Name:_____________________________________Date:___________________Period:___________
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Explain the “Tragedy of the Commons”.
Define sustainability.
Explain the Precautionary Principle.
Describe the difference between the topsoil and the subsoil.
What is the O horizon?
Define what a population is.
What is the difference between an ecosystem and a community?
How does energy transfer through an ecosystem?
Explain the number of higher level consumers that can be present.
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
Explain the process of biomagnification. Explain why high trophic level organisms show more
effects of pollutants than lower trophic level organisms.
What is the difference between bioaccumulation and biomagnification?
How does climate differ from weather?
What two main factors affect which biome is present in a particular region?
What are the effects of latitude and altitude on biomes?
Summarize the carbon cycle.
Summarize the nitrogen cycle
Summarize the phosphorus cycle.
How do humans impact the carbon cycle?
How do humans impact the nitrogen cycle?
How do humans impact the phosphorus cycle?
Which is the only biogeochemical cycle without an atmospheric component?
What is the difference between primary and secondary succession?
What are pioneer species?
How does a surface fire differ from a crown fire? Which is considered harmful to the forest?
What are the layers of the rain forest?
How are trees adapted to live in temperate climates?
What are the three general categories of aquatic life?
What zones are present in a lake? Why do these exist?
How do lakes change during the seasons?
What is the difference between eutrophic and oligotrophic lakes?
What is eutrophication?
What are some important ecological functions of wetlands?
What are some important economic functions of wetlands?
Why are corals vulnerable to climate change?
What is coral bleaching?
Describe the way that populations can change in size.
What is a carrying capacity?
What is the difference between density dependent and density independent population
regulation?
What are the characteristics of an r-strategist?
What are the characteristics of a K-strategist?
What is a limiting resource?
What is the difference between species richness and species diversity?
What are the three levels that biodiversity is typically studied at?
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What are some of the benefits of biodiversity?
What is the difference between a native species and a nonnative species?
What does the term “invasive species” mean?
What is a biodiversity hotspot?
What are the major threats to biodiversity?
What is the difference between an endangered species and a threatened species?
How does the species approach differ from the ecosystem approach for conservation?
What is the Endangered Species Act?
What is CITES?
What is an aquifer?
What are the two main things that determine how much water an aquifer can hold?
What does potable mean?
How is drinking water treated?
What is the difference between point and nonpoint source pollution?
What is wastewater? How is it treated?
How is wastewater treatment similar/ different to how drinking water is treated?
What is the main legislation in the United States that regulates air pollution?
What is a scrubber? How does it work?
What causes smog?
What are the two different types of smog and what are their causes?
What is a thermal inversion?
Identify different effects acid rain can have on the environment.
What is ENSO? What fishery did it cause to collapse?
Explain the rain shadow effect.
How can volcanoes influence climate?
What is the greenhouse effect?
What is global warming/ climate change?
How do we know about Earth’s climate cycles?
How might humans be altering Earth’s climate cycles?
What are some ecological consequences of climate change?
What are some economic consequences of climate change?
What two factors will cause a rise in sea level?
How might climate change affect human health?
What is the IPCC?
How is ozone formed and broken down in the stratosphere?
How do CFCs harm the ozone layer?
What is the difference between rural and urban areas?
How are people in urban areas dependent on rural areas?
What is urbanization?
What is the urban heat island effect?
What is open space?
What is urban planning?
What are different strategies for harvesting trees?
What is deforestation? What are some of the problems with deforestation?
What are some problems faced by the rangelands?
Why is erosion typically more severe on a steep slope?