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What is the difference between biotic and abiotic?
Biotic - Living things
Abiotic - Nonliving things
What is Biodiversity?
The variety of life across all levels of ecological organization
What are the layers of the Earth's interior?
Core, Mantle, Crust
Is stratospheric or tropospheric ozone harmful?
Tropospheric
What is a watershed?
The total area of land that drains into a given body of water
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
The tendency of a shared, limited resource to become depleted or overused
What is genetic diversity?
The measure of how different the sets of genes are of the individuals within a population of a given species
What are the different kinds of tectonic plate boundaries and their definitions?
Divergent (Two plates are moving apart), Convergent (Two plates move toward each other), Transform (Two plates move horizontally past one another)
What are examples of renewable and nonrenewable energy sources?
Nonrenewable: Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, Bitumen, Nuclear
Rewnewable: Solar, Hydroelectricity/Tidal, Wind, Geothermal, Biomass/Biofuels
What does nutrient pollution in water lead to?
Eutrophication (algal bloom)
What are ecosystem services?
The life-supporting resources that nature provides, such as clean water, food production, timber, fisheries, etc.
What combinations of characteristics of an island make it so there is greater ecosystem diversity?
Larger and closer to the mainland
What are the different types of mining practices?
Mountaintop removal, open pit, strip, placer, subsurface
What are the 6 criteria air pollutants?
Sulfur dioxide (SO2), Nitrogen oxides (NOx), Carbon monoxide (CO), Particulate matter (PM), Tropospheric Ozone (O3), Lead (Pb)
What percent of Earth's water is usable?
What colors of light penetrate the deepest in water?
Blue (the most), yellow, and green
What is the population change formula?
(Births + Immigration) - (Deaths + Emigration)
What kind of land covers 70% of all agricultural land?
Grasslands
What kind of renewable energy is the most prominent in third-world countries?
Biomass
What are the four kinds of global change?
Ozone Depletion, Loss of Biodiversity, Ocean Acidification, Climate Change
What are the order of the levels of ecological organization?
Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome, Biosphere
What are the three different types of population curves?
Type 1 - Late loss
Type 2 - Constant loss
Type 3 - Early loss
What is the Surface Mining Control & Reclamation Act?
Requires that land be reclaimed after mining (Filling of empty mine shafts or openings, restoring original contours of land, etc.)
Which indoor air pollutant can cause lung cancer.
Radon
What are the different ranges of extinction?
Local, Ecological/Functional, Global