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APES REVIEW Questions and Answers What are the 4 major layers of the earth and the predominant elements in each layer? Crust (oxygen), Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core (iron); What are the three types of plate boundaries? Convergent, Divergent, Transform) What are the two types of te...

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What are the 4 major layers of the earth and the predominant elements in each layer? -
answer Crust (oxygen), Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core (iron);

What are the three types of plate boundaries? - answer Convergent, Divergent,
Transform)

What are the two types of tectonic plates and what are they made up of? - answer
Oceanic (basalt) and Continental (granite)

What are the major horizons of Soil? What is found in each? - answer OA(nutrients)
B(accumulated metals; iron, aluminum) CR(bedrock)

How do clay, silt, and sand impact soil characteristics? - answer Clay holds water,
Sand allows for quick percolation, silt is ideal for farming

What are two abiotic factors that erode soil? - answer Soil is primarily eroded by
water, second is wind.

What are the three types of rocks? Which is most common on the surface of the earth?
- answer Igneous, metamorphic, Sedimentary (common on surface)

What are the two major types of weathering? Where on the planet do they occur? -
answer Physical and Chemical Weathering. Physical occurs commonly outside of
the tropics, chemical within the tropics

What are the major gases of the atmosphere? - answer Nitrogen (78%), Oxygen
(21%), Argon (.93%), Carbon Dioxide (.035% or 350ppm)

What are the layers of the atmosphere from the surface up to space? - answer
Tropo, Strato, Meso, Thermo, Iso, Exo

Name 3 greenhouse gases - answer Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Water Vapor

The bulk of the planet's freshwater is found where? - answer Frozen

What is an Aquifer? - answer An underground layer of porous rock between
impermeable rock filled with water

What are 4 major properties of water? - answer Cohesion, Adhesion, Capillarity,
Universal Solvent, High Specific heat

, What are the types of symbiotic relationships, and how is each species impacted? -
answer Mutualism (+,+) Commensalism (+,0) Parasitism (+, -)

What is a Keystone Species? - answer A species which serves to keep all other
populations in balance in an ecosystem

Biodiversity is defined as... - answer the number of species in an area and is a
measure of the health of an ecosystem. Greater is better.

How much energy is transferred up trophic levels - answer 10%

What trophic level has to be the largest? - answer Producers

What is the primary energy source for terrestrial ecosystems? - answer Sun

Which of the biogeochemical cycles does not utilize the atmosphere? - answer
Phosphorus

How is atmospheric nitrogen converted to a useable form for plants? - answer
Nitrogen fixing bacteria - Nitrogen fixation & ammonification

Water leaving organisms, like plants through their stoma, is called? - answer
Transpiration

How do an r-strategist and k-strategist differ? Example of each? - answer r=rapid
reproduction (rabbits, mice) k=slow population growth (humans, elephant) 3. The
presence of soil indicates secondary succession

What is a carrying capacity? - answer The maximum population size based on
ecosystem limits

What is the major difference between primary and secondary succession? - answer
The presence of soil indicates secondary succession

How many people are on the planet? - answer 7 billion

How many people are in the US? - answer 330 million

What is the formula for Ecological Impact? - answer I = PAT (Population X Affluence
X Technology

The world population graph is a _________ curve - answer J

What are the four phases of the demographic transition and details of each? - answer
Preindustrial, Transitional, Industrial, Post Industrial

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