Ecology
Human Impact
Renewable Energy
Air Quality
Terrestrial Environment
100
What is the definition of Ecology
What is the scientific analysis and study of interactions among organisms and their environment?
100
Impacts on biophysical environments, biodiversity, and other resources are all one type of impact on the environment. What is this type of environment?
What is human impact on the environment?
100
What is energy that comes from resources that can be naturally replenished on a human time scale
What is renewable energy?
100
What is the introduction of particulates, biological molecules, or other harmful materials into the Earth's atmosphere
What is Air Pollution?
100
A type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. What is the name of this biome?
What is the tundra?
200
What is the definition of a niche
What is the set of biotic and abiotic conditions in which a species is able to persist and maintain stable population sizes
200
What are environmental effects of biodesiel
What is greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, biodegradation, biodegradation in aquatic environments, and carbonyl emissions?
200
What are examples of renewable resources which renewable energy can be derived from?
What is Sunlight, Wind, Rain, Tides, Waves, or Geothermal Heat?
200
What is the the principal framework for national, state, and local efforts to protect air quality?
What is the Clean Air Act?
200
What is the destruction of forest environments for wood and human development?
What is deforestation?
300
What is Community Ecology
What is the study of the interactions among a collections of species that inhabit the same geographic area
300
How does meat production effects the environment
What is the fact that the process uses fossil fuels, causes water pollution, and land degradation?
300
Which items can biomass be derived from?
What are forest residues (such as dead trees, branches and tree stumps), yard clippings, wood chips, municipal solid waste, and plant or animal matter that can be converted into fibers or other industrial chemicals, including biofuels?
300
Sulfur Oxides, Nitrogen Oxides, Carbon Monoxide, Volatile Organic Compounds, and Particulates are certain things that affect the air. What are they?
What are different air pollutants?
300
What is a deterioration of land that causes the land to become more arid?
What is desertification?
400
The definition of molecular ecology
What is the important relationship between ecology and genetic inheritance predates modern techniques for molecular analysis
400
What are the impacts of human mining
What is erosion, formation of sinkholes, loss of biodiversity, and contamination of soil, groundwater and surface water by chemicals from mining processes?
400
How are Solar technologies broadly characterized?
What is either passive solar or active solar depending on the way they capture, convert and distribute solar energy?
400
These standards protect against adverse health effects; other standards protect against welfare effects, such as damage to farm crops and vegetation and damage to buildings. What are they called?
What are primary and secondary standards?
400
This type of biome is dominated by trees that lose their leaves each year. They are found in areas with warm, moist summers and mild winters. What is it called?
What are temperate deciduous forests?
500
What are the layers of the atmosphere?
What is the Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere
500
What are the impacts of roads
What is noise, water pollution, habitat destruction/disturbance and local air quality; and the wider effects including climate change from vehicle emissions?
500
How is bioethanol made.
What is the process of fermenting the sugar components of plant materials, like maize, sugarcane, and sweet sorghum?
500
What are some health effects caused by air pollution?
What is Mortality, Cardiovascular Disease, Cystic Fibrosis, Lung Disease, or Cancer?
500
Greater temperature fluctuations on both a diurnal and seasonal basis than occur in aquatic ecosystems in similar climates. These are characters of a type of ecosystem. What is this type of ecosystem called?
What are characters of a terrestrial ecosystem?
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