Earths ecosystem - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Eco-centric - Correct Answer Excludes humans Anthropocentric view - Correct Answer Humans are there to preserve nature Gaia - Correct Answer It compares the Earths to a living organism in which feedback mechanisms maintain equilibrium. Abiotic factor - Correct Answer A non-ling, physical factor that may influence an organism or ecosystem; i.e. the temperature, sunlight, pH, salinity, precipitation Biotic factor - Correct Answer A living, biological factor that may influence an organi...

NRES 456 Tophat and Reading Questions Final Exam Questions and Answers Grasslands encompass approximately how much of the Earths Land surface - Correct Answer️️ -30-40% What is the predominant use of the worlds grasslands - Correct Answer️️ -Livestock Production In what sense were the lands that were converted to crops in the U.S during the period defined as marginal - Correct Answer️️ -Arent considered as significant until they can be converted into something that yielsd be...

ENV 1301 final EXAm questions and answers well illustrated. What are watersheds - correct answers.Watersheds are areas of land that drain into rivers or lakes. What determines a watershed - correct answers.Watersheds are determined by the slope of the land ... smaller watersheds drain into BIGGER WATERSHEDS. What is significant about the Missisipi river watershed drainage - correct answers.Mississippi River Watershed drains ~ 50% of 48 states in nation. What does fl...

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024 Study of how resources are converted into goods and services (includes studying how goods and services are distributed and used? - ANSWER economics manufactured material and products that consumers and businesses buy ( backpacks binders tomatoes) - ANSWER Goods work that a person or company does for others as a form of business (massage butler storage plumber) - ANSWER services Government makes all decis...

Abiotic - correct answer Non-living Ex. A rock crystal can "grow" in a simple fashion. But rock crystals don't sense or respond to changing environments thus they aren't alive. Biotic - correct answer living - Be made of materials organized in hierarchical patterns. - Use energy and raw materials to survive. - Sense and respond to changing environments also to maintain homeostasis. - Grow, d...

Most planets (like Earth) are chemically differentiated. This means that nickel and what are concentrated at the core and lighter elements make up the crust? - correct answer iron True or False. Most of the energy sources human society uses are the result of past life-forms that have died, decayed and become part of the Earth's crust. - correct answer True The processes of the rock cycle are typi...

HRB Exam with Questions and Answers What is the Bioshpere? ANSWER All the Areas on Earth where Life can Live What is the Biosphere divided into? ANSWER Biomes What is an Ecosystem? ANSWER An area in which Life Exists Where are Tropical Forests located on Earth? ANSWER South America, Asia and Africa Where are Taiga Forests located on Earth? ANSWER Canada, Northern Europe and Russia What is a Biome? ANSWER A Large Ecosystem What are Latitudes? ANSWER How Northern or Southern a...

What is the carbon cycle? Why is it important? - Answer The carbon cycle is the mouvement of carbon between species, the earth, the atmosphere and oceans. Without carbon, ecosystems would not function and persist over time. Most exchanges involve the ocean. What are the crucial processes in the carbon cycle? Why are they important? - Answer Cellular respiration and photosynthesis. They cancel each other out so that there isn't too little CO2 (causing a frozen earth) or too much CO2 (causi...

OZONE layer protection; CFC exam Questions and Answer 2023 ozone construction exists as 3 basic forms o - oxygen atom o2 - oxygen molecule o3 - ozone molecule - toxic, unstable gas, protects us from UV sunlight sunlight strikes o2 molecules and splits them, the floating o atoms will "float" and come into contact with o2 to form o3- ozone molecule the stratosphere is approx. how far away above earths surface 15 to 50 km normally there is a balance between the ________...

PRAXIS 5005: Science Latest 2023 Rated A Igneous Rock formed when hot magma cools beneath the ground or lava cools above the ground forms crystal like/ glassy rocks ex: granite, pumus, basalt Sedimentary Rock Changed by pressure does not involve heat Usually near water/ involves water sometimes contain fossils forms from previously weathered and erroted material which may have been igneous, sedimentary, rock metamorphic rock. ex: dolemite, limestone, sandstone Metamorphic Rock Has been chan...