FESS
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred or transformed
What are the two types of niche?
Realized and fundamental
What is the name for the process by which plants return water to the atmosphere?
(Evapo)Transpiration
What drives water cycle?
Solar radiation
Who described a point of crisis at which human population growth would meet the point of maximum natural capital availability?
Thomas Malthus
Which feedback mechanism tends to return an equilibrium back towards its starting point?
Negative
What is the name of the process through which a non-polar pollutant increases in concentration as it moves up through a food chain?
Biomagnification
What is the name for the family of plants that are able to fix nitrogen (with support of nitrogen-fixing rhizobia)
Legumes
What is the name for nutrient pollution of a water body?
Eutrophication
How many stages are there in the Demographic Transition Model
5
Which feedback mechanism tends to move an equilibrium further from its starting point?
Positive
What is the name of the process through which a non-polar pollutant enters a food chain?
Bioaccumulation
Name three major greenhouse gases
Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, water vapour, CFCs, ozone
What is the name of the major global current that distributes heat in water and atmosphere?
The Ocean Conveyor Belt
What are the three graph lines on the Demographic Transition Model (DTM)?
Crude Birth Rate, Crude Death Rate, Natural Increase Rate
Which environmental value system concentrates on the use of technology to address environmental issues?
Technocentrism
What is the name given to a species whose presence in an ecosystem is vitally important to avoid the collapse of an ecosystem?
Keystone species
Define species
A group of organisms with the same phenotypic characteristics that can produce viable offspring
What are the three pollution management strategies?
Change human activity, regulate emissions, clean up of existing pollution
What percentage of the world’s natural capital is consumed by MEDCs?
50%
What is the name of the most extreme version of ecocentrism?
Deep Ecology
What name is given to the first species which arrive during primary succession?
Pioneer species
What is the most commonly used measure to estimate population size by mark-recapture?
Lincoln Index
What is the name given to a pollution incident with a definite source of origin?
Point-source
What does the acronym IPCC stand for?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change