Unit 0/Unit 1
What is an ecological footprint
The impact people have on the world
A region that has little to no vegetation with extreme temperatures and long periods without rain
Desert
What is the Law of Conservation Matter
Matter cannot be created or destroyed
What layer of earth is the deepest?
The Inner core
Define clumped
When people are clumped together in groups
Which ecological footprint is bigger the world average or The U.S.?
The U.S.
A treeless plain biome with very low winter temperatures, short, cool summer and little precipitation
Tundra
What elements are in a water molecule?
Oxygen and Hydrogen
What are the negative outcomes of volcano eruptions
Ash,smoke, and lower temp?
Define population
All members of the same species living in the same place at the same time
What is an omnivore and what is an examples?
An organism that eats both meat and plants
ex: Humans, Bears, Raccoons, Foxes, Pigs, Greater spear-nosed bats, Striped skunks, American black bears, Black rats, Bush rats, and Sugar gliders.
A biome that has broad-leafed evergreen shrub and hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters
Chaparral
What percentage of the atmosphere is made of Nitrogen?
78%
What is the main component of magma?
Sicilia
Counting organisms individually
What is symbiosis?
The relationships between organisms
A plain full of grasses and scattered trees and shrubs with warm temperatures and distinct wet and dry seasons (little rainfall)
Savanna
What is the process by which producers convert (change) carbon dioxide into carbohydrates?
Photosynthesis
Which seismic wave is the fastest?
Primary wave
Name a country with rapid growth
Kenya, Mexico, India, Philippines, Venezuela, Gabon, Togo, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Guyana, Niger, Libya, Fiji, Macao, Syria, Burundi, South Sudan,
What is Extinction
The permanent disappearance of species from Earth
A freshwater biome that is either permanently or for part of the year completely saturated with water
Wetlands
Name the states of matter that phosphorus mainly occurs as
Solid and liquid (rarely gas)
Define transform plate boundary
When two plates slide off each other
On the survival curve what type are we as humans?Type 1
Type 2
Type 3
Type 1 we live to old age