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Name two nonrenewable resources
Oil and coal
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If a wide growth ring is big in a tree, does that represent a healthy or unhealthy year?
It represents a healthy year
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How many biomes does Earth have?
6
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Name three consumers
example: herbivores, carnivores, omnivores
100
What is population density?
A measurement of the number of individuals living in a defined space
200
Name a renewable resource
One could be wind energy
200
What is global warming?
Global warming is the trend of increasing global temperatures
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What is primary succession?
The establishment and development of an ecosystem in an area that was previously uninhabited
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What is ecology?
The study of interactions among living things, and between living things and there surroundings
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What is immigration?
The movement of individuals into a population from another population
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Is there a set carrying capacity for Earth?
No, there is not.
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What is acid rain?
A type of precipitation produced when pollutants in the water cycle cause rain pH to drop below normal levels
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What is climate?
A long-term pattern of weather conditions in a region
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What is a specialist?
A consumer that primarily eats one specific organism or feeds on a very small number of organisms
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What is emigration?
The movement of individuals out of a population and into another population
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Which country has the biggest ecological footprint?
North America
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What is smog?
Smog is a type of air pollution caused by the interaction of sunlight with pollutants produced by fossil fuel emissions
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What is a survivorship curve?
A generalized diagram showing the number of surviving members over time from a measured set of births.
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How many levels of organization are there?
4
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What is a population crash?
It is a dramatic decline in the size of a population over a short period of time
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What is an ecological footprint?
The amount of land necessary to produce and maintain enough food and water, shelter, energy, and waste.
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Which substances absorb energy during the greenhouse effect?
Carbon dioxide, water and methane
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Name all 5 biomes
Tropical, grassland, desert, temperate, taiga, and tundra
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What are the levels of organization?
Organism Community Ecosystem Biome
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What are the three types of population dispersion?
Clumped dispersion, uniform dispersion, and random dispersion