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Chapter 6- Humans In The Biosphere Flashcards

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1
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What are the human activities that affect the biosphere

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Hunting 
Gathering 
Agriculture 
Industry 
Urban development
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Agriculture allowed for

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(Farming) humans to increase and animal husbandry which is easing farm animals which made food rapidly increase and provided a dependable food source

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Steel is made of a

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Iron with added carbon

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How did the steel plow change the human race

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It allowed for large scale agricultural production

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The green revolution

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Food became very easily available. It is responsible for the rapid growth of the human population

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Monoculture

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When large Fields are planted with the same single variety of plants year after year. This isn’t good because if I passed or disease comes all of our food will be gone. He must have diverse city. It happens when farmers plant what is most popular and profitable year after year

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Mono

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One

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The industrial revolution allowed for

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The electric motor which led to elevators which allowed for big buildings which created cities
Wealth from agriculture led to the makin of cities

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Renewable resources can

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Regenerate if they are alive or can be replenished by bio geochemical cycles if they are nonliving

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Nonrenewable resources

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Cannot be replenished by natural processes

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What is the tragedy of the commons

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When a resource is so readily available that it is not regulated or or is impossible to regulate. Therefore it gets used up

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What is sustainable development

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A way of using natural resources without depleting them and of providing for human needs without causing long term environmental harm

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What percent of the United States power is nuclear

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22%

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What can affect the quality and supply of renewable resources such as land, forests, fisheries, air, and freshwater

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Anthropogenic activities (humans)

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Desertification

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When a fertile productive area turns into a desert because of farming, overgrazing, and drought

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What is contour plowing

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When farmers plow around a hill in a circle so as the water from the rain comes down it does into the grooves and gets absorbed which limits soil erosion.

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Deforestation

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Clear cutting which is when humans cut down every tree and erosion follows it

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What is the lungs of the earth bc it produces oxygen and gets rid of carbon dioxide

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Forests

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Aquaculture

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The raising of aquatic animals for human consumption

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ANWR

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Arctic natural wildlife refuge

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Why do elephants and other large animals have a problem with conservation

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They need lots of space and areas of big habitat

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What percent of the earths surface is considered wilderness

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39

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What percent of the wilderness is protected

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12

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How many trees are cut in the Amazon forest each year

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The size of Switzerland

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Why do wild dogs have trouble even though they have space and aren’t hunted

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They caught diseases from domestic dogs

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Why are baboons struggling

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They run out of space bc farms come into their alpine grass habitat

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The major threat to the environment

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A combination of the number of people and to what degree they consume things and how they live/what they buy

28
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How much money does half the worlds poplulation live on in a day

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2 dollars

29
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What percent of water we take out of rivers lakes etc goes into agriculture

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70

30
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Biophilia

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The love for nature that humans naturally have

31
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What is the home of the modern environmentalism movement and why

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Western civilization Bc we are wealthy and educated

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Ecosystem diversity is when

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There are many different habitats, communities,and ecological processes

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Species diversity is when there are

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Lots is different species

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Biodiversity is the

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Sum of the genetically based variety of all organisms in the biosphere

35
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What is genetic diversity

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The sum total of all the different forms of genetic information carried by all organisms living in earth today

36
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Species give us

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Food
Industrial products
Meds

37
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Extinction

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A species has disappeared either from the world or a specific area

38
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Endangered species

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Population drops and chance of extinction

39
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Habitat fragmentation is when

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Habitats become separated usually by human activities such as highways and become like islands

40
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What is the name of the organization that bans international trade in products from endangered species and they prevent poaching

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CITES

41
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Biological magnification

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When concentrations of a harmful substance increase in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food chain/web

42
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What is silent spring

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A book by Rachel Carson. She researched biological magnification and realized DDT harms birds

43
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The study of birds

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Ornithology

44
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Birds of prey include

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Owls
Hawks
Eagles
Falcons

45
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Two of the types of genetic modification

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Genetic therapy

CRISPR

46
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Genetic therapy

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An individual has a disease and they modify the genes to not have the disease

47
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CRISPR

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created something new
The danger is that if you mess with a gene that controls more than one hug you might correct one problem and create another

48
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What molecule is the ozone made of

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O3

49
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Where is the ozone

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High in the stratosphere

50
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How is the ozone created

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By UV light it goes through the cycle O+O2- > O3

51
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Explain how the ozone protects us

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UV b and UV c break O3 apart and send it the other what which absorbe the UV rays

52
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What are CFCS

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Chlorofluorocarbons that are easily compressed and are sued in propellants and in air conditioners and refrigerators .

53
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How do CFCS get in the atmosphere

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When the refrigerators and Samir conditoners get crushed in the dump the gas escapes and went high into the atmosphere and attacked the ozone

54
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How is global warming caused

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When we burn fossil fuels and a more CO2 is produced into the atmosphere the CO2 acts like a blanket and it holds the energy well

55
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What are greenhouse gases and stuff

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H20 vapor, methane and CO2

56
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How much has the eart warmed in the past 100 yrs

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1 degree c

57
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Ho much has the earth warmed in the last 10-15 yrs

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0

58
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Glacial periods

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Are ice ages where ice earth covers the earth

59
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The two groups of the environmental controversy

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Alarmists who think climate change is bad and caused by men

Skeptics who say global warming isn’t a big deal or concern and that it is more political than scientific

60
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Phrase for the climate is cooling

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Going down the up escalator

61
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Services

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Something provided for our benefit

62
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Ecosystem services

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Services humans receive from the environment

63
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Name four ecosystem services

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Solar energy
Oxygen
Helps to restore and recycle nutrients
Regulate the climate

64
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Normal rain pH

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6.5-6.8

65
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Acid rains pH

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5

15 times more acid than normal rain

66
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Why aren’t the lakes near us affected by acid rain

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We have limestone underground that neutralizes the rain

67
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What is tracking

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When they drill a couple thousand feet down and use pressure to break up the rock to get to the natural gas
A alternative for fossil fuels
Solves the acid rain problem but not global warming

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