The Basics
What is the branch of science concerned with the physical, chemical, and biological conditions of the environment and their effect on life
Conservation Biology
What is the study of how to protect nature and fix any damage that has been done?
Climate
What is the weather conditions prevailing in an area over a long period of time (many years)?
A molecule of water starts in the ocean and ends in the groundwater...how did it get there?
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and percolation?
Three particles that make up a loam in terms of increasing size
What are clay, silt, and sand?
I like the words clay and silt
Ecological Pyramid
What is a geographical representation of the trophic relationships between organisms?
Renewable Resource
What is a natural resource that can be used in a way that assures it will not be exhausted?
Climate Change
What is a change in global or regional weather patterns over a long period of time?
A molecule of water starts in the ocean and ends back in the atmosphere after being in a plant...how did it get there?
What it evaporation, condensation, precipitation, percolation, transpiration?
Coral Bleaching
What is when the coral lose the algae living inside of them and become white?
Related to scuba diving
A tertiary consumer must use all the energy contained in 1 kg of food. How many kg of secondary consumers must exist to support it? How many kg of primary consumers? How many kg of producers?
What is 10kg of secondary?
What is 100kg of primary?
What is 1,000kg of producers?
Three components of biodiversity conservation
What are natural resources, benefits, and drivers of change?
Little Ice Age
What is a period around the 1700's in which the earth was unusually cold?
A molecule of water starts in the ocean and ends in runoff...how did it get there?
What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
Example of a species extinct due to exploitation
What is dodo bird?
What is passenger pigeon?
Animals
Sustainability
What is an approach where the level of natural resources is maintained so the ecosystem remains in balance across future generations?
Five drivers of change discussed in reference to biodiversity conservation
What are exploitation, pollution, habitat loss, extinction, and the introduction of invasive species?
10 hottest years on record in last 15 years...which is neither surprising nor unusual considering the earth's long term history because...
Why is the earth goes through cycles of warm and cold periods?
Where does the phosphorous in the phosphorous cycle originate? What cycle helps to move it around?
What is phosphorous originates in the rocks of the earth, and the water cycle helps move it around?
In an area of high humidity, how much rainfall do you expect compared to an area with low humidity?
What is high humidity produces more rain than low humidity?
For each of the following, indicate whether it adds or removes carbon dioxide to the atmosphere:
Cellular respiration
Photosynthesis
Decomposition
Burning fossil fuels
Carbon dioxide dissolving in water
What is adds?
What is removes?
What is adds?
What is adds?
What is removes?
List and describe the five types of renewable energy that we discussed
What is...solar energy captures light energy and converts it to electricity. Wind energy uses wind to turn turbines which produce electricity. Hydropower uses the motion of water to generate electricity. Geothermal energy uses heat from the earth's interior to make heat and electricity, and bioenergy uses plants to make energy.
Natural Resources
What are materials in nature that are needed for a wide variety of life to be sustained?
The organisms and processes that perform nitrogen fixation, the ones that take fixed nitrogen and put it back in the atmosphere, where consumers get the nitrogen they use from, and they put it back in the soil by...
What is lightning, burning fuels, nitrogen fixing bacteria, and nitrifying bacteria?
What is denitrifying bacteria take fixed nitrogen and put it back in the atmosphere?
What is consumers get their nitrogen from the plants or animals they eat and put it back in the soil as their waste as well as when they decompose?
Example of invasive species that caused harm to the environment
What is zebra mussels in Lake Erie?
What is rabbits in Australia?
What is mongoose in Hawaii?
What is the kudzu in southeastern United States?
A mongoose is an absolutely adorable animal