Unit 5
What is The Tragedy of Commons?
What is the overuse of shares resources because people act in their own self-interest.
True or False: Human activities including the use of resources have physical, chemical, and biological consequences on ecosystems.
What is True.
What is Biodiversity?
What is an ecosystem that includes genetic, species, and habitat diversity.
What is a generalist?
What is a species tend to be advantaged in habitats that are changing.
Why is the stratospheric ozone layer important?
What is it is important to the evolution of life on earth and the health and survival of life.
What is the largest human use of Freshwater?
What is Irrigation
What are dead zones?
What is provisioning, regulating, cultural, or supporting.
What is a Specialist?
What is a species that are at an advantage in habitats that are constant.
Ozone depletion can be mitigated by what?
When does waterlogging occur?
What is when too much water is left to sit in soil and raises the water table of groundwater and inhibits plant's ability to absorb oxygen through their roots.
What is Solid waste?
What is any discarded material that is not a liquid or gas that is generated in domestic, industrial, business, and agricultural sectors?
Ecological tolerance refers to the range of what conditions?
What is temperature, salinity, flow rate, and sunlight that organisms can endure before death.
What is the difference between a K and R selected species?
What is K selected are large and have few off spring and R selected are small and have many off spring.
The main greenhouse gasses are what?
Name one common pest-control methods?
What is pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides and insecticides.
What does the primary treatment do?
What is remove large objects often using screens and gates.
What will succession in a disturbed ecosystem affect?
What is total biomass, species richness, and net productivity.
The Survivorship curve how many types and what species are in each?
What is three types. Type I and Type II are usually r selected species. Type III is usually k selected species.
Ocean warming is caused by what?
What is the increase of greenhouse gases.
What can Urbanization lead to?
What is a depletion of resources and saltwater intrusion to the hydrologic cycle.
Dysentery is caused by what?
What is untreated sewage in streams and rivers.
What is an indicator species?
What is a plant or animal that demonstrates some distinctive aspect of an ecosystem by its presence, abundance, scarcity, or chemical composition.
Population growth is limited by what?
What is environmental factors, especially by the availability of resources and space.
Does water vapor contribute to climate change? Why or why not?
What is no water vapor does not contribute to climate change because it has a short residence time in the atmosphere.