Stratospheric Ozone
Green House Gasses
Climate Change
Invasive Species
Human Impact
100
What the ozone layer protects us from
What is harmful UV? (UV-C and UV-B)
100
The five main green house gasses
What is carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons?
100
This green house gas has a strong relation to global temperature
What is carbon dioxide?
100
Invasive species tend to be categorized as these two things
What is R-selected and generalists?
100
This example belongs which category in the HIPPCO criteria: A company cutting down trees for lumber production and to make room for new neighborhoods
What is habitat fragmentation/ loss?
200
This chemical depletes stratospheric ozone
What are chlorofluorocarbons or CFC's?
200
The most abundant green house gas
What is water vapor?
200
The melting of what releases methane gas into the atmosphere
What is permafrost?
200
Zebra mussels, an invasive species, are a destructive organism because they are
What is an aggressive filter feeder?
200
The connection of habitats to enable safe migration and movement
What are wildlife corridors?
300
Clouds made from these two chemical compounds form in Antarctic spring and cause natural ozone depletion
What is water and nitric acid?
300
The green house gas that is used as a reference for global warming potential (GWP) for all green house gasses
What is carbon dioxide?
300
Warm water holds less oxygen, therefore marine animals have to do what in order to survive
What is migrate to cooler waters?
300
This invasive species outcompetes other native plants for space, sunlight and nutrients
What is the kudzu vine?
300
Human activities such as burning fossil fuels have caused this aquatic organism to become extremally stressed, negatively impacting 84% of this keystone species population
What is coral?
400
This harmful disease can be caused from the depletion of the ozone layer
What is skin cancer?
400
This green house gas have the highest global warming potential (GWP)
What are chlorofluorocarbons?
400
These kinds of activities heavily contribute to ocean acidification
What is anthropogenic? (burning FF's, vehicle emissions and deforestation)
400
Control methods for this invasive species include preventing the transport of contaminated firewood
What is the emerald ash borer?
400
Habitat fragmentation results in these communities that have less genetic diversity and are less resilient to environmental changes
What is metapopulation?
500
Chlorofluorocarbons have been removed from these two every day items in order to reduce the impact and rate of ozone depletion and have been replaced with what
what are aerosols and refrigerators and HCFC's?
500
These two major environmental problems are becoming increasingly concerning as climate change continues to speed up
What are rising sea levels and disease vectors?
500
Global climate change such as the accelerated change in the artic is due to what
What is the positive feed back loop? (ex. melting of sea ice causing a release of methane thus causing more warming)
500
Invasive species can cause detrimental effects to these types or organisms by outcompeting them for resources such as food and habitat needs
What is an endangered species?
500
Urban growth boundaries and building up not out are examples of this type of land use
What is sustainable?