Chapter 16 Vocab

Question 1

Umbrella Species

Answer 1

A species placed on the endangered list benefiting other species

Question 2

Ecological footprint

Answer 2

The amount of land needed to produce and maintain enough food, water, shelter, energy, and waste

Question 3

Sustainable development

Answer 3

A practice in which natural resources are used and managed in a way that meets all needs without harming future generations

Question 4

Habitat fragmentation

Answer 4

When a barrier prevents an organism from accessing its entire home range

Question 5

Bio-magnification

Answer 5

When a pollutant moves up the food chain and increasing in concentration

Question 6

Pollution

Answer 6

Any undesirable factor, or pollutant, added to air, water, or soil

Question 7

Introduced species

Answer 7

A species that is brought in by human actions

Question 8

Greenhouse effect

Answer 8

When gasses absorb energy from the Earth’s surface and slow down its release into the atmosphere.

Question 9

Renewable resource

Answer 9

Resources that can be replaced at the same rate they are used

Question 10

Non-renewable resource

Answer 10

Resources that are used faster than they are formed

Question 11

Particulate

Answer 11

A microscopic bit of dust, metal, and unburned fuel processed by industrial processes

Question 12

Smog

Answer 12

Air pollution that is caused by the reaction between pollutants and sunlight

Question 13

Indicator species

Answer 13

A species that provides a sign of the quality of the environmental conditions

Question 14

Global warming

Answer 14

The trend of increasing global temperatures

Question 15

Acid rain

Answer 15

A type of precipitation with abnormally low pH levels due to pollutants in the water cycle.