Nature of Matter
Energy is the ability to do work. Water has this property which requires more energy to raise or lower the temperature of water molecules. What would this property of water be?
High Specific Heat
This is a symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits, the other organism benefits, and often leads to coevolution between the two organisms over time.
Mutualism
The total fertility rate is the
average number of children to women in a human population
The hydrological cycle is
The cycle of water through ecosystems
Tidal Power
Monosaccharides are the building block of this macromolecule. This macromolecule gives quick energy to cells, forms cell walls, and is a key component in exoskeletons for insects.
Carbohydrates
This growth pattern is exhibited with an S curve on a graph and is noted when a population has an extreme growth rate until the carrying capacity of the environment is reached or exceeded.
Logistic growth
True or false: Life expectancy can decrease with high rates of infant mortality in a population
True
Geothermal energy
These building blocks of life are responsible for the creation of DNA, but are also responsible for all organism's genetic codes.
Nucleic acids/ nucleotides
This type of limiting factor is not alive. This limiting factor depends entirely on ecological factors, such as the hydrologic cycle and atmosphere.
Abiotic limiting factor
List two potential pronatalist pressures in a society
Tax exemptions, tax incentives, laws regarding maternity leave, cultural influence revolving around maternity/paternity
Urbanization can affect air quality over time through:
Carbon emissions
solar
This property of water is responsible for sustaining plant life globally, as well as for keeping paper towel companies in business. This function has both cohesion and adhesion as a factor.
Capillary action
When an ecological niche is observed, only one organism is able to occupy the niche at a time. When one organism must adapt to another niche or go extinct, this phenomenon is called
Competitive exclusion
Humans are able to _____________ the carrying capacity of their ecosystem
increase
This process is a massive impact to the carbon cycle, where forest habitats are reduced to clear the land for industry, to utilize timber as a biofuel, or to begin mining operations.
Deforestation
This is a barrier to sustainability characterized by members of the population or society being ignorant to the sustainable methods being implemented or not knowing how to properly utilize their resources
lack of public awareness/ education
This chemical compound is the primary fuel in photosynthesis and is a byproduct of cellular respiration. It is frequently discussed in environmental conservation efforts and emissions of this chemical compound has even been taxed globally.
Co2 (carbon dioxide)
Decomposers are different from detritivores. Explain what the difference is between the two.
Decomposers break down dead or decaying matter into basic chemical compounds for use by other organisms. Detritivores eat dead or decaying matter in small portions and don't break it down as completely as decomposers.
Increased human populations have artificially increased carrying capacities of ecosystems around the world. The amount of resources a population is using in reference to what is available in their ecosystem is often referred to as their:
Ecological footprint
These two chemicals being released into the atmosphere are directly responsible for acid rain
Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxides
In the Ganges pollution video, you viewed examples of barriers to sustainability that amplified pollution through an entire continent. Name the source of the Ganges river, where the source is moving further away from where religious texts claim it once was as a result of climate change.
Gangotri glacier