Natural Resources & Environmental Ethics
This item is not a natural resource: coal, sunlight, timber, or plastic.
Plastic
Going kayaking uses this type of ecosystem service.
Cultural Service
Two distasteful butterflies that look alike exhibit this type of mimicry
Müllerian mimicry
Organisms that eat both plants and meat.
omnivores
A cold, treeless, permanently frozen biome.
tundra
Nations with the largest ecological footprints typically use the most of this resource.
fossil fuels
A group of interbreeding organisms producing fertile offspring is called this.
species
Cowbirds laying eggs in other birds’ nests exemplifies this symbiotic relationship.
parasitism
The kind of niche that accounts for competition.
realized niche
is this an example of climate or weather? “It is usually hot in Texas in July.”
Climate
In peer review, peers do not analyze this aspect: procedures, conclusions, or ethical impacts?
ethical impacts
The level of an energy pyramid with the most organisms.
Producers
The sphere named for the Greek root meaning “ground.”
geosphere
A factor that is not density-dependent: storms, disease, competition, predators.
storms
A climatogram displays these two measurements.
Rainfall and temperature
Wanting to protect a rare lizard on your new property aligns with this worldview.
biocentric
Scavengers feed on dead animals, while these organisms break down matter into simpler molecules.
Decomposers
When two populations’ gene pools separate, this process may occur.
speciation
When a J-curve flattens into an S-curve, this type of growth begins.
logistic growth
In a food web, arrows show this.
Energy Flow
When groundwater is depleted, crop prices usually do this.
increase
Only this percentage of chemical energy moves from producers to secondary consumers.
10%
Galagos that cannot interbreed due to different genital structures show this type of isolation.
mechanical isolation
The largest population size an environment can sustainably support.
carrying capacity
A pyramid with a wide base and narrow top represents this population trend.
Expanding population