APES Ch. 1-18 Test Review

Which of these is an example of high quality matter?

This rock forms from large amounts of heat, pressure, and stress.

What is the soil and rock atop a useful mineral deposit that is discarded as waste material?

Where is the highest solar energy input>

When so few members of a species are left they can no longer perform its niche.

What is NOT an example of a pesticide?

Which of these is NOT a vertical zone of the ocean?

The number of children per 1000 births who die before their first birthday.

Ability of earth's nautral, cultural and economic systems to survive in the enviro indefinitely

What is the term for the water that ships store in tanks to ensure stability throughout trips?

What is NOT a way to reduce soil erosion?

Which is NOT a major component of the earth's biodiversity?

What is the area of ocean needed to sustain the consumption of an average person or nation?

Which of the following is the most efficient?

The number of different species in a community.

What qualifies as wilderness?

These are caused by prevailing winds blowing over oceans.

What is a lage region with distinct climates and certain species called?

What is an interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the environment?

This is the greatest cause of rising extinction rates.

What factor plays a role in U.S. states facing water shortages?

These species are vulnerable extinction.

The distribution of males and females among age in a population.

For how long will we have an ample supply of oil?

Which of these is NOT a limiting factor?

The aquatic equivalents of biomes are called

Which of these is NOT a major factor of a country's average birth rate and TFR?

These species have a large effect on the types and numbers of other species in an ecosystem.

What is a debt-for-nature swap?

Biomass is practical approach for everyone to use, if their car was suited for it. 

Which of these is a perpetual resource?

What is a rangeland?

Single, identifiable sources of pollution.

What occurs when hot and wet air rises, cools and releases precipitation?

What are parts of the ocean partially protected from human activities?

The gradual establishment of biotic commuities in lifeless areas with no soil.

Within DNA molecules are sequences of nucleotides called

Which of these is NOT a type of desert?

What is NOT a barrier to food security?

Passive solar heating is not very efficient.

This is an area's short-term temp, precip, humidity, ond other physical conditions.

What is the continuous, low level of extinction of species known as?

Anything that has mass and takes up space.

A group of organisims that have distinctive traits, and can mate and produce fertile offspring.

Which of these is NOT a greenhouse gas?

What is a way to sustainably manage fisheries?

What defines when it is no longer profitable to continue fishing a certain species?

What is NOT a characteristic of successful invasive species?

What is NOT true about the Colorado River?

What is a k-strategist organism?

Drift net fishing is environmentally unsustainable.

This is where rivers meet the sea.

These species have many and small offspring and give them little parental care.

What is the value placed on the usefulness to humans in providing ecological/economic services?

Continuous, low level extinction of a species.

What is NOT a major cause of the human degradation of tropical forests?

The number of deaths per 1000 people in a population in a year.

This zone is warm, nutrient rich, shallow and extends from the high tide mark to land.

This species, although still abundant in nature, could soon become endangered.

Which of these is NOT a part of HIPPCO?

How long do fuel rods and assemblies stay radioactive?

What is NOT one of three types of forests?

A group of these make up a population.

Which of these is NOT a way CO2 gets into the atmosphere?

What is the smallest functional unit of life?

Wetlands provide all of the following ecological services except:

What is the time it takes to use up a certain proportion (80%) of the reserves at given rate?

What is NOT a way to control invasive species?

This type of lake is usually deep with steep banks and has a small supply of plant nutrients.

What is NOT part of the acronym HIPPCO?

What are random changes in the structure/number of DNA molecules that can be inherited?

What is the most sustainable method of mining?

The number of children born to a woman in her lifetime.

What are pesticides are toxic to many pest and non pest organisms?

The most basic building block of matter.

What is the most environmentally sustainable agricultural practice?

What is NOT one of three types of logging?

Each atom consists of a small and dense center called a(n)

What consists of the parts of the earth where life is found?

Elements with the same atomic numbers but different mass numbers.

Who wrote the book Silent Spring?

Which of these is NOT a way to slow population growth?

What is NOT a way to protect ecosystems?

What must you do to your house to enhance the efficiency of geothermal energy?

Which of the cycles does not enter the atmosphere?

This type of organisms are strong swimming consumers.

The average number of children born to women in a population during their reproduction years.

What is it called when two isotopes of light elements are forced together to release energy?

This process puts excessive nutrients into lakes, then described as hypereutrophic.

What form does natural gas have to be in to transport overseas?

Which of these is NOT a greenhouse gas?

What is the most widely-used renewable energy source throughout the world?

What percentage of the world's water goes to agriculture?

Chemists use this to show the number of each atom or ion in a compound

What percentage of earth's water is salt water?

What is Kanye West's middle name?

The amount of goods and services a country's average person in the US could buy.

These species normally live and thrive in a particular ecosystem.

The annual value of all goods and services produced in a country.

This has no nucleous or membrane bout organisms.

What country has the most natural gas supplies in the world?

A continental plate rides over an oceanic plate and pushes it down into the mantle?

The belief that each species has the right to exist, regardless of usefulness.

An intereaction that benefits both species.

Highest rate a renewable resource can be used indefinetly without running out.

Coal has a high net energy yield. 

What does CAFO stand for?

An area's general pattern of physical conditions over many years.

When two species interect over such a long period their gene pools change with each other.

Loss of moisture from the landscape result in arid conditions on the leeway side of a mountain.

What are the areas of land near creeks, streams, and rivers called?

What is NOT an advantage of hydropower?

What is an example of a primary consumer?

Occurs when an organism feeds on the body or energy of another, usually living inside the host.

What is true of wind power?

These species have so few individuals that the species could soon be extinct.

What does NOT encourages overfishing?

How many years until reservoirs fill up with enough sediment to render the dam useless?

What are the identified resources from which the mineral can be extracted profitably?

What is in oil sand?

What is NOT true about synthetic pesticides?

This is the maximum population of a given species that a habitat can sustain.

An  example of an active solar heating system would be

Interaction that benefits one species but has no effect on the other.

When a species is no longer found in a specific area.

This type of species play a major in creating and enhancing habitats.

Dragging huge, weighted nets across the ocean bottom to harvest bottom fish is called what?

Platinum, gold, cobalt, and sand are all nonrenewable minerals.

What describes selective cutting logging the best?

What is it called when two species arise from one?

What is NOT an advantage of coal compared to other energy sources?

What is the green revolution?

The area of shoreline between low and high tides.

DDT biomagnified in the bodies of animals as the trophic level increased.

What is not part of the mantle and crust?

Long line fishing is environmentally unsustainable.

What is NOT a main reason water is wasted in the United States?

This species provide early warnings of damage to the community.

Which of these is NOT a distinct zone in a lake?

Occurs when one species feeds on all or part of one member of another species.

A species role in its ecosystem.

Which of these is NOT a basic cause of environmental problems.

After clear cutting a hillside, all would happen except 

This type of macromolecule includes fats and waxes.

What is NOT a reason to use desalination as a solution to water shortages?

This shows a population's proportions of individuals at various ages.

This rock forms with the melting and subsequent cooling of magma.

What is NOT an advantage of withdrawing groundwater?

What is NOT a way humans harm floodplains?

This type of value is when people appreciate a species for its beauty.

This burns away flammable undergrowth, prevents larger fires, and frees up valuable minerals.

Which of these is NOT an example of low quality matter?

What is the place where the earthquake begins far below the earth's surface called?

The amount of sediment at the mouth of a river system is most likely to be decreased by 

The optimum level that would allow people to live in comfort and freedom.

Which of these is NOT a general pattern of population distribution?

What is NOT an advantage of solar cells?

What's wrong with transporting water?

When many species become extinct in a short period of time.

These are large regions characterized by similar climate, soil, and species.

What happens to a nuclear reactor after 60 years?

Most of these are industrialized and have a high per capita GDP PPP.

Which of these is not one of the indicators for overall health of people in a country?

Which of these biomes is covered by permafrost?

Which of these is NOT a part of the scientific process?

What is NOT a way to protect endangered species?

The biggest threat to biodiversity is

What will NOT happen if oil prices increase?

This is where head-water steams merge to form wider, deeper, and smoother streams.

What happens when farmers try to fix the process of salinization?