Matter and Energy
Makes up all matter
Atoms
Current population growth pattern of humans.
Exponential
This biome is dominated by conifers, with low precipitation, and year round cool to cold temperatures.
Taiga
This phylum of organisms represent 75% of all species on earth.
Arthropods
Greenhouse gas that is main culprit for today's climate issues.
Carbon dioxide
In most ecosystems, this biological process produces simple carbohydrates that feed everything in the ecosystem at some point in the food chain.
Photosynthesis
The maximum number of individuals a particular environment can hold.
Carrying Capacity
This biome is dry but is dominated by shrub-like plants.
Chapparal
Process by which a population changes genetic features based on selection pressures from their environment.
Evolution OR Natural Selection
When mixed with water, makes sulfuric acid rain.
Sulfur Dioxide
This molecule helps to build and breakdown molecules in organisms, helps stabilize internal temperatures, and has a pH of 7.
Water
Continent with the highest growth of humans.
Africa
An organism that feeds off of primary producers
Primary consumer or herbivore
This mass extinction wiped out over 90% of all life on earth making it the largest mass extinction to date.
Permo-Triassic Extinction.
Gas that absorbs harmful UV radiation.
Ozone
Molecule used by living things that stores energy and produces cellular actions
ATP
Community relationship by which one species benefits but neither harms nor helps the other.
Commensalism
Nitrogen cycle is important in building this molecule for living things.
Amino Acids OR Proteins OR DNA
Honeysuckle, kudzu, marmorated stink bugs, and emerald ash borer represent this issue in Kentucky.
Invasive Species
A reduction in this product worldwide would significantly reduce the effects of climate change.
Burning Fossil Fuels
This represents energy loss between trophic levels on a food chain.
Heat Energy
Oaks, Hickories, and Maples make up this aspect of Kentucky forest communities.
Foundational Species
Process in the water cycle where snow is immediately transformed to water vapor.
Sublimation
This appeal to biodiversity argues that life has inherit value regardless of its worth to humans.
Intrinsic value
These costs such as air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and environmental degradation are often imposed onto you when purchasing products and services, even if you disagree with it.
Negative Externality