Ecosystems
Energy
Air, Water, Earth
Populations
Global Change
100
This biome is characterized by having coniferous/evergreen trees.
What is a taiga (or boreal forest)?
100
This energy source is renewable and utilizes photovoltaic panels.
WHat is solar energy?
100
Two tectonic plates are moving away from each other at this type of plate boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?
100
This is the stage of demographic transition
for this county.
What is Stage 4?
100
This greenhouse gas has a global warming potential of 1.
What is carbon dioxide?
200
Gross primary productivity (GPP) - _____________=net primary productivity (NPP)
What is PLANT respiration?
200
Geothermal energy is the main energy source in this country because it is located on a large divergent boundary.
What is Iceland?
200
This type of irrigation, often used in orchards growing tree crops, distributes water to plants through small parallel channels between crop rows but often leads to increased soil erosion in the field.
What is furrow irrigation?
200
K represents this on this graph.
What is carrying capacity?
200
This international agreement acts to protect endangered species by preventing their trade across international borders.
What is CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora )?
300
This is a species that is found in only one specific geographic region of the world. They evolved there.
What is an endemic species?
300
This type of coal is the most desirable for combustion as it burns the cleanest and is the most energy dense.
What is anthracite?
300
Of the three soil textural types, this is the largest.
What is sand?
300
In these age structure diagrams, what age group is represented by the yellow bars?
The adults, or reproductive age group.
300
This is the #1 threat to biodiversity today.
What is habitat destruction?
400
According to the Theory of Island Biogeography, these two factors play the biggest role in the biodiversity of an island.
What is the size of the island and the island's distance from the mainland?
400
In this type of reaction, where fossil fuels are burned, carbon dioxide and water are the products.
What is a combustion reaction?
400
This layer of the atmosphere is where the auroras occur.
What is the thermosphere?
400
This occurs because the population continues to grow even after the birth and death rates drop.
What is the population momentum effect?
400
A major anthropogenic source of this greenhouse gas is synthetic fertilizers used in agriculture.
What is nitrous oxide (or N2O)?
500
This biogeochemical cycle has no atmospheric component.
What is the phosphorus cycle?
500
For many energy sources we use today, this is the ultimate source of their energy.
What is the Sun?
500
This causes one side of a mountain in a coastal region to receive a lot of precipitation while the land side receives very little.
What is the rain shadow effect?
500
During this stage of the demographic transition, the death rate drops rapidly.
What is Stage 2?
500
Trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a process called
Carbon sequestration