Question | Answer |
Environmental Science | The study of how humans effect the environment and how the environment affects humans. |
Per Capita | Average per person. |
Coastal Marine | Most of the food grows in shallow water.
~ Dying off due to human pollution.
~ Dilution if the Solution to Pollution. |
Fresh Water | Used on everyday human life. |
Agriculture Lands | Being abused and over-used. |
Grasslands | High production. |
Forest | Getting cut down for lumber. |
Montreal Protocol 1987 | No CFCs (used to propel things in cans).
~ CFCs damage ozone, O3.
~ Ozone protects from UV rays. |
Kyoto Protocol 1997 | CO2 (carbon dioxide) - Greenhouse gas.
~ Greenhouse gasses keep heat on planet, too much = global warming.
~ H2O is most important greenhouse gas.
~ CO2 is anthropogenic (human made).
~ Burn fossil fuels makes CO2. |
Copenhagen | CO2 = anthropogenic. |
Monoculture | When you have one type of plant in an area. |
Biodiversity | Is stability. |
NIMBY | Not In My Backyard. |
Science | Using the scientific method; peer-reviewed; data; bias. |
Pseudoscience | Fake science. |
Lake/Pond | Standing fresh water. |
River/Stream/Creek | Moving fresh water. |
Inland Wetlands | Swamp = Trees
Marsh = No Trees
Bog = Sphagnum/Peat Moss |
Estuaries | Salt and fresh water meet. |
Coastal Ocean | Shallow |
Open Ocean | Deep |
Desert | <10 inches rpy (rain per year) |
Grassland/Prairie | 10-60 inches rpy; seasonal; short or tall |
Temperate Forest | 40 inches rpy; deciduous trees; hardwood. |
Coniferous Forest | 40 inches rpy; conifers (spruce, fir, hemlock); softwood. |
Rainforest | >90 inches rpy -> 600+ rpy
~ Tropical
~ Tundra |
Tundra | Permafrost; alpine (mountains); arctic (poles). |
Savannah | Minor biome; not seasonal; wet & dry. |
Producers | Sun -> Food (organic)
~ H2O & CO2 -> Sugar = C6H12O6 |
Autotrophs | Self Feeders
~ Inorganic -> Organic |
Consumers | Heterotrophs
~ Organic -> Organic |
Primary Consumers | 1st Degree; herbivores. |
Secondary Consumers | 2nd Degree; carnivores. |
Predators | Kills it's prey. |
Scavenger | Eats the dead. |
Parasite | Feeds but doesn't kill. |
Detrivore | Eat detritus (dead plants). |
Decomposer | Organic -> Inorganic |
Tropic Levels | How energy is measured. |
Biomass | Dry weight; weight per year. |
Habit | Place where an organism lives; define using vegetation. |
Niche | How an organism lives and dies; based on the resources needed; any factor, biotic or abiotic, that's used. |
Liebic's Law of the Minimum | Focused on minimum |
Law of Limiting Factor | The thing that holds the population back the most; every time you fix a limiting factor the next worst thing becomes the factor. |
Charismatic Megafauna | Big, pretty animals; get the attention. |
Charismatic Megaflora | Big, pretty plants. |
Kinetic Energy | Energy in motion. |
Potential Energy | Energy that is stored. |
Ecotone | The boundary between ecosystems/communities/association. |
Theory | Hypothesis that has been tested many times under different conditions and never shown to be wrong. |
Community | All living species in a given area. |
Population | All of one species in a given area. |
Cohesion | Water molecules being attracted to other water molecules. |
Adhesion | Water molecules being attracted to other molecules. |
Atmosphere | Air |
Hydrosphere | Water |
Lithosphere | Earth |
Biosphere | Atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. |