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| The boundary between two ecosystems? |
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| After a glacier retreats from an area, what type of succession would happen? |
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| What would be a type of plant in a climax community? |
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| The acronym HIPPO outlines the causes of what? |
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| The bark beetle contributed to deforestation how? |
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| Causing forest fires to be more severe and killing trees directly. |
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| The equation Q=AV is used to determine what? |
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| Discharge and the amount of water flowing past a point in a given amount of time. |
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| In a hydrograph, what is found after the point of peak discharge? |
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| Why are wetlands so valuable? |
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| Provide habitat for wildlife, filter pollutants, recharge aquifers and slow runoff. |
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| If a rock layer has a large amount of void space between its individual grains, it has what? |
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| Refers to an area that is drained by a river or stream and a water shed. |
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| Example of knick point recession corrosion? |
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| What is one concerned with when describing the capacity of a river? |
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| The total amount of sediment a river can carry. |
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| what human activity causes erosion to occur at an accelerated rate? |
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| Agriculture activity, urbanization, mining? |
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| Fertilizers from numerous farm fields that enter streams are examples of what? |
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| Non-point source pollution and nutrient pollution. |
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| The water table is defined as the boundary what? |
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| The layer between the unsaturated zone and the saturated zone. |
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| what type of human alteration can cause flooding in a watershed? |
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| Logging, burning vegetation, urbanization. |
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| Environmental science draws on knowledge from which of the following disciplines? |
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| Ecology, biology, ethics, economics, geology, and oceanography. |
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| How does photochemical smog differs from industrial smog? |
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| Photochemical smog requires the input of sunlight to be produced. |
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| What was the main problematic gaseous pollutant being released by nickel processing plant? |
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| In the United States, the majority of freshwater is used for what purpose? |
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| The exceptionally strong warming of the Eastern Pacific Ocean is referred to as what? |
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| The land immediately adjacent to rivers and streams that periodically floods is referred to as what? |
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| Biogeochemical cycles deal with the movement of material between which of the following spheres? |
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| Atmosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere. |
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| What is a natural source of air pollution? |
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| Large amounts of dust blown into the air by sthe strong wind, ash, and gas spwewed into the troposphere by volcanic erruptions, smoke from burnign vegegation set on fire by a Lightning strike and air pollution caused by human activities-not by natural sources. |
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| In the water budget equation P=R+E(t)+G, what does E(t) represent? |
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| Which of the following is a type of corrosion? |
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| NOT: vertical, horizontal, oblique. |
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| The process of converting atmospheric nitrogen into a form that is useable by plants is called what? |
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| Climate change impacts what? |
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| Water supply, water clarity, species and natural areas, coastal areas. |
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| Which of the following landscape(s) would produce a flashy hydrogram? |
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| Urban (buildings, parking lots, roads etc.) |
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| A higher global temperature raises le |
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| Why has the Aral Sea has become shallower because the Soviet Government has done what? |
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| Used huge amounts of water to irrigate cotton crops. |
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| Which of the following offers the greatest measures of protection against overfishing? |
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| For what 'criteria polutant' has the EPA established national ambient air qualitiy standards (NAAQS)? |
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| Carbon monoxide, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide. |
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| What are Milankovitch cycles? |
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| They are changes in the Earth's rotation and orbit that may trigger climate variation. |
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| Human intervention is responsible for how much of the nitrogen used by plants? |
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| What region of the globe is the majority of the water vapor in the atmosphere concentrated? |
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| Which of the following processes are theorized to contribute to global climate change over time? |
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| Changes in ocean currents, Continental drift, the greenhouse effect, the influx of large numbers of icebergs into the world's oceans. |
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| A system in which there is no exchange of energy and matter across a boundary is called what? |
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| The amount of time needed for a system to adjust to change in conditions is referred to as what? |
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| The amount of time a material remains in storage in a reservoir before it is transferred out. |
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| When does eutrophication occur? |
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| It occurs when a body of water has excessively high nutrient levels. (Algae) |
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| What are keystone species? |
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| Keystone species that have a significant impact on a community in relation to thier abundance, if removed, would have significant negative impact on the food web of which they are a part are often top predators- animals at high trophic levels. |
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| Which terrestrial biome has the greatest biodiversity? |
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| What cause the extinction of the golden toads in Costa Rica? |
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| How does the greenhouse effect occur? |
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| It occurs when molecules of atmospheric gases such as CO2, trap long-wave radiation. |
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| Produces capture solar energy and uses photoshnthesis to produce carbohydrates |
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| What percent of the Earth's water is considered fresh water? |
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| How is global climate change thought to be contributing to the decline of polar bear populations in the arctic? |
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| The arctic sea ice is breaking up, forcing the polar bears to swim longer distances to hunt. |
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| Which atmospheric gas is present in the highest percentage? |
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| One of Dr. Weirich's sensors was placed on the space shuttle to monitor which type of gas that was released during a fire? |
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| Density stratification can account for what? |
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| Distribution of gases in the atmosphere,the structure of the earth, the structure of the oceans. |
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| First attempted at mapping Earth's biogeochemical cycles. |
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| Methane gas is released into the atmosphere from melting permafrost, what issues does this contribute to? |
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| Concentration of greenhouse gases, increasing the temperature of Earth. Increase melting of the permafrost, and the releasing of more methane. (example of positive feedback.) |
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| R-Selected Species; define, example. |
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| species whose members produce a large number of offspring in a relatively short time but do not care for their young after birth, mosquitoes. |
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| According to the IPCC, what region of the world is projected to experience the largest temperature increase by the end of the 21st century? |
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| Which of the following was the result of the second wave of US Environmental policy in the late 1800's. |
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| The designation of Yellow Stone as the first national park in the US. |
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| Leading source of CO2 in the world? |
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| Water pollution that comes from a discrete location, such as a factory pipe. |
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| What aquifer, which underlies the great plains of the US, is the world's largest aquifer? |
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| The Clean Air Act of 1970 resulted in which of the following outcomes? |
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| Stricter air quality, standards were set, pollution emissions limits were established, citizens could sue violators of the Clean Air Act. |
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| The Montreal Protocol is to clorofluorcarbons as the Kyoto Protocol is to? |
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| After the radiation from the sun is absorbed into the Earth's atmosphere, it is re-radiated back into the atmosphere as what type of radiation? |
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| Acid rain is most serious in which part of the US? |
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| What information relating to past conditions can scientist estimate by studying ice cores from ice sheets and glaciers? |
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| Atmospheric composition, greenhouse gas concentrations, temperature trends, scientist cannot estimate past conditions using ice cores. |
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| A climax community is the final outcome of what type of systems "change" model? |
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| Community succession model. |
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| Is the movement of bottom seawater upward bringing up nutrients that promote marine life. |
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| After a rain event, which would be true regarding a biome and its hydrography? |
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| A desert would have a very peaked curve on its hydrograp, a rainforest would have a subdued curve on its hydrograph. |
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| The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires to conduct an EA on any project that? |
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| Recieves public funding and to issue an EIS if the EA determines a project will have a significant impact to the environment. |
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| How is global climate change impacting the islands of Maldives in the Indian Ocean? |
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| Sea level rise is threatening or flood many of the nations low-lying islands. |
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| Coupled Global Climate Models (CGCM's) connect the interactions between what? |
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| The land and the ocean to how they influence atmospheric circulation patterns. |
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| Why have the cod fisheries in coastal New England are currently in crisis? |
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| Technological advancements that have allowed ships to become more effective at finding cod, thus causing them to be over-fished. |
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| Particulate matter and chemicals. |
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| Photochemical is a type of what? |
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| Which scenario would you expect in response to climate change? |
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| Decreased water supply in Tucson, AZ, flooding in Miami, crop shortages in Kansas. |
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| Which is projected impact on humans as a result of climate change? |
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| Increased malaria in Florida. |
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