Principles of Sustainability
Population Dynamics
Ecological Interactions
Miscellaneous
Off-Topic
100
A resource that takes millions of years to replenish.
What is a non-renewable resource?
100
The upper limit of an environment's ability to support a certain number of individuals.
What is the carrying capacity?
100
Two bird species occupying the same exact niche will demonstrate this concept from Unit 3.
What is the Competitive Exclusion Principle?
100
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics or conservation of energy?
100
Surfers love this type of wind that travels from the land out to the sea.
What is offshore wind?
200
The first era of human interactions with their environment, where our ancestors took what was available to them.
What is the hunter-gatherer era?
200
The way plant and animal life organizes itself in a space, often driven specifically by social interactions between individuals.
What is population distribution?
200
Mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism are examples of this concept.
What is symbiosis (close and long term interactions between members of two species)
200
The type of survey used for the goldfish lab.
What is mark-recapture?
200
This is a cooking method in which food is sealed in a plastic bag, submerged water kept at a certain temperature, and cooked for hours at a time.
What is sous vide?
300
The term used to describe the amount of land needed to support a person's consumption of resources.
What is eco-footprint?
300
The level of hierarchy where abiotic factors are first introduced.
What is the ecosystem?
300
A lion and a cheetah will engage in 1____________ competition for resources, while two hyenas will engage in 2__________ competition.
What are 1) interspecific competition and 2) intraspecific competition?
300
Attenborough in "A Life on Our Planet" suggests that Earth's population will stabilize if these two of these three conditions are met.
What is improved education access (especially girls), raising people out of poverty, and healthcare availability for all.
300
The number of electoral votes required for someone to win the Presidency.
What is 270?
400
A region has 3.75ha available, and it uses 2.25ha on a yearly basis. Describe its bio capacity availability and calculate what that is.
This region has a bio capacity reserve of 1.5ha each year.
400
The number of otters in the Monterey Bay changed from 1260 to 540 from 2045 to 2048. The growth rate, with units, is...
What is -240 otters per year?
400
Two of the three ways that energy is used by an organism's biological processes.
What are biomass growth, cellular respiration, egested as waste, or lost as heat?
400
Another term for C6H12O6 , and label both sides of the equation for cellular respiration.
What is glucose?
ATP Released
C6H12O6 + O2 ------------> 6CO2 + 6H2O
400
The US took the gold medal in basketball with a fantastic performance from the Warriors' Stephen Curry against this team in the 2024 Tokyo Olympics.
Who is the French National Team?
500
Mr. Zeng started out the school year handing out snacks. Then he implemented the ZBT, or punch card system. This reflects which concept from Environmental Science?
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
500
A student observes a high school dance, where they know there are 1600 individuals arranged in a 20m by 20m space. What is the density of the students at the dance?
What is 4 students/m2
D = N / A
D= 1600 students / (20mx20m)
D=1600 students / 400m2
500
The percentage of the sun's energy not transferred to the caterpillars.
What is 99.88%?
(1-(4000/319,000,000)) x 100
500
Give an example of a species for each Type.
Type 1: K selected, humans, elephants, whales
Type 2: Dogs, cats, squirrels
Type 3: Insects, fish, frogs
500
Name one of the teams competing in the Final Four of the Women's NCAA Division I Volleyball National Championship.
Who is the University of Nebraska (Huskers), University of Louisville (Cardinals), Penn State University (Nittany Lions), and University of Pittsburgh (Panthers)?