Everything covered in chapters 1-20 in environmental science
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| 617996311 | Compositional Layers of The Earth | Crust: Lithosphere-tectonic plates LEAST DENSE Mantle: Asthenosphere, Mesosphere Core: Outer core, Inner core MOST DENSE | 0 | |
| 617996312 | Natural Source of Pollution | Volcano, wildfire etc. | 1 | |
| 617996313 | Ecology | the study of how living things interact w/ each other & their nonliving environment | 2 | |
| 617996314 | Renewable Resource | can be replaced relatively quickly by natural processes | 3 | |
| 617996315 | Nonrenewable Resource | source that forms in a much slower rate than it is consumed | 4 | |
| 617996316 | Tragedy of the Commons | Essay written by a man named Hardin about land the entire village shared. The land is used for raising animals but if they grow too many, the next year they can only raise a few | 5 | |
| 617996317 | Developed Countries | have a higher average income w/ diverse industries | 6 | |
| 617996318 | Developing Countries | fast growing pop. & a lower average income | 7 | |
| 617996319 | Ecological Footprint | shows the productive area of Earth needed to support one person in a specific country | 8 | |
| 617996320 | Niche | the physical home, environmental factors necessary for survival & all interactions w/ organisms | 9 | |
| 617996321 | Commensalism | relationship where ONLY one benefits and the other is unharmed, plus 0 (ex. ox bird and a rhino) | 10 | |
| 617996322 | Mutalism | relationship where the two depend on one another for survival, plus plus | 11 | |
| 617996323 | Parasitism | relationship where one benefits and the other is harmed, negative plus | 12 | |
| 617996324 | Predation | relationship when an organism eats the prey, plus negative | 13 | |
| 617996325 | Competition | relationship when different individuals or populations attempt to use the same limited resource, negative negative | 14 | |
| 618048256 | 6 Kingdoms | Archaebacteria, eubacteria, fungi, protists, plants, & animals | 15 | |
| 618048257 | Earth's Systems | geosphere (aka rock), atmosphere (aka air, gases), hydrosphere (aka water H2O), & biosphere (all living things) | 16 | |
| 618100620 | Greenhouse Effect | gases trap heat near the Earth causes global warming & the ozone hole | 17 | |
| 618100621 | Scientific Habits of Mind | Curiosity, skepticism, openness to new ideas, intellectual honesty, imagination & creativity | 18 | |
| 618152661 | Species vs. Population | a group of organisms that are closely related & that can mate to make fertile offspring & all the members of the same species that live in the same place at the same time | 19 | |
| 618152662 | Habitat | the place organisms live | 20 | |
| 618152663 | Surface Currents | stream like surface movements | 21 | |
| 618152664 | Deep Currents | along ocean floor | 22 | |
| 618152665 | Boundary Types | divergent, convergent & continental | 23 | |
| 618152666 | Divergent | plates slide away from each other | 24 | |
| 618152667 | Convergent | two plates going towards each other | 25 | |
| 618152668 | Subduction | plate sinks underneath another | 26 | |
| 618152669 | Continental | ocean+ continental = ocean goes under ocean+ocean= one may go under continental + continental= nothing gets subducted | 27 | |
| 618152670 | Layers of Earth's Atmosphere | thermosphere (largest) mesosphere stratosphere troposphere (smallest) | 28 | |
| 618193328 | Biotic Factor | consist of living and once living things of the environment | 29 | |
| 618193329 | Abiotic Factor | things that were nonliving | 30 | |
| 618193330 | Producers | organisms that can make their own food | 31 | |
| 618193331 | Fertility Rates | # of babies born per 1,00 women | 32 | |
| 618193332 | U.S. fertility rate | 2.1 births per woman | 33 | |
| 618193333 | Keystone Species | species that are critical to the ecosystem | 34 | |
| 618193334 | Endangered Species Act | 1973: passed to protect animals and plants endanger of being extincted, requires USFWS to make a list of endangered species & a list of endangered species caused by humans, makes a plan on how to avoid extinction, & prohibits the gov. from doing projects that harm species | 35 | |
| 618193335 | Weather vs. Climate | state of the atmosphere at a particular place at a moment & a LONG term prevailing weather condition at a particular place | 36 | |
| 618193336 | Fossil Fuels | remains of ancient organs that changed into coal, oil or natural gas | 37 | |
| 618193337 | Fresh Water | a little bit more than 2% of the earth's water | 38 |
