Food and Ag
a measure of energy content of food
what is a calorie?
what is 3?
a measure of the number of species present at location
what is species richness
water than reaches earth's surface as rain
what is precipitation?
when farmers add water to their crops
what is irrigation?
the result of research described in class comparing diets has showed that this type of diet was most healthy for most but not all measures
what is a vegetarian diet?
what is Eukaryota?
the group with the most number of species on earth
what are insects?
water below the earth's surface in rock and soil deposits
what is an aquifer?
The number of varieties of crops cultivated for food.
e.g. number of varieties of tomato
what is agrobiodiversity?
parts of the world where meat consumption is growing most rapidly
What is Asia and South America
an example of a nonvascular plant
what is a moss or liverwort?
The "catalog" of world species maintained by the IUCN
what is the Red List?
what is a spring?
a measure of the relative distribution (or relative abundances) of species within a community
what is species evenness?
A type of corn that has been genetically modified to produce an insecticide
what is Bt Corn?
a body cavity (vertebrates have this)
what is a coelom?
the algae that live within healthy coral
what are zooanthellae?
The 2nd largest category (by volume) of freshwater on Earth
what is groundwater?
a measure of the dollars needed to pay for an ecosystem service if it went away
what is the replacement cost?
the most common herbicide used in the U.S.
what is glyphosate (Roundup)?
an example of a plant with a naked seed
what is a pine, spruce, fir etc.
the name of the wild relative of modern corn
what is Teosinte?
the openings in plants that allow water vapor to exit during transpiration
what are stomates?
the type of toxin that impacted many people in Flint, Michigan during a drinking water crisis about 10 years
what is lead?