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The raising of crops and livestock for food or for other products that are useful to humans
What is "Agriculture"?
100
A non-living factor in the environment (ex: rocks, water, wind)
What is an Abiotic Factor?
100
A phenomenon in which algae inside corals die or leaves the coral, causing the corals to turn white and eventually die.
What is coral bleaching?
100
An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
What is a consumer/ heterotroph?
100
Sources of energy that have limited supplies and will eventually run out or will not be replenished for thousands or even millions of years.
What is nonrenewable energy?
200
The use of natural resources in a manner that can be maintained long-term
What is "Sustainability"?
200
This type of succession always begins with bare rock that is eventually broken down to form soil.
What is Primary Succession?
200
This plant grows at the surface of the water and can block sunlight from reaching plants and organisms below it.
What is Algae?
200
A species that has an unusually large effect on its ecosystem
What is a keystone species?
200
Remains of ancient organisms that changed into coal, oil, or natural gas.
What are fossil fuels?
300
These types of animals were impacted by hunter/ gatherers.
What are megafauna?
300
This type of succession takes a shorter amount of time to develop a climax community
What is Secondary Succession?
300
An area where fresh water mixes with salt water. Typically where a river meets an ocean.
What is an estuary?
300
A consumer that eats only plants
What is an herbivore?
300
What is hydropower?
400
This method, which involved cutting down trees then burning the area, ultimately proved to be an unsustainable method of procuring land for agriculture.
What is slash and burn?
400
This biome is found in the Arctic zone and receives very little precipitation.
What is a Tundra?
400
This is the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on people of color.
What is Environmental Racism?
400
This organism is a secondary consumer.
What is the snake?
400
Fracking is a process that is used to obtain this fossil fuel.
What is natural gas?
500
A situation where individuals acting independently according to their own short-term self-interest behave contrary to the long-term common good by depleting or spoiling a shared resource
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Hunter/ Gatherer Society
Agricultural Revolution
Industrial Revolution
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What is "The Tragedy of the Commons"?
What is "The Tragedy of the Commons"?
500
This biome is found in the tropical zone and receives very little rain. Many of its inhabitants are nocturnal due to high daytime temperatures.
What is a desert?
500
An increase of nutrients in a marine or aquatic ecosystem that eventually leads to a loss of biodiversity in the system.
What is eutrophication?
500
A place where carbon is stored.
What is a carbon sink / resevoir?
500
What is the greenhouse effect?