What is Environmental Science?
All of the gases that make up the outermost layer of the Earth.
What is the Atmosphere?
All of the rocks, landforms, and geographically features of the surface of the Earth and beneath.
What is the Geosphere?
All of the living things on planet Earth.
What is the biosphere?
This country has a population size of approximately 114 million, with a density of around 115 people per square km, and a clumped distribution.
What is Egypt?
The variables in an experiment that you keep the same throughout.
What are controlled variables or constants?
This layer is inside the stratosphere and is known for absorbing harmful UV rays from the Sun. Without it we would be in big trouble.
What is the ozone layer?
What is sedimentary rock?
Natural units that comprise the non-living, physical environment (Soil, atmosphere, and water) and the community (all the organisms living in a particular area).
What is an ecosystem?
Random, Clumped, and Uniform are all apart of what branch of analyzing populations?
What is population distribution?
These are the base SI units for length, mass, and volume.
What are meters, grams, and liters?
The bottom layer of the Earth's atmosphere where all life and weather is contained.
What is the Troposphere?
The thickest layer of the Earth where liquid rock is being heated by the underlying core causing convections currents of taffy-like rock.
What is the Mantle?
A complex series of interactions showing the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
Analyzing a populations birth rate (B), death rate (D), immigration (I), and emigration (E) will give you the overall...
Population Growth
A way of approaching questions in the most efficient and accurate way possible.
What is the scientific process?
The phenomenon of air "turning" toward or away from the equator due to the Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect
A boundary where the two plates are moving away from one another and new crust is forming in between.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
What are the PRODUCTS of cellular respiration?
Opportunity for better jobs, chance for better housing, more reliable food supply, opportunity for greater wealth, freedom from village traditions are all apart of this.
Immigration pull factors (reasons to move to urban areas)
This is the prefix meaning "100".
What is "hecto"?
The atmospheric circulation in each hemisphere consists of these three cells.
Hadley, Ferrel, and Polar cells
Areas on planet Earth where there are a high number of earthquakes and volcanoes that occur in patterns that look like lines.
What are tectonic plate boundaries?
this trophic level is where you will first find a carnivore
What is Trophic level 3?
The conflict that populations experience when individuals needs are leveraged against the collectives needs.
What is the "Tragedy of the Commons"?