Topic 1
This Environmental Value System believes technological developments and human ingenuity can solve all environmental and resource problems
Technocentrism
This is the maximum population size an environment can support indefinitely
What is Carrying Capacity
Botanic gardens, zoos, seed banks and CITES are examples of THIS
Ex-situ conservation
This biome is characterized by low temperatures, low precipitation and a layer of permanently frozen subsoil called permafrost
The Tundra biome
Organisms with production of large numbers of offspring with little to no parental care
R-Species
The type of system where both matter and energy are exchanged
This major human activity has had the most significant impact on the Cabron Cycle
burning of fossil fuels
Ecotourism, genetic resources, and natural capital are types of what kind of argument for conservation?
Economic
Organisms use energy for daily functions, but some is lost as THIS (term), usually found on the right side of a trophic pyramid
Heat
This term is "best" in an ecosystem when there is high biodiversity, high abundance of organisms and biogeochemical storages, and multiple species with similar roles in an ecosystem
Resilience/resiliency
This counteracts any deviation from a stable equilibrium, promoting stability
A Negative feedback loop
This is the formula for Net Primary Productivity
NPP = GPP - R
This process happens when organisms more fit for their environment surviving and reproducing.
Natural Selection. Double points if you can explain how it leads to evolution.
People who have a diet containing of mostly THIS type of food, usually have a lower carbon footprint
veggies/fruits/producers
This is the energy or biomass remaining in an ecosystem after respiration losses
Net productivity
A new equilibrium is adopted with different structural characteristics after this...
Tipping point
This type of animal helps keep herbivores from overgrazing, supplies scavengers with food, controls disease, and helps keep food web populations in check
Carnivores/Apex predators
This helped develop new species due to isolating populations, which created geological barriers
Theory of plate tectonics
An increase in soil depth, increase in biodiversity, complex food webs and K-species are all characteristics of this.
A Climax Community
Photosynthesis, Cellular respiration, decomposition and combustion are all examples of THIS (term) in the Carbon Cycle
transformations
This is the name of US Vice President Al Gore’s documentary, which created enormous awareness of Climate Change
An Inconvenient Truth
Agricultural technology, GDP, consumption habits and physical geography are all reasons why THIS (term) is different for all countries
Carrying Capacity
Flood protection, soil protection, oxygen production and carbon sequestration are examples of THIS (term), which are direct or indirect benefits humans receive from nature
Ecosystem Services
This is the sustainable yield of goods and services derived from this productivity and natural capital
Natural Income
This is the extraction of natural resources at a rate that allows the natural capital to replenish itself, ensuring future yields are not compromised
Sustainable harvesting/Sustainability