Changing Landscape
The practice of clearing large areas of land to plant a single highly productive plant.
What is Monoculture?
What is deforestation?
loss of forest.
Variety of habitats, communities, and ecological processes in the biosphere.
What is ecosystem diversity?
What is ecological footprint?
Describes the total area of functional land and water ecosystems needed both to provide the resources an individual or population uses and to absorb and make harmless the waist that individual or population generates.
What did the Hawaiians do that was not good for the environment?
Cut down trees and introduced non-native plants, pigs, chickens, dogs, and rats.
What is the mineral and nutrient rich part of the soil called?
Topsoil
The number of different species in the biosphere or in a particular area.
What is species diversity?
True Or False does the average American have an ecological footprint over four times the global average.
True
What is the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resource?
Renewable can be replaced but non renewable can't.
What happened to the Great Plains in the 1930s?
Desertification and/or the dust bowl.
The sum of the total different forms of genetic information.
What is Genetic Diversity?
The increase in average global temperatures is called what?
Global warming
What should sustainable development be like?
It should consume as little energy and material as possible.
What are some causes of desertification?
A combination of farming, overgrazing,seasonal drought and climate change.
A place where significant numbers of species.
What is a Ecological Hot Spot?
This farming technique offers a good alternative to commercial fishing with limited environmental damage.
What is aqua culture?
What do some suggest the global capacity is?
7 billion
What can happen when DDT or other pollutants gets into water?
Organism can consume it and it is not broken down or eliminated.
The process of splitting a ecosystem in pieces.
What is habitat fragmentation?
This layer between 20 and 50 kilometers above the earth surface absorbs harmful UV radiation
What is the ozone layer?