Biodiversity
The range of different places and different environmental conditions within one area
What is "habitat diversity?"the range of different places and different environmental conditions within one area also known as?
The type of radiation that drives the hydrological cycle.
What is solar radiation?
The part of a soil system made of decomposing plant and animal matter.
The most abundant gas in the Earths atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
The number of births per thousand individuals in a population per year
What is Crude Birth Rate?
The gradual change in the genetic character of populations over many generations?
What is evolution?
Movement of water and heat energy by ocean circulation.
What is the "ocean conveyor belt"?
A process that takes away soil.
What is erosion?
The layer of the atmosphere that includes most clouds and contributes most to the albedo effect of the planet.
What is the troposphere?
The model that shows the characteristics of human populations and how they change over time.
What is the demographic transition?
D can be used to compare the biodiversity of two similar habitats.
What is the Simpson diversity index?
An underground store of fresh water.
What is an aquifer?
A chemical that is added to soil to replace nutrients that have been removed.
What is fertiliser?
A layer of gas in the atmosphere that protects the Earths surface from harmful UV radiation
What is stratospheric ozone?
In this stage of the demographic transition model, both birth and death rates are high, resulting in a relatively stable and low population growth.
What is stage 1 of the DTM?
A species conservation status is determined by its population size, degree of specialisation, distribution, reproductive potential and behaviour, geographic range, degree of fragmentation, quality of habitat, trophic level and probability of extinction. The IUCN manages a data base of this information, called the WHAT list?
What is red?
The "middle" sized soil particle.
What is silt?
A chemical that combusts to release energy and a large range of atmospheric pollutants, including carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbon, unburned hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen and oxides of sulfur. These pollutants can then cause acid deposition, climate change and phytochemical smog
What is a fossil fuel?
A type of economic model that is seen as being more sustainable than a linear economy
What is a circular economy?
This international treaty, signed in 1973, aims to ensure that international trade in wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival.
What is CITES? (Convention for the International Trade of Endangered Species)
A type of biodegradation of organic material that leads to the production of methane, hydrogen sulfide and ammonia
What is anaerobic decomposition?
A type of land management that alternates between different types of land use, including leaving it fallow for a period of time.
What is crop rotation?
An international agreement to reduce the use of ozone-depleting substances, and a model for later environmental treaties.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
The maximum population size that can be sustainably supported by a given area
What is carrying capacity?