Environmental Values
Believing technology can solve all problems.
What is technocratic?
The spill of mercury in the waters of this namesake Bay cause tremors and dancing cat fever.
What is Minamata?
The amount of biomass an ecosystem can support.
What is carrying capacity?
The point of plants in the food chain.
What is the first trophic level?
What is reflection and absorption?
The belief that Humanity is most important.
What is anthropocentric?
The most deadly chemical factory explosion in India.
What is Bhopal?
the position a species occupies in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
What is the food web?
The conversion of energy into biomass.
The environment can be controlled to benefit both humanity and nature.
What is environmental manager?
The meltdown at this location has been sealed off with large concrete dome.
What is Chernobyl?
The organic components of an ecosystem.
What is the biotic factors?
The conversion of ATP into energy.
What is respiration?
The total gain in energy/biomass after respiration.
What is net primary productivity?
Taking extreme measures are necessary to preserve nature.
What is radicals?
A commitment to reduce greenhouse gasses in 1997.
What is the Kyoto protocol?
When two species support each other.
What is mutualistic?
The curve that contains a sudden correction.
What is the J-Curve?
When ammonia is converted to nitrites.
What is nitrification.
Nature is the most important aspect of the Earth and we must preserve it.
What is deep ecologist?
The most recent climate change agreement, named for a European capital.
What is the Paris Agreement?
That which inhibits population growth.
What is limiting factors?
The buildup of non-dedegradable pollutants.
What is bioaccumulation.
The measure of energy entering, staying, and leaving a system.