Human Population
Terrestrial Ecology
Water Ecology
Waste Management
Pest Management and Toxicology
100
This country uses economic rewards and penalties to try to reduce their population growth
What is China?
100
The carnivore that eats primary consumers
What is a tertiary consumer?
100
The zones of a freshwater lake are
What are littoral, limnetic, profundial, and benthic?
100
The three R's are
What are reduce, reuse, and recycle?
100
Chemicals that cause harm by being flammable or explosive, irritating the skin or lungs, or causing allergic reactions of the immune system
What are hazardous chemicals?
200
The rate of the world's population is affected by
What are crude birth rate, death rate, and infant mortality?
200
An organism that produces its own food is
What is an autotroph?
200
Flowing water is
What is lotic?
200
Water that runs into drains that may contain sewage and chemicals from homes and businesses or pollutants from industry
What is wastewater?
200
A specific control program that uses a combination of cultivation, biological and chemical approaches at specific times
What is integrated pest management?
300
This stage has the highest growth rate
What is the transitional stage?
300
A location of interacting biotic and abiotic components
What is an ecosystem?
300
This type of fishing drags a net from the back of a boat
What is drift net fishing?
300
The fastest growing type of solid waste.
What is electronic waste?
300
An insecticide that caused damage to marine bird populations in the 1950s and 1960s. Its use is now banned throughout most of the world.
What is DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane)?
400
____ _____ provides educational and clinical services that help couples choose how many children to have and when to have them.
What is Family planning?
400
This organism obtains its energy by eating other organisms
What is a consumer?
400
Wetlands provide these benefits
What are a natural barrier, flood prevention, biodiversity, and purified water?
400
The process of mixing decaying leaves, manure and other nutritive matter to improve and fertilize soil.
What is composting?
400
The time required for half of a sample to decompose into a new substance.
What is a half-life?
500
This stage has the lowest total fertility rate
What is the post-industrial stage?
500
The complex model of how energy and matter move between trophic levels
What is a food web?
500
A coral reef is damaged by
What are warm water, unbalanced ecosystems, and chemicals?
500
A fund created by Congress in 1980 to clean up hazardous waste sites. Money for the fund comes from taxing chemical products.
What is Superfund?
500
The accumulation or increase in concentration of a substance in living tissue as it moves through a food web.
What is biomagnification?
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