6.1 Changing Landscape
6.2 Using Resources Wisely
6.3 Biodiversity
6.4 Meeting Ecolog. Challenge
MIX it UP
100
A farming strategy of planting a single, highly productive crop, year after year.
What is monoculture?
100
Lower land productivity caused by overfarming, overgrazing, seasonal drought, and climate change.
What is desertification?
100
The total of the variety of organisms in the biosphere.
What is Biodiversity?
100
The total area of the land and water ecosystems that provide the resources that each person uses.
What is Ecological footprint?
100
Smog, Acid Rain, Greenhouse Gases, and Particulates are all examples of this.
What is Air Pollution?
200
Coal, oil and natural gas are examples of this because they cannot be replaced in a reasonable amount of time.
What is nonrenewable resource?
200
The destruction of forests.
What is deforestation?
200
Why we should save biodiversity.
Food, medicine
200
Particles of pollution.
What are particulates?
200
These are ways you can lessen your impact on our atmosphere.
What is ride a bike or walk more often instead of riding in a car or take a bus or use less energy at home.?
300
A resource that can be reduced or replaced by healthy ecosystem functions.
What is a renewable resource?
300
This occurred in the 1930's and caused soil erosion in the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
Genetic Diversity is important in agriculture because the wild plants may carry genes that are important for this.
What is disease resistance and / or pest resistance?
300
Near the ground this is a pollutant, however high in the atmosphere it forms an important protective layer for our Earth.
What is Ozone layer?
300
Pesticide would show greatest concentration in the organism that is at the top or bottom of a food chain or web?
What is the top?
400
Humans may be reaching Earth's carrying capacity, because we are approaching this many people in billions.
What is 8 billion?
400
The increasing concentration of a harmful substance in organisms of higher trophic levels in a food chain or food web.
What is biological magnification?
400
The splitting of ecosystems into pieces.
What is habitat fragmentation?
400
Raising of aquatic animals for human consumption.
What is aquaculture?
400
The loss of topsoil through the action of wind or water is this.
What is erosion?
500
We can use these resources, but in a way that avoids environment damage (avoiding pollution of water sources etc.)
What is sustainable development?
500
The primary sources of this are industrial and agricultural chemicals, residential sewage, and nonpoint sources.
What is Water Pollution?
500
Protect individual species as well as whole ecosystems.
What is ways to preserve biodiversity?
500
The IPCC reports that global temperatures are rising causing this.
What is Global Warming?
500
Chemicals found in acid rain.
What are nitric and sulfuric acid?
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