Climate Change 1
This phenomenon traps heat in Earth’s atmosphere and is necessary for life
What is the greenhouse effect?
The correct order of a simple four-step food chain.
What is producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer?
Mass production has contributed most to this major environmental issue.
What is global climate change?
The total fertility rate refers to this demographic measurement.
What is the number of children born to each woman in her lifetime?
The process by which forests absorb carbon dioxide, helping to mitigate climate change.
What is carbon sequestration?
This gas is the largest contributor to the greenhouse effect.
What is carbon dioxide (CO₂)?
This process provides usable energy to producers.
What is photosynthesis?
Newly formed volcanic islands undergo this type of succession.
What is primary succession?
Human populations are best described using this reproductive strategy.
What is k-strategists?
The large-scale movement of people from one location to another due to economic, environmental, or social factors.
What is migration?
This biome harbors the fewest species of plants.
What is the tundra?
This term describes environmental factors that limit population growth.
What are limiting factors?
This gas contributes to both climate change and urban smog.
What is ozone (O₃)?
Rapid urbanization often leads to a decline in this environmental factor.
What is biodiversity?
The uncontrolled expansion of urban areas into surrounding rural land, often leading to environmental degradation.
What is urban sprawl?
The most climate-sensitive form of renewable energy.
Answer: What is hydropower?
The relationship where mycorrhizal fungi and plant roots exchange nutrients and carbohydrates.
What is mutualism?
In a temperate deciduous forest, maple trees, birds, and squirrels make up this ecological grouping.
What is a community?
The primary role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is to do this.
What is provide scientific assessments on climate change to inform policymakers?
his term describes the ability of an ecosystem to regenerate the resources that humans use and absorb waste sustainably.
Answer: What is biocapacity?
What is biocapacity?
This phenomenon causes more intense storms and rising sea levels.
Answer: What is global climate change?
This biome harbors the greatest biodiversity.
What is the tropical rainforest?
The largest proportion of deforestation occurs for this reason.
What is agricultural development?
Name 2 environmental organizations.
What are the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),
This term refers to the deterioration of the environment through depletion of natural resources, habitat destruction, and pollution.
What is environmental degradation?