Ecology
The totality of genes, species and ecosystems of a given region.
What is Biodiversity?
Wind, Solar, and Hydroelectric power are some examples.
What are some examples of renewable energy sources?
Long-term shifts in global or regional climate patterns are described as this.
What is Climate Change?
The difference between ________ and causation is that _________ only identifies a possible relationship.
What is correlation.
Some key principles of environmental ethics.
What do the principles of respect for nature, sustainability, intergenerational responsibility, etc. describe?
What are some human factors that negatively affect bird migration?
Light & noise pollution, urbanization & other habitat reductions, climate change, etc.
An item or material that can be decomposed by bacteria or other living microorganisms.
What is a biodegradable product?
The ocean becomes more acidic (pH decreases)
What is the impact of the ocean absorbing more carbon?
What is it called when two or more organisms are fighting over the same resources?
Competition.
This environmental perspective prioritizes human needs above all else.
What is anthropocentrism?
Specialized structures such as overpasses, tunnels, and culverts designed to allow animals to safely cross human-made barriers like highways.
What is a Wildlife Crossing?
An economy where waste is designed out and instead worked back into the cycle of production.
What is a Circular Economy?
Large scale removal of trees and plants from an area of land.
What is deforestation?
These are species that exist in a particular region or ecosystem due to natural processes, such as local evolution and natural migration, without human intervention.
What is a native species?
The concept describing how shared resources tend to be rapidly depleted.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
This is the academic discipline regarding the assisting of recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, destroyed, or transformed.
What is Restoration Ecology?
A deceptive marketing practice of making a company, product, or policy appear more environmentally friendly or sustainable than it actually is.
What is greenwashing?
In the US, what economic sector is responsible for the most greenhouse gas emissions?
Transportation. ~28% of all total US greenhouse gas emissions.
It’s a land area that channels rainfall and snowmelt to creeks, streams, and rivers, and eventually to outflow points such as reservoirs, bays, and the ocean.
What is a watershed?
Environmental changes, pollution, and impacts that originate from human activity.
What are anthropogenic threats?
An area of land adjacent to a body of water such as a river, stream, pond, lake, marshland, or reservoir.
What is a Riparian Zone?
A holistic land management approach that improves soil health, biodiversity, and ecosystem functions (water/nutrient cycles) rather than just sustaining them.
What is Regenerative Agriculture?
The concept of using the ocean as medium for taking CO2 out of the atmosphere for storage in a more permanent state.
What is Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR)?
These are animals or organisms that play a disproportionately significant impact on their ecosystem.
What is a Keystone species?
Policies and practices that disproportionately expose marginalized communities, particularly communities of color ,to environmental hazards like pollution and unsafe living conditions.
What is Environmental Racism?