APES Flashcards

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