1. APES 1st Semester Jeopardy Review: Populations and Air
A: Community Ecology
B: Human Population
C: Population Graphs & Formulas
D: Climate & Biomes
E: Air & Pollution
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3. A-100
ANSWER: The maximum number of individuals of a species that can be sustained indefinitely in an ecosystem
QUESTION: What is carrying capacity?

4. A-200 ANSWER: pioneer species
QUESTION: What type of species initially become established where there is primary succession?

5. A-300 DAILY DOUBLE! ANSWER: forest fires, deforestation, mudslides
QUESTION: What are some conditions that would lead to secondary succession?

6. A-400 ANSWER: 3 causes of tropical deforestation
QUESTION: What are 3 of:
Poverty, population growth near tropical forests, environmentally harmful govt. subsidies, agriculture (crops, animals), not valuing ecological services of forests, logging, mining, roads, fires, flooding from damming

7. B-100
ANSWER: freely available contraceptives, preferential employment, economic incentives
QUESTION: What are some of the components of China’s population control program?

8. A-500 ANSWER: Commensalism, Mutualism, Keystone and Indicator
QUESTION: What are species interaction in which
One specie benefits and the other is neither harmed nor benefitted;
Both species benefit;
A species that is necessary for the well-being of an ecosystem and other species; and
A species that can serve as an early warning sign of damage to the ecosystem

9. B-200
ANSWER: The most significant factor in contributing to rapid world human population growth in the last century
QUESTION: What are declining death rates?

10. B-300
ANSWER: the names/descriptions of the 3 bands in age structure diagrams, and which band’s width that indicates the population growth for the near future
QUESTION: What are pre-reproductive, reproductive and post-reproductive stages; and the bottom (pre-reproductive) stage?

11. B-400
ANSWER: the 2 most reliable/used indicators of overall health in a country
QUESTION: What are life expectancy and infant mortality rate?

12. B-500
ANSWER: the 3 factors that best empower women to have fewer children
QUESTION: What are education/literacy, a paying job outside the home, and not having their rights suppressed?

13. C-100 ANSWER: the population growth/change equation
QUESTION: What does this equation represent?
(birth rate + immigration rate) –
(death rate + emigration rate)

14. C-200
DAILY DOUBLE!
ANSWER: The name for the equation and the equation that calculates how long it takes to double a percentage rate.
QUESTION: What is the Rule of 70 and 70/% = doubling time?

15. C-300
ANSWER: the first produces a “J” curve and the second an “S” curve
QUESTION: What do exponential and logistic growth curves/graphs look like?

16. C-400
ANSWER: a graphical representation population size and growth in a country
QUESTION: What are age population structure diagrams (or population pyramids)?

17. C-500
ANSWER: The hypothesis/model that states as countries become industrialized, first their death rates and then their birth rates decline in four stages as their total populations increase
QUESTION: What is the Demographic Transition model?

18. D-100 ANSWER: Primarily responsible for seasons on Earth
QUESTION: What is the tilt of the Earth’s axis?

19. D-200
ANSWER: upwellings
QUESTION: What are cold, nutrient-rich ocean waters brought to the surface?

20. D-300
ANSWER: The 2 most important factors in determining climate of an area
QUESTION: What are temperature and precipitation?

21. D-400
ANSWER: Large convection currents of air created by the uneven heating of the Earth’s surface and its rotation on its axis
QUESTION: What are Hadley Cells?

22. D-500
ANSWER: El Niño
QUESTION: What is the situation in which Pacific trade winds are reversed so they travel from west to east, causing a drop in the thermocline and upwelling, and a disruption of normal weather patterns worldwide?

23. E-100 ANSWER: It forms when NOx and VOCs react with sunlight
QUESTION: What is smog?

24. E-200 ANSWER: Cause of a thermal inversion
QUESTION: What is a layer (lid) of warm air on top of (trapping) a layer of cooler air below?

25. E-300
ANSWER: PM 2.5s
QUESTION: What are suspended particulates small enough to be trapped in respiratory passages that they may contribute to respiratory diseases?

26. E-400 ANSWER: The main provision of the Clean Air Act
QUESTION: What Act requires the EPA to set national ambient air quality standards for air pollutants?

27. E-500 ANSWER: 2 devices used to remove particulate emissions
QUESTION: What are electrostatic precipitators and wet scrubbers?

28. F-100
ANSWER: The property that causes the atmosphere to be divided into layers
QUESTION: What is temperature change?

29. F-200
DAILY DOUBLE!
ANSWER: Mimicry, camouflage, flight/running away, hiding, chemicals/toxins
QUESTION: What are examples of defense mechanisms some organisms use to avoid becoming prey?

30. F-300
ANSWER: Condition that creates flu-like symptoms after spending time in non-ventilated buildings
QUESTION: What is sick building syndrome?

31. F-400
ANSWER: The term for buying and selling of air pollution rights (within specific limits)
QUESTION: What is cap and trade (or emissions trading)?

32. F-500 ANSWER: debt-for-nature swap
QUESTION: What is payoff of a (country’s, usually) debt, not with money, but with ownership of land in that country by the entity (other country or organization) to which money is owed?

33. FINAL JEOPARDY ANSWER: 3 criticisms of the Clean Air Act
QUESTION: What are 3 of:
Inadequate increases in vehicle fuel efficiency standards
Inadequate measures to reduce GHG
Relying on pollution cleanup rather than prevention
Failure to regulate emissions from ships, airplanes, small engines, & indoor air pollutants
Poor enforcement of existing regulations