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Earth Systems
Biogeochemical cycles
Living systems
Pollution
100
This act protects endangered species
What is the Endangered Species Act
100
The rigid, outermost layer of the Earth is divided into pieces called ____.
What is crust?
100
What cycle has precipation, condensation, evaporation, and transpiration?
What is the water cycle?
100
Each step in the transfer of energy through a food chain or a food web is called __________.
What is the trophic levels?
100
Undesired change in air, water, or soil is ____________.
What is pollution?
200
This act protects our nation's water supply
What is the Clean Water Act
200
Which type of plate boundary is responsible for forming mountain chains?
What is convergent?
200
This cycle is slow and does not occur in the atmosphere.
What is the phosphrous cycle?
200
Consumers that get their food by breaking down dead organisms is called ___________?
What is decomposers?
200
An industry is putting chemicals into the water via a pipe. You can determine where it comes from.
What is point source pollution.
300
The EPA created this law to protect the atmosphere from air pollutants
What is the Clean Air Act
300
This is the layer of the atmosphere closest to Earth where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
300
Increasing levels of Carbon dioxide contribute to increased temperatures of the biosphere.
What is global warming?
300
Give the two names for organisms that make their own food.
What is producers and autotrophs?
300
Car exhaust and the burning of fossil fuels contribute to _____________.
What is air pollution?
400
This act gave the EPA the rigth to sue the owners of hazardous waste sites who had illegally dumped waste.
What is the Superfund Act
400
This is the layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
400
How do plants and animals obtain nitrogen?
What is by eating or absorbing them?
400
A picture that shows all the feeding relationships in an ecosystem is called _____________.
What is a food web?
400
Eutrophication is caused by fertilizer runoff. What type of pollution is this?
What is non-point?
500
Why does the governmwent create these laws?
What is to protect the environment
500
When two plates spread apart and form the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is called __________?
What is a divergent plate boundary?
500
What cycles are responsible for Eutrophication?
What is the nitrogen and phosphorous cycle?
500
How much energy would a secondary consumer have if the producers energy is 2500 kcal?
What is 250?
500
Rapid expansion of a city into the countryside around the city?
What is urban sprawl?