Easy
What is urban sprawl?
When the areas around a city grow into the main city so no open areas remain
what is the difference between climate and weather?
climate is a pattern of precipitation and temperature and weather is what is happenign right here, right now.
how do human - centered, Earth - centered, and life - centered worldviews differ?
human - centers > human life is greater than all
Earth - centered > preserving the Earth is the most important thing
life - centered > preserving all life forms is the most important thing.
how much of our planet is covered in water?
71%
what is noise pollution?
when the noise in an area causes a nuisance, medical problems, or distraction.
What is a megaregion?
100+ people in a region
what is a car - sharing network
Where cars are shared rather than owned
What is a megacity?
10+ milion people live there
in 2022, what percent of the world's people lived in urban areas?
55%
What is a hypercity?
20+ million people in a city
where a city is warmer, rainier, and foggier, than the areas around it.
what is surface water?
water that sits on top of the ground
what is the difference between an oligotrophic and a eutrophic lake
oligotrophic - has low NPP
eutrophic - has high NPP
explain the nitrogen cycle
nitrogen is unusable in atmosphere. Bacteria on legume plants (soybeans), take in this nitrogen and turn it into a usable form that is absorbed by the plant. The plant then is eaten and the organisms get nitrogen. The organism poops or dies and releases nitrogen into soil. Some nitrogen is released through breath and released back to atmosphere.
what is a biome?
what is runoff in terms of water?
water that runs off into a body of water (river, lake, etc.)
what species has degraded the planet the most?
humans
why has the human degradation number increased even though people have existed for thousands of years?
humans have evolved and changed from hunter - gatherers to technological beings.
what is the population change equation?
(Births + Immigration) - (Deaths + Emigration)
what is the major focus for Ecology and Environmental Science?
studying the environment and the organisms that live in it.
name a few ways that humans are trying to fix the world's hurt ecosystem?
cleaning up trash
decreasing pollution
education
etc.
what is the current human population
~8 billion
what is the predicted rate of the human population by 2050?
~10 billion
what does the TFR rate need to be in order to successfully replace both parents and keep the population stable
2.1
what could happen if biodiversity decreases?
extinction
food web crashes/issues