APES !!

Question 1

intraspecific competition

Answer 1

same species

Question 2

interspecific competition

Answer 2

different species

Question 3

one benefits, the other is neutral

Answer 3

commensalism

Question 4

ecotone

Answer 4

transition between ecosystems

Question 5

taiga

Answer 5

swampy land

Question 6

chaparral

Answer 6

shrubs and bushes

Question 7

decidious

Answer 7

tall seasonal trees

Question 8

autotrophs

Answer 8

make their own food

Question 9

heterotroph

Answer 9

consume other food

Question 10

phosphorus cycle

Answer 10

soil, rock, sediments

Question 11

rule of 70 (doubling rate)

Answer 11

70/growth rate

Question 12

humans

Answer 12

k selected

Question 13

growth rate

Answer 13

birth rate - death rate/10

Question 14

gmos

Answer 14

altered dna through engineering

Question 15

emigration vs immigration

Answer 15

leaving vs arriving

Question 16

boom and bust

Answer 16

up and down population

Question 17

transform boundary

Answer 17

2 plates slide against each other

Question 18

rock melted and then resolidified

Answer 18

igneous

Question 19

soil layers

Answer 19

OABC bedrock

Question 20

soil formation factors

Answer 20

(CORPT) climate, organisms, relief (landscape), parent material, time

Question 21

corolis effect

Answer 21

right north, left south

Question 22

hadley cell

Answer 22

air moving at equator

Question 23

el nino

Answer 23

wet south, dry north

Question 24

la nina

Answer 24

dry winters

Question 25

watershed

Answer 25

channels water to streams

Question 26

southern osscilation

Answer 26

reversal of pressure systems

Question 27

surface fires (pos)

Answer 27

remove underbrush

Question 28

crown fires

Answer 28

from treetop to treetop (real bad)

Question 29

ground fires

Answer 29

come from surface fires

Question 30

tailings

Answer 30

waste from mining

Question 31

aquifier

Answer 31

rock that holds groudnwater

Question 32

biomass (burnt)

Answer 32

wood, charcoal, peat

Question 33

pv cells

Answer 33

turn sunlight to electricity

Question 34

geotherman energy

Answer 34

hot water pumped for heat & light

Question 35

eutrophic waters

Answer 35

too many nutrients

Question 36

ogliotrophic waters

Answer 36

good amount of nutrients

Question 37

POPs

Answer 37

stick around for a while

Question 38

biomagnification

Answer 38

build up of toxins in a food chain

Question 39

PRIMARY POLLUTANTS

Answer 39

(NOSCOLP) NOx, SOx, CO, tropo ozone, lead, pm (+ VOCs)

Question 40

NOx

Answer 40

combustion, tropo ozone

Question 41

SOx

Answer 41

coal combustion, acid rain

Question 42

carbon monoxide

Answer 42

car exhaust, global warming

Question 43

tropo ozone

Answer 43

NOx, photo smog

Question 44

VOCs

Answer 44

burning of biomass, tropo ozone

Question 45

what does lead in cars give off

Answer 45

NOx, CO, hydrocarbons

Question 46

lead effects

Answer 46

neurotoxin

Question 47

RCRA act

Answer 47

regulates hazardous waste facilities

Question 48

CERCLA

Answer 48

superfund to clean abandoned waste sites

Question 49

Human Impacts on Biodiversity

Answer 49

(HIPPCO) habitat, invasive, population, pollution, climate change, overharvesting

Question 50

montreal protocol 1987 (worldwide)

Answer 50

no more CFCs

Question 51

kyoto protocal (worldwide)

Answer 51

emissions trading, limit GHGs

Question 52

anthropogenic

Answer 52

energy related

Question 53

transpiration

Answer 53

evaporation of water from plants to air

Question 54

Clean Water Act

Answer 54

governs dishcarge of pollutants into water

Question 55

postindustrial state

Answer 55

reached carrying capacity

Question 56

gross domestic product

Answer 56

amount of economic output

Question 57

total fertility rate

Answer 57

of children a woman will have in her life

Question 58

epidemiological studies

Answer 58

examining human populations exposed to risk

Question 59

high Biological Oxygen Demand

Answer 59

less oxygen in water

Question 60

photchemical smog

Answer 60

nox + sunlight = ozone ozone + VOCs = smog

Question 61

acid rain

Answer 61

SOx + water = sulfuric acid NOx + water = nitric acid

Question 62

ocean acidification

Answer 62

caused by CO2, makes the water more acidic by taking H+ from H2O

Question 63

Clean Air Act 1970

Answer 63

regulates chemicals from entering atmosphere

Question 64

Clean Water Act 1972

Answer 64

regulates water quality (pollutants) & funds sewage plants

Question 65

international trade of endangered species (CITES 1973)

Answer 65

international trade of plants and animals shouldn't threaten their wilderness survival

Question 66

CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, Liability Act

Answer 66

emergency funding for toxic waste accidents

Question 67

Endangered Species Act 1973

Answer 67

protection & list for endangered species

Question 68

Safe Drinking Water Act (SWDA 1974)

Answer 68

regulates drinking waters & protects its sources

Question 69

FDA Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (1958)

Answer 69

FDA bans additives that an cause cancer

Question 70

positive feedback loop

Answer 70

product of a reaction leads to an increase of that reaction

Question 71

BOD (Biochemical Oxygen Demand) and DO

Answer 71

decline in Dissolved Oxygen means a high level of BOD