Earth Science
The layer of the Earth’s interior that can be found directly below the lithosphere.
What is the Asthenosphere?
A feeding relationship in which one species benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is Commensalism?
The current average Replacement Level for a couple.
What is 2.1?
The most efficient form of irrigation.
What is Drip Irrigation?
The law that states energy cannot be created nor destroyed.
What is the 1st Law of Thermodynamics/ Law of Conservation of Energy?
The largest dam in the world.
What is the Three Gorges Dam?
The lowest layer of the atmosphere (the one we live in).
What is the Troposphere?
This process in which toxins accumulate in organisms and move up the food chain.
What is Biomagnification?
Organisms that are short-lived and produce many offspring at a young age are known as this type of species.
What are r-selected species?
The name for the plan/system that farmers use that combines multiple methods for reducing insects/weeds, using pesticides as a last resort.
What is Integrated Pest Management (IPM)?
Most of the world’s energy supply comes from burning this fossil fuel.
What is Oil?
A country that utilizes geothermal energy for a significant portion of it’s energy needs.
What is Iceland or Kenya or El Salvador or the Phillipines or Costa Rica?
The weather event is associated with a warming of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean.
What is El Nino?
The process in which moss and lichen appear on bare rock, paving the way for dirt formation and the arrival of larger plants.
What is Primary Succession?
In order to figure out the doubling time for a particular county one must perform this mathematical formula.
What is 70 divided by the percentage of population growth?
The woman who wrote the book Silent Spring and shed light on the problems associated with the use of pesticides/herbicides.
Who is Rachel Carson?
Natural gas is actually a mixture of gases but it is mostly _____________.
What is Methane?
The most common energy source in developing countries.
What is Biomass (or burning biomass)?
The process in which one tectonic plate slips beneath another tectonic plate.
What is Subduction?
This biome, while full of vegetation, is characterized by thin, nutrient poor, acidic soil.
What is a Tropical Rain Forest?
Migration of people OUT of a population is known as this.
What is Emigration?
The major problem associated with overgrazing.
What is Soil Erosion/Desertification?
The word that refers to the rock material that is removed during mining operations.
What is Overburden?
After electricity leaves the generator it is sent here before it is ultimately sent to homes/businesses/etc.
What is a Transformer?
The scale that measures the magnitude of an Earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria can be found in the roots of these types of plants (ex. Beans, peanuts).
What are Legumes?
The stage in the Demographic Transition Model characterized by a high Birth Rate and a high Death Rate.
What is the Pre-Industrial stage or stage 1?
A type of forest that has not been modified by humans or natural disasters for at least 200 years.
What is an Old Growth Forest?
The process in which water is used to extract oil and natural gas from Shale .
What is “fracking” or Hydraulic Fracturing?
One of the two countries that produce the most energy from wind power.
What is U.S. and Germany?