Exam One Review Flashcards
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Inductive reasoning
Reasoning from many observations to produce a general rule
Deductive reasoning
Logical reasoning from general to specific
Sustainability
Is a search for ecological stability and human progress they can last over the long-term
Sustainable development
Is meeting the needs for the present without compromising and ability of future generations to meet their own needs
Tragedy of Commons
Refers to how population growth in Berkeley leads to the overuse and instruction common resources. It states that any resource that is commonly held will ultimately be destroyed. It is a basic economic theory which states that rational and unregulated individual with will behave contrary to the best interests of the whole group by depleting common resources
Steps of the scientific method
Step one make an observation and identify a question. Step to propose a hypothesis. Step three test hypothesis. Stop for gather data from your test. Step five interpret the results
First law of thermodynamics
Energy is conserved. Energy is neither created nor destroyed under normal conditions. Energy may be transformed for example from energy in a chemical bond to heat energy but the total amount does not change.
Second law of thermodynamics
States that with each successive energy transfer or transformation in the system wasn’t used available to do work, recognizes that disorder or entropy, tends to increase in all natural systems
Species
refers to all organisms of the same kind that are genetically similar enough to breed in nature and produce live for tile offspring
Population
Consist of all members of a species living in a given area at the same time
Biological community
Is all the populations of organisms living in interacting in a particular area
Trophic level
is an organisms feeding status in an ecosystem to principal trough levels are primary producers or autotroph’s only sunlight water carbon dioxide and minerals. Other organisms are consumers or heterotrophs of the chemical energy harnessed by the primary producers
Co-Evolution
Response for predator to pray and vice versa or tens of thousands of years produce his physical and behavioral changes. Can be mutually beneficial in many plants and pollinators the forms and behaviors that benefit each other. Classic example or fruit bats with Paula and dispersed seeds of fruit bearing tropical plants.
Habitat
Describes a place or sets of environmental conditions in which a particular organism lives
Ecological niche
Discuss both the role played by a species in a biological community and the total set of environmental factors that determine a species of distribution
Specialists
Have a narrow niche like giant pandas
Competitive exclusion principle
States that two species cannot occupy the same ecological niche for the one that is more efficient in using available resources will exclude the other
Density dependent
Population size increase the effect intensifies. But a large population there is an increased risk that disease or parasites will spread for that predators will be attracted to the area
Density independent
Limits the population are often nonbiological, compass acts of nature I thought it was his affected no matter what size
Succession
Is a progress in which organisms occupy a site and changed my mental conditions gradually making way for another type of community. Primary, Verland is colonized by living organisms were none with before. Secondary occurs after a disturbance, when a new community develops from the biological legacy of the previous one.
Seven factors that increase or decrease people’s desire to have babies
One children can be a source of pleasure pride and comfort and may be the only source of support for elderly parents. To where it’s at mortality rates are high couples may need to have many children to ensure that if you will survive take care of them when-year-old. Three where there is little opportunity for upward mobility children give status in society. Four often children are valuable to the family not only for future income but even more as a source of current income. Five Main in many Third World countries small children tend to domesticate animals freshwater gather firewood help grow crops or sell things in the market. Six in many cases parental desire for children rather than nonavailability ofcontraceptives may be the most important factor in population growth. Seven society also has a neutral place members who die.
Total fertility rate
Number of children born to women in a population during her entire reproductive life
Zero population growth or ZPG
Better birth plus immigration in a population just equal that’s plus emigration
Ecological footprint
Estimates the relative amount of product of land required to support each human being. It is a way to estimate are going to impact by expressing our consumption choice into that equal amount of land required to produce goods and services. It would take 5 to 6 or is it all live in the same level affluence as the average North American