Characteristics of Life
Made up of one or more cells
What are Multicellular Organisms?
Surface water goes into the ground and adds to groundwater
What is Infiltration?
The demand for wood products, need for space, farmland, housing, roads leads to what
What is Deforestation?
The average number of kids born to each woman in a population
What is Total Fertility Rate?
A type of population growth or decrease that is never seen among species
What is a Logistical Growth Pattern?
The sum of the changes in an organism as it matures
What is Development?
Things necessary for survival such as proteins and DNA are made by what
What is Nitrogen?
An increase in overall global temperature via increased greenhouse gasses causes what
What is Thermal Expansion of water and Extreme Weather?
A country's growth that has more child labor issues, high TFR, and high IMR
What are Rapid Growth Countries?
The maximum amount of organisms can hold
What is Carrying Capacity?
Maintaining a constant, balanced and stable environment to ensure survival in different conditions
What is Homeostasis?
Atmospheric Nitrogen is brought down to the surface by what
What is Lightning and N-fixing Bacteria?
Species that are introduced by people accidentally or on purpose into a new environment
What are Invasive Species?
An average 2.1 children born per woman to keep population the same
What is Replacement Level Fertility?
Population limiters such as water supply, food availability, and living space
What are Density Dependent Limiting Factors?
A metabolic or physiologic adjustment within the cell, or tissues, of an organism
What are Physiological Adaptations?
Plants receive nitrates from the soil in what process
What is Assimilation?
The use of too much fertilizer, leading to no dissolved oxygen in bodies of water which causes fish to die
What is Eutrophication?
The number one way to decrease human birth rate
What is Education For Women?
Populations kept at carrying capacity by food chain relationships with organisms at a higher or lower level
What are Predator/Prey Relationships
Behavioral Adaptations are changes in a species behavior to help the species survive, while Structural Adaptations are physical changes to an animal to help it survive
What is the difference between Behavioral and Structural Adaptations?
Increased atmospheric CO2, increased acidification, and lowered photosynthesis are caused by what
What is Increased Combustion?
Increased concentrations of a pollutant as one goes up the food chain
What is Biomagnification?
Populations where people do not want to have a second/are used to having only one child due to cost or habits, causing the country's population to decrease
What are Graying Populations?
The name of the beginning of an Exponential Population growth pattern
What is Lag?