92 Pictures of APES

1. What is this?

2. During what period did this type of agriculture take over?

3. What are two ways to increase crop yields?

4. What are two ways to reduce the amount of land needed for agriculture?

5. For each of the following give two examples of negative impacts based on food production:BiodiversitySoilWaterHuman healthAir

1. What is this?

2. In what countries is this a major problem?

3. What is the most common human symptom associated with water pollution?

4. What are the top 3 polluters of water in order?

1. What two things are happening here?

2. Why is this done?

3. What environmental impacts does this have?

4. Which biome is most threatened by this? Why?

5. If used for agriculture, what must be added in large quantities?

1. What is this?

2. What type of cells are these?

3. How does it work?

4. What are 2 major drawbacks to this technology?

5. What are two advantages to this technology?

A. B. C. D.

1. What is this?

2. What would you call the organism at A, B, C and D?

3. Where do the decomposers fit into this?

4. Where does all the energy to sustain this come from?

5. Where would you find the highest concentration of an environmental contaminant?

6. What is the 10% rule?

1. What are these?

2. What causes this?

3. What biome does this occur in?

4. What gas is released from the soil as this happens? What does that cause?

1. What is this?

2. What is represented by A, B, C, D and E?

3. What keeps a population from moving past E?

4. What is a populations biotic potential?

5. What happens when a population overshoots E?

6. What are some way that humans have artificially raised E?

1. What are these?

2. What 1, 2, 3 4, and 5? Briefly describe their characteristics.

3. Sometimes there is another layer in a diagram like this. What is it, where does it exist, and when would it occur?

4. In which is #1 very thin, in which is #1 very thick? Why?

5. In which is #2 very thick?

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2.

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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)

1. What are these?

2. What do they tell scientist about the environment?

3. Why are these good species to watch?

4. What are two reasons that amphibians are vanishing?

1. What is this?

2. What are 2 components of this?

3. What part of the United States is this most common? Why?

4. What are two ways to reduce this?

5. Name a country with high levels of this?

6. What is one piece of legislation that addresses this problem?

1. What is this?

2. 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?

1. What is this?

2. What are two sources of this pollution? What source contributes the most?

3. What are two ways this pollution harms aquatic life?

4. How can this pollution harm humans?

1. What is happening to the population of this country, and what kind of country is it, name 1?

2. Most of the people are ______________________________________________________.

3. What are two reasons for a population like this?

4. What are two reasons for the low TFR in this country?

5. What is the RFR for a developing country and a developed country?

1. What is this?

2. In the middle of the map is the Pacific Plate. What is that area called? What is there?

3. What causes the area from question #2?

4. What are the 3 types of plate boundaries?

5. What is the most famous volcano in the United States? Fault line?

1. What is this?

2. What are two advantages to this practice?

3. What are two disadvantages to this practice?

4. How can this practice be used to reduce global warming?

5. What is another fuel source that can be extracted from a landfill?

Nitrogencycle

Biosphere

Phosphoruscycle

Carboncycle

Sulfurcycle

Watercycle

1. What are these?

2. List two ways that human activity have an impact on each one.

1. What is this?

2. What does it promote?

3. What topography promotes this?

4. Name a city that experiences this.

1. What is this organisms reproductive strategy?

2. What are two characteristics of this reproductive strategy?

3. What kind of environment favors this reproductive strategy?

4. In there approach for survival these organisms tend to be ___________________.

5. Why are they called K-strategists?

1. What is this?

2. What causes this?

3. Name 3 conditions that cause the organisms in #2 to leave

1. What is this?

2. Give two reasons why it is so important.

3. 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?

1. What is this?

2. Why is the water so clear?

3. 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?

1. What are these?

2. What do they contribute to?

3. What is GWP? Which two are a major concern because there GWP is high?

4. 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.

1. What is this?

2. Why is it used?

1. What is this?

2. How does it work?

3. What types of scientific evidence support evolution?

4. For evolution to occur, a _________________ evolves not individuals.

5. There are two types of evolution (divergent and Convergent) what factor contribute to each?

1. What is this?

2. What are the two compounds that cause this?

3. What are the major anthropogenic contributors to this?

4. What is a natural contributor to this?

5. What is the difference between the dry and wet form of this?

1. What is this?

2. What are two other things they could compete over?

3. What is the name of the other type of competition? Define it? What do they compete over?

4. Give an example of a density dependent factor.

5. Give an example of a density independent factor.

1. What is this?

2. How does it work?

3. Why is it used?

4. Name one other type of irrigation and one problem with it.

1. What are these?

2. What is the name of A, B and C?

3. What latitude is below C? What type of biome do you get here? Why?

4. 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?

1. What is this?

2. What are two advantages to using this technique?

3. What are two disadvantages to using this technique?

4. What are two ways we can reduce our need for fish?

1. What is this?

2. Explain how this contributes to the pesticide treadmill.

3. What are two alternatives to using pesticides?

4. Because developing GMF’s is very expensive name two crops that have been genetically modified. Name on animal.

5. How is selective breeding different from genetically modified organisms?

1. What is this?

2. How is it made?

3. 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?

1. What is this?

2. What type of population is most vulnerable to this happening?

3. Name one thing that could case this phenomenon.

1. What is this?

2. What are two other predator strategies?

3. What are two other prey strategies?

4. What are two plant defenses against herbivory?

Mercury 1. What is this?

2. What are two advantages of this method?

3. What are two disadvantages of this method?

Kudzu vine

1. What is this?

2. What is the number on reason they are so successful?

3. Why are they so successful in doing what you wrote down for #2?

4. Which specie is a big problem in the Great Lakes area?

1. What type of relationship is this?

2. There are two types of the relationship above, which one is this? What is the name of the other? Give and example.

3. Name two other types of symbiosis and describe the relationship.

4. Zebras eat the top of the grass, wildebeest eat the middle and gazelle eat the bottom. This relationship is known as ___________________________.

1. What is this?

2. Which biome is most affected by this?

3. What type of countries use this technique? What do they do it for?

4. What are two ways this contributes to global warming?

5. What are other types of pollution that can come from this practice?

1. What is this?

2. Briefly describe the type of reactions that occur here.

3. What are the benefits to using this technology?

4. What are the disadvantages to using this technology?

5. Building more of these facilities would allow us to close _______________________.

6. What must be mined in order to run this facility?

7. There have been accidents associated with this technology, where did one happen?

1. What is this?

2. What might this kid suffer from?

3. What should not be eaten during this time?

4. What are the two main reasons that this will happen?

5. What eventually kills fish and other organisms?

6. What area of the United States see this phenomenon each year?

1. What are these?

2. What is the number one reason they ended up this way?

3. What are the rest of the reasons?

4. What is the background extinction rate?

5. What are two behavioral characteristic that make organisms vulnerable?

6. Name a piece of legislation to help these animals.

1. What is this?

2. 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?

1. What is this?

2. How can this situation contaminate water supplies?

3. How can this situation be dangerous for the animals?

4. How does this situation add to global warming?

5. What are two advantages to using this technique?

6. What are the benefits of eating less meat (especially red)?

1. What two processes are occurring?

2. How do they differ?

3. Name a metal and a chemical that do this.

4. Name a bird, fish and mammal that would be most affected by these processes.

5. Where to those animals in #4 set in the food chain?

1. What are these?

2. The late loss curve is called a ___________________________.

3. Describe which type of reproductive strategy would correspond to each curve in the graph above.

4. Give an example other, other than those pictured for the late loss and early loss curves.

1. What is this?

2. In a river system, what situation does this set up?

3. What are the different parts of the situation in #2?

4. What other way can this kill aquatic organisms?

5. What are the first types of organisms to die from this situation?

6. What is the leading cause of this?

1. What is this?

2. What are some structures that would cause this to happen?

3. What is the founder effect and how does it relate to evolution?

4. 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 ____________.

1. What is this?

2. What mixes here? What is that called?

3. Why are they so vulnerable to pollution?

4. These areas are the most ____________ ecosystems in the world.

5. What are two challenges organisms in estuaries must deal with besides pollution?

1. What is this?

2. What event would have caused this?

3. Give an example of a pioneer species. What do they do?

4. What is the name of the other type of this process? How does it differ? What could cause this?

5. What would you call a community dominated by large oak trees?

1. What sits where the words North Pacific Gyre are?

2. What can be done to help with this situation?

3. Which of the things listed in #2 is the least efficient?

4. What is one piece of legislation that could help with this situation?

1. What is this?

2. How does it work as a carbon sink?

3. Why is it sometimes referred to as the rain forest of the sea?

4. What type of relationship is a coral?

1. Water is this?

2. What happens to marine birds exposed to this?

3. What clean up method is being used here?

4. Where does a majority of this come from?

1. What is this?

2. What part of HIPPCO is this?

3. Why do people in many countries still do this?

4. Sometimes species are not killed but captured to be sold as pets. Which groups are most sought after?

5. Name a piece of legislation other than the ESA that helps with this situation?

1. What is this?

2. What are the two problems that can occur with this?

3. What is the upside to using this?

4. This is considered one of Earth’s free ecological service, list and describe 2 others.

1. What is this?

2. What are two types and what do they do?

3. During what period in U.S. history did there use become common?

4. What are two advantages to using them?

5. What are two disadvantages to using them?

1. What is this?

2. What process causes this? What are they after?

3. Which country has the most of the product they are after in #2?

4. What is the major component of the product they are after in #2? What does the release of this component do to the environment?

5. Why is this being used as an energy resource?

6. What is the biggest problem with extracting this product this way?

7. What piece of legislation is this extraction process exempt from?

1. What is this?

2. How did it save human lives?

3. Why is it so dangerous in the environment?

4. How does it act in humans and other wildlife?

5. Name one effect this has had on wildlife?

1. What kind of disease is this?

2. Name 3 of the top 5 deadliest diseases of this kind?

3. What are two reasons that this kind of disease are on the rise?

4. How can global warming be responsible for the spread of disease?

1. What is this?

2. What is the name for waste that comes from households and workplaces? What are the top two components of this waste?

3. What would AAA batteries be considered?

4. The three barrel system of trash collection is the government's attempt to deal with our garbage problem. What is this called?

5. List the 5 R’s in order from most efficient to least efficient.

6. What is the biggest danger from this?

ANTHRACITE

1. What is this?

2. Why do we use it? What do we use most of it for?

3. What negative environmental impacts does using this have?

4. Who has the most of this?

5. Why is China using so much of it?

1. What is this?

2. What is the easiest waste to recycle?

3. What is the hardest waste to recycle? Why?

4. Why are some people against recycling?

5. What is the most recycled waste in the United States?

1. What is this?

2. What is stored here?

3. What is another method for storing this?

4. Where did storing this cause a very big problem?

5. Name one piece of legislation that deals with this problem.

1. What is this?

2. What is A, B, C and D?A.B.C.D.

3. What is the name of the two layers of the mantle?

4. What is the most common element in the crust?

1. What is this?

2. What is it used for?

3. What environmental problems can result from its use?

4. Cow dung is used in some countries for the same reasons, what environmental impact does this have?

5. How can this be used as a renewable fuel source?

6. How can using the fuel source from #5 be done unsustainably?

1. What is this?

2. What is removed in the primary stage? What do they use?

3. What is removed in the secondary stage? What do they use?

4. What is removed in the tertiary stage? What do they use?

5. What ecosystem can be used to do this job naturally?

1. What is this organisms reproductive strategy?

2. What are two characteristics of this reproductive strategy?

3. What kind of environment favors this reproductive strategy?

4. In there approach for survival these organisms tend to be ___________________.

1. What is this?

2. What causes this?

3. What are the 3 types of waves produced? Which is the most destructive?

4. Where does this originate? Where does this surface?

1. What is this?

2. Name two components that make this so dangerous?

3. Where does much of this end up?

1. What is this?

2. What are the other two categories?

1. What is this?

2. Why is it so dangerous?

3. What is the drawback to reclaiming this land?

4. This is especially common when water is used for mining, what is this kind of mining called? What are they looking for?

1. What is this?

2. What is a renewable hydrocarbon that could be used to replace or need for this?

3. What is a renewable non-hydrocarbon that can be used to replace this?

4. How is this refined?

5. What negative environmental impacts does this cause?

6. Who is the worlds largest user of this? How do they get most of it?

7. What is OPEC?

8. What are other ways this substance is stored?

1. What is happening to the population of this country, and what kind of country is it, name 1?

2. Most of the people are ______________________________________________________.

3. What are two reasons for a population like this?

4. What are two reasons for the negative TFR in this country?

5. Name two challenges a country faces with declining population.

1. What is this?

2. How does it work?

3. What are 2 advantages to using this technology?

4. What are 2 disadvantages to using this technology?

5. Name one in the United States. Name one in the world.

1. What is this?

2. What should we use instead?

3. How much energy is wasted by this? How does it get wasted?

4. What are the two best ways to reduce energy use?

5. Much of the energy we lose is based on energy conversion in which high quality energy is converted to lower quality energy with a loss of heat. What law does this demonstrate?

6. What is the best thing you can do to your home to reduce energy loss?

1. What is this?

2. Why does this hinder nuclear power?

3. Where does most of the nuclear waste get stored?

4. Suppose after 100 million years 1/32 of a radioactive substance still remains. How long is the materials half life?

5. The half life of a radioactive material is known to be 5 million years. How many years later will only 1/64 remain?

1. What is this?

2. What are some advantages to this?

3. What is the production of two useful forms of energy, such as high-temperature heat or steam and electricity, from the same fuel source?

1. What is this?

2. This is the fastest growing renewable resource, what is second?

3. What are 2 advantages to this technology?

4. What are 2 disadvantages to this technology?

5. Wind power is the source of high net energy or net useful energy, what does that mean?

1. What is this?

2. What is A, B, C, D, and E?

3. In which layer does the Earth’s weather occur?

4. In which layer does the ozone benefit us? In which layer does it hurt us?

5. What are the two major gases in the air near the Earth? How much is there?

6. Where is air pressure the greatest?

7. What is the benefit of having ozone in the atmosphere?

1. What is this?

2. What is the main reason for this occurrence?

3. ODS are all ___________________.

4. What were ODS used for?

5. What time of the year is this the worst?

6. What human inhabited areas are the most harmed by this?

7. Name one way that this phenomenon harms humans, plants, wildlife, air and global warming?

8. What piece of legislation help to stop the use of ODS?

1. What is this?

2. What is A, B, C and D?

3. Related to population pyramids, which section would have these shapes?

4. Name two major factors that allow a country to move from A-D.

5. Which transition is the most important for slowing population growth? What is one major negative environmental impact of this transition?

6. Why is the population growth so rapid in area B?

A B C D

Birth rate

Death rate

Population size

1. What is this?

2. What are 3 of the reactants that make this?

3. What are 2 components of this?

4. Where does a majority of the reactants come from (anthropogenic)?

5. Where do some naturally occurring reactant come from?

6. What is one piece of legislation that addresses this problem?

1. What is this?

2. What pollutants come from this?

3. Which non-renewable resource, when burned, releases the same pollutants?

4. Does this phenomenon contribute to global warming, cooling or both? How? What is the overall global effect?

1. What is this?

2. How does it work?

3. There are three types of natural selection. What are they and what do they do?

4. Natural selection works on an organism’s _______________ which drives a gradual change in the species _______________.

1. What is this?

2. How is it formed?

3. What process causes this to form at ground level?

4. How do we stop this from forming at ground level?

5. What conditions do you need to form this at ground level?

6. What are some human symptoms of ground level ozone?

1. What is this?

2. Why is it used?

1. What is this?

2. What causes it?

3. What is happening and how can this kill aquatic life?

4. What are two sources of the chemicals that cause this pollution?

5. What are two ways to prevent this from happening?

6. What are two ways IPM can deal with this problem?

1. What is this?

2. How does this reduce biodiversity?

3. What types of pollution come from this practice?

4. What is gangue?

5. What is overburden?

6. How can this practice be reduced?

7. What is suppose to happen when this is finished?

1. What is this?

2. How is it used?

3. What are 2 advantages to this technology?

4. What are 2 disadvantages to this technology?

5. Name of piece of legislation written to address energy use in some way?

1. What is this?

2. What is the major cause of this?

3. What is the largest carbon sink of Earth?

4. Does this same phenomenon happen naturally? If so what is the concern?

5. How has the carbon on this planet moved?

6. What effect does tis phenomenon have on aquatic ecosystems, terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere?

7. Name two events that atmospheric warming is causing that have a positive feedback

1. What is this?

2. What makes this organisms fit into this category?

3. Name one other species that would be considered in the same category and describe what it does.

1. What is this?

2. What is happening to the population of this country, and what kind of country is it, name 1?

3. Most of the people are the ________________ and have a potential for _______________.

4. What are two reasons for a population like this?

5. What are two reasons for the high TFR in this country?

1. What is this?

2. What are 2 advantages to keeping this intact?

1. What is this?

2. What piece of legislation is responsible for this?

3. What is one of the compounds this targeted?

4. Was it successful? Why or why not?

5. What piece of legislation was aimed to decrease global warming? Why has it had little success?