Introduction To Sustainability
refers to the ability of something to be maintained over time without depleting resources.
What is Sustainability?
involve direct data collection from nature, such as fieldwork and remote sensing.
What are primary studies?
break down dead organisms, releasing nutrients back into the soil and atmosphere.
What Are decomposers?
It is defined by its climate and dominant vegetation.
What is a Biome?
This is described as a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.
What is a food Chain?
Excess fertilizer runoff can lead to rapid algae growth, which reduces dissolved oxygen and harms aquatic life.
What is a consequence of using too much fertilizer in agriculture?
Combining results from multiple studies to identify and predict major trends.
What is Meta-Analysis?
Occurs when excess nutrients, like nitrogen and phosphorus, enter aquatic ecosystems.
What is Eutrophication?
They convert solar energy into chemical energy through photosynthesis.
what are producers?
They break down dead organic material and wastes, releasing nutrients that can be recycled by primary producers.
What are decomposers?
the largest amount of a resource that can be harvested without depleting the population.
What is Maximum Sustainable Yield?
To ensure biodiversity policies are followed you must use ________ that includes resources and political will.
What is enforcement?
The slow movement of this important element through soil and rocks limits its availability to plants.
What is Phosphorous?
Energy decreases as it moves up the trophic levels due to ______ and metabolic processes.
What is heat loss?
They are autotrophs, such as plants and algae, that form the base of the food chain.
What are primary producers?
Monitoring dissolved oxygen levels in water can indicate if fertilizer runoff is causing ecosystem imbalance.
What is an Environmental indicator for farmers?
This form of policy includes recycling programs, biodiversity gardens, and organized cleanups.
What are local Policies?
This process returns nitrogen to the atmosphere by converting nitrates into nitrogen gas.
What is Denitrification?
This specific biome is characterized by cold temperatures and coniferous forests.
This rule states that only about 10% of the energy stored as biomass in one trophic level is transferred to the next trophic level.
What is the 10% rule?
when fish are harvested faster than they can reproduce, the population will decline over time.
What is going above the Maximum Sustainable yield?
You need to create this because organisms and ecosystems do not recognize political boundaries.
What are effective polices across regions?
This process ensures the continuous availability of essential elements for life.
What are Biochemical Cycles?
This process involves the movement of elements through living and non living components of an ecosystem.
What is nutrient Cycling?
They use energy from chemicals to build organic compounds out of carbon dioxide or similar molecules.
What are Chemoautotrophs?