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Environment is:
Circumstances or conditions that surround an organism or groups of organisms. OR The complex of social or cultural conditions that affect an individual or community
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What is the world’s human population?
6.5 Billion
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What are the 4 distinct stages of the
environmental movement?
- - Pragmatic Resource Conservation
- - Moral and Aesthetic Nature
- Preservation
- - Concern about Health and
- Ecological Damage
- - Global Environmental Citizenship
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What did John Muir believe?
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What did Rachel Carson do?
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What percentage of the world’s population is the US population?
4.6%
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What percentage of the world’s oil do we consume?
25%
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How much toxice waste do we produce?
50%
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Sustainable development is:
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Environmental Racism is:
An inequitable distribution of environmental hazards based on race.
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Science is:
- - a methodical, logical process for producing knowledge about
- natural phenomena
- a cumulative body of knowledge produced by scientists
- a process based on careful observation and hypothesis testing
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Scientists strive for 2 things:
- accuracy - correctness of measurements
- reproducibility - repeatability of results
repeating studies or tests is called replication.
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Deductive reasonsing is:
logical reasoning from general to specific
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Inductive reasoning is:
reasoning from many observations to produce a general rule
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A system is:
a network of interdependent components and processes with materials and energy flowing from one component to another. Systems are a central concept in environmental science.
Examples: ecosystems, climates systems, geologic systems, economic systems
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An open system is:
system that takes inputs from its surroundings
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A closed system is:
self contained and receives no inputs of energy or materials from the outside
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Ecology is:
the scientific study of the relationship between organisms and their environment.
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Matter is:
Matter - everything that has mass and takes up space
Matter is neither created nor destroyed but rather re-cycled over and over. The atoms in your body may have been in a dinosaur.
The idea that matter cannot be destroyed but is simply transformed from one form to another is termed conservation of matter.
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Three States of Matter:
Solid, Liquid, Gas
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Elements are:
substances that cannot be broken down into simpler forms by ordinary chemical reactions
- 118 elements, but just four (oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen) make up 96% of the mass of living
- organisms
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Atoms are:
smallest particles exhibiting characteristics of the element.
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Atoms are composed of:
Protons (+) - Neutrons -Electrons (-)
Protons and neutrons are in the nucleus; electrons orbit
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Molecules are:
two or more atoms joined together
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Oxidation is:
When an atom gives up one or more electrons, it is oxidized.
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The First Law of Thermodynamics states:
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Solar energy is essential for 2 reasons:
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Photosynthesis captures ______ while cellular respiration releases ______.
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The definition of Species.
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A biological community is:
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Give an example of a producer:
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Give another word and example of a primary producer:
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Give another word and example of a secondary producer:
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Why are high levels of phosphorus dangerous to Lake Michigan?
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Resource partitioning is:
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Draw clustered/clumped distribution:
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Draw uniform distribution:
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Give an example of primary succession:
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Give an example of a climax community:
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Give an example of an introduced species:
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Exponential growth describes _____________.
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Density-dependent population growth is:
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List the 4 factors that affect growth rate:
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List the 4 factors that regulate population growth:
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Intraspecific interactions are:
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Interspecific interations are:
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Demographic bottleneck is:
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Minimum viable population is:
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What 4 things can help eliminate most deaths caused by communicable diseases?
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Give an example of an emergent disease:
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What causes antibiotic resistance:
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Acute vs Chronic effects:
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