The Living World
Factors or things that are living
What is Abiotic?
Number of individuals in a population found in a particular area
What is population density?
Dust and soot are an example of what pollutant
What is Particulate Matter?
Natural gas, coal, oil
What is fossil fuels?
Species that can live and sometimes thrive outside of their normal habitat
What is invasive species?
Living things and nonliving things interacting with each other in a certain area
Tend to reproduce later in life and have small number of offspring with long life spans
What is K selected species?
Legislation passed to phase out the production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances included chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
What is Montreal Protocol?
What is net energy?
Greenhouse gas with the highest global warming potential
What is chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
Amount of energy moved from one trophic level to the next
What is 10%?
Occurs when a layer of warm air traps cooler air below it
What is thermal inversion?
Fuel produced from biomass sources and used primarily to power automobiles
What is biofuels?
Regions that experience the most impact from climate change
What is Earths polar regions?
Coastal body of water where freshwater streams mix with the ocean
What is an estuary?
Clumped, Uniform, Randome
What is population distribution?
The layer of the atmosphere that contains the helpful ozone
What is the stratosphere?
Partial decomposition of organic material
What is peat?
Coral loose their vibrant colors due to the algae that provided the coral with energy through photosynthesis are expelled in response to stress
What is coral bleaching?
When water goes into underground aquifers
What is infiltration/percolation?
Maximum reproductive capacity of an organism under optimum environmental conditions
What is biotic potential?
The thinning of the ozone is occurring over this continent
What is Antarctica?
Ratio determined by dividing the quantity of energy returned from a process by the quantity of energy invested in the process
The decrease in pH of the oceans, primarily due to the increased carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere