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| 10644501486 | What year was the Neuse River thing a thing | 1991 | 0 | |
| 10644501487 | What university and what professor investigates the neuse river | North Carolina University and Professor JoAnn Burkholder | 1 | |
| 10644501488 | Pfiesteria | an algae that can become toxic and kill fish, reproduce quickly Has 24 life stages | 2 | |
| 10644501489 | What caused the Neuse river fish crisis | The release of waste material into the river awoke the dormant pfiesteria and the excess nutrients made them carnivorous | 3 | |
| 10644501490 | environment | The sum of your surroundings that influence life | 4 | |
| 10644501491 | Environmental science | The field of study that looks at interactions among human systems and those found in nature | 5 | |
| 10644501492 | System | any set of interacting components that influence one another by exchanging energy or materials | 6 | |
| 10644501493 | Ecosystem | a particular location on Earth distinguished by its mix of interacting biotic and abiotic components | 7 | |
| 10644501494 | Biotic | Living | 8 | |
| 10644501495 | Abiotic | Non-living | 9 | |
| 10644501496 | Environmentalist | a person who participates in environmentalism, a social movement that seeks to protect the environment through lobbying, activism, and education | 10 | |
| 10644501497 | Environmental studies | includes environmental science, the study of interactions among human systems and those found in nature along with other subjects such as environmental policy, economics, literature and ethics. | 11 | |
| 10644501498 | the global environment is composed of... | Small scale and large scale systems | 12 | |
| 10644501499 | What species manipulate their environment more than any other species | Humans | 13 | |
| 10644501500 | Length genus Homo has roamed the earth | 2.5 million years | 14 | |
| 10644501501 | Extinct or nah: passenger pigeon | Yeah, it is. Humans are destructive | 15 | |
| 10644501502 | Extinct or nah: American Bison | No, but almost | 16 | |
| 10644501503 | Have humans created opportunities for species to thrive? | Yeah, Native Americans set fires on plains, this created an ecosystem of the the tall grass prairie | 17 | |
| 10644501504 | ecosystem services | the processes by which life-supporting resources such as clean water, timber, fisheries, and agricultural crops are produced | 18 | |
| 10644501505 | environmental indicators | describe the current state of an environmental system | 19 | |
| 10644501506 | Sustainability | The use of Earth's renewable and nonrenewable natural resources in ways that do not constrain resource use in the future. | 20 | |
| 10644501507 | biological diversity | The diversity of life forms in an environment | 21 | |
| 10644501508 | What are the three scales of biodiversity | Global, species, ecosystem | 22 | |
| 10644501509 | genetic diversity | a measure of the genetic variation among individuals in a population | 23 | |
| 10644501510 | species diversity | indicates the number of species in a region or in a particular type of habitat | 24 | |
| 10644501511 | How many catalogued species on earth? | 2 million | 25 | |
| 10644501512 | Estimate if total number of species on earth | 5 million to 100 million (common estimate is 10 million) | 26 | |
| 10644501513 | Is species diversity a critical environmental factor? | YeaH! LIKE IF YOU LOOK AT FROGS AND THEYRE DYINF, IT BE BECAUSE OF THE WATER AND OR THE AIR | 27 | |
| 10644501514 | Speciation | Formation of new species. Average rate is three new species a year. | 28 | |
| 10644501515 | background extinction rate | The average rate at which species become extinct over the long term; the rate is about one species per a million a year | 29 | |
| 10681425657 | Five environmental indicators | Biodiversity Food Production Average Global Surface Temperature and CO2 Concentrations Human Population | 30 | |
| 10681425658 | food production | our ability to grow food to nourish the human populations | 31 | |
| 10681425659 | Anthropogenic | derived from human activities | 32 | |
| 10681425660 | Development | improvement in human well-being through economic advancement | 33 | |
| 10681425661 | What percent of the global population owns 87% of the worlds cars, 58% of all energy, 84% of paper, 45% meat | 20% | 34 | |
| 10681425662 | How much does the poorest 20% of human population use of resources | Less than 5% | 35 | |
| 10681425663 | sustainable development | development that balances current human well-being and economic advancement with resource management for the benefit of future generations | 36 | |
| 10681425664 | complex needs | human interaction/interaction with nature "biophilia"=love of life | 37 | |
| 10681425665 | ecological footprint | William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel Measure of how much a person consumes m, expressed in area of land | 38 | |
| 10681425666 | Scientific Method | an objective method to explore the natural world, draw inferences from it, and predict the outcome of certain events, processes, or changes | 39 | |
| 10681425667 | Hypothesis | A testable prediction, often implied by a theory | 40 | |
| 10681425668 | null hypothesis | a statement or idea that can be falsified, or proved wrong | 41 | |
| 10681425669 | Replication | Several sets of measurements | 42 | |
| 10681425670 | Sample size | the number of times a measurement is replicated in data collection | 43 | |
| 10681425671 | Accuracy | how close a measurement is to the true value | 44 | |
| 10681425672 | Precision | how close a group of measurements are to each other | 45 | |
| 10681425673 | uncertainty | An estimate of how much a measured or calculated vallue differs from a true value | 46 | |
| 10681425674 | inductive reasoning | the process of making general statements from specific facts or examples | 47 | |
| 10681425675 | deductive reasoning | the process of applying a general statement to specific facts or situations | 48 | |
| 10681425676 | Theory | a hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by multiple groups of researchers and has reached wide acceptance | 49 | |
| 10681425677 | Natural Law | a theory to which there are no known exceptions and which has withstood rigorous testing | 50 | |
| 10681425678 | control group | a group that experiences exactly the same conditions as the experimental group, except for the single variable under study | 51 | |
| 10681425679 | natural experiment | a natural event that acts as an experimental treatment in an ecosystem | 52 | |
| 10681425680 | Greatest challenge to environmental science | No undisturbed Baseline to compare compare contemporary earth | 53 | |
| 10681425681 | environmental justice | A social movement and field of study that focuses on equal enforcement of environmental laws and eliminating disparities in the exposure of environmental harms to different ethnic and socioeconomic groups within a society. | 54 | |
| 10681425682 | Mono lake salinity is greater or less than the ocean | 2x greater in 1941 | 55 | |
| 10681425683 | When did mono lake start recovering | Summer 2009 | 56 | |
| 10681425684 | Atom | Smallest particle of an element | 57 | |
| 10681425685 | Element | a substance composed of atoms that cannot be broken down into smaller, simpler components | 58 | |
| 10681425686 | periodic table | A table that shows the elements, their atomic number, symbol, and average atomic mass; elements with similar chemical properties are grouped together. | 59 | |
| 10681425687 | Molecules | particles containing more than one atom | 60 | |
| 10681425688 | Compounds | molecules that contain more than one element | 61 | |
| 10681425689 | atomic number | the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom | 62 | |
| 10681425690 | mass number | the total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom | 63 | |
| 10681425691 | Isotopes | Atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons | 64 | |
| 10681425692 | radioactive decay | the spontaneous release of material from the nucleus of radioactive isotopes | 65 | |
| 10681425693 | half-life | the time it takes for half of the atoms of a radioactive element to decay | 66 | |
| 10681425694 | covalent bond | A chemical bond that involves sharing a pair of electrons between atoms in a molecule | 67 | |
| 10681425695 | ionic bond | Formed when one or more electrons are transferred from one atom to another | 68 | |
| 10681425696 | Hydrogen bond | weak attraction between a hydrogen atom and another atom | 69 | |
| 10681425697 | polar molecule | one end of the molecule is slightly negative and the other end is slightly positive | 70 | |
| 10681425698 | surface tension | the force that acts on the surface of a liquid and that tends to minimize the area of the surface | 71 | |
| 10681425699 | capillary action | the attraction of the surface of a liquid to the surface of a solid | 72 | |
| 10681425700 | Boiling and freezing point of water | 100 degrees Celsius and 0 degrees Celsius | 73 | |
| 10681425701 | Acid | A substance that increases the hydrogen ion concentration of a solution. | 74 | |
| 10681425702 | Base | a compound that produces hydroxide ions in solution | 75 | |
| 10681425703 | pH scale | scale with values from 0 to 14, used to measure the concentration of H+ ions in a solution; a pH of 0 to 7 is acidic, a pH of 7 is neutral, and a pH of 7 to 14 is basic It is logarithmic | 76 | |
| 10681425704 | chemical reaction | the process by which one or more substances change to produce one or more different substances | 77 | |
| 10681425705 | Law of Conservation of Matter | Matter is not created nor destroyed in any chemical or physical change | 78 | |
| 10681425706 | Exception to law of conservation of matter | In nuclear reactions, small amounts of matter change into energy | 79 | |
| 10681425707 | inorganic compounds | A compound that does not contain the element carbon or contains carbon bound to elements other than hydrogen. | 80 | |
| 10681425708 | organic compounds | compounds that contain carbon and hydrogen | 81 | |
| 10681425709 | Carbohydrates | compound made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms; major source of energy for the human body | 82 | |
| 10681425710 | Proteins | made up of long chains of nitrogen-containing organic molecules called amino acids | 83 | |
| 10681425711 | nucleic acids | DNA and RNA | 84 | |
| 10681425712 | Lipids | do not dissolve in water | 85 | |
| 10681425713 | Cell | a highly organized living entity that consists of the four types of macromolecules and other substances in a watery solution, surrounded by a membrane | 86 | |
| 10681425714 | Energy | the ability to do work or transfer heat | 87 | |
| 10681425715 | electromagnetic radiation | A form of energy emitted by the Sun that includes, but is not limited to, visible light, ultraviolet light, and infrared energy. | 88 | |
| 10681425716 | Photons | massless packets of energy that travel at the speed of light and can move even through the vacuum of space | 89 | |
| 10681425717 | Joule | the amount of energy used when a one-watt electrical device is turned on for one second | 90 | |
| 10681425718 | Power | the rate at which work is done | 91 | |
| 10681425719 | potential energy | Energy that is stored and held in readiness | 92 | |
| 10681425720 | kinetic energy | energy of motion | 93 | |
| 10681425721 | chemical energy | potential energy stored in chemical bonds | 94 | |
| 10681425722 | Temperature | a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a sample of matter | 95 | |
| 10681425723 | first law of thermodynamics | Energy cannot be created or destroyed | 96 | |
| 10681425724 | second law of thermodynamics | when energy is transformed, the quantity of energy remains the same, but its ability to do work diminishes | 97 | |
| 10681425725 | energy efficiency | The ratio of the amount of work done to the total amount of energy introduced to the system | 98 | |
| 10681425726 | energy quality | the ease with which an energy source can be used for work | 99 | |
| 10681425727 | Entropy | A measure of disorder or randomness | 100 | |
| 10681425728 | open system | exchanges of matter or energy occur across system boundaries | 101 | |
| 10681425729 | closed system | a system in which matter and energy exchanges do not occur across boundaries | 102 | |
| 10681425730 | Inputs | additions to a given system | 103 | |
| 10681425731 | output | a loss from a system | 104 | |
| 10681425732 | system analysis | Determining inputs, outputs, and changes in the system under various conditions | 105 | |
| 10681425733 | steady state | a state in which inputs equal outputs, so that the system is not changing over time | 106 | |
| 10681425734 | Feedback | the results of a process feed back into the system to change the rate of that process | 107 | |
| 10681425735 | negative feedback loop | A feedback loop in which a system responds to a change by returning to its original state, or by decreasing the rate at which the change is occurring. | 108 | |
| 10681425736 | positive feedback loop | a feedback loop in which change in a system is amplified | 109 | |
| 10681425737 | adaptive management plan | a strategy that provides flexibility so that managers can modify it as future changes occur | 110 |
