Science 1
Name a species listed in the slideshow that is currently endangered.
What is: Bengal tiger/ the snow leopard/ and the West Indian Manatee
Who or what determines environmental economics?
What are: humans
These two things interact with each other to determine the behavioral, morphological, and anatomical characteristics of an individual.
Genotype and the environment
nitrogen fixation
ammonium
Organize the following from smallest to largest in scale of analysis:
Individual, Biosphere, Community, Ecosystem, Population, Biome
Individual, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome, Biosphere
What are two representative states that represent the developed countries' consumption concept?
What are: California and Texas
Fill in the blank: Withdrawing money from your bank account is called a(n) ______ in systems analysis.
What is: output.
In the hydrologic cycle, precipitation is made of 3 three factors.
Evapotranspiration, infiltration, runoff
The process in which new alleles are formed in a population.
Mutations
What type of elephant feedback occurs when the demand for ivory increases?
What is: negative population feedback.
Other than lead, what other elements indicate contamination in air and water?
What is: Any other heavy metal in this list:
Arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, mercury, nickel.
If you are losing 200 L of oil per minute, but are gaining 14 mL oil per quarter second, what state is your system in?
What is: an unsteady state.
The phenomenon causes air masses in the North Hemisphere to deflect right and air masses in the South Hemisphere to deflect left.
Coriolis Effect
1st Law: Energy cannot be created or destroyed.
2nd Law: Energy is always lost when converted between forms.
Competitive exclusion will always result in a single species dominating if the ecosystem does not change.
The intermediate disturbance hypothesis
What are the 3 keys to designing an experiment by the laws of statistics?
What are: randomization, replication, and control.
What is: input (the number of births and the amount of immigration) and output (the number of deaths and the amount of emigration).
Identify and explain the 3 nonadaptive evolutionary processes.
Gene flow
Genetic drift
Bottleneck event
This mass extinction event wiped out 96% of life-the most out of any extinction event.
Permian-Triassic Extinction
Given energy flows into a system, isopods and amphipods compete for energy, crayfish then prey upon the isopods and amphipods, and only 70% of the inflow energy is outflowed to crayfish, in what energy form does the remaining 30% of energy exit the system as?
What is: heat.
What type of system occurs in the Earth when volcanic ash is shot up into the atmosphere, travels to the bottom of the ocean, interacts with the biosphere, and is seeped back into the geosphere?
What is: a closed system.
(Nothing is escaping from the Earth).
Name 3 out of the 6 environmental indicators.
What are:
Biological diversity/Human population growth/Food Production/Resource consumption/Global temperature and atmospheric greenhouse gas levels/Pollution levels
The two responses that are typically found in a predatory relationship.
Numerical and functional response
The specific role an organism plays in its community.
Niche
These 4 processes run the carbon cycle.
Photosynthesis, respiration, combustion, decomposition