Organisms
This type of organism’s role in the food chain is to absorb energy from the suns and convert it into chemical energy through photosynthesis.
What are Producers?
This is the country where the Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1997.
What is Japan?
This is the type of energy known as the energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
This is the term used to describe any pollution caused by human activity.
What is Anthropogenic Pollution?
What are the three main types of rocks found in the rock cycle?
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks?
This type of species has many offspring, a short lifespan, and thrives in unstable environments.
What is R-Selected Species?
The President who signed the Endangered Species Act in 1973.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This renewable energy source harnesses heat from the interior of the Earth to generate electricity. (Often utilizing steam or hot water)
What is geothermal energy?
This type of non-chemical pollution disrupts ecosystems by interfering with animal behavior, navigation, and breeding cycles.
What is Light Pollution?
What is the layer of Earth made up of the crust and uppermost mantle, and is broken into tectonic plates?
What is the lithosphere?
This term describes the amount of energy available to consumers after producers use some through respiration
What is Net Primary Productivity?
This is what the EPA stands for.
What is Environmental Protection Agency?
This renewable energy source utilizes photovoltaic cells to convert sunlight directly into usable energy.
What is solar energy?
These pollutants, abbreviated as POPs, are long-lasting organic compounds that can be carried by wind and water to travel very long distances.
What are Persistent Organic Pollutants?
What are two major consequences of excessive groundwater withdrawal?
What are land subsidence and saltwater intrusion?
These organisms feed at multiple trophic levels and help stabilize ecosystems by preventing population booms of other species.
What are Keystone Species?
The year when the Montreal Protocol was signed by 197 countries.
What is 1987?
This type of coal has the highest sulfur content and is most commonly used in the generation of electricity.
What is bituminous coal?
This process, often used in hazardous waste management, involves breaking down toxins using microorganisms under controlled conditions
What is Bioremediation
Describe the process of soil formation, including two factors that influence its rate.
What is the breakdown of parent rock through weathering and the accumulation of organic material? Two influencing factors are climate and the type of parent material.
This type of survivorship curve is shown by K-selected species, and consists of low death rates until later in life.
What is Type 1 Survivorship Curve?
The act in the United States which first prohibited the use of additives in food which have not been tested.
Delaney Clause of Food Drug and Cosmetic Act
This particles initiates the nuclear fission process in Uranium-235 releasing a massive amount of energy.
What is a neutron?
This pollutant forms when nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds react in the presence of sunlight, contributing to respiratory problems and smog formation, especially in urban environments.
What is Tropospheric Ozone?
Explain how El Nino affects global weather patterns, including its impact on ocean temperatures and precipitation in both South America and Southeast Asia.
What is a periodic warming of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean that causes increased rainfall and flooding in western South American and droughts in Southeast Asia and Australia?