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What was the “Green Revolution”

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Used pesticides and insecticides to increase yields also bio engineered plants to be ready quicker population grew

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why is topsoil only semi renewable

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we use it at too fast of a rate

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legumes

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enrich soil with nitrogen

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why are tradition peanut legumes farming bad

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peanuts ruin root system at harvest and dislodge topsoil

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Sahel

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is the frontline of desertification

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effect of peanut farms

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increase of sahel/desertification zone

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demand based agriculture

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crops like tobacco that bring in money

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which crops are threatened by disease

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bananas and potatoes with blight

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resource based agriculture

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porduction is limited by available resources

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how do agrieco differ from eco

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. Farming tries to stop ecological succession.

  1. Biodiversity is discouraged in favor of monoculture
  2. Crops are planted in neat rows, not mixed in complex patterns.
  3. Food chains are greatly simplified.
  4. Plowing is unlike any natural disturbance.
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top three crops

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rice maize wheat and are all grasses

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subsistence

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crop used directly as food

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dust bowl

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unsuitable farming practice reduced land to dust

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aquifer

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permerable rock layer that collects water

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recharge zone

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where water enters aquifer like glaciers rivers reservoirs

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ogallala aquifer

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tapped to help dust bowl effects in new mexico colorado texas area

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what is the difference between chemical and natual fertilzer

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chemical is more health for humans but effects yield and natural fertilizer is better for plants but worse for humans

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drip method versus ditch and spray

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drip cost more for farmers to install but is better for environment while ditch and spray water is lost to evaporation

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range lands

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areas where we can farm

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maximum sustainable yield

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The amound of one crop that can be produced per unit of area that can be continued indefinetly

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how much of earth can be farmed

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11

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pros and cons of ranching natural species

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can harbor parasites unsufficient numbers not domesticated pro: food

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IPM

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integrated pest management

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principles of IPM

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bringing in natural predator

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leopold Trouvelot
gypsy moth disaster tried to destroy them but predators found easier prey
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what is IPM
introduces predators parasites and diseases to a pest ex burrowing wasp into lettuce caterpillar
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Environmental justice
Environmental problems against social classes
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why is it hard to prove environmental rascism
because of the tie between low income and minorities and jobs
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1st and second factor of environmental justice
minority and socioeconomic status
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hazel johnson
lived in polluted area fought for better housing
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Bhopal disaster
Chemicals and pesticides killed many poor minorities looking for work
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`effects of bhopal
freedom of info act
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INCO superstack
sudburry smokestack that caused lung diseases
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Wjat is LD curve
lethal dose to kill 50% deals with tolerance level want to be extremely high
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ED-50
effective dose want to be extremely low
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TL-50
toxicity level when people get sick want it to be higher than ed lower that LD
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problems that might kill humans
ozone depletion damages to oceans loss of fresh water overpopulation
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what is itai-itai
means ouch ouch jinzu river pollution cadmium pollution brittle bones and kidney failure land pollution and mining
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minamata disease
neurological syndrome mercury poison in water pvc creation
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why was source not found
company trade secret
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issues from maquilladoras
a toxic waste incinerator involved no training and respiratory problems
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what is cancer alley
in louisiana petrochemical corner where a lot of oil refineries are
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cancer alley and hurrican katrina
cancer became more of a problem as hurricane washed materials around
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traditional hogfarming vs corporate
tradtional has a few dozen and corporate a thousand
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operation silver shovel
politicians agreeing to dumb waste in low income areas
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how long did cleanup take
from 1992 to 2005 in west side areas of chicago
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what is NIMBY
not in my back yar those with power force pollution on those that dont
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goals of resource management
to reserve depletable resources
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pollutiob science versus social science
tries to preserve versus tries to conserve
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what did medevil do right
controlled populations and resources
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first nations
were just as bad as humans are today at overhunting and resource obsession
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easter island
people got to island deplenished all resources and couldnt even get off the island
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theodore roosevelt
Expanded protected national parks and wilderness conservations
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George Catlin
? Created national parks
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Henry David Thoreau
Advocated simpler woodsy lifestyle
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Benjamin Harrison
established yellowstone
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Woodrow wilson
National park service protected national parks
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atomic mass unit
mass of one electron and one proton
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What are the two principle kinds of proteins in the body
structural proteins and enzymes
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substrate and active site
Substrates are reactants to a active site A area that is ready to receive a substrate
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inhibition
? Inhibition slows a process down
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inhibitor drugs
Pencillin and AIDS
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deadly inhibitors
mercury poison in snakes
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denaturation
loss of chemical function
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allosteric
Is when something attaches to an enzyme and bends it other than active sites and substrates can no longer fit
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competitive
another compound can bind to active site this binding can either slow or stop a reaction
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allosteric inhibitors
poison mercury and other heavy metals
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competitive inhibitors
poisons are carbon monoxide and herbicides and pesticides
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what are the origins of toxicology
Agrippina the younger poisoner of the emperor Claudius and Augustus and Catherine de’Medici who poisoned homeless to study the effects
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morbidity
illness
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mortality
death rate
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median effective dose
is the desired effect in 50% the ED-50
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therapeutic index
ratio of ld-50 over ED50 how lethal versus how therapeutic
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physical pollutants
light heat
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biological pollution
invasive species
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genetic pollution
like in mexico with the corn grass
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point source
being able to pinpoint pollution source
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non point source
not being able to pinpoint source
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chemical pollution
heavy metal exhaust
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matter
anything that occupies space
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what is chemistryq
study of matter
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three stats of matter
solid liquid gas
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isolated atom
has the same number of electrons as protons
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ion
charged element
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what part interacts with the world
electron
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atomic mass
number of neutrons and protons
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atomic number
number of protons
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what is an isotope
isotope have more neutrons that protons
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What do neutrons do in the nucleus
Stabilize the element nuclear reactions happen upon instability
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ionic bond
bonds ionic bonds transfer an electron and is a weak bond
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covalent bond
? Covalent bonds are firm strong bonds
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when was the conept of atom produced
in greece
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Who was Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
He developed the periodic table and inadvertently discovered atomic number
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What is Rutherford’s “nuclear” model
? It was the discovery of protons and positive charges

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