Environment and Ecology Final Review
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1. Explain the focus of environmental science.
2. Describe the economic benefits of biodiversity.
3. Describe how biodiversity is monitored and explain current biodiversity trends.
4. List the major causes of biodiversity.
5. Explain legal actions nations can take to protect biodiversity.
6. Explain how biomes are characterized.
7. Describe how net primary production varies among biomes.
8. Describe the criteria ecologists use to classify aquatic ecosystems.
9. Explain the ecological importance of estuaries.
10. Explain how the law of conservation of matter applies to the behavior of nutrients in the
environment.
11. Describe the carbon cycle.
12. Explain the importance of bacteria to the nitrogen cycle.
13. Describe the reasons why individuals respond differently to the same environmental
health.
14. Describe biomagnifications.
15. Describe the direction of current US environmental policy.
16. Describe what happens to a community after a disturbance.
17. Describe how speciation and extinction affect the diversity of life on Earth.
18. Compare and contrast predation, parasitism, and herbivory.
19. Describe mutualism and commensalism.
20. Explain the difference between a producer and a consumer.
21. Explain the recent trends in population growth.
22. Explain how the age structure and sex ratio of a population define its potential for
growth.
23. Describe the uses of coal and how it is removed from the ground.
24. Describe the uses of oil and how it is extracted.
25. Describe the environmental and health effects of mining and drilling.
26. Identify the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear power.
27. Describe the different levels of organization studied by ecologists.
28. Discuss how an organism’s habitat relates to its survival.
29. Describe the factors that influence a population’s growth rate.
30. Describe how geothermal energy is harnessed and used.
31. Identify benefits and costs of hydropower.
32. Analyze the benefits and costs of hydropower.
33. Analyze the benefits and costs of wind energy
34. Explain the importance of industrial agriculture and the green revolution.
35. Explain the importance of pollinators in agriculture.
36. Identify different types of pest control.
37. Discuss genetically modified food.
38. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of industrial food production
39. Discuss genetically modified food.
40. Explain the significance of a watershed.
41. List the three primary categories of freshwater use.
42. Relate the causes and effect of ground water depletion.
43. Discuss the main categories of water pollution.
44. Explain why groundwater pollution is difficult to clean up.
Vocabulary
Hypothesis
Environmental science
Theory
Peer review
Sustainable
Ecological economics
Aesthetic value
Environmental policy
Policy
Nitrogen fixing bacterial
Nutrients
Phosphorus cycle
Cobnsumers
Eutrophication
Watershed
Freshwater
Nonpoint-source pollution
Tributary
Dam
Limiting factor
Abiotic factor
Migration
Niche
Sex ratio
Carnivore
Food web
Behavioral adaptation
Producer
Mutualism
Forest
Desert
Wetland
Savanna
Deciduous forest
toxicology
response
hazard
asbestos
dose-response relationship
genetically modified organisms
crop rotation
sustainable agriculture
manual pest control
biological pest control
acid drainage
meltdown
nuclear reactor
biomass energy
nuclear fusion