Chapter 5
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the complete set of genes in an individual that helps determine the traits of the individual.
What is genotype?
100
Definition of undernutrition.
What is the condition in which not enough calores are ingested to maintain health?
100
was passed to prevent overgrazing.
What is Taylor Grazing Act?
100
the deflection of an object's path due to the rotation of Earth.
What is Coriolis Effect?
100
difference between biotic and abiotic.
What is biotic is living and abiotic is nonliving?
200
Definition of phenotype.
What is a set of traits expressed by an individual?
200
5 types of sustainable farming practices.
What is intercropping, crop rotation, agroforestry, contour plowing, no-till agriculture?
200
the four federal agencies that manage more than 95% of federal land.
What is Bureau of Land Management, US Forest Service, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service?
200
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere.
What are the layers of the atmosphere?
200
Definition of environmental science.
What is the field that looks at interactions among human systems and those found in nature?
300
The 5 processes by which evolution can occur.
What is mutation, gene flow, genetic drift, bottleneck effect, founder effect
300
the fossil fuel energy and human energy input per calorie of food production.
What is energy subsidies?
300
the cost or benefit of a good or service that is not included in the purchase price of that good or service
What is externalities?
300
the cause of Earth's seasons
What is Earth's tilt?
300
3 types of biodiversity
What is ecosystem, species, and genetic
400
limits to the abiotic conditions that a species can tolerate
What is range of tolerance?
400
the types of pesticides.
What is broad-spectrum pesticide, selective pesticide, persistent pesticide, nonpersistent pesticide?
400
the causes of urban sprawl.
What is automobiles and highway construction, living costs, urban blight, government policies?
400
the sinking of dense, salty water in the North Atlantic drives a deep, cold current that moves slowly around the world.
What is thermohaline circulation?
400
a measure of how much a person consumes, expressed in an area of land.
What is an individual's ecological footprint?
500
a species that can live under a wide range of abiotic or biotic conditions
What is niche generalist?
500
ingestion of too many calories and a lack of balance of food and nutrients.
What is overnutrition?
500
how a Tragedy of the Commons situation can occur.
What is when many people share a common resource without agreement on or regulation of its use, it is likely to become overused very quickly
500
name the terrestrial biomes.
What is tundra, boreal forest, temperate rainforest, temperate seasonal forest, woodland/shrubland, temperate grassland/cold desert, tropical rainforest, tropical seasonal forest/savanna, subtropical desert?
500
Definition of scientific method.
What is an objective way to explore the natural world, draw inferences from it, and predict the outcome of certain events, processes, or changes?
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