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General!
100
This is the name of the concept that only a certain amount of available energy (or biomass) is transferred between each trophic level.
What is the 10% Rule?
100
This is the number of different species living in a certain area.
What is species richness?
100
This image represents a country with what type of growth rate?
What is low or no growth?
100
These are the three types of tectonic plate boundaries.
What are convergent, divergent, and transform?
100
These are energy sources that exist in a fixed amount and involve energy transformation that cannot be easily replaced.
What are nonrenewable energy sources?
100
This was an International agreement that aimed to lower Greenhouse Gas emissions.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
200
Differences in these two things are how we classify biomes.
What are temperature and precipitation?
200
If a pond was sampled several years in a row, a decrease in what measurement would indicate that the pond was adversely affected by an adjacent development?
What is biodiversity?
200
This type of strategist tends to have longer lifespans, less offspring, and higher levels of parental care.
What are K-Selected species?
200
Soil formation occurs when parent material is...
What is weathered, transported, and deposited.
200
The most widely used source of energy, globally, is...
What are fossil fuels?
200
This legislation regulates hazardous waste and creates a “cradle to grave” monitoring system. This legislation also regulates and monitors sanitary landfills.
What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)?
300
This cycle is responsible for shaping and forming Earth's landscape.
What is the hydrological cycle?
300
In North America, native pollinators often increase the quantity and quality of crops of native plants that are insect pollinated more effectively than European honeybees do. The most likely reason for the phenomenon is that native pollinators have done what with native plant species?
What is coevolved?
300
This is the MOST influential thing a country can do to improve the quality of life for its citizens.
What is educate women and girls?
300
This tool can help you determine what kind of soil you have.
What is the soil triangle?
300
This occurs when a fuel source is used to generate both useful heat and electricity (like @ UMASS Amherst!)
What is cogeneration?
300
These two words describe the pH scale.
What are logarithmic and exponential?
400
This concept is responsible for populations and ecosystems being able to survive and rebound after disease or natural disaster.
What is biodiversity?
400
There is an inverse relationship between these two concepts as you move *away* from the equator.
What is species diversity and environmental stress (or stressors)?
400
A major ecological effect of population overshoot is dieback of the population - often severe to catastrophic - due to lack of resources. This is caused by an ecosystem existing beyond its what without correcting?
What is carrying capacity?
400
This is the innermost layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
400
This can cause groundwater contamination and release VOCs.
What is hydrologic fracturing (fracking)?
400
In order to encourage a town/city/state/country to do something they want them to do, government can...
What is provide tax breaks (or subsidies)?
500
Wolves hunt during the day, and coyotes hunt on the same land but at night. This is an example of what concept?
What is resource partitioning?
500
This is the evolutionary process of modification that improves the likelihood of survival and reproductive success.
What is natural selection?
500
This is what you would use to calculate a population's doubling time.
What is the Rule of 70?
500
This is the "reason for the season"
What is axial tilt?
500
To conserve energy on a large scale, humans should...
What is improve fuel economy for vehicles?
500
In order to discourage an unwanted behavior within a town/city/state/country, government can...
What is raise (or implement) taxes?