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EVS test 1
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Environmental Studies
Undergraduate 1
09/29/2011

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Thomas Malthus
Definition
claimeed that unless population growth was controlled, people would outgrow the available food suply
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John Muir
Definition
founded the sierra club
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Gifford Pinshot
Definition
Founded the US forestry service
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Aldo Leopold
Definition
Advocated the protection of predators
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Adam Smith
Definition
Father of classical economics
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Darwin
Definition
Natural Selection. Studied in the Galapagos
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Definition
Studied in the Malaysian Archipelago
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Fritz Haber
Definition
Synthesized Amonida
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Carl Bosch
Definition
mass produced amonia
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Bruno Van Peteghem
Definition
forced the government of new caledonia to obey laws to protect reefs
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% composition of atmospheric nitrogen
Definition
78.1
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% compostion of atmospheric oxygen
Definition
21%
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% composition of atmospheric carbon
Definition
.036%
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Igneous rock
Definition
forms from cooled magma
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metamorphic rock
Definition
any rock subjected to intense heat any pressure thats form is altered
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lithification
Definition
process of compression and compaction (forms sedimentary rock)
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subduction
Definition
when one techtonic plate slides under another
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cafos
Definition
Concentrated animal feeding operations
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watershed
Definition
entre area of land that a river drains
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eutrophication
Definition
process of nutrient overenrichment,algal blooms, increased population of organic matter, decomposition, and hypoxia
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New Caledonia
Definition
Split off Austrialia
more endemic species than anywhere else
no mammals/amphibians
domniated by birds/reptiles
kagu-endemic flightless bird
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Extra Credit extinct species
Definition
Caspian Tiger
Auk
Dodo bird
T-rex
English Wolf
Quagga
Steller's seacow
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first 11 miles of the atmospher
Definition
trophosphere
Term
past 11 miles into the atmospher
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stratosphere
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% of energy trapped by photosynthesis
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.023%
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ways to reduce dead zones
Definition
responsible use of fertilizer
Riparian Buffers
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riparian Buffer
Definition
vegetated land that helps protect a stream from the impact of adjacent land uses
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Permian mass extinction
Definition
250mya, 90-95% of species went extinct
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California floristic preserve
Definition
biodiversity hotspot in California, host to over 8000 endemic plant species; mediteranian climate
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