Sustainability
What 3 things must be accounted for to be sustainable in any endeavor? (3 Ps)
People
Planet
Profit
*Bonus point if you can name the time period in which these species that gave rise to coal were abundant on Earth
Trees/Plants
*Carboniferous period
The #1 cause of extinction/loss of biodiversity
Habitat loss
When heat from the sun gets trapped in Earth's atmosphere steadily warming the planet. Much like a jacket or blanket keeping you warm.
Greenhouse effect
Prevailing winds in the continental United States travel in what direction?
West to East
Oxygen, soil, rocks, nutrients, ice, etc. are all _________ factors.
Abiotic
Most electricity production in Ohio comes from ___________
Natural gas
The process that describes how an ecosystem develops over time. Can be primary or secondary.
Ecological succession
The phrase global warming refers to the specific period of atmospheric warming coinciding with the onset of what human event?
Industrial revolution
The word Anthropocene is associated with what species?
Humans
When people act on their own accord in the acquisition of a shared resource and in doing so, deplete the resource. Result of a poor collective mentality.
Tragedy of the Commons
Although nuclear energy is nonrenewable, why is it not considered a fossil fuel?
- Does not come from a living thing
- Not carbon based
- Does not produce greenhouse gas emissions
What type of population growth model exhibits a carrying capacity?
Logistic growth
Name for man-made greenhouse gasses. Ozone depleting substances.
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
The name for our unit about garbage. Also the cover job for many mobsters.
Waste management
Sustainability is a strategy to accommodate life for what's ahead of us. And in this mindset, sustainability accounts for 3 things:
1) The world is changing
2) We are changing
3_______________
We are changing the world
About 85% of all crude oil is refined to make fuels. A large portion of the remaining percentage goes to the production of what everyday product?
Plastic
When a population's ecological footprint exceeds its biocapacity
Ecological deficit
Anything that removes more carbon from the atmosphere than it produces.
Carbon sink
Cone bearing trees that do not lose their leaves in the winter.
Conifers
Things like photosynthesis and soil creation provide the basis for all other ecosystem services. What type of ecosystem service would these be?
Supporting
Roughly 60% of U.S. renewable energy production surprisingly comes in this form.
Biomass
When the change in a predator/prey relationship dramatically impacts a variety of other species in an ecosystem (ex: wolves of Yellowstone)
Trophic cascade
Natural causes of climate change that occur every 40,000-50,000 years.
Milankovitch cycles
CAM plants keep their ________ closed during the day unlike most plants.
Stomata