Flashcards (Environmental science)

Question 1

Continents

Answer 1

North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania and Antarctica

Question 2

Gross national income (GNI) per capita is US$1086 or less

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Low-Income Countries(LICs)

Question 3

GNI per captia is more than US$1086 but less than US$13205

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Middle-income countries(MICs)

Question 4

GNI per capita of more than US$13205

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High-income countries (HICs)

Question 5

Prevents the depletion or degradation of Earth’s natural resources, thus ensuring that the environment and the needs of future generations are protected

Answer 5

Sustainability

Question 6

Our natural resources (water, air, soil, oil, coal, natural gas, rocks, minerals, and society

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Ecosystem

Question 7

Rubbish and waste being disposed into the environment

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Pollution

Question 8

Variety of all living things

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Biodiversity

Question 9

The continuous movement of water on, above, the surface of earth

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Water cycle

Question 10

The amount of water in a specific ecosystem

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Open system

Question 11

Constant amount of water on the planet

Answer 11

Closed system

Question 12

water changing from liquid to the gaseous phase

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Evaporation

Question 13

Water falls back to the surface of Earth as rain, snow, hail, sleet, or fog.

Answer 13

Precipitation

Question 14

Process in which water vapour moves through and out of a plant

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Transpiration

Question 15

Water changes from gas to liquid

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Condensation

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Precipitation being blocked from reaching the ground by plant foliage/canopy, or even leaf litter.

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Interception

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The process of raindrops that intercepted by plants collecting on the leaves and fall through and onto the soil below

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Through-fall

Question 18

when water trickles along the branches and the trunk of the tree to the ground

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Stem-flow

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Water from precipitation collects on the surface of the land and flows over the ground.

Answer 19

Run off

Question 20

Water being absorbed by the soil.

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Infiltration

Question 21

Water flowing through the soil

Answer 21

Through-flow

Question 22

concentration of water vapour in the air

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Humidity

Question 23

Water below Earth’s surface

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Groundwater

Question 24

Layer of gases, vapour, and dust particles

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Atmosphere

Question 25

Layer of the atmosphere found closest to earth’s surface (also referred as the “weather zone”)

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Troposphere

Question 26

above the troposphere
ozone layer

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Stratosphere

Question 27

above the stratosphere
ozone molecules absorb UV radiation

Answer 27

Mesosphere

Question 28

water vapour and carbon dioxide

Answer 28

Variable gases

Question 29

natural process that causes the warming of the earth’s surface and surrounding atmosphere

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Natural green house effect

Question 30

the life-supporting zone where the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere meet

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Biosphere

Question 31

living components( plants, animals, and bacteria)

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Biotic

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non-living components( temperature, soil, water, salinity, etc…)

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Abiotic

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group of organisms where individual breed to produce offsprings

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Species

Question 34

group of individuals of the same species living in an ecosystem

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population

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the place where an organism lives

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Habitat

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What a particular habitat needs

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ecological niche

Question 37

biotic components are made up of producers and consumers

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food chain

Question 38

Uses light energy to carry out photosynthesis and produce their own food source

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producers

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only eats primary producers as their diet(herbivores)

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primary consumers

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eats either producers or primary consumers ( omnivores)

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secondary consumers

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usually eats secondary consumers ( carnivores)

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tertiary consumers

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organisms that breaks down organic material (fungi and bacteria)

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decomposers

Question 43

Resources that restrict development, growth, size, and distribution of a species within an ecosystem
(can be biotic or abiotic )

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Limiting factor

Question 44

measures how acidic or basic

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pH

Question 45

Measurement of salt in water or soils

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Salinity

Question 46

Organisms capture energy from the sun and convert it into stored energy

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Photosynthesis

Question 47

oxygen gas to produce energy from food

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Aerobic respiration

Question 48

Green pigment in the leaves, which absorbs light to provide energy for photosynthesis to occur

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Chlorophyll

Question 49

Series of process which carbon is reused in nature

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Carbon cycle

Question 50

release of stored carbon from fossils, oil, and coal

Answer 50

combustion