BGC Cycles
What gives water its unique properties?
What is carrying capacity?
What is an ecological footprint?
Draw the pH scale on the board labeling acidic, neutral, and basic.
What is heat capacity? Why is it important for ecosystems that water has a high heat capacity?
What are the four types of ocean animals? Give an example of each.
List one way in which we can solve the human population problem according to your textbook.
Give an example of a negative feedback loop in the environment.
Draw an atom on the board and label:
Proton and charge
Neutron and charge
Electron and charge
Nucleus
Follow a phosphorus atom through the phosphorus cycle.
What type of forest would you expect in polar climates? What about near the equator?
Is the human population modeled as a J- or S-curve? Why?
What is environmentalism (vs. environmental science)?
Follow a carbon atom through the carbon cycle.
List the three types of desserts. What differentiates them?
Discuss how age structure affects population change.
Give an example of a biodegradable and nonbiodegradable pollutant.
Give an example a biotic and abiotic factor in an ecosystem.
Draw the nitrogen cycle on the board.
Differentiate between the four lake zones.
Draw the population change equation on the board and explain it.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons and what is one solution for the tragedy?
What are three of the major greenhouse gases?