Vocabulary
What is human-caused?
What is a steady state?
What is Inputs=Outputs?
This is the last step in the scientific method.
What is repeat experiment?
Earth is what kind of system?
What is an open system?
These are major regions of differing vegetation and wildlife types.
What are biomes?
This is used to refer to the health of an environment.
What is environmental indicator?
This is formula the for Net Flux.
What is Net Flux= Inputs-Outputs?
This is the step in a Hydrologic Cycle that comes before precipitation.
What is condensation?
A physical or chemical breakdown in rocks are also called what kind of process?
What is weathering?
In Environmental Science, the rate of which an ecosystem returns to its state after some sort of disturbance that causes change is called what?
What is Resilience?
How is annual precipitation measured?
What is cm?
How do you calculate MRT (Mean Residence Time)?
What is (MRT)=(pool)/(flux in or out)?
How many distinct layers does Earth have?
What is four?
Solar radiation from the sun is reflected by what?
What is clouds and atmosphere?
Which biome on Earth has the most rainfall annually?
(Ex. Sahara Desert, what type of desert is it?)
What is Tropical Rainforest?
This is how many parts a certain molecule or compound makes up within the atmosphere.
What is ppm (parts per million)?
CO2 + H2O + energy from the sun = CH2O + O2
What is Photosynthesis?
In the Grassland Habitat, which animal is the Apex Consumer in the food chain?
What is Hawk and Vultures?
What is 12 years?
To genetically, anatomically, and physiologically modify crops and other species from their wild progenitor species through selective breeding.
What is domestication?
What chemical compound, specifically metal, is soft, resists corrosion, but also impairs the human central nervous system function and is toxic to most plants and animals?
What is lead? (Chemical symbol Pb)
What are amps times volts OR joules divided by seconds?
What movement occurs before sedimentation in a rock cycle?
What is transport and deposition?
This type of renewable energy is harnessed from water.
What is kinetic energy?
At what depth does peak Ocean species diversity occur?
(hint: meters)
What is 2000 to 3000 meters deep?