Science in All Sizes
The sum of all biotic and abiotic factors
What is an environment?
a close, long-term interaction between two or more different biological species, defined as "living together"
What is symbiosis?
An instrument that measures size or magnitude of an earthquake
What is a seismograph?
This act regulates air pollutants and emissions
The Clean Air Act
This is often replaced with the acronym VOC
What is volatile organic compounds?
a large, distinct geographical region characterized by its specific climate, vegetation, animal life, and soil type
What is a biome?
An essential organisms group of organisms that are often not assigned to a single trophic level on the energy pyramid
What are decomposers?
The three types of tectonic plate boundaries
What are convergent boundaries, divergent boundaries and transform fault boundaries?
This agency enforces many U.S. environmental laws
What is the Environmental Protection Agency
C6H12O6 is synthesized during this set of reactions in photosynthesis
What is the light-independent reactions or dark reactions?
a structured, nested system used to classify living organisms from broadest to most specific, known as the Linnaean system
What is taxonomic hierarachy?
Humans are apart of this domain on the Phylogenetic Tree of Life
What are Eukaryota?
This country holds the record for most earthquakes and tsunamis
What is Japan?
The United States backed out of this global climate cooperation agreement in January 2026
The Paris Agreement
This scenario refers to the human behavior of taking more than your fair share of a public good
What is the tragedy of commons?
The process by which toxins are passed from one trophic level to the next (and thereby increase in concentration) within a food web.
What is Biomagnification?
A type of forest that has never been cut or seriously disturbed for several hundred of years
What is an Old Growth Forest?
This weather pattern allows warm water and weaker trade winds to move toward the Americas often causing high humidity and and moist winters. This often increases the chances for flood, landslides, and drought.
What is El Niño?
This international climate agreement adopted in 1997 committed developed nations to legally binding greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, marking the first major global effort to address human-caused climate change through enforceable obligations.
The Kyoto Protocol
The three mineral particle sizes that define soil texture
a scientific instrument designed to magnify within a "range of view" sometimes with, sometimes without the presence of light
What is a microscope?
A biome that has the highest net primary productivity
What are Tropical Rainforests?
a nickname given to an area in the southern plains of the central United States that consistently experiences a high frequency of tornadoes each year
What is tornado alley?
This international environmental treaty aimed at phasing out the production and consumption of chemicals that destroy the Earth’s stratospheric ozone layer.
The Montreal Protocol
This part of the atmosphere contains 99% of water vapor and clouds
What is the troposphere?