2016 APES Final Review

Which of the following is not a characteristic of species that are prone to extinction?

Which of the following is not a criteria pollutant?

What is the single greatest threat to biodiversity?

Energy _____________ at each successive trophic level.

Layers of a freshwater lake in order from closest  to the shore to the deepest layer?

What is the approximate threshold level of this chemical?

areas especially rich in plant species that are found nowhere else and are endangered

what is this person doing?

Who is this?

Who dis?

Water evaporates from plant leaves back into the atmosphere during __________________.

What is the Capital of this state?

Highest rate at which we can use a renewable resource indefinitely w/o reducing availablity

Continuous, low level of extinction of species is known as

What movie is this from?

combined effect is greater than the sum of their separate effects.  

The amount of land and water that 1 person in a particular country uses per year

The most common form of interaction between species is

What constelation is this?

A positive feedback loop causes a system to change further in ________________ direction.

occurs when a large contiguous area of habitat is divided into smaller pieces.

The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is _____________ in the summer than in the winter.

The combination of all factors that act to limit the growth of a population

Who is this?

The deepest part of the ocean is known as the

What is the approximate Lethal Dose of this chemical?

What movie is this?

The atmosphere over different areas of the planet is divided into huge regions called _______,

have broad ecological roles.

Name that Pokemon!

What movie is this?

An area’s general pattern of atmospheric conditions over a period of at least three decades

Returning a degraded habitat to a condition as similar as possible to its natural state

Which of the following is not affected by Global Warming?

Solar energy is called a ____________________ resource, because its supply is continuous

Some scientists believe that each wild species has __ value regardless of its usefulness to us.

Will you pass the Final?

Which of the following is a carcinogen used in insulation?

large terrestrial regions characterized by similar climate, soil, plants, and animals.

Shallow water that extends from the low-tide mark on land to the edge of the continental shelf

Pathways between protected areas

The equation for _____ is essentially the opposite of the equation for _____.

First things first:

any presence within the environment that is harmful to the health of humans or other organisms.

Who is this?

Species that migrate or are deliberately or accidentally introduced into an ecosystem by humans

the variety of the earth’s species

Maximum population of a given species that a particular habitat can sustain indefinitely

two or more atoms of the same or different elements held together by chemical bonds is called 

In competition, both species ______.

Coach Smith is the 

Which of the following is one of the major causes of global environmental problems?

The natural resources that keep us and other forms of life alive and support our human economy

Who is this?

What is this?

Why is eating Tuna risky over time?

Tree farms are usually _________________ as soon as they become commercially valuable.

1, 2, 4, 8, 16, _____

What year is it all going to end?

The Stratosphere contains _____ , which filters out over 95% of the sun’s harmful UV radiation.

Which of the following is considered a marine ecosystem?

Which of the following is not considered a greenhouse gas?

ability of one or more organisms in a population to tolerate a chemical designed to kill it  

The number of births per 1000 women in a given population is called

Who is this fine gentleman?

Zones in the flow of water in a river

Climate and vegetation vary with

Primary consumers are primarily ___________________.

Which of the following is an endocrine disruptor?

What T.V. show is this?

an interaction that benefits one species but has little, if any, effect on the other.

Which of the following is not one of the 3 principles of sustainability?

More than half of the wood removed from the earth’s forests is used as