Ecosystems
A close and long-term interaction between two species in an ecosystem. (CED p. 44)
What is Symbiosis?
These for categories are examples of what; Provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting? (CED p. 61)
What is Ecosystem Services?
The cutting and burning of trees releases...?
What is carbon dioxide?
Transportation, Contrusction, and domestic and industrial activity are examples of...? (CED p. 157)
What are species that can live, and sometimes thrive outside of their normal habitat? (CED p. 198)
What is invasive species?
The result of biotic and abiotic interactions. (CED p. 46)
What are Ecosystems?
Invasive species are typically...? (Specialists v. Generalists) (CED p. 62)
What is Generalists?
Individuals using shared resources in their own self-interest is known as...? (CED p. 103)
What is The Tragedy of the Commons?
Radon, mold, and dust are examples of...? (CED p. 153)
What is Indoor Air Pollutants?
Rising temperatures, melting permafrost and sea ice, rising sea levels, and displacement of coastal populations are all effects of...? (CED p. 194)
What is climate change?
Cycles between photosynthesis and cellular respiration in living things. (CED p. 47)
What is the Carbon Cycle?
Has varied significantly as a result of changes in the amount of glacial ice on Earth. (CED p. 64)
What is Sea Level?
The change in population distribution form high population density areas to low density that spread into rural lands is known as...? (CED p. 114)
What is urban sprawl?
An air pollution control device on a gasoline pump that prevents the fumes from escaping to the atmosphere is known as...? (CED p. 155)
CFS's stand for...? (CED p. 190)
What is Chlorofluorocarbons?
The process in which atmospheric nitrogen is converted into a form of nitrogen that is available for uptake by plants and that can be synthesized into plant tissue. (CED p. 48)
What is Nitrogen Fixation?
The ranger of conditions, such as temperature, salinity, flow rate, and sunlight that and organism can endure before death. (CED p. 63)
What is Ecological Tolerance?
A shift to new agricultural strategies and practices in order to increase food production is known as? (CED p. 105)
What is the Green Revolution?
VOC's is short for...? (CED p. 149)
What is Volatile Organic Compounds?
What are the five principal greenhouse gasses? (CED p. 192)
What is carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons?
If 10,000 J of energy is in producers, how much reaches primary consumers? (CED p. 53)
What is 1,000 J?
Work: 10,000 x 0.10
A population decreases from 2,500 organisms to 2,000 organisms. What is the percent decrease? (CED p. 63)
What is 20%
Work: 2,500 - 200 / 2,500 x 100
A farm produced 900kg of corn on three-hundred square meters of land. What is the crop yield per square meter? (CED p. 116)
What is three kilograms per square meter?
Work: 900 / 300
The Air Quality Index increases from 75 to 125. What is the percent increase? (CED p. 148)
What is 66.7%?
Work: 125 - 75 / 75 x 100
Atmospheric CO2 rises from 390 ppm to 468 ppm. What is the percent increase? (CED p. 192)
What is 20%?
Work: 468 - 390 / 390 x 100