Apes Flashcards

5774259322	Fronteir worlveiw	Encourages exploitation or resources. We should "conquer wild and use for human use	0
5774259323	Stewardship worldview	We can manage earth for our benefit but have a ethical responsibility to be responsible stewards of this earth	1
5774259324	Paradigm shift	Change in underlying assumptions. New information better than old or something	2
5774259325	Ecology	The study of relationships between living organisms and their environment; study of the structure and functions of nature	3
5774259326	Atomic number	Number of protons in nucleus of atom	4
5774259327	Half life	Amount of time it takes for half of substance to break down	5
5774259328	Abiotic factors	(Light/Temp/Water) non living	6
5774259329	Omnivores	Organisms that feed off of both plants and animals	7
5774259330	Niche	Organisms ___ would be an analogous to its way of life	8
5774259331	Nitrification is done by what	Bacteria	9
5774259332	Keystone species	Have large effects on the type and abundance of species	10
5774259333	Indicator species	Species that serve as an early warning to environment problems	11
5774259334	Symbiotic relationship where one benefits and one isn't affected	Commmensialism	12
5774259335	Clustered/Clumped	Most common pattern of populatikn	13
5774259336	(Birth rate + immigration) - (death rate +emigration)	Population change formula	14
5774259337	1000 people	Annual number of live births per ___	15
5774259338	Short	How long of lifespans do r species have	16
5774259339	Risk	Probability of suffering from an injury/disease/harm	17
5774259340	Hormonally active agents	DDT/PCBs/ what type of agents are these that effect endocrine system	18
5774259341	Terotegen	Virus/chemical that causes birth defects	19
5774259342	Percent of population living urban areas at present time	50%	20
5774259343	Biomagnification	This process relates to potentially toxic substances as it passes up (increases concentration of chemicals)	21
5774259344	Urban heat island affect	Urban areas significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas (has to do w colors of buildings and heat on those)	22
5774259345	Non point source	(Run off from cropland) from diffuse sources	23
5774259346	Point source	(Smoke stack) Single identifiable source of air, water, noise or light pollution	24
5774259347	2nd law of thermodynamics	When energy is converted from one form to another in a physical or chemical change, we end up with low quality energy	25
5774259348	1st law of thermodynamics	No energy created nor destroyed when converted to different forms. Energy can be changed from one form to another; it takes high quality energy to get high quality energy	26
5774259349	Deciduous forest	Type of biome that is oak and hickory dense	27
5774259350	Species richness	Measure or species biodiversity and number of species in a particular area	28
5774259351	Cogeneration	Production of 2 useful forms of energy from the same fuel source (waste heat to produce electricity)	29
5774259352	Solar tower	Solar technology that utilized all rays to one central cell	30
5774259353	Anthracite Bituminous Lignite Pete	Stages of coal formation highest to lowest heat and carbon content	31
5774259354	Bituminous and Lignite	High sulfur content	32
5774259355	Pete	No sulfer	33
5774259356	Selective Cutting	Type of forest management maintains uneven age of species	34
5774259357	Carbon dioxide Oxygen	Forests remove what and add what	35
5774259358	Demographic Transition	Hypothesis that countries, as they become industrialized, have declines in death rates followed by declines in birth rates	36
5774259359	Crown fire	Most dangerous type of fire: extremely hot forest fire that burns ground vegetation and tree tops	37
5774259360	Habitat destruction	Overall greatest threat to species	38
5774259361	Zebra Muscle	Example of an invasive species that affects native species	39
5774259362	CITES	treaty controlling international trade of endangered species	40
5774259363	Biomes	Large ecological regions with natural communities or inhabited by certain types of life	41
5774259364	Methane	Natural gas from wells cont...	42
5774259365	Fish and Wildlife services	Identification/listing of species done by..	43
5774259366	Net energy yeild	Total amount of useful energy available from an energy source minus amount of energy used	44
5774259367	Distillation	Refining of crude oil (process)	45
5774259368	Warer	Most common mediator used in reactions	46
5774259369	Anthracite	High heat night sulfer	47
5774259370	Mercury	Burning coal releases ___ into enviornment	48
5774259371	Wind power	Worlds fastest growing renewable energy resource	49
5774403065	Synergistic	Combined effects produce greater effects than the 2 substances along (alcohol and depressants together)	50
5774403066	Detritivores	Consumer organism that feeds on dead organisms and waste of living organisms. (Earthworms termites)	51
5774403067	Primary productivity	Energy output of an area of producers over a given time	52
5774403068	Primary succession	Rock exposed by receding glacier	53
5774403069	Cultural carrying capacity	Limit of pop growth that would allow most people in an area to life in reasonable comfort and freedom without impairing the ability of the planet to sustain future generations	54
5774403070	Demographic transition	Decline in death rates then decline in birth rates	55
5774403071	Pastures, grasslands and rangelands	Controlling grazing animals to sustain	56
5774403072	Bitumen	High sulfur heavy oil found in tar sands	57
5774489673	Interspecific	Competition between 2 diff species	58
5774489674	Negative feedback loop	Both species benefit off eachother	59