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ENSP FINAL
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Environmental Studies
Undergraduate 1
12/12/2012

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Term
Sequence of layers in the atmosphere from intermost to outermost
Definition
Trophosphere-Stratosphere-Mesosphere-Thermosphere
Term
What atmospheric layer conatins 75% of the mass of earth's air?
Definition
Trophosphere
Term
Stratospheric ozone is NOT responsible for...
Definition
Lowering atmospheric water vapor
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Human inputs of outdoor air pollutants occur mostly in...
Definition
urban areas
Term
In india, the Asian Brown Cloud had redued photosynthesis by....
Definition
7%
Term
What ISN'T a part of the Asian Brown Cloud?
Definition
Ozone
Term
Acid Desposition is classified as a....
Definition
Regional problem
Term
If Earth were an apple, the lower layer of the atmosphere would be the thickness of....
Definition
the skin
Term
Primary Pollutants are...
Definition
Harmful chemicals emitted directly into the air from natuall processes and human activity
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Photochemical smog is characteristic in what type of climate?
Definition
Warm, dry, and sunny
Term
The people least vulnerable to air polliton are...
Definition
Adult males
Term
The greenhouse effect is best described as...
Definition
consensus science
Term
what was the concentration of Carbon Dioxide in the trophosphere at the start of the industrial revoluton?
Definition
280 PPM
Term
What describes earths average surface temp for the last 900,000 years?
Definition
Prolonged periods of cooling and warming
Term
Vladimir Romaovsky 
Definition
experct on Permafrost
Term
A warmer world would result in...
Definition
Moderate weather
Term
What is reducing the fertility in males in Missouri?
Definition
Agricultural Chemicals in drinknig water
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Where will global warming be most severe?
Definition
Polar regions
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Svante Arrhenius
Definition
first recongized the natural greenhouse effect in 1896
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Shasta
Definition
a key dam for Californias Federal Centeral Valley Project
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What % of earths surface is covered in salt water?
Definition
71%
Term
Hydrologic Cycle
Definition
the movement of water in the seas, air, and on land and is driven by solar energy and gravity
Term
Aquifer
Definition
The geological later, consisting of underground caverns and layers of sand, gravel, and bedrock, where groundwater flows
Term
Groundwater is...
Definition
not stationary, it moves.
Term
Subsidence
Definition
sinking of grounf when water has been withdrawn
Term
what is the watershed that is vital to water supllies for sonoma county?
Definition
Russian River
Term
What is a point source of water pollution?
Definition
Offshore oil well
Term
Oxygen Sag curve
Definition
occurs when oxygen demanding wastes are added to the water
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Eutrophication
Definition
the natural nutrient enrichment of a shallow lake or slow moving stream
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How do you protect groundwater?
Definition
by preventing contamination
Term
the majority of oil pollution of the ocean comes from...
Definition
runoff from land
Term
Properly matched sewage treatments...
Definition
Secondary-Biological Process
Term
Where is the greatest marine biodiversity?
Definition
In coral reefs
Term
in the film "Everything's Cool", researchers showed that the enviornmental message has been...
Definition
"I have a nightmare"
Term
Henry Miller
Definition
used 19th century water laws to acquire over 1 million acres of agricultural land in the San Joaquin Valley
Term
What is CA's Tulare Lake known for?
Definition
50 miles of cotton fields along intersate 5
Term
James Hansen
Definition
The NASA scientist who first identified CO2 gas in the trophosphere as a greenhouse gas effecting climate change
Term
Where is climate change most evident in the US?
Definition
Shismaref, Alaska
Term
what is the Geological Era we are living in now known as?
Definition
The Anthropecene
Term
How is the leopard frog of North America being impacted?
Definition
by runoff of chemicals applied to cornfields
Term
What are the 3 grains that provide 47% of humanitys food calories?
Definition
Rice, Wheat, Corn
Term
Salinization
Definition
repeating irrigation in dry climates that leads to soil degredation of the upper layers
Term
What is alley cropping?
Definition
Where crops are planted in strips between trees and shrubs.
Term
Polyculture
Definition
a traditional subsistence that farmers grwo several crops in the same crop at the same time
Term
In the US, how much of the original topsoil is gone?
Definition
33%
Term
What was George W Bush's response to the 1997 Kyoto treaty?
Definition
To twithdraw the US from participation in the treaty
Term
The Curse of kkad resulted from...
Definition
The loss of Lake Agassiz
Term
What technology will be used to farm the open oceans?
Definition
Aquapods
Term
T/F: Nitrogen makes up 21% of the air we breath
Definition
FALSE
Term
T/f: photochemical smog is a mixture of primary and secondary pollutants formed under the influence of UV raditation from the sun
Definition
TRUE
Term
T/F: over the past 50 years, arctic temps have risen almost as fast as avg temperature in the rest of the world
Definition
TRUE
Term
T/F: in a warmer climate, the population of humans is likely to decrease in numbers
Definition
TRUE
Term
T/F: water is seen more and more as a national security issue
Definition
TRUE
Term
T/F: drip irrigation is the most efficent method of delivering water needed for crops
Definition
TRUE
Term

Degrading Natural capital

Definition
using normally renewable resources faster than nature can renew them
Term
ecology
Definition
study of relationships between organisms and their enviornment
Term
substainable yield
Definition
the highest rate at which a renewable resource can be used indefinitly without reducing its available supply
Term
all non-renewable resources can be theoretically...
Definition
exhausted or depleted
Term
What isnt a renewable resource?
Definition
oil
Term
how are the coral reefs in st lucia managed?
Definition
protected marine reserved
Term
Community
Definition
the total of all the different species that live in a certain are
Term
lithosphere
Definition
where fossil fuels and minerals are found
Term
the hydrologic cycle is primarily driven by...
Definition
solar energy
Term
ecosystems
Definition
large terrestrial regions with similar characteristics
Term
ecological niche
Definition
a species way of life in a community
Term
generalist species
Definition
species with a broad niche
Term
carrying capacity
Definition
the maximum population of a given species that a paricular habitat can hold
Term
emigration
Definition
movement out of a population
Term
in the next 40 years, the population of Japan will...
Definition
decrease by 30 million
Term
oliogotrophic
Definition
deep lakes with a steep bank that have a small supply of plant nutrients
Term
weather
Definition
local areas short term temperature
Term
where does the largest input of solar energy occur?
Definition
between the tropic of cancer and capricorn
Term
the corolis effect
Definition
causes prevailing winds across the planet
Term
rain shadow effect
Definition
drier conditions on the leeward side of mountain ranges
Term
how is population change calculated?
Definition
(births+immigration)-(deaths+emigration)
Term
when are death and birthrates highest?
Definition
the preindustrial stage
Term
predation
Definition
when organisms feed on other organisms
Term
the milkankovitch wobbies
Definition
plentary wobbles that effect the progression of climate
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