Math
This is the percent growth rate if a population of 1,000 grows by 10 in one year.
What is 1%?
This U.S. law, passed in 1970, regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources.
When is the Clean Air Act?
This cycle involves the movement of CO₂ through the atmosphere, plants, animals, and fossil fuels.
What is Carbon?
This biome has the greatest biodiversity and high annual rainfall.
What is Rain Forest?
This term means the variety of life within an ecosystem or on Earth.
What is Biodiversity?
This formula estimates how many years it takes for a population to double.
What is Doubling?
This international agreement signed in 1987 aimed to phase out substances that deplete the ozone layer.
This cycle involves bacteria converting atmospheric N₂ into a form plants can use.
What is Nitrogen?
This biome has tall grasses, few trees, and distinct wet and dry seasons.
What is Savanna?
This word describes the ability of an ecosystem to maintain its functions over time.
What is Sustainability?
This is the total energy in megawatt-hours produced by a 500 MW power plant running for 6 hours.
What is 3000?
This international treaty protects endangered species from international trade.
What is CITES?
This cycle does not involve a gaseous phase and mainly moves through rocks and sediments.
What is Phosphorus?
This biome is dominated by coniferous trees and long, cold winters.
What is Taiga?
Shift from family farms to industrial scale
What is Green Revolution?
If an ecosystem has a GPP (Gross Primary Productivity) of 800 kcal/m²/year and plant respiration is 200 kcal/m²/year, this is the NPP.
What is 600?
This U.S. law, declared the Love Canal as a Superfund site
What is CERCLA?
This cycle includes evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is Water?
This hot and dry biome features sparse vegetation and extreme temperature changes.
What is Desert?
This process occurs when excess nutrients in water cause algae blooms and oxygen depletion.
What is Eutrophication?
This is the per capita energy use if a country consumes 1,000,000 kWh and has a population of 2,000.
What is 500?
The 3 important international agreements
What is Kyoto Protocal, Montreal Protocal, CITIES
This element’s cycle includes volcanic activity and is a component of acid rain.
What is Sulfur?
This biome is characterized by very low temperatures and permafrost.
What is Tundra?
Chlorofluorocarbon stands for
What is CFCs?