92 Pictures of APES

1. 92 Pictures of APES

2. What is this? During what period did this type of agriculture take over? What are two ways to increase crop yields? What are two ways to reduce the amount of land needed for agriculture? For each of the following give two examples of negative impacts based on food production: Biodiversity Soil Water Human health Air

3. What is this? In what countries is this a major problem? What is the most common human symptom associated with water pollution? 4. What are the top 3 polluters of water in order?

4. What two things are happening here? Why is this done? What environmental impacts does this have? Which biome is most threatened by this? Why? If used for agriculture, what must be added in large quantities?

5. What is this? What type of cells are these? How does it work? What are 2 major drawbacks to this technology? What are two advantages to this technology?

6. A. B. C. D. What is this? What would you call the organism at A, B, C and D? Where do the decomposers fit into this? Where does all the energy to sustain this come from? Where would you find the highest concentration of an environmental contaminant? What is the 10% rule?

7. What are these? What causes this? What biome does this occur in? What gas is released from the soil as this happens? What does that cause?

8. What is this? What is represented by A, B, C, D and E? What keeps a population from moving past E? What is a populations biotic potential? What happens when a population overshoots E? What are some way that humans have artificially raised E?

9. What are these? What 1, 2, 3 4, and 5? Briefly describe their characteristics. Sometimes there is another layer in a diagram like this. What is it, where does it exist, and when would it occur? In which is #1 very thin, in which is #1 very thick? Why? In which is #2 very thick? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Based on the description name the biome: A. Low in nutrient, most nutrients are stored in the vegetation. B. Low in nutrients, decomposition of leaf litter is slow (cold)

10. What are these? What do they tell scientist about the environment? Why are these good species to watch? What are two reasons that amphibians are vanishing?

11. What is this? • What are 2 components of this? • What part of the United States is this most common? Why? • What are two ways to reduce this? • Name a country with high levels of this? • What is one piece of legislation that addresses this problem?

12. What is this? • The United States has a population growth rate of approximately 2.2 percent. In how many years will the population double if that growth rate remains constant? 3 .At the current rate of population growth, Earth’s population will double in about 64 years. What is the current percentage of the population growth rate. 4. If a population of 10,000 experiences 100 births, 40 deaths, 10 immigrants and 30 emigrants in a year, what is the net annual percentage growth rate? 5. Earth’s current population is almost 7 billion and is growing at an annual rate of 1.1 percent. At this rate of growth, how many people will be added in this next year? 6. An island off the coast of Costa Rica where 500 birds of a particular species live. Population biologist determined that this bird population was isolated with no immigration or emigration. After one year, the scientists were able to count 60 births and 10 deaths. What is the net growth for this population? What is the doubling time for this population?

13. What is this? What are two sources of this pollution? What source contributes the most? What are two ways this pollution harms aquatic life? How can this pollution harm humans?

14. What is happening to the population of this country, and what kind of country is it, name 1? Most of the people are ______________________________________________________. What are two reasons for a population like this? What are two reasons for the low TFR in this country? What is the RFR for a developing country and a developed country?

15. What is this? In the middle of the map is the Pacific Plate. What is that area called? What is there? What causes the area from question #2? What are the 3 types of plate boundaries? What is the most famous volcano in the United States? Fault line?

16. What is this? What are two advantages to this practice? What are two disadvantages to this practice? How can this practice be used to reduce global warming? What is another fuel source that can be extracted from a landfill?

17. Biosphere Carbon cycle Sulfur cycle Phosphorus cycle Nitrogen cycle Water cycle What are these? List two ways that human activity have an impact on each one.

18. What is this? What does it promote? What topography promotes this? Name a city that experiences this.

19. What is this organisms reproductive strategy? What are two characteristics of this reproductive strategy? What kind of environment favors this reproductive strategy? In there approach for survival these organisms tend to be ___________________. Why are they called K-strategists?

20. What is this? What causes this? Name 3 conditions that cause the organisms in #2 to leave

21. What is this? Give two reasons why it is so important. What is Humus? 4. How does livestock farms negatively effect this? 5. How does modern agriculture change this, and what negative environmental effect does this cause? 6. How does deforestation negatively effect this?

22. What is this? Why is the water so clear? What are the 4 zones of a lake? What is each zone like? 4. The water in lakes is layered based on temperature. What is this called? What are the manes of the layers? 5. How does the water in lakes mix? When does this occur?

23. What are these? What do they contribute to? What is GWP? Which two are a major concern because there GWP is high? There is one atmospheric gas that is not shown in the picture that is in the same category as those listed. What is it and what is it relative concentration? 5. Name one anthropogenic and one non-anthropogenic source of each compound in the picture.

24. What is this? Why is it used?

25. What is this? • How does it work? • What types of scientific evidence support evolution? • For evolution to occur, a _________________ evolves not individuals. • There are two types of evolution (divergent and Convergent) what factor contribute to each?

26. What is this? What are the two compounds that cause this? What are the major anthropogenic contributors to this? What is a natural contributor to this? What is the difference between the dry and wet form of this?

27. What is this? What are two other things they could compete over? What is the name of the other type of competition? Define it? What do they compete over? Give an example of a density dependent factor. Give an example of a density independent factor.

28. What is this? How does it work? Why is it used? Name one other type of irrigation and one problemwith it.

29. What are these? What is the name of A, B and C? What latitude is below C? What type of biome do you get here? Why? What latitude is between B and C? What types of biomes do you get here? Why? A. B. C. 5. What latitude is between A and B? What types of biomes do you get here? Why? 6. What latitude is above A? What type of biome do you get here? Why? 7. List the major biomes from the equator to the poles? What is the main thing that changes with latitude?

30. What is this? • What are two advantages to using this technique? • What are two disadvantages to using this technique? • What are two ways we can reduce our need for fish?

31. What is this? Explain how this contributes to the pesticide treadmill. What are two alternatives to using pesticides? Because developing GMF’s is very expensive name two crops that have been genetically modified. Name on animal. How is selective breeding different from genetically modified organisms?

32. What is this? How is it made? How is artificial selection different from this? 4. Name two other food sources that are now produced this way? 5. What are two projected advantages to using this technology? 6. What are two projected disadvantages to using this technology?

33. What is this? What type of population is most vulnerable to this happening? Name one thing that could case this phenomenon.

34. What is this? What are two other predator strategies? What are two other prey strategies? What are two plant defenses against herbivory?

35. Mercury What is this? What are two advantages of this method? What are two disadvantages of this method?

36. Kudzu vine • What is this? • What is the number on reason they are so successful? • Why are they so successful in doing what you wrote down for #2? • Which specie is a big problem in the Great Lakes area?

37. What type of relationship is this? There are two types of the relationship above, which one is this? What is the name of the other? Give and example. Name two other types of symbiosis and describe the relationship. Zebras eat the top of the grass, wildebeest eat the middle and gazelle eat the bottom. This relationship is known as ___________________________.

38. What is this? Which biome is most affected by this? What type of countries use this technique? What do they do it for? What are two ways this contributes to global warming? What are other types of pollution that can come from this practice?

39. What is this? Briefly describe the type of reactions that occur here. What are the benefits to using this technology? What are the disadvantages to using this technology? Building more of these facilities would allow us to close _______________________. What must be mined in order to run this facility? There have been accidents associated with this technology, where did one happen?

40. What is this? What might this kid suffer from? What should not be eaten during this time? What are the two main reasons that this will happen? What eventually kills fish and other organisms? What area of the United States see this phenomenon each year?

41. What are these? What is the number one reason they ended up this way? What are the rest of the reasons? What is the background extinction rate? What are two behavioral characteristic that make organisms vulnerable? Name a piece of legislation to help these animals.

42. What is this? How is it determined? 3. Name 2 activities that contribute to this? 4. What is anthropogenic? Of all contributing activities, which contributes the most to this? 5. How does your ecological footprint differ from this?

43. What is this? How can this situation contaminate water supplies? How can this situation be dangerous for the animals? How does this situation add to global warming? What are two advantages to using this technique? What are the benefits of eating less meat (especially red)?

44. What two processes are occurring? How do they differ? Name a metal and a chemical that do this. Name a bird, fish and mammal that would be most affected by these processes. Where to those animals in #4 set in the food chain?

45. What are these? The late loss curve is called a ___________________________. Describe which type of reproductive strategy would correspond to each curve in the graph above. Give an example other, other than those pictured for the late loss and early loss curves.

46. What is this? In a river system, what situation does this set up? What are the different parts of the situation in #2? What other way can this kill aquatic organisms? What are the first types of organisms to die from this situation? What is the leading cause of this?

47. What is this? What are some structures that would cause this to happen? What is the founder effect and how does it relate to evolution? If two closely related groups of animals become separated from each other long enough that their reintroduction proves that they can no longer produce offspring they are considered ________________________ and are part of two different ____________.

48. What is this? What mixes here? What is that called? Why are they so vulnerable to pollution? These areas are the most ____________ ecosystems in the world. What are two challenges organisms in estuaries must deal with besides pollution?

49. What is this? What event would have caused this? Give an example of a pioneer species. What do they do? What is the name of the other type of this process? How does it differ? What could cause this? What would you call a community dominated by large oak trees?

50. What sits where the words North Pacific Gyre are? What can be done to help with this situation? Which of the things listed in #2 is the least efficient? What is one piece of legislation that could help with this situation?