Earth Systems and Resources
The latitude that receives the most intense sunlight, which causes the ascending branches of the two Hadley Cells.
What is the Intertropical Convergence Zone? ITCZ
NPP-minus the energy producers use for respiration.
What is net primary productivity?
A large number of species that went extinct over a relatively short period of time.
What is mass extinction?
Also known as acid deposition.
What is acid rain?
Legislation that sets the national standards for safe drinking water.
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act?
Be cautious and not refer to soil as this.
What is dirt?
The total mass of all living matter in a specific area.
What is biomass?
The niche of abiotic conditions under which a species can survive, grow and reproduce.
What is fundamental niche?
A device that prevents VOCs from escaping into the atmosphere while a person is fueling their vehicle.
What is a vapor recovery nozzle?
Prions mutate into deadly pathogens and slowly damage a cow's nervous system.
What is Mad Cow Disease?
The amount of water a soil can hold against the draining force of gravity.
What is water holding capacity?
Cycles that move energy and matter through the biospehre.
What are biogeochemical cycles?
The farming of fish, shellfish, and seaweed.
What is aquaculture?
Unwanted sound that interferes with normal activities that is loud enough to cause health issues including hearing loss.
What is noise pollution?
A disease that slowly impairs the functioning of a person's body.
What is a chronic disease?
Large patterns of water circulation that moves clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.
What are gyres?
Organism that specializes in breaking down dead tissue and waste products.
What is a detritivore?
A good produced by an ecosystem that humans can use directly.
What is a provision?
A diversity of industries emits large amounts of CO2, including coal-fired electricity-generating power plants, automobiles, airplanes and steel manufacturers. All of these industries could be involved in buying and selling permits for CO2 emissions.
What is cap and trade?
In contrast to retrospective studies, this study monitors people who might become exposed to an environmental hazard, such as harmful chemical some time in the future.
What is a prospective study?
The capture and long-term storage of CO2.
What is carbon sequestration?
What is a food chain?
When a large population declines in number, the amount of genetic diversity carried by the surviving individuals is greatly reduced.
What is population bottleneck?
A device that removes particulate matter by using an electrical charge to make particles coalesce so they can be removed from the exhaust system.
What is an electrostatic precipitator?
MCL-for 77 different elements or substances in both surface water and groundwater.
What is maximum contaminant level?