Intro to APES
The type of resource that can be replenished within a human lifetime.
What is a Renewable Resource?
Units used in APES to measure distance and size.
What are meters?
The atomic number of an element is the number of these in the nucleus of an atom.
What is a proton?
The impact of a person expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources.
What is “Ecological Footprint”?
Observations, previous literature, and prior knowledge all contribute to the guess taken at the beginning of an experiment.
What is a Hypothesis
The number of different species present in one specific ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
What 200 square meters.
An organic compound is defined by having this element as part of the compound.
What is carbon?
Branch of philosophy that studies morals, ideas about what is right and wrong.
What is Ethics?
This is used in an experiment to ensure the results measure changes due to the experiment and not chance.
What is a control?
The complete loss of an entire species
What is an Extinction?
When measuring volume, in APES we use this unit of measure.
What is a liter?
The first law of thermodynamics states this.
What is energy can neither be created or destroyed.
The reason a population will level off is because the environment will hit this crucial number.
What is the Carrying Capacity
This is the process where other scientists review a paper before it is published in a journal.
What is Peer Review?
The degradation of commonly held resources.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons
The technique I use to convert units in APES. I always show my units when using!
What is dimensional analysis?
The second law of thermodynamics states this.
What is entropy always goes up in reactions, energy can't ever be 100% efficient.
This is caused by common resources being taken up as quickly as possible because the incentives are to do so.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
100 plants are divided into 2 groups, one with fertilizer, and one without fertilizer. This is the growth of plants with fertilizer.
What is the dependent variable?
Natural Resources + Ecosystem Services = _________
What is Natural Capital?
This is the conversion of 0.500 cubic feet to liters using dimensional analysis!
What is 14.2 L?
These relatively new land masses are caused by 'hotspots' or weak areas in a tectonic plate.
What are the Hawaiian, Galapagos etc islands?
This is the business model that accounts for social goals, environmental goals, and economic goals.
What is the triple bottom line?
The population of Mali was 10.25 Million. The population in 2020 was 20.25 Million. This is the percent change in 20 years.
What is approximately 100 % over 20 years.