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Environmental Studies
12th Grade
01/24/2009

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Term
producers 1
Definition
plants
Term
primary consumer
Definition
eats plants
Term
secondary consumer
Definition
eats primary consumer
Term
scavenger
Definition
eats dead shit
Term
decomposers
Definition
rot shit
fungi
Term
2nd law of thermodynamics
Definition
shit gets more chaotic over time
Term
demographic transition
Definition
when demographics change due to industrialization
Term
preindustrial
Definition
high birth rates and death rates
Term
agricultural 2
Definition
death rates fall, but birth rates stay the same
Term
industrial 3
Definition
decline in birth rate, death rate stays the same
Term
postindustrial 4
Definition
stable population
Term
fertility rate
Definition
how many babies the average lady has in a lifetime
Term
energy flow
Definition
how calories go though the food chain
Term
troposphere
Definition
1
Term
stratosphere
Definition
2
Term
mesosphere
Definition
3
Term
thermosphere
Definition
4
Term
prevailing winds
Definition
how the wind generally goes in a specific place
Term
altitude
Definition
how high up you are
Term
latitude
Definition
how far north or south
Term
r-selection
Definition
rats
unstable environments, lots of babies, don't take care of them well
Term
k-selection
Definition
humans
not that many babies, stable enviro, care for young
Term
commensalism
Definition
one benefits, the other doesn't care
Term
mutualism
Definition
both benefit
Term
parasitism
Definition
one benefits, one's harmed
Term
niche
Definition
an organism's roll
Term
primary successtion
Definition
how life happens when there's no dirt
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secondary succession
Definition
when there is dirt
Term
ecotone
Definition
place between ecosystems
Term
population
Definition
a group of things of the same species that hang out
Term
community
Definition
a bunch of organisms that hang out
Term
deciduous forest
Definition
forrest in which trees loose leaves
Term
taiga
Definition
pine tree forest
Term
temperate rainforest
Definition
warm deciduous forest with lots of rain
Term
benthos
Definition
marine things that live in sand
Term
nekton
Definition
stuff that can swim that aren't fish or mamals
Term
coral reef
Definition
it's a coral reef. Lots of stuff live there are it's mad in danger!
Term
estuary
Definition
where a river comes into the ocean
Term
intertidal zon
Definition
somewhere that's underwater at high tide and in the air at low tide
Term
abyssal plain
Definition
flat ocean floor
Term
lotic
Definition
moving water that isn't the ocean
Term
lentic
Definition
still water that isn't hte ocean
Term
swamp
Definition
area that's sometimes or always covered by shallow water
Term
marsh
Definition
like a swamp, but flooded more often
Term
tribal era
Definition
virtuous indians
Term
sagebrush
Definition
gtfo our land, hippies!
Term
environmental era
Definition
shit! Pollution!
Term
conservationist era
Definition
sustainability (after preservation)
Term
preservationsim
Definition
putting land aside
Term
john muir
Definition
started sierra club
conservationist
Term
teddy roosevelt
Definition
presevationist
put land aside
Term
rachel carson
Definition
enironmentalist
oh shit! DDT!
Term
gifford pinchot
Definition
conservationist
helped out with public forests (Or somehting)
Term
thoreau
Definition
lived in a hut by a river for a while
wrote walden
Term
precautionary principle
Definition
if somebody does something bad to the environment knowing that there's a chance that something bad might happen, then it's the guy's fault
Term
limiting factor principle
Definition
if there's not enough food or whatever, the populatin won't grow
Term
lacey act
Definition
first law to protect wildlife
you can't transport illegally killed animals
Term
antiquities act
Definition
government can stop people from fucking national monuments
Term
weeks act
Definition
government can buy land to protect water
Term
fifra
Definition
government has to approve of poisons
Term
taylor grazing act
Definition
don't graze on public land, bitch
Term
clean water act
Definition
don't pollute water, bitches!
Term
clean air act
Definition
don't pollute air, bitches!
Term
o horizon
Definition
1 leaf litter
Term
a horizon
Definition
2 topsoil
humus and minerals
Term
humus
Definition
partly decomposed shit
Term
b horizon
Definition
3 rocks, minerals, silt
Term
c horizon
Definition
bedrock
Term
littoral zone
Definition
shallow area by the shore
Term
limnetic zone
Definition
surface in the middle
Term
profundal zone
Definition
deep in the middle of a pond
Term
benthic zone
Definition
bottom of a lake
Term
law of tolerance
Definition
shit will only live in favorable conditions
-there's a range of qualities that an organism can deal wiht
Term
red queen theoru
Definition
evolutionary arms race
Term
core
Definition
inside of earth
Term
mantle
Definition
outside core
Term
crust
Definition
outside
Term
is oceanic or continental crust denser
Definition
oceanic
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