APES Midterm

Who should promote healthier lifestyle choices, increase physical activity, limits excess food and tobacco, education?

What is economic development?

What are factors whose effects on the size or growth of the population vary with the population density?

What is a plant or animal material used for energy production?

What are synthetic organic compounds POPs ( persistent organic pollutants)?

What is the rate at which an ecosystem’s producers convert solar energy into chemical energy as biomass?

What is the end products of an action cause more of that action to occur in a feedback loop ?

Where one organism is neutral and the other is negatively affected?

Drawbacks of a levee?

What is a heavy metal( neurotoxins) ?

What is the lethal dose that kills 50% of individuals?

Dams: benefits include

What is the flow of energy and matter, abiotic and biotic, cycling of nutrients), biosphere (global process)?

As population rises so does using the environment and it’s resources.

What is high exposure to a hazard for short periods of time that stems from ingestion?

What is the maximum number of individuals in a population that the ecosystem can support?

What limits to the abiotic conditions an organism can tolerate and still live?

What is a decrease in the amount of usable energy available to each succeeding organism in a food chain or web?

What uses light to feed?

What involves the flow of energy; energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change forms?

, allergens ?

What is a measure of how much oxygen is dissolved in the water (available to living organisms)?

when the growth rate decreases as the population reaches carrying capacity?

What cleans up abandoned hazardous waste sites with no responsibly party?

What is a non renewable source?

What is toxins working together to produce an effect?

What is liquid/ solid/ gaseous or sludge waste material that is harmful to humans or ecosystems?

What level of ecological organization is population dynamics or unit of evolution?

What is a renewable energy source ?

What is a use of species as a resource by another species?

What is one organism depends on another (host) for nourishment or some other benefit?

What is the level of the toxicant where certain responses start to occur?

What means harmful to humans and pets?

Dam drawbacks include:

Aqueducts: benefits include

What is weather and climate, exert their influences on population size regardless of the population's density?

Levees benefits include

What says matter can neither be created or destroyed but stays consistent?

What is a struggle of individuals to obtain a limiting resource?

moving up the food chain (mercury examples)?

What is one species benefits but the other is neither harmed nor helped?

What is A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet?

What is a type of interspecific interaction where both species benefit?

What is a condition in which the body or a region of the body is deprived of adequate oxygen supply at the tissue level

3 main uses for water worldwide are: _%for agriculture, _%industry, _%residential and municipal use

energy available to consumers; rate at which stored energy GPP-the rate this energy is used through breathing?

What removed solids by using screens, scraping the surface, then the rest settles to the bottom as sludge?

How much of the world’s population consumes 58% of the world’s energy?

What is the dose plotted against the response?

Means that it does not move, it just adds up in fat tissue?

What is where a species can tolerate a wide range of conditions?

What removes nitrogen and phosphorus and some plants have begun to remove the remains of other chemicals?

When a product is recycled into another product (ex. plastic into clothes) ?

About how many people worldwide do not have clean drinking water?

Mutualistic relationships examples are?

What level of ecological organization is interactions among species?

as the National Invasive Species Act of 1996 was passed or people can control, eradicate, or prevent what?

Chemical hazards: neurotoxins ?

Who keeps track of hazardous waste from the cradle to the grave?

When the product of a reaction leads to a decrease in that reaction (brings system closer to stability or homeostasis)

What is the amount of dissolved oxygen needed by aerobic biological organisms to break down organic material present ?

Aqueducts drawbacks include

What spreads quickly, reproduce fast, no natural predators, uses resources of native species ?

What breaks down organic matter concerting itCO2 nitrogen aerobic bacteria are used to eat pollutants and disinfectants

zebra mussels, cane toad, asian carp, burmese pythons, kudzu are examples of?

What Level of ecological organization is (survival or reproduction in a unit of natural selection)?

increase in this leads to algal bloom?

What is the effective dose that causes a sub lethal effect?

Who should improve nutrition, improve the quality of drinking water, proper sanitation?

endocrine disruptors?

Who is the largest contributor of unregulated hazardous waste with paint, batteries, oil, gasoline and pesticides?

What is the natural home of environment of an animal, plant, or other organism?

What is cannot tell where pollution is coming from (farms or communities)?

teratogens cause?

What is anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing?

Where does our solid waste go: _ landfilled, _incineration, _recycled

when the resources availability is unlimited in the habitat the growth of organisms is geometric?

What are insects that parasitize other insects?

Where does hazardous waste come from, industrial by products of industrial processes like

What is the use of resources that meets the needs of now without compromising the ability of future generations needs?

What is pollution coming from distinct locations (can identify source)?

What do we recycle 1/4 of by weight and wealthy nation sometimes ship this to developing countries to be disassembled?

What little animals that feed off of bacteria for food?

What is from low exposure for long periods of time ?

What is fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all peoples to respect the development, of environmental laws?

When a product in recycled back into itself (ex. aluminum cans)?

What from the wastewater treatment plant is dried and then landfilled or incinerated or used as fertilizer on cropland?

What is a decrease in the levels of dissolved oxygen, leading to a decrease in sea life ?

carcinogens like smoking cause?

What means it will react to things?

What means it’ll burn?

When organic material has decomposed in controlled conditions to produce an organic rich material called humus?

What is the quantitative expression of the ability of a species to face selection in any environment?

live bacteria live in what and continues to work hard to digest the solids and convert them into gases?

What is where a species can only tolerate a narrow range of conditions?

What means an outer layer is reacting to air and water and changing immediately with acids or bases?