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Random APES Question
100
The variety of life forms commonly expressed as the number of species or the number of genetic types in an area
What is biological diversity
100
Energy cannot be created or destroyed
What is first law of thermodynamics
100
The amount of oxygen required for biochemical decomposition process
What is BOD (Biochemical oxygen demand)
100
Providing assiatance to the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed.
What is ecological restoration
100
Two most serious nuclear meltdowns?
What is Chernobyl and Three Mile Island
200
All individuals that are capable of interbreeding
What is a species
200
When you use energy you lower its quality
What is second law of thermodynamics
200
The process by which a body of water develops a high concentration of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus.
What is eutrophication
200
The application of science to the management process
What is adaptive management
200
Effects of global warming
What is rising sea level, extreme weather, extinctions
300
The change in inherited characteristics of a population from generation to generation.
What is biological evolution
300
Using less energy and adjusting our needs and uses to minimize the amount of high-quality energy necessary for a given task.
What is conservation
300
Water from high concentration of sulfuric acid drains from mines
What is acid mine drainage
300
Ecological succession can aid in the restoration
What is reclamation
300
Cheap and can remove more minerals and less hazardous to workers
What is surface mining
400
The process of increasing the proportion of offspring.
What is natural selection
400
Smaller distributed systems for production of electricity.
What is micropower
400
Emerging bio engineering technology to treat urban runoff before it reaches streams, lakes or the ocean
What is urban runoff naturalization
400
The number of individuals that can be sustained in an open area
What is carrying capacity
400
The amount of a chemical that kills 50% of the animals in a test population
What is LD 50
500
Supports those who argue that there should only be a few species
What is competitive exclusion principle
500
Provides reliable sources of energy, would not destroy or seriously harm our global environments, and would help ensure future generations inherit a quality environment with a fair share of Earth's resources.
What is sustainable energy development
500
Can be inadvertent, indirect, or direct and results when water is withdrawn treated, used, and returned to the environment
What is water use
500
Global commons such as atmosphere and oceans are used by all and owned by none
What is the tragedy of the commons
500
Required coal strip mines to reclaim the land
What is surface mining control and reclamation act of 1977