What is the difference between developing and developed countries?
Developing: do not have enough money/resources to survive
developed: have more than enough money/resources to survive with some left over for other things
100
What is one cause of air pollution?
factories
100
What are the two types of aquatic ecosystems?
freshwater and marine (saltwater)
100
What is a niche?
when an animal has a specific adaptation that benefits the organism in its environment
100
How does the birth rate and death rate determine a population's size?
When birth rate goes up and death rate goes down, population increases
When birth rate goes down and death rate goes up, population decreases
200
Give an example of a developed country and a developing country
What is poaching? What is one solution to poaching?
hunting endangered animals illegally; making laws regulating hunting and poaching and giving fines and jail time to those who break the laws
200
What are the two types of succession?
primary and secondary
200
What is aquaculture?
'fish farm' -- keeping fish in controlled conditions and populations for food
200
What are three major problems in the United States?
unemployment, litter, and quality of education
300
What are two types of indoor air pollution?
radon and carbon monoxide
300
Explain what endangered, threatened, and extinct means
endangered: 'in danger' of becoming extinct
threatened: in between endangered and extinct
extinct: no more organisms of that species are alive
300
What are three resources we get from forests?
paper, rubber, lumber
300
What are the three types of symbiosis?
commensalism, mutualism, parasitism
300
What is one problem that developed countries have? Developing countries?
developed: quality of education, unemployment, litter
developing: world hunger, violence, overpopulation
400
What are three major problems that China is facing? Explain each.
child labor, air pollution, world hunger, overpopulation
400
Which social problem do you think is the most important; give three reasons why: unemployment, litter, quality of education, pollution, drug abuse, violence, world hunger, child labor
Any answer is correct if you can give three specific reasons why it causes the other problems
400
List the five categories in the tower of life in order from largest to smallest category: ecosystems, biomes, communities, populations, biosphere
Explain how finches are an example of natural selection?
Finches that have small beaks are able to pick through dirt for food, while those that have big beaks do not. Finches with small beaks are more likely to survive and pass on their genes, while the finches with big beaks do not pass on their genes and die off.
400
Name four specific things you can do to reduce waste
reduce, reuse, recycle, and composting
500
How are unemployment, quality of education, and violence related?
unemployment: can't afford school, fight over resources
quality of education: can't get a job, fight over resources
violence: interferes with schooling and businesses, can't focus at school or work when there is violence at home
500
What environmental problem do you think is most important; give three reasons. Water pollution, air pollution, waste & recycling, land management, extinction
all answers can be correct if you give three specific ways that it causes the other problems