2. Species Status Biomes! Energy Flow Ecosystems Sustainability 500 400 300 200 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500

3. The amount of productive land, fresh water, and ocean required on a continuous basis to supply a person with food, wood, energy, water, housing, clothing, transportation and waste disposal. 100 points Answer: What is an ecological footprint?

4. The percent of stuff Americans harvest, mine, process, and transport that ends up trashed within six months. 200 points Answer: What is 99% ?

5. 300 points Using the IPAT model, where I = P x A x T, this is what happens to the environmental impact when affluence increases. Answer: What is the environmental impact increases?

6. 400 points Atmosphere and climate, fresh water, forests, wildlife, and ocean fisheries are examples of these type of resources for which no single person has responsibility. Answer: What are common pool resources ?

7. 500 points In part, this concept states that humans must consider the effects of our actions on the health and well-being of natural ecosystems, including all living things. Answer: What is sustainability ?

8. 100 points An ecosystem is more inclusive than a community because it includes these components. Answer: What are abiotic factors?

9. 200 points These are three examples of abiotic factors. Answer: What are atmospheric gases, precipitation, temperature, salinity, light/radiation, soil?

10. 300 points This is what you would call an ecologist studying a group of individuals living in one area and belonging to the same species. Answer: What is a population ecologist?

11. 400 points This type of organism in the environment can obtain energy from any trophic level in the food web. Answer: What are decomposers?

12. 500 points

13. 100 points This word is used to describe the capacity or ability to do work. Answer: What is energy?

14. 200 points This concept supports the fact that an organism may absorb energy from its surroundings, or it may give up some energy into its surroundings, but the total energy content of the organism and its surroundings will always be the same. Answer: What is the first law of thermodynamics?

15. 300 points This concept supports the fact that as energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next, some energy is dispersed into the surroundings as heat. Answer: What is the second law of thermodynamics?

16. 400 points This is what is subtracted from Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) to determine a producer’s Net Primary Productivity (NPP). Answer: What is energy consumed by cellular respiration?

17. 500 points If 10,000 Kcal of energy is produced through photosynthesis by producers and only 1000 Kcal of energy is available to primary consumers, this is the percent of energy that is actually transferred between trophic levels. Answer: What is 10%?

18. 100 points The major abiotic factors that differentiate biomes. Answer: What temperature and precipitation?

19. 200 points Besides characteristic abiotic factors, this is another component that distinguishes biomes. Answer: What are plants and animals OR biotic factors?

20. 300 points This location is the tropical desert. Answer: Tindouf, Algeria?

21. 400 points The location depicted in this climograph belongs in this hemisphere. Answer: What is the southern hemisphere?

22. 500 points The location depicted in this climograph exists at a higher altitude. Answer: What is climograph B?

23. 100 points This is a type of species that is near extinction without the positive intervention of humans. Answer: What is an endangered species?

24. 200 points This is the main cause of species endangerment. Answer: What is habitat loss?

25. 300 points Without this type of species, an ecosystem could become completely imbalanced. Answer: What is a keystone species?

26. 400 points This is what the Endangered Species Act of 1973 deemed illegal. Answer: What is importing, exporting, or selling animals and plants on the list across state lines?

27. 500 points These are at least two characteristics of invasive species. Answer: What is a high rate of reproduction, fast growth rate, lack natural predators?