Final Exam Big Ideas

Question 1

What Do Ecosystem Service Do?

Answer 1

purification of water and air, cycling
of nutrients, recycling water flow,
flood prevention, and reducing
erosion.

Question 2

How Much More Resources Do We Consume Than Sustainable

Answer 2

64

Question 3

Using more resources than available

Answer 3

overshooting

Question 4

The 20 wealthiest nations have ___ the capita of the 20 poorest nations

Answer 4

55

Question 5

The wealthiest ___ of the United
States own more than 70% of its total
wealth

Answer 5

10

Question 6

When energy is converted from one form to
another, energy______ is lost.

Answer 6

Quality.

Question 7

Energy Efficiency (%) of living things

Answer 7

10%

Question 8

Divergent Plate Boundaries

Answer 8

Move apart

Question 9

Transform Plate Boundaries

Answer 9

Slip Across Eachother

Question 10

Convergent Plate Boundaries

Answer 10

Plates go under eachother

Question 11

Biodiversity includes which three organization systems?

Answer 11

Species, Genes, Populations

Question 12

What is the process of creating new species

Answer 12

Speciation

Question 13

What Short Term Biotic Factors lead to extinction

Answer 13

Competition; predation

Question 14

What Long Term Extrinsic Factors lead to extinction

Answer 14

Volcanism, Asteroid Impact, Methane, Climate

Question 15

K strategists

Answer 15

Organisms that reach a stable population as the population reaches the carrying capacity

Question 16

R Strategists

Answer 16

Short life, many offspring, use unstable environments

Question 17

Detrivores

Answer 17

Scavenger

Question 18

Tertiary Consumer

Answer 18

Top of Food Chain

Question 19

Primary Succession

Answer 19

When Something Removes all Plant or Soil Life

Question 20

Eutrophication

Answer 20

Bacteria Depleting Oxygen

Question 21

Which Ecosystems have high Net Primary Productivity

Answer 21

Tropical Forests, Coral Reefs, Algal Beds

Question 22

What do Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria Do?

Answer 22

Convert Nitrogen Gas into Ammonia

Question 23

Nitrifying Bacteria

Answer 23

Convert Ammonia into Nitrate

Question 24

Denitrifying Bacteria

Answer 24

Covert Nitrite to Nitrogen Gas, released into atmosphere

Question 25

Where is the most phosphorous sourced

Answer 25

Rock

Question 26

What causes Phosphorous compounds to be released

Answer 26

Weathering

Question 27

If something is valued for pragmatic values i has___

Answer 27

Instrumental Value

Question 28

If something is believed to have a right to exist and is valuable because it is its ____

Answer 28

intrinsically valued

Question 29

EcoLabeling

Answer 29

Advertising sustainable practices on the labels of certain products

Question 30

What are the three ethical perspectives considered by the natural world

Answer 30

Environmental Justice, Monetary Values to Ecosystem, Consumers counteracting market failure

Question 31

What is the triple bottom line of Sustainable Development

Answer 31

Environmental, Economic, Social

Question 32

Tragedy of Commons

Answer 32

People serving their own self interest exploit resources

Question 33

How do you find doubling time

Answer 33

70 divided by the annual percentage growth rate

Question 34

What is the sex ration

Answer 34

106 males to 100 females

Question 35

What is the idea of Demographic Transition?

Answer 35

Pre-Industrial, Transitional, Industrial, Post Industrial

Question 36

What is important about agriculture?

Answer 36

Societal development, soil health, water/fertillizer use, Pollinators good pesticide bad, erosion, land degradation, making deserts.

Question 37

Intergrated Pest Management (IPM) uses what?

Answer 37

Biocontrol, Chemicals, Mechanical pest removal, Population Monitering

Question 38

What is the greatest threat to biodiversity today?

Answer 38

Habitat Loss

Question 39

What type of Biology is used to protect biodiversity

Answer 39

Conservation Biology

Question 40

Where is species richness the highest

Answer 40

Large Islands and Islands close to mainland

Question 41

Large Islands have what

Answer 41

High Immigration Rates: Lower extinction rates

Question 42

Biomagnification

Answer 42

Greater Concentrations of Toxins through ingestion of prey

Question 43

Doldrums

Answer 43

Lie Near The Equator with few winds

Question 44

Trade Winds

Answer 44

East to West between equator and 30 degrees

Question 45

Coriolis Effect

Answer 45

Deflects objects clockwise in the Northern Hempishphere and clockwise in Southern Hemisphere, causing curving wind patterns.

Question 46

What cells produce bands of wind patterns that alternate direction

Answer 46

Hadley, Ferrel, and Polar

Question 47

How does the rainshadow effect work

Answer 47

Moist Air Moves up a steep slope,cooling, and causing precipitation

Question 48

How much of our water is fresh water

Answer 48

2.5

Question 49

Watershed

Answer 49

Water flowing by gravity passes through a section of channel

Question 50

Stratosphere

Answer 50

Drier and less dense: little vertical mixing: warms with altitude cause of absorption by sunlight

Question 51

Bottom Layer: Air We breath: Colder With Altitude

Answer 51

Troposphere

Question 52

Warm air is sandwiched between two layers of cold air: causes smog accumulation

Answer 52

Thermal Inversions

Question 53

What is the difference betweens short and long residence times

Answer 53

Localized/ small vs global/ big

Question 54

El Nino/ La Nina

Answer 54

Systemic Shifts in Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Surface Tempurature, and Ocean Circulation,

Question 55

What was Established in 1988 to review climate data for policies and the public

Answer 55

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC)

Question 56

How much as avg tempratue risen in the past 100 years

Answer 56

1.1C

Question 57

Carbon Pricing

Answer 57

Producers are charged for emissions

Question 58

Coal, oil, and natural gas supply ____ percent of the total energy demand

Answer 58

80%

Question 59

What is cellulosic ethanol used for?

Answer 59

Biofuel

Question 60

Passive solar collection

Answer 60

Designing building to maximize absorption of sunlight while insulating

Question 61

Leachate

Answer 61

Trash that comes from landfills

Question 62

How does the baghouse work?

Answer 62

Spraying liquid/ Neutralizing acidic gases