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EcoLOGIC
It's the Community, Stupid!
Wild World of Water
Air Quality
Environmental Focus
100
Group of individuals who live together in the same habitat and are likely to interbreed (all members of the same species).
What is a Population?
100
An example of this is a Green Anole being native in the USA, with a Brown Anole from Cuba coming in. They require the same habitat and resources.
What is Competition?
100
MORE OR LESS!!! In this aquatic environment, saltwater commonly mixes with freshwater.
What is an Estuary?
100
DOUBLE DIP!!! :D The two primary components of acid rain.
What are Nitric and Sulfuric Acid?
100
Habitat ranges are affected in this, thanks to increased temperatures.
What is a Range Shift?
200
SNEAKY STEAL!!! These form the third tropic level, pretty much always.
What is a carnivore?
200
SKIP OR TRIP!!! List one likely result of Predation and explain it. (Use scientific terms!)
Possible Answers: Crypsis: camouflaging coloration Aposematism: warning coloration (poisonous/venomous species) Mimicry: a species has evolved the superficial appearance of something else Batesian Mimicry: a harmless mimic looks like a poisonous model Mullerian Mimicry: several poisonous/distasteful species resemble each other
200
A low-oxygen area in a body of water, typically caused by natural means but more and more commonly due to humans.
What is an Ocean Dead Zone?
200
These are pollutants known or suspected to cause cancer or other serious health effects (neurological, reproductive, developmental, respiratory).
What is a Toxic/Hazardous Air Pollutant?
200
What are the four major greenhouse gases?
What are Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide?
300
An ecological pyramid which depicts trophic levels and the energy flow from one level to the next, somehow.
What is an Ecological Pyramid?
300
TRIPLE OR CRIPPLE!
What is an Intermediate Host?
300
BIG FAT MEANIE BEAR IS HERE TO BE MEAN!!! :O The year/decade where overfishing hit its peak.
What is 1989 / the 80s?
300
Acidic water flowing over and through the ground, affecting a variety of plants and animals is otherwise an example of?
What is Wet Deposition?
300
MORE OR LESS! Give an example of a Threshold Effect and explain it.
Answers may vary, but include: Example: Prairie Pothole Region This ecosystem is a vast area of small, shallow lakes, known as "prairie potholes" or "playa lakes." These wetlands provide essential breeding habitat for most North American waterfowl species. The pothole region has experienced temporary droughts in the past. However, a permanently warmer, drier future may lead to a threshold change—a dramatic drop in the prairie potholes that host waterfowl populations and provide highly valued hunting and wildlife viewing opportunities. Example: Coral Reefs Similarly, when coral reefs become stressed, they expel microorganisms that live within their tissues and are essential to their health. This is known as coral bleaching. As ocean temperatures warm and the acidity of the ocean increases, bleaching and coral die-offs are likely to become more frequent; some will not recover
400
In the Nitrogen Cycle, this is done so that organisms can utilize the Nitrogen around them.
What is Nitrogen Fixation?
400
SHARE BEAR!!! Competitive Exclusion is the result of this kind of Competition.
What is Interspecific Competition?
400
This recent phenomenon is due to the collapse of large fish populations, causing commercial fleets to go deeper in the ocean and farther down the food chain to catch fish, triggering a chain reaction that is upsetting marine ecosystems.
What is "fishing down"?
400
About how much of the acid rain in the atmosphere falls back to earth as dry deposition?
What is half?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Answers may vary. A correct answer will most likely compare the greenhouse gas makeup of Earth to various planets, though.
500
A nutrient cycle with a net nutrient loss.
What is an Imperfect Cycle?
500
This is the term for when organisms produce chemical compounds that inhibit growth of nearby, would-be competitors.
What is Allelopathy?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
What is a Diadromous Fish?
500
DAILY DUEL!!!
What is Vitrification?
500
Explain the Vibration Structure of the Greenhouse Gases.
Answers may vary.