The process of only growing ONE type of crop over and over again in the same area.
What is monoculture.
100
What is the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources?
What is renewable can be regenerated in a short time and a nonrenewable resource can only be generated in a long time.
100
A benefit of monoculture farming practices is the ability to grow a lot of ____________
What is food.
100
Cows contribute to the air pollution by emitting which gas into the atmosphere? (CH4)
What is Methane.
100
What is the difference between biotic and abiotic?
What is biotic is living an abiotic is nonliving.
200
Using resources in ways that does not cause long-term environmental harm.
What is sustainable development.
200
What is a monoculture?
What is only one type of crop is planted in a certain area.
200
Imported plants and animals in Hawaii have caused native species to _________.
What is die
200
Describe biological magnification.
What is As you move up the ecological pyramid, the amount of toxins increases.
200
What is the difference between commensalism, parasitism, and mutualism?
What is C=one is benefited and the other is neither helped or harmed; p=one is helped, the other is harmed and m=both are helped.
300
Farming, overgrazing, climate change, and/or seasonal drought change farmland into land that cannot support plant life.
What is desertification.
300
What is DDT used for?
What is to kill insects.
300
Beginning in the 1700s, people who settled in the islands of Hawaii changed the islands by clearing _________ for farming.
What is trees.
300
Describe habitat fragmentation.
What is where the environment is split into pieces.
300
What is the difference between herbivory and carnivory?
What is herbivory is the act of plant eating and carnivory is the act of meat eating.
400
The gray-brown haze that is often found over large cities.
What is smog.
400
What are the two components (chemicals) of acid rain?
What is nitrogen (nitric acid) and sulfur (sulfuric acid)
400
One negative consequence of the Industrial Revolution is that environmental harm is being done from the burning of _________ fuels.
What is fossil.
400
Air and water pollution have been reduced by using what type of gasoline? (most cars nowadays use this type)
What is unleaded
400
What is the difference between primary and secondary succession?
What is primary succession starts on rock and secondary succession starts on soil.
500
This measures human impact on the biosphere by showing how much of a resource a person uses. (two words)
What is ecological footprint.
500
Why did the 1930s Dust Bowl in the Great Plains take place?
What is because of poor farming practices.
500
An example of a renewable resource is __________.
What is trees.
500
The "hot spot" strategy seeks to protect species in danger of extinction due to __________ activity.
What is human
500
What is the difference between photic and aphotic zones in the ocean.
What is photic zones are 200 and less meters below the surface and organisms use photosynthesis to produce food (carbs) and aphotic zones are 200 meters and more below the surface. Organisms use chemosynthesis to generate carbohydrates.