This is determined and shaped by our environment, experiences, education, culture, and the media.
What is an environmental value system?
100
A particular world view that shapes the way an individual or group perceives and responds to environmental issues.
What is an EVS?
100
Non-living factors in an environment.
What are abiotic factors?
100
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the first law of thermodynamics? Bonus +200pts; If energy cannot be created or destroyed, what happens to it as it is used through the food chain?
100
This is the form of pollution that can be organic or inorganic.
What is matter? BONUS 500pts - Give an example of pollution that is in the form of matter.
200
A person with this particular EVS might be called a "deep ecologist."
What is ecocentric?
200
In a system, flows of matter or energy are represented with these.
What are arrows?
200
An interaction between species where both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism? BONUS +200 points if you can name a specific mutualism.
200
The amount of the sun's energy captured by the world's producers.
What is 1%? DAILY DOUBLE!!! If the producers in an ecosystem contain 100 joules of energy how much of this energy can be efficiently transferred to the next trophic level (primary consumers) in the food chain?
200
This type of pollution can cause changes over time in nocturnal animals.
What is light pollution?
300
A person with this EVS believes that we need to be managers of the Earth, and put laws into place to help us live sustainably.
What is anthropocentric?
300
All living organisms and their physical environment in a specific area.
What is an ECO - system?
300
The type of population curve that increases steadily and tapers off in response to limited resources.
What is logistic growth or S-shaped growth?
300
Useless energy that increases over time.
What is entropy?
300
Tropospheric ozone is an example of this type of pollutant.
What is a secondary pollutant?
400
This EVS is on the "bright green" end of the spectrum, and may have a very optimistic view of environmental issues.
What is technocentric? Daily Double!!! What is one word that describes the way of thinking of the technocentric viewpoint? -OR- Name a famous person that has a technocentric viewpoint.
400
The combined effects of the components is greater than the sum of their separate effects.
What is synergy?
400
No two species can occupy the same niche at the same time.
What is the competitive exclusion principle?
400
The conversion of organic matter into carbon dioxide and water thus releasing energy.
What is respiration?
400
This is the most common type of pollution in major cities.
What is photochemical smog?
500
This person believes that geography has the biggest influence on the wealth and EVS of a society.
Who is Jared Diamond?
500
This type of system exchanges energy, but not matter past it's boundary.
What is a closed system? 100 pt. BONUS - What is the definition of an isolated system? 200 pt. BONUS - Is there really such thing as an isolated system? Explain.
500
In this interaction, one species benefits and the other is not affected.
What is commensalism? BONUS +500pts Give an example of commensalism.
500
The worlds producers fix carbon dioxide and give energy through this process.
What is photosynthesis? BONUS +300pts - Approximately how many acres of rainforest are cleared each day?
500
POP's or persistent organic pollutants are harmful because they do this up the food chain.
What is bioaccumulate? BONUS 500pts - Give two reasons why POP's bioaccumulate in a food web.