APES Review Worksheet #1
Use the axes to the right for the following:
a. Draw and label a line that represents linear growth.
b. Draw and label a line that represents exponential growth.
2. List the four most populated countries in the world.
(1)
(3)
(2)
(4)
Population
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Time
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Define the term ecological footprint
4.
Write an equation for the rule of 70:
When do you use it?
5. If a population is growing at a rate of 4%, the population will double in 17.5 years.
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Perform the following calculations: (Show all of your work in a logical progression to the final answer.)
a. A city has a population of 50,000 in 2012. If the population of the city grows at an annual rate of 2%, the year in which the
population will reach 100,000 is _____________ and the year it will reach 200,000 is _____________.
Show work:
A country’s population was 12 million in 1992 and in 2012 it is 24 million. If the population grew at a constant rate, that
percent rate of growth was _____________.
Show work:
b.
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Complete the following table by writing “high” or “low” in each box below.
More Economically Developed
Less Economically Developed
Characteristic
Counties (MEDCs)
Countries (LEDCs)
per capita GDP
degree of industrialization
infant mortality rate
per capita fossil fuel use
ecological footprint
greenhouse gas emissions
risk from heart disease
risk from infectious diseases
Identify three examples of renewable resources and three examples of nonrenewable resources.
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(1)
Renewable: (2)
Nonrenewable: (2)
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Describe the circumstances that will result in a Tragedy of the Commons.
10. Describe an example of a Tragedy of the Commons.
11. Make a drawing of a graph with a line showing a population that exemplifies logistic
growth. (s-curve) and label the carrying capacity.
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12. Describe an example of a positive feedback loop.
13. Describe an example of a negative feedback loop.
14. Identify three examples organic compounds and three examples of inorganic compounds.
(1)
(1)
Organic: (2)
Inorganic: (2)
(3)
(3)
15. Write out the formulas for photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration. Explain the relationship btwn the two in a drawing of the
Carbon Cycle.
16. Draw the nitrogen cycle including terms Atmospheric nitrogen (N 2) Ammonia (NH3), Nitrites (NO2), Nitrates (NO3),
Assimilation, nitrogen fixation, nitrification, denitrification, bacteria.
17. Pyramid of energy flow. Decrease in usable energy available to each trophic level. 10% efficiency. 90% lost as heatThe most productive ecosystem s in the world are.
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18. Estimate the population of a pond where you captured 100 fish and marked them before you released them to the pond. One
month later you capture 100 more fish and find that 40 of them are marked. What is the estimate of the population in the pond?
19. Percent Change- You measure 5 ppt of mercury in a water sample. One year later you find the sample contains 8ppt mercury.
What is the percent change in the level of mercury?
20. Differentiate between:
Rate of change:
-Example: A particular city has a population of 800,000 in 1990 and a population of
900,000 in 1991. Find the annual growth rate of the population in this city:
Percent change
-The dissolved oxygen went from 10 to 8 mg/l what was the percent change?
Determining PercentageIf you get 70 correct on an exam with 120 questions; what is your percentage?
21. Biomes- a) Differentiate between weather and climate. Know our major climate zones and their cause.
b) Describe the major biomes, location, dominant vegetation, soils & wildlife & Biodiversity.
22. a) Describe the 5 tenets of Natural selection.
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b.
Speciation is important to maintain biodiversity which helps maintain sustainability of ecosystems.
Explain how geographic isolation can influence speciation...
c.
Natural Selection can take many forms.
Look at the graph to your right. Label and explain disruptive selection, stabilizing selection and directional selection.
23. Describe the Rock Cycle and formation of each.
24. Describe 5 factors that influence the making of soils.
23 Aquatic life Zones Define plankton (phyto & zoo), photic, necton, benthos, limnetic,
25. Differentiate between freshwater wetlands- lotic, lentic and Value of each and all…..
A) Special notice to estuaries! Do you know what they are? Why are they so impt?
26. Why is Lake Turnover so critical for temperate lakes?
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27. Describe the terms for the diagram below.
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28. Describe the stages of a Water
Treatment plant!
29. Differentiate between an R and K Species- make a list
30. Explain HIPPCO!
Survivorship
31. Using the axes on the right, draw and label three survivorship curves exemplifying
early-loss, late loss, and constant-loss species.
Time
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