APES Ch. 1-18 Test Review

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

The number of different species in a community.

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

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

What is true of wind power?

What's wrong with transporting water?

What percentage of earth's water is salt water?

The biggest threat to biodiversity is

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

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

The most basic building block of matter.

What is NOT a way to control invasive species?

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

What is a way to sustainably manage fisheries?

What is Kanye West's middle name?

What is NOT a way humans harm floodplains?

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

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

What is a debt-for-nature swap?

Drift net fishing is environmentally unsustainable.

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

The aquatic equivalents of biomes are called

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

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

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

This type of organisms are strong swimming consumers.

This has no nucleous or membrane bout organisms.

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

What is in oil sand?

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

How long do fuel rods and assemblies stay radioactive?

Elements with the same atomic numbers but different mass numbers.

Coal has a high net energy yield. 

What will NOT happen if oil prices increase?

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

Passive solar heating is not very efficient.

What is NOT an advantage of hydropower?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After clear cutting a hillside, all would happen except 

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

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

This type of macromolecule includes fats and waxes.

What describes selective cutting logging the best?

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

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

These are caused by prevailing winds blowing over oceans.

This is the greatest cause of rising extinction rates.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is NOT a barrier to food security?

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

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

What is NOT one of three types of logging?

What does CAFO stand for?

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

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

Which of these is NOT a greenhouse gas?

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

Which of these is a perpetual resource?

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

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

An intereaction that benefits both species.

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

What is an example of a primary consumer?

Which of the cycles does not enter the atmosphere?

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

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

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

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

The area of shoreline between low and high tides.

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

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

These species normally live and thrive in a particular ecosystem.

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

What is the most sustainable method of mining?

What is the most environmentally sustainable agricultural practice?

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

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

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

Which of these is NOT a type of desert?

Which of these biomes is covered by permafrost?

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

What does NOT encourages overfishing?

What is it called when two species arise from one?

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

Within DNA molecules are sequences of nucleotides called

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

A species role in its ecosystem.

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

What is NOT part of the acronym HIPPCO?

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

This is where rivers meet the sea.

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

Which of these is NOT a limiting factor?

What is NOT a characteristic of successful invasive species?

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

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

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

What is the smallest functional unit of life?

These species are vulnerable extinction.

What is NOT a way to reduce soil erosion?

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

Continuous, low level extinction of a species.

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

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

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

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

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

Which of these is an example of high quality matter?

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

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

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

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

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

This species provide early warnings of damage to the community.

What is NOT a way to protect endangered species?

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

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

Who wrote the book Silent Spring?

Wetlands provide all of the following ecological services except:

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

What qualifies as wilderness?

What is NOT an example of a pesticide?

Long line fishing is environmentally unsustainable.

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

Anything that has mass and takes up space.

An  example of an active solar heating system would be

A group of these make up a population.

Which of the following is the most efficient?

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

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

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

What is not part of the mantle and crust?

What is NOT an advantage of withdrawing groundwater?

Which of these is NOT a greenhouse gas?

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

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

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

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

What is the green revolution?

What is a k-strategist organism?

What is NOT one of three types of forests?

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

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

Single, identifiable sources of pollution.

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

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

What happens to a nuclear reactor after 60 years?

What is a rangeland?

What is NOT true about the Colorado River?

What is NOT a way to protect ecosystems?

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

Where is the highest solar energy input>

What is NOT an advantage of solar cells?

What is NOT true about synthetic pesticides?

Which of these is NOT a part of HIPPCO?