What is Environmental Science
Matter, Energy, Life
Evolution and Species Interactions
Biomes
Population
100
This environmental ideology was founded by John Muir and involved appreciating nature and everything in it...but not using it.
What is preservation?
100
This is the source of all energy on Earth
What is the sun or solar radiation?
100
This person came up with the modern idea of evolution that we still refer to today!
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
Warm or hot year round, lots of moisture, incredibly biodiverse
What is tropical rainforest?
100
The growth pattern we see of r-selected species
What is exponential growth?
200
This movement combines civil rights with environmental protection to demand a safe, healthy, life-giving environment for everyone!
What is environmental justice?
200
Label this food web with a producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, and tertiary consumer
Grass: Producer
Grasshopper: Primary
Shrew: Secondary
Hawk: Tertiary
200
This is the limit created by a certain factor that determines whether an organism can survive
What is tolerance limit?
200
The two types of temperate forests you may see
What are deciduous and coniferous?
200
The population level in which an environment can no longer support it without severe resource depletion.
What is K or carrying capacity?
300
This describes the value that we place on something based on how useful it is to us.
What is instrument value?
300
These five material cycles make life on Earth possible
What are the hydrologic (water) cycle, the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the phosphorus cycle, and the oxygen cycle
300
Lichen is a fungus and algae mixture that combine tissues in order to both benefit. This is an example of what kind of symbiotic relationship?
What is mutualism?
300
Where rivers empty into the sea
What is estuary or saltwater marsh?
300
The type of growth we see among K-selected species
What is logistic?
400
This idea explained that overpopulation and population growth would lead to overuse and the destruction of resources including fisheries, pastures, freshwater, land, and even clean air.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
400
We cannot use nitrogen straight from the atmosphere, first an important step needs to happen. This is called...
What is Nitrogen fixation. Bacteria can break about the bonds and create nitrogen that is ready to bond with other elements making it usable for animals and plants.
400
This type of species plays a critical role in a biological community depending on how many or how few of them there are. If this type of species were to disappear, there would be drastic effects on the ecosystem.
What is a keystone species?
400
Species have adapted here to withstand flooding, extreme dryness, and violent waves.
What are tide pools?
400
Factors that affect a population regardless of how big or small it is.
What are density independent factors?
500
Environmental Science is incredibly interdisciplinary! What are some of the disciplines within environmental science we may see?
Answers may include:
Ethics, literature, geology, geography, chemistry, biology, zoology, marine biology, entomology, medicine, mathematics, feminism, oceanography, physics, politics, sociology, religion, anthropology, business, physics, economics and law (and much much more!!)
500
Nitrogen and phosphorous are important for life, but too much getting stuck in the cycle can cause serious environmental damage. This is what happens when there is an abundance of nitrogen or phosphorus in water systems...
What is eutrophication?
500
This is the effect of one species drifting apart from itself, creating new adaptations and eventually a new species
What is speciation or genetic drift?
500
Serves as a natural filtration system for freshwater, making it very green and saturated with life.
What is a swamp?
500
List 3 traits specific to K-selected species.
Answers could include:
Long life, niche specialists, slow growth, parental care, fewer and larger offspring, higher trophic levels, late maturity