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Mid-year Exam Review

Mid-year Exam Review. Chapters 1 - 4. What term is used to describe the statement: “Our inability to solve many environmental problems is the result of of a struggle between short-term individual welfare and long-term environmental sustainability and societal welfare.”.

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Mid-year Exam Review

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  1. Mid-year Exam Review Chapters 1 - 4

  2. What term is used to describe the statement: “Our inability to solve many environmental problems is the result of of a struggle between short-term individual welfare and long-term environmental sustainability and societal welfare.” The Tragedy of the Commons

  3. This results from the consumption-oriented lifestyles in highly developed countries, when each individual in a population consumes too large a share of resources. Consumption Overpopulation

  4. This model uses an equation to represent the relationship between environmental impacts and the forces that drive them. I = P x A x T

  5. A person who values natural resources because of their usefulness for practical purposes but uses them sensibly and carefully Utilitarian Conservationist

  6. An Environmental Impact Statement is required under what Federal Law? National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

  7. An understanding of our place in the world based on human superiority and dominance over nature, the unrestricted use of natural resources, and increased economic growth to manage an expanding industrial base is considered to be a ___________ worldview. Western

  8. A group of similar organisms whose members freely interbreed with one another in the wild to produce fertile offspring, is called: A species

  9. “When energy is converted from one form to another, some of it is degraded into heat, a less usable form that disperses into the environment.” The is the: Second Law of Thermodynamics

  10. Photosynthesis requires what three inputs? Sunlight, water and CO2

  11. The fundamental niches of the green anole and the brown anole initially overlapped. The brown anole outcompeted the green anole, reducing the size of its _____________ niche. Realized

  12. Water stored behind a dam is an example of what type of energy? Potential Energy

  13. True or False: Energy is recycled through an ecosystem False

  14. Of the trophic levels, photosynthetic organisms that are potential food resources for other organisms are called: Producers

  15. The total amount of photosynthetic energy that plants capture and assimilate in a given period is called: Gross Primary Productivity

  16. What term is used to describe the statement: “Our inability to solve many environmental problems is the result of of a struggle between short-term individual welfare and long-term environmental sustainability and societal welfare.” The Tragedy of the Commons

  17. An environmental resource that, because it is scarce or at unfavorable levels, restricts the ecological niche of an organism is called: A limiting resource

  18. A symbiotic relationship in which both partners benefit Mutualism

  19. Competition that occurs among individuals from difference species is called: Interspecific Competition

  20. Photosynthesis is a key part of which major global environmental issue? Global Climate Change

  21. This type of succession occurs on previously uninhabited land (for example when a glacier recedes due to climate change) Primary Succession

  22. During __________ between predator and prey, the predator evolves more efficient ways to catch prey, and the prey evolves better ways to escape the predator. Co-evolution

  23. What is one of the four premises of Natural Selection? Species produce more offspring that will survive to maturity Individuals in a population have variation in their traits Organisms compete with one another for resources Those with the most favorable combination of traits are most likely to survive and reproduce, passing their traits onto the next generation

  24. Trees purifying air, wetlands mitigating floods and removing pollutants, and fertile soil allowing growth of crops are examples of: Ecosystem Services

  25. Grey wolves and sea otters are examples of: Keystone Species

  26. Gross Primary Productivity – Cellular Respiration = ________________ Net Primary Productivity

  27. Heterotrophs that break down dead organic material and use the decomposition products to supply themselves with energy Decomposers (or saprotrophs)

  28. Gross Primary Productivity – Cellular Respiration = ________________ Net Primary Productivity

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