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Nutrient Cycles/Energy
Environmental Awareness
Global Warming
Worldviews
Human Impact
100
Rock, Land Biomass,Ocean, Atmosphere, Fossil Fuels
What are the reservoirs of the Carbon cycle?
100
Recycling, carpooling, efficient energy use.
What are ways that we can reduce our carbon footprint?
100
The rising earth's surface temperature from the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere.
What is global warming?
100
The environmental lesson learned from Easter Island.
What is not overexploiting your resources and watching out for next generations success as well as sustainability.
100
Non-renewable resource.
What is a natural resource that can not be regrown or re-made at a scale comparison to the way it is consumed?
200
Water's unique properites
What is water expands when freezes, surface tension, cohesion, adhesion, liquid form over large temperature gradient.
200
The basic ecological principles that govern the natural world, and the analysis of the human impact on our environment.
What is environmental science?
200
The Sun's energy being trapped in the atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect?
200
Human-centered earth view, life-centered earth view, environmental-centered earth view.
What is antropocentric, biocentric, and ecocentric?
200
Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Biomass, Water.
What are renewable resources?
300
A cycle that affects the rate of primary producers and decomposers.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
300
Measure the enviornmental impact of each person.
What is the IPAT model?
300
Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon, and Water.
What are non-greenhouse gases?
300
Because of our ingenuity and technology we will not run out of resources.
What is planetary management?
300
Overfishing, overexploitation for one's personal gain.
What is the Tragedy of the Commons?
400
Amount decreases by a factor of 10 as it goes up trophic levels.
What is usuable forms of energy?
400
Average ecological footprint of USA compared to the worldwide average.
What is 9.6 hectares compared to 2.3 hectares?
400
Carbon Dioxide and Methane.
What are greenhouse gases?
400
Resources are limited, should not be wasted, and not used all by us.
What is environmental wisdom?
400
Nuclear Fission v. Nuclear Fusion.
What is isotopes with large masses splitting apart into lighter nuclei v. isotopes of light elements forced together to form heavy nucleus.
500
Primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers are linked together to show energy flow.
What are food chains and food webs?
500
The area of land and water the ecosystems required to produce the resources that the population consumes.
What is an eco-footprint?
500
The effects of global warming.
What is rising sea levels, habitat damage, changes in water supply, increasing temperatures.
500
We should encourage environmentally beneficial progams for economic growth and discourage harmful environmental programs.
What is stewardship?
500
Biodiversity and Habitat Loss are characterized by a five letter annogram.
What is HIPPO? H-habitat degredation I-invasive species P-pollution P-population growth O-overexploitation.