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A measure of human demand on the Earth's systems expressed as an amount of area per person.
What is ecological footprint?
This cycle is also known as the hydrologic cycle.
What is the water cycle?
The growth of plants after a fire.
What is secondary succession?
The percentage of freshwater of the total water in the world.
What is an 3%?
Having a sensitivity to the needs of future generations.
What is living in an environmentally sustainable way?
The living things in an ecosystem.
What is a biotic factor?
The global human population is closest to this figure.
What is 7.6 billion?
This is formed in areas where too much groundwater has been pumped out and the land starts to show these.
What is a sinkhole?
Colonization of rock, for example, a new island made of volcanic rock.
What is primary succession?
The trophic level in which a bird that eats a plant eating insect is located.
What is the 3rd?
A population with a growth rate of 1% would double in this many years.
What is 70 years?
The pollutants that are most likely to create eutrophic areas.
What is nitrogen and phosphorus?
Something with a pH of 7-14.
What is a basic (alkaline) solution?
The most important process for getting carbon from the atmosphere into living organisms
What is photosynthesis?
A biome that stores huge quantities of methane in its permafrost, is treeless, and is found above latitude 70 degrees north and less often in southern latitudes below 70 degrees.
What is tundra?
The 3 most populous nations.
What are China, India and the USA?
An example of this type of pollution would be runoff from hog farming areas is polluting a local river.
What is nonpoint source pollution?
The process, phenomenon, or concept which involves the degradation of resources outside the domain of private ownership.
What is the tragedy of the commons?
The idea that a certain level of disruption can maintain the highest levels of biodiversity in an ecosystem.
What is the intermediate disturbance hypothesis?
An example of a sedimentary biogeochemical cycle.
What is the phosphorus cycle?
The phase of population growth where the highest birth rates and death rates are likely to occur. Phase 1 or Phase 2 or Phase 3 or Phase 4
What is Phase 1?
Type of water pollution that creates conditions in which productivity is decreased due to blocked sunlight and gills of bottom dwelling organisms are clogged.
What is sediment pollution?