Environmental Indicators
Nitrogen Cycle
Ecosystem Services
Geology
Biodiversity
100
Define environmental indicators
what is used to describe the health and quality of natural systems. Help us analyze the health of the planet
100
What is NH3?
What is ammonia
100
services that are very expensive or not possible for humans to provide
What are ecosystem services
100
What law says that strata are laid down in flat horizontal layers?
What is the law of original horizontality?
100
This is the raw # of species in an area
What is species richness
200
This environmental indicator measures the health of the environment based on how fast resources are being depleted.
what is resource depletion
200
Describe Ammonification
What is when decomposers turn nitrogen in the soil intro ammonia.
200
This service is the goods provided by nature that humans use as food, fuel, drinking water, building materials, and medicines.
What are provisioning ecosystem services
200
Shearing stress is found at this plate boundary
What is transform?
200
List 3 causes of loss of biodiversity
What is habitat alteration, invasive species, pollution, or overharvesting.
300
This environmental indicator is based on the growing human population and the demands they place on the environment.
what is human population
300
During which process do bacteria in the soil turn nitrates and ammonia into nitrogen gas, which is then released into the atmosphere?
What is denitrification?
300
services that control natural processes in ways that are favorable to humans
What are regulating ecosystem services
300
Rift valleys are formed at this plate boundary
What is continent-continent divergence?
300
True or false: Immigration rate decreases as island diversity increases
What is true
400
Explain how food production is an environmental indicator
what is the ability to grow food means that environments are healthy.
400
Explain in detail one way humans influence the nitrogen cycle
What is through fertilizers or fossil fuels. Explanations vary.
400
the many emotional, psychological, and recreational benefits people gain from nature.
What are cultural ecosystem services
400
Explain convection.
What is the heating and rising and then cooling and sinking of magma that drives continental plate movement.
400
The SLOSS debate is a debate about which type of land is better to conserve, single large or several small. Give the pro's and con's of conserving a single large habitat.
What is: Pros - less edge effects and higher biodiversity. cons - more expensive and harder to manage.
500
Explain how biodiversity is an environmental indicator.
What is, the higher the diversity the healthier an ecosystem is.
500
Why is nitrogen important for living organisms?
What is they use it to produce proteins and nucleic acids.
500
services that maintain biodiversity, which in turn produces all other categories of services.
What are habitat ecosystem services
500
Date these layers from oldest to youngest
What is A,C,G,P,L,S,B,D,J,M
500
This is the value of biodiversity that is independent from its value to humans
What is intrinsic value