Unit 1
The three major environmental value systems
What is ecocentric, anthropocentric, and technocentric?
Species diversity definition
What is it looks at the variety and abundance of organisms?
Advection, surface run-off, flooding, infiltration, and stream flow
What are the transfers of the hydrological cycle?
The most successful international treaty for ODS
What is the Montreal Protocol?
Formula for NIR
What is (CBR-CDR)/10?
Case Study of a closed system
What is Biosphere 2?
Hotspot definition and examples
Definition - What is a region with a high level of biodiversity that is under threat from human activities?
Examples - What is Himalaya, Horn of Africa, Mesoamerica, New Zealand, and Japan?
Trade winds going from eastward instead of westward
What is El Niño?
Effects of UV radiation on humans
What is genetic mutation/cataracts/skin cancers?
Definition of renewable natural capital
What is generated and replaced as fast as it is being used?
Exchanges in a closed system
What is energy?
Remember matter is not exchanged in closed systems
IUCN Red List criteria definition and levels
What is list of threatened species under varying levels of threat to their survival?
What is extinct, extinct in the wild, critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable, near threatened, least concern, data deficient, and not evaluated?
Sources of Surface freshwater
What are rivers, streams, reservoirs, and lakes apart of?
Secondary pollutants form acid deposition
Limitation to Malthusian theory
What is too simplistic and does not account for the innovation in agricultural technology?
Evaluate a model
Strengths:
What is Easier to work with, can be used to predict the effect of an input, can be applied to similar situations, and helps identify pattern?
Weaknesses:
What is accuracy lost because of simplicity, if the assumptions are wrong model is wrong, and predictions may be inaccurate?
4 factors that lead to the loss of biodiversity and explain
What is natural hazards the effect that it has on the ecosystem is the lead to loss of habitat?
What is pollution which can degrade or destroy habitats and make it unsuitable to support a range of species?
What is introduction of non-native species which drastically upsets a natural ecosystem due to the competition between native and non-native species?
What is modern agricultural practices which reduce biodiversity due to monoculture, genetic engineering, and pesticides used?
Impacts of fish farms
loss of habitats, pollution, spread of diseases
Worsens the effects of photochemical smog
What is thermal inversion trapping smog above a city?
Reliance of circular economy
What is manufacturers taking back a product and refurbishing waste to implement into the economy again?
The second law of thermodynamics and how does it affect food webs
What is entropy which is a measure of the disorder of a system and it refers to the spreading out or dipersal of energy?
What is heat dissipated as energy moves up the food web?
6 mass extinctions from most recent to oldest
What is Holocene (6th extinction), Cretaceous-Tertiary (5th extinction), End Triassic (4th extinction), Permian-Triassic (3rd extinction), Devonian (2nd extinction), and Ordovician-Silurian (1st extinction)?
Excess nutrients added to an aquatic ecosystem
What is eutrophication?
Influence photochemical smog production
What is the topography of an area/ climate (rain/temp)/ population density/ fossil fuel use?
Ecocentrists approach to increasing carrying capacity
What is stop use of non-renewables, do not use electricity unless you can create it, catch your own food and water, and maintain self-sufficiency?