Pb)
Ozone (O3)
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
Carbon monoxide (CO)
500
Identify the three primary biogeochemical cycles (not water) and the primary reservoir for each.
Nitrogen - atmosphere
Carbon - Fossil carbon
Phosphorus - rock and sediments
500
Describe the three types of controls used in Integrated Pest Management (IPM), as well as their order of preference from greatest to least in a sustainable agricultural program.
Biological = Physical > Chemical
Biological: Promote natural pest predators, Introduce predators, Create habitat for predators
Physical: Exclude crop pests, Capture and remove, Barriers and Screens, Traps, Tilling
Chemical: Function by disrupting some essential physiological processes unique to the target species, Insecticides, Herbicides
500
Describe one concentrated solar energy system.
Liquid heated by concentrated solar, which in turn heats water to form steam and…
You guessed it… steam spins turbine which powers a generator which feeds the grid.
500
Explain how photochemical smog forms.
