Soils (and things related to them)
Solid rock underlying most soils
What is bedrock?
Water that is below the ground
What is ground Water?
A carbon rich, solid fossil fuel mined from sedimentary geological formations
What is coal?
The year in which "The Origin of the Species" was published
When was 1959?
Total number of live births per 1,000 in population per year
What is the Crude Birth Rate (CBR)?
The least weathered soil horizon that in rare occasions contain plant roots and microorganisms
What is the C horizon (of soil)?
What is eutrophication?
The study of the relationships between organisms and their environments
What is ecology?
The ship that Charles Darwin was on during the time he observed phenotypic variation and fitness (the FULL ship name)
What is the HMS Beagle?
((Births +immigration) - (deaths + emigration)/total population) * 100 = %X
What is the growth rate formula?
The loss of some or all of the soil's ability to support plants.
What is soil degradation?
Permeable layers of rocks and sediment that hold water
A movement of mass or energy between compartments to the progeny of its population
The proportional contribution of an individual to the progeny of it's population
What is fitness?
The kind of population that occurs when there is a higher population of older people than younger people, and fertility rate is below 2.1
What is an aging population? (negative growth is also a valid answer)
Soil organisms that eat live plant and animal tissue
What are detritivores?
What is biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)?
When a forest is permanently converted into a crop producing land
What results as an interaction between a phenotype and its environment
Surprise Music Question! A chord that consists of the notes C E G B
What is Cmaj7
The parent material that will will give rise to a nutrient poor soil that is used as an example in the USAD science resource guide
What is quartz?
The Roman water commissioner that the USAD science guide references who's writings have survived
The law stating that when energy is transformed, the quantity of energy is the same, but it's ability to do work diminishes
What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
A value that characterizes goods, services, or information that provides benefits to people
What is an Instrumental Value
Population X Resource Use Per Person X Impact of the Resource Used
What is the Environmental Impact Equation?