Environmental Problems Their Causes, and Sustainability(UNIT1)
What's deforestation?
What is the process where people clear a large area of trees.
What's Natural selection?
What is The process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
What's Mutualism?
What is When two organisms benefit from a relationship.
What's a fishery?
What is, a concentration of a particular aquatic species suitable for commercial harvesting.
What's one type of irrigation
What is Drip irrigation
What's Affluence
What is Wealth
What's the difference between Species Richness and Species Evenness
What is, Species Richness is a number of different species in an area.
Species Evenness is the relative abundance of different species in a community.
What's Commensalism?
What is when one organism benefits from a relationship but the other organism is not affected.
What's salinization?
What is when the soils salt content rises
What's an estuary?
What is A partially enclosed costal body of water where freshwater and saltwater mix.
What's the difference between Point source and Nonpoint source pollution?
Point source is a single area
Nonpoint sources are many area and are often hard to identify.
What causes a Mutation?
What is Random changes that occur in coded genetic instructions.
What does Interspecific competition mean?
What is Between Species.
What are the two types of agriculture?
What is Polyculture, and Monoculture
What's a floodplain?
What is A flat low lying area of land alongside a river stream or coast, susceptible to being flooded.
What's the Tragedy of the Commons.
What is A situation where a shared resource is depleted or damaged because individuals act on their own self interest.
What causes speciation?
When one species members can no longer reproduce together or breed.
What is the name of the first species of primary succession?
Pioneer Species
What causes desertification?
Soil erosion, and Climate Change
What's virtual water?
The amount of water used to produce goods.
What does (P*A*T=I) stand for?
Population*Affluence*Technologies= Impact
What are the Four major roles species can play?
Native Species, Indicator Species, Non Native Species, Keystone Species.
What is resource partitioning?
When species fighting for the same scarce resource evolve specialized traits that allow them to share resources by using them at different times or ways.
What fishing technique targets bottom dwelling creatures?
Long Line
What is the zone of saturation?
Certain depth in soil where spaces are filled with fresh water