Unit 0-1.1 Quiz

Question 1

Eco footprint

Answer 1

How efficiently people can produce waste and consume resources from how quickly the earth can absorb these things

Question 2

Eco overshoot

Answer 2

When the human race demands surpass then what the earth can absorb in a year

Question 3

Carbon footprint

Answer 3

Total of carbon being generated by organizations or activities

Question 4

Ways to Reduce environmental footprint

Answer 4

Change what you eat (more plant based or sustainable, locally, diet), change what you buy (reduce, reuse, recycle), change how you travel (flying, train, bicycle, walk), switch to clean energy

Question 5

Tragedy of the commons

Answer 5

Individuals will use shared public resources in their own self interest degrading them (public, has to be degraded)

Question 6

Examples of tragedy of the commons

Answer 6

Overgrazing, overfishing, water, air pollution

Question 7

How to solve TOC

Answer 7

Private land ownership, fees or taxes for use, taxes, fines, criminal charges for pollution or shared air/soil/water resources

Question 8

Examples of TOC

Answer 8

Clean air act, clean water act, safe drinking water act, BLM

Question 9

Independent variable

Answer 9

Part of experiment you’re changing

Question 10

Dependent variable

Answer 10

The results caused by the changes you made

Question 11

Biosphere

Answer 11

All the living space on earth

Question 12

Biome

Answer 12

Large area w/ similar climate conditions that determine plant and animal species there

Question 13

Ecosystem

Answer 13

All living and non living things in an area

Question 14

Community

Answer 14

All living organisms in an area

Question 15

Population

Answer 15

Group of individuals of same species

Question 16

Individual

Answer 16

One organism

Question 17

Mutualism

Answer 17

+ relationship that benefits both organisms

Question 18

Commensalism

Answer 18

relationship that benefits one organism and doesn’t impact the other

Question 19

Parasitism

Answer 19

Organisms of different species living close together in a way that benefits both

Question 20

Symbiosis

Answer 20

any close and long term interaction between two organisms of different species

Question 21

Intraspecific

Answer 21

Competition between same species

Question 22

Interspecific

Answer 22

Competition between different species

Question 23

Competition helps…

Answer 23

Reduce population (fewer resources available)

Question 24

Resource partitioning

Answer 24

Different species using the same resource in different ways to reduce competition

Question 25

Temporal partitioning

Answer 25

Using resource at different times such as wolves and coyotes hunting at different times

Question 26

Spatial partitioning

Answer 26

Using different areas of a shared habitat

Question 27

Morphological partitioning

Answer 27

Using different t resources based on different evolved body features