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| 5174185084 | utilitarian | justification that sees some aspect of the environment as valuable because it provides individuals with economic benefits | 0 | |
| 5174187512 | moral | justification that has to do with the belief that various aspects of the environment have a right to exist | 1 | |
| 5174191901 | grow at an even faster rate | one of the interesting correlates of population growth is that as the human population increases, the effects on the environment does what? | 2 | |
| 5174197760 | rapid growth in human population | according to the Environmental Science text, the underlying issue underlying all environmental problems is what? | 3 | |
| 5174201939 | population bomb | an uncontrolled increase in human population | 4 | |
| 5174203768 | Gaia Hypothesis | the dominant force that has shaped the global environment through time is life | 5 | |
| 5174210438 | theory | an explanation for a natural phenomenon that relates and explains many observations and is supported by a great deal of evidence | 6 | |
| 5174216987 | Observation -> hypothesis -> controlled experiment -> conclusions | Scientific method steps | 7 | |
| 5174220315 | Precision | the closeness of two or more measurements to each other | 8 | |
| 5174222644 | Accuracy | the degree of closeness of measurements of a quantity to that quantity's true value | 9 | |
| 5174226406 | the lake would become too salty for wildlife in the lake | "Birds at Mono Lake" - what was the scientists' main concern when LA diverted the streams that feed into Mono Lake in order to provide water for the city | 10 | |
| 5174233803 | science | the search for understanding of the natural world | 11 | |
| 5174237244 | technology | implemented for manipulation of the natural world for human benefit | 12 | |
| 5174239047 | hypothesis | a statement that can be proven or disproven | 13 | |
| 5174244080 | disproven | scientific statements can be what? | 14 | |
| 5174249123 | keystone species | a species which the entire ecosystem depends on | 15 | |
| 5174251487 | food chains | energy, chemical elements, and other compounds are transferred from creature to creature along this | 16 | |
| 5174256365 | ecological community | a set of interacting species that occur in the same place | 17 | |
| 5174257703 | an increase in species diversity | the prescence of sea otters within a kelp forest community results in what? | 18 | |
| 5174262956 | trophic level | each of several hierarchical levels in an ecosystem, comprising organisms that share the same function in the food chain and the same nutritional relationship to the primary sources of energy | 19 | |
| 5174266785 | genetic drift | random changes in the frequencies of traits in a population | 20 | |
| 5174268980 | genetic diversity | the total number of genetic characterisics of a specific biological population | 21 | |
| 5174275272 | developed resistance to the chemicals being used | the World Health Organization's $6 billion push to rid the world of Malaria failed because the mosquitoes that carry the disease did what? | 22 | |
| 5174279398 | biological diversity | the variety of life forms on earth | 23 | |
| 5174285138 | hunting, habitat destruction, introduction of non-native species, pollution of the environment | humans have, and have had in the past, great influence on the biological diversity in their surrounding environment as a result of what? | 24 | |
| 5174291378 | competition, symbiosis, predation-parasitism | three basic kinds of interaction between species | 25 | |
| 5174292613 | false | true/false one of the materials produced by bacteria in the human intestine is vitamin K, a substance essential for the formation of blood clots. This relationship is referred to as parasitism | 26 | |
| 5174297012 | species richness | the number of different species represented in an ecological community, landscape or region | 27 | |
| 5174301381 | species evenness | how close in numbers each species in an environment is | 28 | |
| 5174304193 | species dominance | most abundant species | 29 | |
| 5174307164 | competitive exclusion principle | the inevitable elimination from a habitat of one of two different species with identical needs for resources | 30 | |
| 5174311413 | biome | a major ecological community characterized by a dominant vegitation type | 31 | |
| 5174312881 | ecological island | an area of land, isolated by natural or artificial means from the surrounding land, where a natural micro-habitat exists amidst a larger differing ecosystem. | 32 | |
| 5174318968 | biogeography | geographic distribution of living organisms | 33 | |
| 5174321607 | divergent evolution | accumulation of differences between groups which can lead to the formation of new species, usually a result of diffusion of the same species to different species | 34 | |
| 5174328191 | kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species | classification of living things | 35 | |
| 5174330456 | adaptive radiation | the diversification of a group of organisms into forms filling different ecological niches | 36 | |
| 5174334881 | 17 | how many major biomes exist? | 37 | |
| 5174337782 | dominant climate condition, shape or form, and vegitation | biomes are usually named for what? | 38 | |
| 5174338979 | climactic similarity | similar environments lead to the evolution of biota and biological communities similar in external form and function but not in genetic heritage or internal makeup | 39 | |
| 5174344310 | wetlands | swamps, marshes, bogs | 40 | |
| 5174346118 | temperate grasslands | perennials with extensive root systems | 41 | |
| 5174347461 | open ocean | pelagic, low nitrogen and phosphorous | 42 | |
| 5174348909 | tundra | treeless, low rain, low temps | 43 | |
| 5174350394 | tropical rain forest | high temps, high rainfall | 44 |
