Biodiversity
What is biodiversity loss?
Biodiversity loss is the number of different species in one area and the quantity of each of these species, being lost because of human actions.
What two climate factors affect soil structure?
Temperature and precipitation
True or false: the water on Earth today is the same water the dinosaurs drank
True
The two most abundant gases in the atmosphere.
Nitrogen and Oxygen
What gasses trap the sun's heat?
Greenhouse Gasses
Define Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
What is the first layer of soil called?
Topsoil
Water vapor cooling down and coming together to form water droplets is this process.
What is condensation?
This required the EPA to set up air quality standards
The Clean Air Act of 1990
What is the greenhouse effect?
Certain gasses in the atmosphere trap heat and warm the Earth
What is overexploitation?
The overuse of wildlife and plant species by people for food, clothing, pets, medicine, sport and many other purposes. The hunting, trapping, collecting and fishing of wildlife at unsustainable levels is overexploitation.
Process in which nutrients accumulate in a body of water, resulting in an increased growth of algae and loss of oxygen resulting in fish and other organisms dying
What is eutrophication?
Contained and uncontained are two types of what?
Most pollution comes from this.
Burning Fossil Fuels
A change in global or regional climate patterns
What is climate change
Cutting down large areas of forests.
What are the three most important nutrients for fertile soil?
Nitrogen (N), Phosphorous (P), and Potassium (K)
This is the process when PLANTS give off water vapor into the air.
What is Transpiration
Interaction of sunlight and pollutants create this.
What is photochemical smog?
Fossil fuels are a renewable resource.
True or Falsle
False
The process known as change over time, by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms.
What is Evolution
What is nitrogen fixation?
Process of converting atmospheric N and making nitrogen accessible to living organisms, mainly plants
What is BOD?
Biological Oxygen Demand - the amount of dissolved oxygen that must be present in water in order for microorganisms to decompose the organic matter in the water, used as a measure of the degree of pollution.
From space to Earth, the main layers of the atmosphere are these.
What is thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, and troposphere?
Explain effects of ozone layer depletion
Increases ultraviolet radiation reaching Earth and causes health and environmental impacts.