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Bio 346 - Freshwater Eco. (Chpt 16) --> Climate Change and Future of Freshwater Flashcards

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1
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Greenhouse effect

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Natural process that warms the earths surface. When the suns energy reaches the earths atmosphere some of reflects back to space and the rest is absorbed and re-radiated by GHG’s

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What does the greenhouse (GHG) effect allow?

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Allows some places to be cooler while other places are warmer with the orbit, energy put out by the sun and the tilt

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How can we tell the climate is changing? (4 things)

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  1. Fossils
  2. Rock chemistry
  3. Composition of gas bubbles in ancient polar ice
  4. Balance of O2 isotopes
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What is the average increase of world temp?

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0.76C

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What is the average global temp caused by?

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GHG

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What are 6 examples of GHG?

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  1. CO2
  2. Methane
  3. Water vapour
  4. Nitrous oxide (N2O)
  5. CFC
  6. Ozone
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What are GHGs caused by? (4 things)

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  1. Increase in burning carbon stores
  2. Fossil fuels
  3. Forest clearance
  4. Oxidation of wetland soils
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What do GHGs change? (4 things)

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  1. Temp
  2. Wind activity
  3. Precipitation
  4. Moisture
    - Caused floods and droughts in certain places
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Whats 1 consequence of GHGs?

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Melting ice caps that raise the sea level

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What happens to snow cover as, temp and sea levels increase?

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It decreases

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What happens to stratification and drought if runoff, streamflow, floods and temp all increase?

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They decrease

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What do the changes in atmosphere create?

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More extreme weather patterns

Eg) Hurricanes, storms and drought

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What does the letting of permafrost mean?

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Longer growth season for wetland plants

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What has warming extended?

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Stratification (making it more stable)

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Abrupt permanent

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Remains constant (permanent)
- See notes for graph
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Gradual permanent

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Has a gradual decrease

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Abrupt temporary

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  • Not stable
  • Changes in short term periods
  • See notes for graph
18
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What are 4 approaches to predict future effects on freshwater?

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  1. Direct experimentation
  2. Space-for-time studies
    - Used in bigger systems
  3. Paleo-ecological reconstruction
  4. Dynamic modelling
19
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What are 3 benefits for the predicting future effects?

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  1. Easy to do
  2. Inexpensive
  3. High replication using microbial communities
20
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What happens to the male taking care of their young as temp increases?

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Spends less time taking care of their young

- As a result the survivorship decreases

21
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What is a problem with predictions of the future?

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It might not happen fast enough and won’t see a major effect in the strutting of the ecosystem

22
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Why are temperate latitudes changing drastically?

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Glaciation

23
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Positive feedback

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The amplification of an effect by its own influence on the process that gives rise to it

24
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Increase in CO2 [ ] in the air lead to what?

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Increase in dissociation in the ocean

- Decrease in pH and less CO2 can be absorbed

25
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What does GDP stand for?

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Gross domestic product

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GDP

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Is the sum of consumer expenditure, social and welfare costs and the costs of repair on enviro damage
- More the needs to be done the greater the GDP

27
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What is a major regulator of the earths carbon balance?

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Ecosystems

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Loss of ecosystems =

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Decrease in carbon stores

29
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Increase in ecosystems =

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Risk of global warming

30
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What does GPI stand for?

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Genuine progress index

31
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How is the ecological footprint measured?

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As the equivalent area of land needed to support the food, material and energy consumption per person in a given country

32
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Why is waste production easier to get rid of?

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Waste has a commercial value as a raw material and recycling schemes have been readily adopted

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