Where have all the rhino's gone?
Group that categorizes the chance of extinction... long name but easy acronym.
What is IUCN?
Research that is not reviewed by experts in the field and tells partial truths.
What is junk science?
N in the exponential population growth model.
What is population size?
A charged atom.
What is an ion?
Stored energy.
What is potential energy?
Kind of extinction where we killed them all until they were no more.
What is overexploitation or overhunting?
A discrete variable, like red or white flowers.
What is a categorical variable?
Happening in a population when r>0.
What is population growth?
Runs through a coil of wire to generate electricity.
What are electrons?
Energy is neither created nor destroyed but may be converted to another form.
What is the 1st law of thermodynamics or the law of conservation of energy?
New medicines, food, birdwatching, and aesthetics.
What are reasons to value biodiversity?
When many different experiments and observations support a hypothesis.
What is a theory?
K individuals
What is carrying capacity?
Coil of wire rotating in a magnetic field to generate electricity. Found in a nuclear reactor, coal-fired power plant, or hydroelectric dam.
What is a turbogenerator?
Reason why no energy conversion is ever 100% efficient according to the second law of thermodynamics.
What is entropy?
For example, snakes on a plane and then in Guam eating the birds.
What is an invasive species or the brown tree snake?
Group that takes the placebo so not the treatment.
What is the control group?
Happening to the size of a population that's fat on the top but skinny on the bottom... a true inverted pyramid.
What is declining or decreasing?
Network that delivers electricity to consumers.
What is the electrical grid or the power grid?
Feeding levels within an ecosystem's food chain.
What are trophic levels?
It was one per year but now it's 1 per day.
What is the extinction rate?
The variable on the X-axis
What is the explanatory variable or the independent variable?
Effect of an increase in r on doubling time.
What is a lower or shortened doubling time?
Used to convert high voltage electricity to low voltage electricity.
What is a transformer?
6 protons and often 6 neutrons.
What is carbon?