Ap enviro Flashcards
Benefits of citizens in industrial countries include
Affordable material goods, and increase in average agricultural production per person, higher average life expectancy, lower infant mortality rates.
What percent of the world’s population lives in developing countries
80%
What does the position of an element in the Periodic table tell you?
The Number and position of the parts of the atom
What is resource partitioning?
The dividing of resources
What level does a secondary consumer eat at?
Above whatever eats plants
What are chloroflourocarbons most commonly associated with?
Air conditioning units
What kind of plant utilizes nitrogen fixing bacteria living in their roots?
Legumes
What percentage of the water on Earth is freshwater?
2.5%
How is the primary productivity of an ecosystem measured?
Total mass of plants in an area
What percent of the atmosphere is nitrogen?
78
What is the order of the atomsphere?
Tropo, strato, meso, thermo, exo
A long relationship between two animals that are beneficial for each other is what type of relationship?
Mutual
What is the change in genetic composition of a population over successive generations?
Evolution
What is the percent of liquid freshwater on earth?
1%
What is the current population of the world?
Just over 7 billion
