Atmosphere & Climate Change
The greenhouse gas most commonly emitted
What is Carbon Dioxide
What is
anything plants
fish and poultry are acceptable answers as well
not pork, beef, or lamb
one way biodiversity is important to human society
what is, any of the following
•Keeps ecosystems stable and maintains ecosystem functioning
•Erosion control
•Water filtration and water cycle
•Food source
•Controls disease spread
•Ecotourism
•Provides many species for medical, industrial, and agricultural uses in human society
Name one solution discussed in class to humanely reduced human population growth
What is, any of the following
•Woman rights: Education and career opportunities, Economic independence, Right to control reproductive decisions
•Medical services, Lower mortality rate
•Industrial careers, Over agricultural where many children can be beneficial, Urban lifestyle = children are expensive
•Cheap and easy access to birth control….
•Public Education, If everyone knew about the impact of having children, would we still see 4-6 children families?
•government policies
An example of a renewable energy resource
Wind, Solar, Geothermal, Hydroelectric, Tidal, biomass fuel
The average conditions in an area over a long period of time vs everyday variable conditions
What is climate vs weather
a method of controlling pests such as insects, mites, weeds and plant diseases using other organisms
What is Biological Pest Control
an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter.
What is Heterotroph
The maximum population size that the ecosystem’s resources can support indefinitely
What is Carrying Capacity
A benefit of composting
What is, any of the following
•Keeps organic wastes out of landfills
•Provides nutrients to the soil
•Increases beneficial soil organisms, such as worms and centipedes
•Suppresses some plant diseases
•Reduced the need for pesticides and fertilizers
•Protects soil from erosion
What is The Greenhouse Effect
the book that kickstarted the environmental movement and the creation of many environmental laws in the 1970s
What is Silent Spring
The role of a species within an ecosystem, describes how they use their habitat
What is 'niche'
for each person; in relation to people taken individually.
What is per capita
the primary nutrients involved in artificial eutrophication
What is Nitrogen and Phosphorous
An example of climate change effects in Utah
What is
anything with precipitation
More droughts, heatwaves, lower water levels, less snow, changing agriculture
The Nobel prize winner and Jewish German chemist that synthesized pesticides for agricultural use but which the Nazis got a hold of and used in their gas chambers
Who is Fritz Haber
An ecological phenomenon triggered by the addition or removal of top predators and involving reciprocal changes in the relative populations of predator and prey through a food chain, which often results in dramatic changes in ecosystem structure and nutrient cycling.
What is Trophic Cascade
a model that describes how economic and social changes affect population growth rates
What is Demographic Transition
a social and economic order that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts
What is consumerism
Name one of the main arguments popular media tries to use against the idea of human-caused climate change?
What is any of the following
•Natural cycles of earth
•Not enough evidence
•Hoax to earn profits for renewable energy businesses
•No correlation between CO2 gas emissions and temperature warming
Bad predictions-little ice age
other natural causes-volcanoes
What is trophic level and conversion ratio
any concentration of a toxin, such as pesticides, in the tissues of tolerant organisms at successively higher levels in a food chain.
What is biomagnification
The maximum offspring each member of the population can produce vs The average number of children a woman gives birth to in her lifetime
What is Reproductive Potential vs Fertility Rate
excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
What is eutrophication