Energy
The goal of a process continuing indefinitely without depleting the resources on which it depends
What is sustainability?
The movement of carbon through different aspects of the biosphere?
What is the carbon cycle?
Widespread starvation caused by a drastic shortage of food.
What is famine?
These organisms have populations that are extremely low and are at risk of becoming extinct.
What are endangered species?
This term describes countries moving from periods of high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates.
What is demographic transition?
Coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of these types of fuels.
What are fossil fuels?
Soil, the atmosphere, and fossil fuels are examples of these.
What are carbon sinks?
Tilling, discing, lack of cover crops, drought, and wind cause this process.
What is erosion or topsoil loss?
What is primary succession?
The study of human populations and their change over time using statistics such as birth and death rate, education, age and wealth
Hydropower, wind power, solar power, and geothermal power are examples of this type of energy.
What is renewable energy?
Precipitation, evaporation, and condensation are part of this cycle.
What is the water cycle?
These types of crops have had their genes edited by selective breeding or by laboratory practices.
What are Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)?
These type of organisms are at the bottom of an ecological pyramid and make their own food.
What are producers/autotrophs?
What is fertility rate?
This type of fossil fuel is formed by the accumulation of phytoplankton and other aquatic organisms.
What is crude oil?
This practice involves removing large layers of sediment on the surface to remove valuable minerals from the earth.
What is strip mining?
These types of chemicals, such as DDT, have been used by famers to remove insects.
What are insecticides?
What is biodiversity?
The decrease of the effectiveness of antibiotics due to overuse and evolution of bacteria.
What is antibiotic resistance?
This type of fossil fuel is formed by the accumulation of dead plants and animals in terrestrial land formations such as swamps and bogs.
What is coal?
This process is the result of a surplus of nutrients running off into a body of water, causing algal blooms and the eventual lack of oxygen in that body of water.
What is eutrophication?
This condition, usually the result of malnutrition, comes from the lack of iron in one's blood.
What is anemia?
This type of growth contains a brief period of exponential growth and is followed by a period where the population reaches its carrying capacity due to many limiting factors.
What is logistic growth?
The United States would be considered to be in this stage of demographic transition.
What is the post-industrial stage (stage 4)?