Ecosystems & Biodiversity
This process converts sunlight into chemical energy in plants.
What is photosynthesis?
The total number of individuals per unit area is called
What is population density?
Layer of atmosphere containing the weather
What is the troposphere?
Most abundant fossil fuel worldwide
What is coal?
Rainfall with a pH below normal due to sulfur dioxide and nitrgoen oxides
What is acid rain?
The variety of life in an ecosystem is called this.
Population growth that forms a J-shaped curve
What is exponential growth?
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth's atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
Energy derived from moving air
What is wind energy?
Excess nutrients in waer leading to algal blooms
What is eutrophication?
A species with a large impact on an ecosystem relative to its abundance is called
What is a keystone species?
Factors such as disease and competition that increase with population desnsity
What are growth-dependent factors?
The process by which water moves from plants into the atmospehre
What is transpiration?
The primary greenhouse gas released by burning fossil fuels
What is carbon dioxide?
The U.S. law regulating air emissions from stationary and mobile sources
What is the Clean Air Act?
A gradual cchange in species composiiton afer a disturbance is called this
What is ecological succession?
The demographic transition stage characterized by low birth rates and death rates.
What is stage 4?
A groundwater source stored in permeable rock
What is an aquifer?
What is global warming?
The international agreement that reduced ozone-depleating substances
What is the Montreal Protocol?
What is carrying capacity?
A survivorship curve common in humans and large mammals
What is a Type I survivorship curve?
The boundary where one tectonic plate slides past another
What is a transform boundary?
The reflective ability of a surface
What is albedo?
What is cap-and-trade?