EEB 2100 UConn Exam 1 Questions with 100% VERIFIED Answers
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EEB 2100 UConn Exam 1 Questions with
100% VERIFIED Answers
"Golden Spike" - Answer (GSSP) Global Stratotype Section and point and refers to
evidence in geological strata that signifies the start of a new geological stage of time.
5 stages of population growth - Answer Pre-transition s...
EEB 2100 UConn Exam 1 Questions with
100% VERIFIED Answers
, EEB 2100 UConn Exam 1 Questions with
100% VERIFIED Answers
"Golden Spike" - Answer ✓✓(GSSP) Global Stratotype Section and point and refers to
evidence in geological strata that signifies the start of a new geological stage of time.
5 stages of population growth - Answer ✓✓Pre-transition stage characterized by high
birth and death rates with births just barely beating out deaths
Mortality Transition: Death rate begins to decline rapidly and birth rate remains steady
Fertility transition: Birth rate begins to fall rapidly but death rate is still far below and
declining
Post-transition stage: birth and death rate become so close they begin to cancel one
another out
Stage 5: unknown as human population has not yet reached this point
A Hungry World - Answer ✓✓most of the world is a little bit hungry with African and
Middle Eastern countries being the worst. Climate change will make it harder to grow
food in countries where it is already hard
Acid Rain ecological impacts - Answer ✓✓leaches calcium from soil which limits plant
growth and damages trees
creates a toxic form of aluminum that is spread between plants
acidifies lakes which then start to loose sensitive species like trout
Acid rain in NE - Answer ✓✓Comes from coal emissions in the Midwest
Acid rain today - Answer ✓✓Still an issue but it has been reduced by 80%
soil has been depleted of buffering so remaining acidity has a much bigger effect
Affluence - Answer ✓✓how much consumption or use their is of something. for
example, the US beef consumption has a larger affluence than anywhere else in the
world. Put in other words: many people in the population of the US enjoy beef
Agricultural fertilizers - Answer ✓✓Nitrogen and phosphorous cycles have been
hijacked by human needs and much less is left in a form usable to plants
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