Exam 1 Flashcards
What are the effects of climate change?
Greater storm capacity
Rise in temperature is and example of___
Climate change
One example of climate change is disappearing__
Snow fields and glaciers
Conditional explanation that can be verified or falsified by observation or explanation
Hypothesis
Well supported explanation that is based on tested data
Theory
What is the difference between theory and hypothesis?
Hypothesis is tested, theory is backed up
What did Pinochet, Roosevelt, Muir, and Carson represent?
Protection of the environment
Conservation vs protection has backed up by the four scientists
Pinchet, Roosevelt, Muir, Carson
What are the four biochemical cycles?
Hydrologic cycle, carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, sulfur cycle
Path of water through ocean, solar energy, evaporation, wind distribution of vapor around the globe
Hydrologic cycle
Evaporation is part of__
Hydrologic cycle
Circulation and realization of carbon atoms is part of the ___ cycle
Carbon cycle
What is photosynthesis part of?
The carbon cycle
Begins with plants and photosynthesis organism taken up carbon dioxide
Carbon cycle
What is the nitrogen cycle?
Circular and reulization of nitrogen in inorganic and organic phases
Component of proteins
Sulfur
Determines units of acidity of rainfall, sulfur water, and soil
Sulfur cycle
In particles or air born droplets could act as regulation of global climate
Sulfur cycle
What is critical thinking?
Process of stepping back to examine wnat you think and why you think it
Questing why someone says or believes something is and example of __
Critical thinking
Questing why someone says or believes something is and example of __
Critical thinking
Order these parts of the trophic pyramid in order: secondary consumers, producers, tertiary consumers, primary consumers
- Tertiary consumers
- Secondary consumers
- Primary consumers
4 producers
Order these parts of the trophic pyramid in order: secondary consumers, producers, tertiary consumers, primary consumers
- Tertiary consumers
- Secondary consumers
- Primary consumers
4 producers
Individuals with useful traits reproduce, to pass them to the next generation, while others reproduce less successfully
Natural selection
What is natural selection caused by?
Usually caused by environmental pressures
Competition, predation, symbiosis, and commensalism are part of the the___ relationships
Interspecific
One member benefits and the other is neither benefited nor harmed
Commensalism
Repeated overshot and dieback cycles
J curve
Repeated overshot and dieback cycles
J curve
Mechanism number of individuals of any species that can be supported by a particular ecosystem on a long-term basis
Carrying capacity
Growth rates regulated by internal and external factors that establish an equilibrium with environmental resources
Logistic growth
Unlimited resources make population grow exponentially is part of___ growth
Logistic
External or internal factors that effect growth rates of a population
Density dependent
Population growth is regulated mainly by external factors
R selected species
Rapid reproduction and high offspring “weedy” or ponder species
R selected species
Many ecosystems that are linked together by interaction with other organisms and living things are characteristics of__
Biological diverse environments
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___
Demography
The actual production of offspring
Fertility
A measure of age structure of a population and the number of people who are economically dependent on others
Dependency ratio
A measure of age structure of a population and the number of people who are economically dependent on others
Dependency ratio
Growth ratio of population formula
dN/dt=B-D
