| Effects of Human Activity | Developing an Understanding | The Environment | Basic Science | Homo Sapiens, Sapiens |
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What is Pfiesteria?
Microscopic free living organism.
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What is "Our Environment?"
The sum of all the condition surrounding us that influence us.
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What is the population with the greatest ability to respond to environmental changes?
High genetic diversity.
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What are the Greenhouse Gases?
Responsible for constant temperatures near Earth's surface.
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What is the human population?
7 Billion
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What is the life stages of Pfiesteria?
Carnivorous stage, free-floating amoeba stage, and a stage that allows development of protective casing.
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What is the study of environmental science is concerned with?
The interactions among human systems and those found in nature, including biotic and abiotic interactions.
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What is evidence of Biodiversity?
Genetic variation among human populations, number of species in a region, number of ecosystems and habitats in a region, and variety of nutrients available in a region.
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What is the effects of increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
Increasing in part due to fossil fuel use, and is increasing in part due to deforestation.
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What is the human population expected to stabilize at?
6.8 - 10.5 billion by 2100.
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What caused the death of a billion fish in the Neuse River of North Carolina in 1991?
Pfiesteria
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What is an ecosystem on Earth includes?
Interacting living and non-living components.
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What are Environmental Indicators?
Do not always describe what is causing a change in the environment.
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What is the difference from a Hypothesis and a Belief?
Something that is testable.
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What is the percentage of energy the world's most developed population consumes.
20% and 58%
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What is was the factor that enabled Pfiesteria to enter the life stage that caused fish kills in the Neuse River?
Nutrients were added to the water.
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What is the difference between an environmentalist and an environmental scientist?
An environmentalist is involved in a social movement; whereas an environmental scientist is concerned with the methods of science.
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What is Ecosystem services?
Process by which life supporting resources are produced, can be provided by a forest, can be provided by an aquifer, and can be provided by soil.
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What is a Theory?
An idea that has been repeatedly tested and confirmed by multiple groups of researchers.
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What is percentage of energy the world's poorest people consume.
20% and 5%
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What is the effects of a Pfiesteria outbreak on humans?
Decrease in tourism, economic loss from decreased seafood sales, decrease in recreational fishing, and increase of skin sores and nausea.
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What is Environmental Studies?
Ethics, policy, literature, and economics.
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What are good examples of direct human manipulation of the natural environment?
Adding Emissions to the atmosphere from driving cars and concerting land from forest to growing crops.
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What is Natural Law?
A phenomenon which has been rigorously tested and to where there are no know exceptions
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What is how many Earth's we would need if everyone lived the average lifestyle of a Unites States citizen.
5
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