Intro
This is the current population of the Earth.
What is 8.2 billion?
A testable explanation for an observation.
What is a hypothesis?
The process by which plants convert carbon dioxide and water to sugar using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
A classification system where organisms are grouped based on similar characteristics.
What is taxonomy?
Large geographic regions defined by biological community and dictated by climate.
What is a biome?
The amount of land required to sustain a person's use of natural resources.
What is an ecological footprint?
Presentation of just selective results, or publishing in quasi-scientific journals might be red-flags of this.
What is "junk science"?
The most prevalent gas in the atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen (N2) gas?
He is considered the father of evolutionary theory.
Who is Charles Darwin?
These are the two most broad types of biomes.
What are terrestrial and aquatic?
This is where the Rapanui people had a vibrant population and culture before its ultimate crash.
What is Easter Island?
A representation of how a system works.
What is a model?
Forms of an element that differ in mass.
What are isotopes?
This describes the tolerance limits for species for an environmental gradient.
What is the Law of Limiting Factors?
This biome is dominated by a large amount of rainfall and year-round high temperatures.
What is a tropical rainforest?
Pulling from natural science, social science and humanities makes environmental science what?
What is interdisciplinary?
The thing in an experiment that you manipulate.
What is an independent variable?
Energy is neither created nor destroyed but may be converted in form.
What is the 1st Law of Thermodynamics?
In this type of species interaction, both species are negatively affected.
What is competition?
The biome is dominated by conifers, with low precipitation and low annual temperatures.
What is the taiga or boreal forest?
These are the categories of ecosystem services.
What are Provisioning, Regulating, Supporting and Cultural?
An statement of what would be true if there are no differences from different experimental variables.
What is a null hypothesis?
This is where an atoms donate/accept electron(s) to become positively/negatively charged resulting in a bond.
What is an ionic bond?
(Example of common ionic bond?)
At this stage of succession, little change happens in community properties or relative diversity/abundance of species.
What is a climax community?
This will have one of the greatest effects on biomes.
What is latitude?
(bonus: what is the other?)