Law or Money?
How Biological
Weather You're Ready or Not
A Rock and a Hard Place
Meet Joe Dirt
Water You Looking For
Sustainable Living is a Renewable Trend
100
This Law Provides clean up for hazardous waste sites
- CERCLA (Superfund)
100
A tiny filter-feeding barnacle sticks to a whale. The whale is unaffected by this new stowaway. What type of relationship is this?
commensalism
100
This gas makes up approximately 21% of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
100
What feature forms near subduction zones due to the presence of melting crust?
Volcanoes
100
Rank the soil particles in order from smallest to largest.
Clay -> Silt -> Sand
100
Humans drill into these underground rock layers to use them as a source of potable water.
What are aquifers?
100
This type of agriculture seeks to reduce the impact food production has on human health, but is not always more sustainable.
Organic Agriculture
200
Rain carries soil into a nearby pond. This is an interaction between which two “spheres” of the earth
Geosphere & Hydrosphere
200
What is the likely impact on biodiversity of introducing an invasive species, such as kudzu vine to stabilize slopes around caves?
A decrease
200
This is responsible for the four seasons in mid-latitudes.
Uneven heating caused by changing angles of sunlight due to earth's axial tilt
200
What is the inner core solid, despite being the hottest part of the earth.
The pressure is immense
200
What causes soil erosion? Name at least three.
- Weathering
- Wind
- Rain
- Farming
- Organisms
200
The gentle sloping of ocean floor extending out from a continent.
What is a continental shelf?
200
What are three reasons people move to cities?
Entertainment
Community
Access to services
Job opportunities
Education
300
Most of the United States’ early environmental policies involved restrictions enforced by the government. These are known as
- regulations.
300
What do we call it two species are both harmed by interacting with one another over the same resources.
Competition
300
It gets colder in this layer with altitude because this layer is heated by Earth's surface radiating heat from it.
What is the troposphere?
300
Which plate is more dense: oceanic or continental?
oceanic
300
Chemical weathering that occurs when rock elements combine with oxygen.
What is oxidation?
300
This earth material would permit the LEAST amount of rainwater to infiltrate
Clay
300
What is the primary tool used to combat excessive waste in landfills?
Recycling
400
As groundwater resources are depleted, what will likely happen to the price of crops that are irrigated with this groundwater?
The prices will likely increase because of the reduced supply of water.
400
What is the population of France doing?
It is stable or growing very slowly
400
Explain how deep, global, ocean circulation currents form and cool the atmosphere at the equator.
Ocean water absorbs the heat from the atmosphere. As it:
A) Evaporates creating saltier, denser water and
B) As currents push the water north it cools and gets denser
It sinks and then flows until it resurfaces at areas of upwelling where it is heated again.
400
What is the proof that seafloor spreading occurs at the same rate on both sides of a mid-ocean ridge.
Identical magnetic bands on either side.
400
Which soil horizon will likely become a Sedimentary Ore Deposit.
B horizon -- the layer where leached materials are deposited.
400
Which direction should water most likely flow from the left peak? North is up.
South-Southwest
400
Identify two ways that urbanization can impact groundwater resources.
Saltwater intrusion/Salinization, depletion, pollution
500
- You are going kayaking with some friends this weekend on your nearby river. What type of ecosystem service are you taking advantage of?
- cultural
500
The biomass of an area of producers is 240 kg. For this same area, you could expect the biomass of the secondary consumers to be _______.
2.4 kg
500
How do humans impact both the phosphorous and nitrogen cycles?
Through the use of fertilizers?
500
What is the last mineral to form in bowen's reaction series?
Quartz/Silica
500
Why is it so important to prevent erosion of topsoil. Be specific.
It takes 100s of years to form large amounts of top soil.
500
These types of pollution may have significantly smaller effects on DO than the other types.
Chemical pollution and Biological Pollution
500
List three ways Smarth Growth can improve cities for humans.
More greenspaces
Better Public Transit
More Walkable
Better Access to Services
600
Which of the following is true about nations that have the largest ecological footprints?
A - They have the largest populations.
B - They use the most fossil fuels.
C - They have the highest amount of natural resources.
D - They have the fewest number of environmental laws.
A - They have the largest Populations
600
A city with a population of 1,000,000 people saw 300,000 births and 100,000 deaths with 5000 people moving away from the city and 20,000 moving into the city. What is the population growth rate?
(300 + 20 - 100 - 5 ) / 10 = 21.5%
600
Use air circulation currents to explain why there is relatively little precipitation at the poles.
Polar air masses are cold, dry and descending and have already spent their water.
600
You find an iron deposit that is only 0.005% iron by mass. Is this likely a resource or a reserve?
Explain.
Resource - there isn't an economical amount
600
What type of soil do you have if it is 33% Sand, 48% Silt, and 19% Clay
loam
600
Some Sunlight reaches this zone, but not enough for large amounts of photosynthesis to occur.
What is the Dysphotic zone?
600
How is industrialized agriculture different from traditional agriculture (give me 2)
Industrial focuses on mono-crops over multicropping
Industrial uses synthetic fertilizers and pesticides to increase yield over manure and water
Industrial uses heavy machinery for labor over people
Industrial's goal is to continuously increase crop yield over just subsistence
700
The situation in the previous question may cause farmers to make a decision as to whether they will stay in this farming profession or find a new career. This type of decision is primarily based on
Cost-Benefit Analysis
700
You start a light bottle/dark bottle measurement on algae Species X with 10 mg/L of DO in both bottles. You let the bottles sit for one week so that photosynthesis and respiration rates can be calculated. At the end of one week, you have 7 mg/L of DO in your dark bottle and 12 mg/L of DO in your light bottle. What is the NPP, GPP, and respiration?
NPP = 2 mg/L
GPP = 5 mg/L
R = 3 mg/L
700
How will the weather change in Columbus, OH over the next 24 hours?
It will go from clear and warm to raining and cold
700
Which of the following types of ore deposits heavily involve the igneous rock cycle?
Magmatic Ore, Hydrothermal, Sedimentary, Residual, Placer
magmatic ore and hydrothermal
700
Describe four ways to reduce soil erosion.
- Conservation Tillage - till a little as possible
- crop rotation to preserve soil nutrients
- plow along the slope contours/elevations of the field
- use waterways to promote biodiversity
- plant windbreaks like trees.
- terrace fields to slow down runoff
- install wetlands to capture excess soil and water
700
Ocean water at the poles contains more of this than at the equator.
What is salt?
700
Describe the process of Urban Blight in 5 steps.
1. Neighborhood declines
2. Populations move to suburbs
3. Tax revenue decreases
4. Services are reduced
5. Businesses lose customers and leave