Vocab
A group of the same species living in the same place at the same time.
What is a population?
This is how deforestation affects the biosphere.
What is habitat loss or the extinction of plants and animals?
True or false: Technology can help reduce our ecological footprint.
What is true?
True or false: Living things do not need natural resources for survival.
What is False?
Three reasons for the sharp increase in the human population over the past 200 years.
What are:
1. better health care/medicine
2. better sanitation/cleaner water
3. improvements in technology
Also, better access to food
Things on Earth that are necessary or useful for the survival of living things
What are natural resources?
This is how deforestation affects the atmosphere.
What is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere OR less oxygen?
This type of energy can greatly reduce our ecological footprint
What is renewable energy?
The number of people in the human population today.
What is 8 billion?
The concentration of individuals within a species in a specific geographic area.
What is population density?
This is how deforestation affects the geosphere.
What is soil can erode because tree roots aren't there to keep soil in place?
You can calculate your own ecological footprint by answering a simple questionnaire about your patterns of resource use such as ________ use, shopping, and driving habits.
What is electricity?
A flock of ducks on a farm is an example of this vocabulary term.
What is a population?
The development of desert-like conditions due to human activities and/or climate change.
What is desertification?
This is how deforestation affects the hydrosphere.
What are droughts (b/c cleared land dries rapidly and stores little water)?
This is defined as the area of Earth’s productive land and water required to supply the resources that an individual demands as well as to absorb the wastes that individuals produce.
What are ecological footprints?
Individuals in industrially developed countries use ______________ resources than individuals in developing countries.
What is far more?
The largest number of individuals in a given species that Earth’s resources can support and maintain for a long period of time.
What is carrying capacity?
The Amazon rainforest is home to some _____% of Earth’s total species
What is 10%?