Chapter 6 Human In The Biosphere

Question 0

What is monoculture

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Farming strategy of planting in the single highly productive crop year after year

Question 1

How does human affect regional and global environments

Answer 1

Humans affect them to agriculture development industry in ways that have input on the quality of its natural resources including soil water and atmosphere

Question 2

What is agriculture

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Growing crops uses water fertile soil pesticides and fossils fuel to run machine

Question 3

What is development

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Dense human commuties lots of waste

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Industrial growth

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Population and use of fossil fuel

Question 5

What is bio diversity loss due to

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Human activity, habitat destruction. Hunting down population
Climate change
Intro to exotic non native species which completes with native harm them directively predation

Question 6

What are the benefits from the bio diversity to our society

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Medicine
Agriculture
Ecosystem service

Question 7

What is extinction

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the disappearance of a species when last of its members dies

Question 8

What causes extinction

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Threat ( predator/ diesase )
Failure to compete against a new species
A rapid environment change they can’t adopt to
* humans are the main cause of extinction today*

Question 9

What is a ecological hotspot

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A place where a significant numbers of species and habitat are in immediate danger of extinction

Question 10

How do you conserve biodiversity

Answer 10

Protect individual

Preserve habitats and ecosyststem

Question 11

What is renewable resource

Answer 11

can be produced or replaced by a healthy ecosystem

Question 12

What is nonrenewable resource

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Because natural processes cannot replenish them with a reasonable amount of time.

Question 13

What is sustainable development

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Provides for human needs while still preserving the ecosystem that produces natural resources

Question 14

Healthy soil supports both agriculture and forestry true or false

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True

Question 15

What is soil erosion

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Is the removable of soil by water or wind

Question 16

What is desertification

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A combination of farming, overgrazing, seasonal drought and climate change can turn farmland into a desert

Question 17

What is deforestation

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It’s the loss of forests

Question 18

How can you minimize soil erosion

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Careful management of both agriculture and forestry

Question 19

What is pollutant

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Is a harmful material that can enter the biosphere

Question 20

What are no point pollutant sources

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The grease and oil washed of streets by rain or the chemical released into the air by factories or automobiles

Question 21

What are the primary sources of water pollution

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Industrial And agricultural chemicals residential sewage and no point sources

Question 22

What is biological

Magnification

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Occurs if a pollutant such as DDT mercury or pcb picked up by an oragami am and is not broken down and eliminated from the body

Question 23

What is the common air pollution

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Smog, acid rain, greenhouse gas and particulates

Question 24

What is smog

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It's a gray brown haze formed By a chemical reaction among pollutants

Question 25

What is acid rain

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When we burn fossil fuel in our factories and homes we release nitrogen and sulfur compounds, when these compounds combine with water vapor in the sort hey form nitric and sulfuric acids

Question 26

What are greenhouse gas

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Cow fart, ,methane

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What are particulates

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Are microscopic particles of ash and dust released by industries

Question 28

What is ecosystem diversity

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Variety of habitats, communities, and ecological processes in the biosphere

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What is species diversity

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The number of different species in the biodiversity or in a particular area

Question 30

Genetic diversity

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Refer to the sum total of all difffrent forms of genes presents in that species

Question 31

What is biodiversity

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Is the total of all genetically based variation in all organism in the biosphere

Question 32

What is habitats fragmentation

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Splitting of the ecosystem into pieces

Question 33

How does DDT affect the ecosystem

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Prevents birds from laying healthy eggs

Question 34

What is ecological footprint

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Describes the total area of functioning land and water ecosystems needed both to provide the resource an individual or population uses to absorb and make harmless the waste that individual or population generates.

Question 35

How can ecology guide us towards a sustainable future

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Recognize a problem in the environment Researching that problem to determine its causes and then Using scientific understanding to change our behavior we can have a positive impact on the global environment

Question 36

What is aquaculture

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The farming of aquatic fish

Question 37

What is global warming

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Increase in global temperature

Question 38

A developer wants to build a new housing development in or around a large city which of the following plans would be least harmful to the environment

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Ex: building apartments at the site of an ABANDONED factory in the city

Question 39

Using resources in way that does not cause long term harm is called

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Sustainable devolpment

Question 40

The 1930 dust bowl in the great plain was caused by

Answer 40

Poor farming practices

Question 41

Which is not considered a sustainable devolpment strategy for management of earths resources

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Desetification