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Midterm #1 Flashcards

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NAMES AND PLACE:

Utilitarian conservation
○ Resources used to max yield to benefit people

preservation
○ Protecting/preserving valley
○ Didn’t want dam

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  • Pinchot = utilitarian
    • Muir = preservation

Hetch Hetchy Valley

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Sand County Almanac 1949
- Opened first wilderness area for a preserved park
- Founder of modern conservation
- Creator of “Land Ethic”

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Leopold

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Carson

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Silent Spring 1962
- Helped ban DDT

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Experimental Lakes in NW Ontario testing fertilizer impacts
- Phosphorus proven impactful in aquatic environments

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schindler

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Tragedy of the Commons 1833
- solutions: regulation and privatization
- Created by Lloyd showing overgrazing of livestock on a shared pasture.
- Hardin rediscovered concept
- Short term vs. Common goods

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Lloyd-Harden

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  • The Population Bomb 1968
    • Predicted overpopulation and worldwide famine/war by 1980
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Enrich

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Simon-Enrich Wager

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  • 1980-90
    • Simon argued that humans are innovative and are the best limiting resources
    • Bet on prices of resources for 10 years. Simon won by saying they would lower.
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Malthus

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  • Malthusian Trap
    ○ Population growth is potentially exponential while resource supply growth is linear
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Father of the Green Revolution:
- Crops to increase yield
- Nobel 1970

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Borlaug

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  • NH3 fertilizers expanded agricultural yield
    • Nobel 1918
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Haber

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Nelson

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Introduced Earth Day 1970

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Start of conservation bio 1980s
- Developed concepts about threats to biodiversity loss
- Evil Quartet/Horsemen of Eco. Collapse
○ Overexploitation
○ Introduced/non-native species
○ Habitat loss
○ Trophies Cascades

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Diamond

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CFC’s and Ozone

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  • CFC’s led to destruction of ozone layer in 1980s
    • 1987 ban on CFC’s
    • Polar areas more sensitive
    • Lovelock important for research
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Made climate change recognized by compiling meteorological data for global temperature database to track trends
- Late 1980s

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Hensen

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Reduction
- Said biology can be explained by chemistry and physics. Smaller parts can explain bigger parts

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Crick

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Reduction
- Said biology can be explained by chemistry and physics. Smaller parts can explain bigger parts

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  • Wilson
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Normative Science Definition and Examples

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  • Interprets info with preference for a specific policy
    • Inherently biased
    • “Advocacy science”
    • Examples:
      ○ Pristine ecosystem preferred to human altered ones
      ○ Native species are better
      ○ Higher biodiversity is preferable to lower
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Descriptive Science

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Purely facts and measurements

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Deductive Reasoning

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  • Theory first then experimentation
    • Basic sciences (chemistry, physics)
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Inductive Reasoning

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  • Experiments before theory/hypothesis
    • Applied sciences (con bio)
    • Observation causes ideas
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Multiple Working Hypothesis

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  • Chamberlain 1890
    • Distributes effort and reduces ownership of ideas to objectively evaluate hypothesis
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Define Axioms

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what we know to be true from earlier research

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Define Postulate

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asserts relationships between set concepts

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Define Data Statement

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strategy to link question and data

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Manipulative Experiment

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  • Manipulating some factors and having a controlled/unchanged constant
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Natural Experiment and Examples

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  • Observing results of large-scale phenomena
    • Example: Studying volcano, using islands to study fragmentation
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Observation Study

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  • Can only study listed facts
    • Example: what a Dino eats
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Oldest Ecological Experiment

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  • Manipulative experiment
    • Understanding agriculture production of hay by adding fertilizer to some and not to others in the UK
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SLOSS Argument

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  • “single large or single small”
    Argument about whether fragmentation should cause species number growth or if many fragments should equal one area with the same amount of species
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Meta Analysis

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  • After-analysis to synthesize multiple research studies based on the combination of several studies
    • Understand pattern to find knowledge
    • Belief that’s truth should come from a combination of many studies
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Theory that Published articles, especially on competitive journals, can have exaggerated results

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Winner’s curse

32
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As hypothesis are proposed, it is impossible to predict if it will be revolutionary or ridiculous

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Horrobin’s Hypothesis

33
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As hypothesis are proposed, it is impossible to predict if it will be revolutionary or ridiculous

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Desk Rejections

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Publication Bias

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Papers with statistically significant are 3x more likely to be published than null results.

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Lithosphere

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Solid outer part of Earth including the crust and upper mantle

36
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Igneous Rock

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Canadian Shield
- Formed from volcanic rocks or plutonic rocks (magma under the surface)

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Sedimentary Rock

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  • Recrystallizing minerals and rocks “glued” together by organics
38
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Cratons

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  • First lithosphere/continents
    • Old floating pieces of lithosphere that stoped growing about 2 Ga as Earth cooled
    • Expanded into plate tectonics
39
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Mesozoic Era

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  • 252-66 Ma
    • “Middle life”
    • Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous
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Triassic

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  • 201-252 Ma
    • Breakup of Pangea
    • Time of Dino’s and gymnosperms
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Jurassic

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  • 145-201 Ma
    • Tropical/humid, seas, Dino dominate, true mammals form
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Cretaceous

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  • 66-145 Ma
    • Seasonality, birds, mammals
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Quaternary Period

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  • Pleistocene Epoch
    • 2.58 Ma to 11.7 Ka
    • Present
44
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first calculation of Earth orbit around the sun and studied Earth’s long term calculation of climate change and Earth temperature

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  • Milankovitch Cycles
45
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Suficial Geology land forms

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  • Landforms associated with contention glaciers
46
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Eskers

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Glacial stream land forms on top, with, or below streams. Mounds to represent where glaciers once were. Important for wildlife.

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Drumlins

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Hilly mound that is long and originated under the glacier. Left behind by scouring glacier

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Suficial Deposits

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Deposits of rock/material glacially moved onto bedrock

49
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Glacial lake
Deposits

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Glaciolacustrine

50
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Glacial river deposits

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Glaciofluvial

51
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What drives the water cycle?

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Driven by solar and gravity

52
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Ocean Layers

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  • Epipelagic: surface level where light penetrates up at 200m
    • Mesopelagic: middle 10 degrees C
    • Bathypelagic: 40-10 degrees C
  • Apyssalpelagic: 6000m depth
53
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Oligotrophic Lakes and Example

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  • Low nutrients
  • Deeper/cleaer
  • High levels O2
  • Green algae
    Ex) Lake Superior
54
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Eutrophic Lakes and Example

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  • High nutrient
  • Shallow/darker
  • Low levels O2
  • Blue green algae
  • Ex) Lake Erie
55
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Anthropogenic eutrophication

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Excess nutrients in lentic systems from human activity

56
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Long jet stream waves from geography

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Rosby Waves

57
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Air mass moves from low to high elevation

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Orographic effect

58
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Expansion/compression of air from elevation change over mountsins

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Adiabatic Effect

59
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Dry, warm downslope winds in mtn downside

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Föhn Winds

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