Apes Cards #1

Question 0

Mesosphere

Answer 0

Extends from 50-80 km above Earth.

Question 1

Troposphere

Answer 1

The layer that contains the earth’s daily weather and most access to the sun.

Question 2

Stratosphere

Answer 2

The earth’s ozone layer exists in this layer of the atmosphere.

Question 3

Thermosphere

Answer 3

The highest layer of the atmosphere above 80 km.

Question 4

E Horizon

Answer 4

Silt and sand are concentrated.

Question 5

O horizon

Answer 5

Litter layer mostly undecayed materials.

Question 6

Bedrock

Answer 6

The deep underlying non soil materials.

Question 7

B Horizon

Answer 7

The layer where minerals that were leached out of the layers above accumulate.

Question 8

A Horizon

Answer 8

A mixture of soil loam and detritus, the topsoil.

Question 9

Aids

Answer 9

The virus that causes this disease is transmitted through bodily fluids.

Question 10

Earthquake

Answer 10

Can cause massive destruction.

Question 11

Asbestosis

Answer 11

Caused by microscopic fibers of a mineral.

Question 12

Radon

Answer 12

Radiation that causes cancer.

Question 13

Correct geological era’s in order

Answer 13

1. Precambrian
2. Paleozoic
3. Mesozoic
4. Cenozoic

Question 14

Evolution

Answer 14

Changes in the genetic composition of a population over many generations.

Question 15

Conservation easement

Answer 15

A binding agreement that preserves land from further development in exchange for tax write offs.

Question 16

What can ozone in the troposphere cause?

Answer 16

Eye irritation, bronchitis, headache, emphysema.

Question 17

What is a benefit of genetically modified food?

Answer 17

The improved yield in crops.

Question 18

What is the percent of world’s solid waste produced by the US?

Answer 18

33%

Question 19

Carrying capacity

Answer 19

The maximum number of a species that can be sustained in an ecosystem.

Question 20

Bioaccumulation

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The selective absorption and storage of a great variety of molecules.

Question 21

Biomagnifcation

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Occurs when the toxic burden of a large number of organisms at a lower level is accumulated and concentrated by a predator in a higher tropic level.

Question 22

LD50

Answer 22

A chemical dose lethal to 50 percent of a test population.

Question 23

Doubling time formula

Answer 23

70/ percent population growth.

Question 24

Percentage population growth formula

Answer 24

70 divided by doubling time.

Question 25

Ecological succession

Answer 25

The changes that take place in an ecosystem.

Question 26

Primary succession

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Starting from bare rock, slowly over time, soil is built up and then plants and animals colonize. Drastic disturbances like volcanic eruptions or major mudslides, as well as new island formations, can result in primary succession.

Question 27

Secondary secession

Answer 27

1. The process of nature reclaiming an ecosystem that used to exist but was disturbed. 2. Disturbances like forest fires, deforestation, and hurricanes may remove most of the organisms in a system that used to exist but was disturbed is secondary succession.

Question 28

Tragedy of the commons

Answer 28

1968 by Garret Hardin, the idea that there is a finite maximum number of people the earth can support and how we use earth's resources is an important factor in determining how many people can be sustainably supported.

Question 29

Tragedy of the commons

Answer 29

Commons: any resource used by several people but owned and controlled by no one.

Question 30

Tragedy of the commons

Answer 30

The tragedy is that each person with access to the resource has no reason to limit his or her consumption of the resource.

Question 31

Globalization

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As people become more and more mobile, and nations depend more and more on each other, the world is becoming a single community.

Question 32

Doubling time formula

Answer 32

70/ rate