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Name 3 benefits of free-range grazing
Natural food sources
Uses non-arable land
Less use of fossil fuels
Lack of antibiotics
Natural waste dispersion
How temperature varies with latitude and altitude?
Temperature decreases as latitude and altitude increase
The largest possible amount of a particular renewable resource which can be harvested sustainably
What is Maximum Sustainable Yield?
Which of the following is not a sustainable agricultural practice
A) Cover Crops
B) Drip Irrigation
C) Monoculture
D) Integrated Pest Management
monoculture
What causes seasons on Earth?
The tilt of the Earth’s axis as it revolves around the sun.
3 ecosystem services provided by mangrove forests
Breeding and nesting grounds for animals, prevents erosion, and act as a buffer for storms.
3 farming practices to decrease erosion and conserve water
What are contour plowing, terracing, and windbreaks?
the four zones of standing water biomes
the driving force of the hydrologic cycle?
What is the sun
An economic benefit to the use of pesticides
What is increased crop profit
What does the age cohort between 0-14 represent?
What will result from an upwelling zone?
There will be an increase in nutrients and in fisheries
Term for the species and the effect when the loss of a type of species causes a domino effect and can impact an entire ecosystem/food web
What is a keystone species; trophic cascade
2 adverse effects of over-irrigation
What leads to the pesticide treadmill?
development of pesticide-resistant species due genetically changes, through natural selection, so they are no longer affected by the chemicals and more and/or different pesticides must be applied
Theoretically, in what period does a population grow at its maximum rate?
When it is at about half carrying capacity
Two factors which may lead to population overshoot
Rapid reproduction; lack of predators
What is the number of different species in a given area of an ecosystem
what is species richness?
A benefit of chemical pesticides
two factors affecting species richness on an island
Island size and distance.
Climate is impacted by proximity to what two geographic features?
Large bodies of water (oceans; great lakes) and mountains
A species that will have a larger impact on the community if it is removed than other species
Pollination is an example of what type of ecosystem service?
Supporting Services
an example of a GMO crop with increased nutritional value and how created
What is “Golden Rice”, using a daffodil gene.
One of the main forms of environmental damage caused by fishing, and the fishing practice causing it
What is destruction of seafloor habitats; bottom trawling?