APES Midterm Review || Questions and 100% Accurate Answers.
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sustainability correct answers -ability of Earth's various systems, including human cultural systems and economies, to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely
environmental science correct answers -interdisciplinary study that uses information from the physical scienc...
APES Midterm Review || Questions and 100% Accurate
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sustainability correct answers -ability of Earth's various systems, including human cultural
systems and economies, to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely
environmental science correct answers -interdisciplinary study that uses information from the
physical sciences and social sciences to understand how the earth works, learn how humans
interact with the earth, and develop solutions to environmental problems
ecology correct answers -biological science that studies the relations between living organisms
and their environment; study of the structure and functions of nature.
developing countries correct answers -country that has low to moderate industrialization and low
to moderate per capita GDP (gross domestic product)
-most are located in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
developed countries correct answers -country that is highly industrialized and has a high per
capita GDP (gross domestic product)
perpetual resources correct answers -essentially an inexhaustible resource on a human time scale
because it is renewed continuously
-solar energy
non-renewable resources correct answers -resources that exists in a fixed amount (stock) in the
earth's crust and has potential for renewal by chemical, physical, geological processes taking
place over hundreds of millions to billions of years
-copper, aluminum, coal, and oil
-we classify these resources as exhaustible because we are extracting and using them at a much
faster rate than they are formed
environmental degradation correct answers -depletion or destruction of a potentially renewable
resource
-soil, grassland, forest or wildlife
-used faster than it is naturally replenished if such use continues the resource becomes non-
renewable (on a human time scale) or nonexistant (extinct)
ecological footprint correct answers -amount of biologically productive land and water needed to
supply a population with the renewable resources it uses and to absorb or dispose of the waste
from such resource use
-measures the average environmental impact of populations of different countries or areas
recycling correct answers -collecting and reprocessing a resource so that it can be made into new
products
, -collecting aluminum cans and melting them down and using the aluminum to make new cans
and other products
non-point source pollution correct answers -large or dispurced land areas that discharge polutants
into the environment over a large are
-crops fields, streets, and lawns
input pollution control/pollution prevention correct answers -device or process that prevents a
potential pollutant from forming or entering the environment or sharply reduces the amount
entering the environment
output pollution control/pollution clean up correct answers -device or process that removes or
reduces the level of a pollutant after it has been produced or entered the environment
-automobile emission control devices and sewage treatment plants
organisms correct answers -any form of life
population correct answers -group of individual organisms of the same species living in a
particular area
community correct answers -populations of all species living and interacting in an area at a
particular time
ecosystems correct answers -community of different species interacting with one another and
with the chemical and physical factors making up its non-living environment
biosphere correct answers -zone of the earth where life is found
-it consists of parts of the atmosphere (the troposphere), hydrosphere (mostly surface water and
ground water), and lithosphere (mostly soil and surface rocks and sediments of the bottoms of
oceans and other bodies of water) where life is found
Shannon-Wiener diversity index correct answers -the idea is that the more different letters there
are, and the more equal their proportional abundances in the string of interest, the more difficult
it is to correctly predict which letter will be the next one in the string
-the Shannon entropy quantifies the uncertainty (entropy or degree of surprise) associated with
this prediction.
atmosphere correct answers -mass of air surrounding the earth
troposphere correct answers -the lowest portion of Earth's atmosphere
-contains approx. 75% of the atmosphere's mass
-the average depth of the trophosphee is deeper in the tropical regions (up to 20 km [12 miles])
and shallower near the poles (about 7 km [4 miles])
-the temperature of the troposphere decreases with height, while saturation vapor pressure
decreases with temperature
-the pressure of the troposphere is maximum at the surface and decreases with higher altitude
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