| 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. |
