Exam 1

Question 1

What are the effects of climate change?

Answer 1

Greater storm capacity

Question 2

Rise in temperature is and example of___

Answer 2

Climate change

Question 3

One example of climate change is disappearing__

Answer 3

Snow fields and glaciers

Question 4

Conditional explanation that can be verified or falsified by observation or explanation

Answer 4

Hypothesis

Question 5

Well supported explanation that is based on tested data

Answer 5

Theory

Question 6

What is the difference between theory and hypothesis?

Answer 6

Hypothesis is tested, theory is backed up

Question 7

What did Pinochet, Roosevelt, Muir, and Carson represent?

Answer 7

Protection of the environment

Question 8

Conservation vs protection has backed up by the four scientists

Answer 8

Pinchet, Roosevelt, Muir, Carson

Question 9

What are the four biochemical cycles?

Answer 9

Hydrologic cycle, carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, sulfur cycle

Question 10

Path of water through ocean, solar energy, evaporation, wind distribution of vapor around the globe

Answer 10

Hydrologic cycle

Question 11

Evaporation is part of__

Answer 11

Hydrologic cycle

Question 12

Circulation and realization of carbon atoms is part of the ___ cycle

Answer 12

Carbon cycle

Question 13

What is photosynthesis part of?

Answer 13

The carbon cycle

Question 14

Begins with plants and photosynthesis organism taken up carbon dioxide

Answer 14

Carbon cycle

Question 15

What is the nitrogen cycle?

Answer 15

Circular and reulization of nitrogen in inorganic and organic phases

Question 16

Component of proteins

Answer 16

Sulfur

Question 17

Determines units of acidity of rainfall, sulfur water, and soil

Answer 17

Sulfur cycle

Question 18

In particles or air born droplets could act as regulation of global climate

Answer 18

Sulfur cycle

Question 19

What is critical thinking?

Answer 19

Process of stepping back to examine wnat you think and why you think it

Question 20

Questing why someone says or believes something is and example of __

Answer 20

Critical thinking

Question 21

Questing why someone says or believes something is and example of __

Answer 21

Critical thinking

Question 22

Order these parts of the trophic pyramid in order: secondary consumers, producers, tertiary consumers, primary consumers

Answer 22

1. Tertiary consumers
2. Secondary consumers
3. Primary consumers

4 producers

Question 23

Order these parts of the trophic pyramid in order: secondary consumers, producers, tertiary consumers, primary consumers

Answer 23

1. Tertiary consumers
2. Secondary consumers
3. Primary consumers

4 producers

Question 24

Individuals with useful traits reproduce, to pass them to the next generation, while others reproduce less successfully

Answer 24

Natural selection

Question 25

What is natural selection caused by?

Answer 25

Usually caused by environmental pressures

Question 26

Competition, predation, symbiosis, and commensalism are part of the the___ relationships

Answer 26

Interspecific

Question 27

One member benefits and the other is neither benefited nor harmed

Answer 27

Commensalism

Question 28

Repeated overshot and dieback cycles

Answer 28

J curve

Question 29

Repeated overshot and dieback cycles

Answer 29

J curve

Question 30

Mechanism number of individuals of any species that can be supported by a particular ecosystem on a long-term basis

Answer 30

Carrying capacity

Question 31

Growth rates regulated by internal and external factors that establish an equilibrium with environmental resources

Answer 31

Logistic growth

Question 32

Unlimited resources make population grow exponentially is part of___ growth

Answer 32

Logistic

Question 33

External or internal factors that effect growth rates of a population

Answer 33

Density dependent

Question 34

Population growth is regulated mainly by external factors

Answer 34

R selected species

Question 35

Rapid reproduction and high offspring “weedy” or ponder species

Answer 35

R selected species

Question 36

Many ecosystems that are linked together by interaction with other organisms and living things are characteristics of__

Answer 36

Biological diverse environments

Question 37

Economic and social conditions change morality and births, and improving women’s lives helps reduce birth rates, as well as family planning is known as___

Answer 37

Demography

Question 38

The actual production of offspring

Answer 38

Fertility

Question 39

A measure of age structure of a population and the number of people who are economically dependent on others

Answer 39

Dependency ratio

Question 40

A measure of age structure of a population and the number of people who are economically dependent on others

Answer 40

Dependency ratio

Question 41

Growth ratio of population formula

Answer 41

dN/dt=B-D