UNIT 1 – THE WORLD WE LIVE IN

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The amount of productive land, fresh water, and ocean required on a continuous basis to supply

a person with food, wood, energy, water, housing,

clothing, transportation and waste disposal.

100 points

Answer: What is an ecological footprint?

The percent of stuff Americans harvest, mine, process, and

transport that ends up trashed within six months.

200 points

Answer: What is 99% ?

300 points

Using the IPAT model, where I = P x A x T, this is what happens to the environmental impact

when affluence increases.

Answer: What is the environmental impact increases?

400 points

Atmosphere and climate, fresh water, forests, wildlife, and ocean fisheries are examples of these type of resources for which no single

person has responsibility.

Answer: What are common pool resources ?

500 points

In part, this concept states that humans must consider the effects of our actions on the health and well-being of natural ecosystems, including

all living things.

Answer: What is sustainability ?

100 points

An ecosystem is more inclusive than a community because it includes these

components.

Answer: What are abiotic factors?

200 points

These are three examples of abiotic factors.

Answer: What are atmospheric gases, precipitation, temperature, salinity,

light/radiation, soil?

300 points

This is what you would call an ecologist studying a group of individuals living in one area and

belonging to the same species.

Answer: What is a population ecologist?

400 points

This type of organism in the environment can obtain energy from any trophic level in the food

web.

Answer: What are decomposers?

500 points

100 points

This word is used to describe the capacity or ability to do work.

Answer: What is energy?

200 points

This concept supports the fact that an organism may absorb energy from its surroundings, or it may give up some energy into its surroundings,

but the total energy content of the organism and its surroundings will always be the same.

Answer: What is the first law of thermodynamics?

300 points

This concept supports the fact that as energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next,

some energy is dispersed into the surroundings as heat.

Answer: What is the second law of thermodynamics?

400 points

This is what is subtracted from Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) to determine a producer’s

Net Primary Productivity (NPP).

Answer: What is energy consumed by cellular respiration?

500 points

If 10,000 Kcal of energy is produced through photosynthesis by producers and only 1000 Kcal of energy is available to primary consumers, this

is the percent of energy that is actually transferred between trophic levels.

Answer: What is 10%?

100 points

The major abiotic factors that differentiate biomes.

Answer: What temperature and precipitation?

200 points

Besides characteristic abiotic factors, this is another component that distinguishes biomes.

Answer: What are plants and animals OR biotic factors?

300 pointsThis location is the tropical desert.

Answer: Tindouf, Algeria?

400 points

The location depicted in this

climograph belongs in this hemisphere.

Answer: What is the southern

hemisphere?

500 pointsThe location depicted in this climograph exists at a

higher altitude.

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Answer: What is climograph B?

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This is a type of species that is near extinction without the positive intervention of humans.

Answer: What is an endangered species?

200 points

This is the main cause of species endangerment.

Answer: What is habitat loss?

300 points

Without this type of species, an ecosystem could become completely imbalanced.

Answer: What is a keystone species?

400 points

This is what the Endangered Species Act of 1973 deemed illegal.

Answer: What is importing, exporting, or selling animals and plants on the list across state lines?

500 points

These are at least two characteristics of invasive species.

Answer: What is a high rate of reproduction, fast growth rate, lack natural predators?