Population
A group of organisms so similar to one another that they can breed and produce fertile offspring.
What is species?
The variety of species on Earth.
What is Biodiversity?
This is the average weather for a particular time and region.
What is climate?
This ocean is the smallest.
What is the Arctic ocean?
This will happen to biodiversity as human populations increase.
What is decrease?
This ecological level contains one individual.
What is organism?
An animal that eats plants.
What is an herbivore?
This is the main human activity that releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
What is burning fossil fuels?
This ocean current is responsible for our temperate climate in Wilmington, NC.
What is the Gulf Stream?
The loss of biodiversity is often caused by this process, where natural habitats are destroyed or fragmented.
What is habitat loss/destruction?
This is the current world population.
The three components of Biodiversity:
1. Diversity of Genes
2. Diversity of Number of Species
3. Variety of Ecosystems
Visible light reaches Earth's surface while infrared light is trapped as heat. This characteristic of Earth's atmosphere causes this to happen.
What is the Greenhouse effect?
These factors affect the density of ocean water.
What is temperature and salinity?
"HIPPO" is used to remember the ways species are driven to extinction. The "I" stands for this.
What is Invasive Species?
A factor that can cause population growth to decrease.
What is a limiting factor?
An organism that is not native and has negative effects on our economy, environment, and health.
What is an invasive species?
This will result in sea-levels rising.
What is the melting of glaciers and polar ice caps?
The two types of ocean currents are:
What is surface and deep?
These are chlorine compounds that are the main cause of the ozone hole.
What are CFCs?
There have been three surges to human growth in recent centuries. Name one cause.
1. Tool Development
2. Agriculture Development
3. Health Care/Industrialization/Technology
Fishing tuna at a rate of more than they can replace themselves is known as this.
What is overharvesting?
This region on Earth will have the greatest changes in temperature.
What are the poles?
This is a circular system of currents in the Earth's major oceans.
What is a gyre?
Logistic population growth, with natural limitations, is demonstrated best through this curve type.
What is an S-Curve?