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abiotic |
not derived from living organisms |
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biotic |
only living things |
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tragedy of the commons |
is done in open access, humans over expose natural habitats |
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point source pollution |
when you can pinpoint the source of pollution |
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nonpoint source pollution |
when you can't pinpoint the source of pollution and therefore cannot stop the pollution easily |
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what do sustainable cities emphasize? |
wisdom world believe energy and material efficiency must be continously improved not nessarily with money |
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acid |
1-6 ph scale |
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base |
8-14 ph scale |
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neutral |
7 |
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affluenza |
a conditioned based upon the overconsumption of the world's resources |
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negative effects of afflueza |
is negatively effecting the wold due to developed countries over consuming our world's natural resources
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positive effects of affluenza |
can produce a positive effect this effect being money that goes into buying products that are made of those depreciating natural resources. and that money goes straight into the economy. |
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first law of thermodynamics |
energy can be transformed from one form to another, but cannot be created or destroyed. |
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second law of thermodynamics |
there is an increase in the sum of the entropies of the participating systems. |
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carbon sink |
the site where carbon recycling happens OCEAN where water is warmed and evaporated which equals more c2o in atmosphere |
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grey wolves introduced in order to |
decrease the number of moose in the yellow stone park area |
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positive feedback loops |
continue the bad ways |
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negative feedback loops |
change into a positive reaction |
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limiting factors for aquatic ecosystems |
temperature of the water, sunlight, the amount of nutrients, and dissolved oxygen content |
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greatest amount of freshwater |
frozen ice caps |
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lakes are based on |
nutrient levels |
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oligotrophic |
crystal clear; low nutrients |
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eutrophic |
high turbidity; high NPP |
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zones of a lake |
littorial, limnetic,profundal,benthic |
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littorial |
near the shore, high biodervisity, |
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limnetic |
open, sunlit area away from the shore, some large fish, MAIN PHOTOSYNTHIC ZONE |
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PROFUNDAL |
deep water too dark for photosynthesis, low oxygen levels, |
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benthic |
decomposers, detritus feeders, nutrient rich |
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human activities that effect freshwater |
dam rivers& streams for hydroelectric power with results in the changing of organisms habitat flood |
