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Environment & Ecology Flashcards

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Which gas causes global warming?: CO2
What gas causes greenhouse effect most?: CO2
Which layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer?: Stratosphere
Which gas is most responsible for global warming?: Carbon dioxide
Which resource is considered renewable?: Solar Energy
What is 'Composting'?: Recycling organic waste
What is the 'Greenhouse Effect'?: Trap of heat by gases
Which of these is a non-renewable resource?: Uranium
What does 'Recycling' save?: All of these
Which chemical was banned to protect the ozone layer?: CFCs
What is the primary goal of the Paris Agreement?: Climate change
What is 'E-waste'?: Electronic waste
What is the main component of smog?: Ground-level ozone
Which fossil fuel is the cleanest burning?: Natural gas
What is the primary cause of coral bleaching?: Rising water temp
What term describes a sepeecies that has a disproportionately large effect on its natural environment relative to its abundance, such as the sea otter or the gray wolf?: Keystone sepeecies
Which greenhouse gas is estimated to be over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere over a 20-year epeeriod?: Methane
What is the primary cause of ocean acidification, which threatens the survival of coral reefs and shellfish?: Absorption of atmospheric carbon dioxide
Which international agreement, adopted in 2015, aims to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels?: Paris Agreement
What is the term for the process by which toxic substances, such as mercury or DDT, become more concentrated in the tissues of organisms as you move up the food chain?: Biomagnification
Which ecosystem is often referred to as the 'lungs of the planet' due to its massive capacity to produce oxygen and sequester carbon?: The Amazon Rainforest
What is the term for a symbiotic relationship where one sepeecies benefits while the other is neither helepeed nor harmed?: Commensalism
Which phenomenon describes the warming of the Earth's surface that occurs when urban areas replace natural land cover with dense concentrations of pavement and buildings?: Urban Heat Island Effect
What process occurs when excess nutrients, typically from fertilizer runoff, enter a body of water and cause an overgrowth of algae that depletes oxygen?: Eutrophication
What is the name of the international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of substances like CFCs?: Montreal Protocol
What term is used to describe the total variety of all life on Earth, from genes and sepeecies to entire ecosystems?: Biodiversity
Which tyepee of sepeecies is sepeecifically native to a single geographic location and found nowhere else in the wild?: Endemic sepeecies
What is the term for the maximum population size of a sepeecies that an environment can sustain indefinitely without degrading the habitat?: Carrying Capacity
Which environmental concept encourages a production and consumption model that involves sharing, leasing, reusing, and recycling existing materials for as long as possible?: Circular Economy
What phenomenon causes corals to exepeel the colorful symbiotic algae living in their tissues, often due to rising sea temepeeratures?: Coral bleaching