HUNGRY, HUNGRY HUMANS
POPULATIONS
ECOLOGY
UP IN THE AIR
ENERGY
100
This change brought about industrialized agriculture, along with negative environmental consequences.
What is the Green Revolution?
100
This type of growth occurs when there are limited resources.
What is logistic growth?
100
This features the interactions between populations.
What is a community?
100
This layer of the atmosphere features the protective ozone layer and gets warmer as you go away from earth.
What is the stratosphere?
100
This is this least pure type of coal.
What is lignite?
200
The tendency for communal resources to be depleted is this.
What is tragedy of the commons?
200
The increase in concentration of toxins depending up on the size of individual is this.
What is bioaccumulation?
200
This type of species has an influential ecological role and increases the diversity of the habitat.
What is keystone?
200
The trapping of this type of radiation in the troposphere leads to the greenhouse effect.
What is IR?
200
This type of fuel reserve is expected to be exhausted in 50 years.
What is oil?
300
This describes a nutritional imbalance caused by a lack of specific dietary components.
What is malnutrition?
300
Natural disasters and a lack of sunlight are both examples of this type of factor that limits population grown.
What is density-independent?
300
This type of succession follows the formation of new land surfaces consisting of exclusively mineral substrates.
What is primary?
300
This describes the percent of radiation that is reflected by a surface.
What is albedo?
300
This type of renewable energy produces no emissions but can interfere with habitats and cause the relocation of both people and waterways.
What is hydroelectric power?
400
Around the world, people are suffering as a result of starvation. This is the primary environmental cause of famine.
What is drought?
400
This type of population dispersal results from territorial behavior.
What is uniform?
400
This type of relationship occurs when an individual sacrifices its own fitness for the increased fitness of another individual.
What is altruism?
400
These winds are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, above and below the equator.
What are the trade winds?
400
In 1979, a series of failures in the nuclear core caused this nuclear disaster.
What is Three Mile Island?
500
This number of species provides 90% of the world’s food.
What is 14?
500
An age structure diagram that is triangular shaped with a large base is featuring this type of population growth.
What is exponential?
500
This describes the end product of succession that persists until disturbance.
What is climax community?
500
In 1997, this worldwide agreement to reduce carbon emissions was signed by every country except the US and Australia.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
500
This type of fuel releases 30% less CO2 than coal or oil.
What is natural gas?
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