2/1/06 Environmental
Science 102
Study Concepts/Terms Exam I, 2006
Professor Fermanich
Exam 1, 50 questions, multiple choice, 2 points each.
Review session?
What
is Environmental Science?
Examples of current environmental issues and trends (climate, population, water, air, habitat, etc..)
Rich vs. poor; environmental justice: relation to environmental issues
Relationship between Indicators of Environmental health and quality of life and income
Optimistic,
pessimist views of environmental problems
Worldviews:
domination, stewardship, biocentric/ecocentric; why important, basic differences
Historical perspectives on conservation and environmentalism
Basic
elements of critical thinking
Scientific
method: hypothesis vs. theory
Basic
structure/organization of matter
Energy
quality: high vs. low
Photosynthesis
vs. respiration? Similarities/differences?
How
is energy stored in a biological system?
Apply
natural laws of matter and energy to ecosystems
What
is an ecosystem?
Non-living
components of an ecosystem - what are they? How different?
Living
components of an ecosystem – what are they? How different?
Trophic
levels? How described?
Tophic
pyramids
Reasons
for low efficiencies in energy transfer
Ecosystem
Productivity (also chapter 4)
What
is a cycle? How C, N, P, S cycles work, how similar? how different?
Importance
of biological carbon- and nitrogen-fixation?
Role
of microbes (decomposers) in biogeochemical cycles
Nitrate
(NO3)?
Human impacts on biogeochemical cycles?
Principle
of Tolerance limits
Limiting
factors
What
factors might affect tolerance limits within a population?
Environmental
indicator species: what do they tell us?
Natural
selection?
Selective
pressures?
Adaptation
of a species,
how related to natural selection?
Habitat
vs niche
Specialist
vs generalist?
Keystone
species: role in structure and function of ecosystem?
Predation
and parasitism: how regulate population size?
Predator-prey
relationship: how impacts adapatations/evolution of each?
Intraspecific
competition vs. interspecific competition: differences, examples
Resource
Partitioning: how related to competition?
Symbiotic
species interactions: types, examples
Ecosystem
productivity? Net primary productivity. How related to abundance and diversity?
-----------------following material may be on Exam 2 ---------------------------
Ecosystem
stability: how related to resilience and inertia? Examples of different types?
Primary
vs. secondary succession: how similar? how different?
Human impacts on succession and ecosystems
Exotic Species
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