1. 100 200 300 400 500 FINAL Populations Climate Resources Ecosystems
Grab Bag o’ Everything
100
200
300
400
500

2. What does this graph show?
Populations 100
What does this graph show?
Category

3. Exponential growth – runaway expansion of the population!
Populations 100
Exponential growth – runaway expansion of the population!

4. The number of organisms that the ecosystem can support.
Populations 200
The number of organisms that the ecosystem can support.
Category

5. The number of organisms that the ecosystem can support.
Populations 200
Carrying Capacity:
The number of organisms that the ecosystem can support.

6. Populations 300
Give two examples of limits to population growth that limit all populations regardless of size. What are these factors called?

7. Density Independent Factor:
Populations 300
Density Independent Factor:
factors that limit pop. growth of ALL populations regardless of size:
meteorite impacts, earthquakes, volcanoes, storms, pollution…

8. What does this age structure diagram tell you about this population?
Populations 400
What does this age structure diagram tell you about this population?

9. Populations 400
That there are not enough young people to easily care for their elderly population

10. Why does higher biodiversity lead to more stable ecosystems?
Populations 500
Why does higher biodiversity lead to more stable ecosystems?

11. Populations 500
The greater the biodiversity means more genetic (DNA) material which increases chances of disease resistance or other ecosystem disruption.

12. Climate 100
What are normals?

13. Standard values for a location, averaged over 30 years.
Climate 100
Standard values for a location, averaged over 30 years.

14. Would normals best predict weather or climate?

15. Weather conditions on any given day might differ widely from normals.
Climate 200
Climate.
Weather conditions on any given day might differ widely from normals.

16. Climate 300
Latitude, topographic effects, and air masses are three of the top conditions used to determine what?

17. Climate 300
Climate!

18. Climate 400
What factors are used to classify biomes in the Koeppen classification system?

19. Climate 400
Temperature,
precipitation,
and vegetation.

20. What factors might cause a microclimate to develop?

21. Climate 500 Microclimate causes Bodies of water
Slope or side of house facing sun/away from sun
Heat island

22. What are renewable resources? Give two examples.

23. Resources 100 Renewable resources:
Natural resources that are possible to use indefinitely without causing a reduction in the available supply:
Air, soil, water, nitrogen, carbon, solar energy (inexhaustible supply).

24. What is sustainable yield?
Resources 200
What is sustainable yield?

25. (fishing – not exceeding the growth of new ones)
Resources 200
Sustainable yield:
The use of renewable resources within the rate they can be replaced naturally
(fishing – not exceeding the growth of new ones)

26. Resources 300
Diamonds, uranium, fossil fuels, copper and gold are an example of what kind of resource?

27. Nonrenewable resource:
Resources 300
Nonrenewable resource:
a resource that exists in a fixed amount and can be replaced only by geological, physical, and chemical processes that take hundreds of millions of years!

28. Where did oxygen originate?
Resources 400
Where did oxygen originate?

29. Beginning Earth’s atmosphere was CO2, Nitrogen and H20.
Resources 400
Beginning Earth’s atmosphere was CO2, Nitrogen and H20.
Early ocean organisms used CO2 for photosynthesis, releasing O2 for the rest of us!
Go Cyanobacteria!

30. Why is water such an important resource?
Resources 500
Why is water such an important resource?

31. Organisms are mostly water
Resources 500
Organisms are mostly water
High heat-storage capacity – protects from abrupt heat changes
Dissolves many compounds (solvent)
Ice is less dense that liquid - floats

32. Ecosystems 100
What is the region of Earth that encompasses all living organisms: plants, animals and bacteria?

33. Biosphere is the region of Earth encompasses all living organisms.
Ecosystems 100
Biosphere is the region of Earth encompasses all living organisms.

34. What is an invasive species?
Ecosystems 200
What is an invasive species?
Give an example.

35. Introduced species that harm existing ecosystems
Invasive species:
Introduced species that harm existing ecosystems
Fire ants, kudzu, boa constrictors

36. List two benefits of traditional agriculture
Ecosystems 300
List two benefits of traditional agriculture

37. Benefits of traditional agriculture:
Ecosystems 300
Benefits of traditional agriculture:
Year-round fruits and vegetables
Cheap food
High food supply

38. List two characteristics of sustainable agriculture
Ecosystems 400
List two characteristics of sustainable agriculture

39. Sustainable Agriculture:
Ecosystems 400
Sustainable Agriculture:
Recycling crop waste and livestock manure
Crop rotation using crops with nitrogen-fixing bacteria instead of nitrogen fertilizer
Genetically engineering crops to fix nitrogen
Use of locally adapted crop and livestock
No-till farming to reduce soil erosion

40. What is one advantage of no-till farming?
Ecosystems 500
What is one advantage of no-till farming?

41. Ecosystems 500
No-till farming disturbs the soil much less than traditional tilling. This results in:
Much less soil erosion
Increased water retention

42. The retention of heat by the atmosphere is
Grab Bag 100
The retention of heat by the atmosphere is

43. the retention of heat by the atmosphere
Grab Bag 100
Greenhouse Effect:
the retention of heat by the atmosphere

44. Grab Bag 200
What is
“global warming?”

45. the rise in global temperatures
Grab Bag 200
Global Warming:
the rise in global temperatures

46. Grab Bag 300
The process where productive land becomes desert through the loss of topsoil

47. Grab Bag 300
Desertification:
The process where productive land becomes desert through the loss of topsoil

48. List two short term climate change agents
Grab Bag 400
List two short term climate change agents

49. Grab Bag 400 Seasons – Earth’s tilt El Nino/La Nina
Solar Activity – sunspots
Volcanic Activity
Earth’s Orbit – 100,000 yr cycle
Earth’s Wobble – 26,000 yr cycle

50. How many years can it take to form just a few centimeters of topsoil?
Grab Bag 500
How many years can it take to form just a few centimeters of topsoil?
(p. 659)

51. Grab Bag 500
1000 years!
But in can be lost within minutes of a storm through erosion! Protect it!!

52. Final Jeopardy
Write down a wager
List two abiotic factors

53. Final Jeopardy
Abiotic: Non-living chemical and physical factors in the environment which affect ecosystems
Climate: sunlight, temperature, wind & precipitation
Topography: latitude, altitude, slope
Atmosphere: oxygen, air pollution
Soil: texture, pH, water, salinity