SWES 210: Final Exam
70 Cards in this Set
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On Tikopa When they realized that the pigs they
had imported were damaging the soil & plants, they removed the pigs. They also had to
have permission from a chief to fish, which prevented overfishing. This indicates that
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They likely practiced sustainability
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In a manipulative experiment on wheat grown within a greenhouse
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scientists manipulate the independent variable, such as temperature
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Rock that has undergone heat or pressure that causes it to change form is called
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METAMORPHIC
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Most of the net radiant energy absorbed by a moist soil at mid-day is used to
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evaporate water from the soil
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Most extinction is
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gradual
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Which of the following statements is accurate
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when we damage ecosystems we lose both biodiversity and ecosystem service
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A role of a rabbit in the Sonoran desert food web is best described as
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a primary consumer or herbivore
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Secondary succession
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occurs after a disturbance such as fire or flood
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The largest pools of carbon in the carbon cycle are
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sedimentary rocks and fossil fuels.
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Eutrophication in the northern Gulf of Mexico appears to be due mainly t
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excess nutrients from fertilizers in the Mississippi River watershed
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External costs include
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environmental damage
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Which of the following is an assumption of neoclassical economics
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growth is good
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The first laws in U.S. environmental policy
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were intended to promote settlement of the Wes
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Technology, according to the IPATS model,
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Can be measured by the number of patents
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A common approach used by the Inca farmers to protect soils from erosion in mountainous areas:
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Terracing
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The primary goal of Norman Borlaug & the Green Revolution:
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increase yields of crop production to feed more people
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Which of these is the major cause of biodiversity loss?
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Habitat Alteration
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Large areas of primary forest here have been converted to palm oil production since 1950:
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Borneo
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The New Urbanist community known as Civano, Tucson
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Has neighborhoods designed on a walkable scale
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The Colorado River watershed
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a. includes portions of seven western states
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Type of lake with high nutrient levels but low oxygen content:
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eutrophic
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The Thermohaline Circulation system may be slowing due to
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the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet
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Since 1970 which of the following has decreased by about 50% in the U.S.?
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air pollution emissions
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Which of these is a secondary pollutant in photochemical smog?
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tropospheric ozone
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Temperatures are increasing most rapidly here
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arctic
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This physical process counteracts some of the warming effects of additional carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere:
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increasing cloud cover
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A renewable resource within the lithosphere
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geothermal energy
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Oxidation of carbohydrates in plants
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respiration
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Assemblage of populations (species) that live in the
same area at the same time
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community
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Biome in eastern U.S. with stable precipitation &
seasonal temperature change
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temperate deciduous forest
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Requires environmental impact studies on federal
projects
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NEPA
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Pragmatic benefits to using something, such as coal
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Utilitarian Value
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Process resulting in two separate gray squirrel
populations along the Grand Canyon
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allopatric speciation
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Requires about 5’ of water annually
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Tucson Lawn
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Mechanism of heat transfer within soils
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Conduction
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Biomass generated (net growth) each year by plants
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NPP
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First Administrator (Chief) of U.S. Forest Service
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Gifford Pinchot
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Proponent of steady-state economy
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John Stewart Mill
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a ? is a testable proposition that explains an observed
phenomenon or answers a question
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Hypothesis
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Zebra mussels are an __?___ species that first came to North American
waters in 1988
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Invasive
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Radiant energy emitted from the ground is mainly in the form of _?__ wave
radiation
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Long
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Rhizobia living on the roots of mesquite trees are an example of a beneficial
__?___ relationship
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mutualistic
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Tucson could meet much of its future potable water needs by__?____ water
harvesting involving use of rain gutters and cistern
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active
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The ecological footprint is metaphorical of renewable land & _?__ resources
used to support a person or population
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water
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Insects are _?__ -strategists.
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R
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_?____ described the “Land Ethic” in his book “A Sand County
Almanac”
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Aldo Leopold
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The _?__ Clan ethically oppose uranium mining on their land in Australia
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Mirrar
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Directional _?_____ drives a characteristic of a species in one direction,
such as thicker shells of snails in a drying environment
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selection
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Helped establish the National Forest System
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Timber Famine
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Bt Cotton
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GM Crop
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Source of climate data back 400,000 years
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Ice Cores
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Has become a grain exporter
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India
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Neo-Malthusian: he wrote Population Bomb
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Paul Ehrlich
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are lowest at about this time of the year
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are lowest at about this time of the year
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The largest number of species
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Insects
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Helps moderate Europe’s climate
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Gulf stream
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Has an urban growth boundary
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Portland
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Has long residence time in atmosphere
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Carbon Dioxide
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Possible point source of pollution of surface water
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Animal Feedlot
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Islands threatened by sIea level rise
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Maldives
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According to the Demographic Transition model, during the Pre-Industrial stage the U.S. had _?___ birth and death rates.
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High
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About _____ % of the topsoil in the U.S. Midwest has been eroded since the prairies were first plowed in the 19th century.
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50
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Food products travel an average distance of 1400 miles in the _____ .
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US
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The number of species in an area is known as species _?____ .
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Richness
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To achieve maximum__?____ yield forest managers harvest trees at intermediate size.
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SUSTAINABLE
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Spread of low density development outward from an urban center is known as _?___.
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SPRAWL
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The speed a tsunami wave moves across the ocean is proportional to the square root of the _?____ in the ocean.
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Depth
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Residential demand for water in Tucson can be reduced by irrigating landscape plants at__?__ .
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NIGHT
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The Northeast Trade Winds often carry _?___ from the Sahara desert to the Americas
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DUST
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Carbon dioxide concentrations are measured at a mountain top location on the island of _?____ far from large anthropogenic sources.
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HAWAII
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SWES 210: Final Exam