Transcript Science Jeopardy

APES 1st Semester Jeopardy Review:
Populations and Air
A:
Community
Ecology
B: Human
C: Population
D: Climate
E: Air &
Population
Graphs &
Formulas
& Biomes
Pollution
F: Grab
Bag
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©Norman Herr, 2003
A-100
• ANSWER: The maximum number of
individuals of a species that can be sustained
indefinitely in an ecosystem
• QUESTION: What is carrying capacity?
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A-200
• ANSWER: pioneer species
• QUESTION: What type of species
initially become established where there
is primary succession?
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A-300
• DAILY DOUBLE!
• ANSWER: forest fires, deforestation,
mudslides
• QUESTION: What are some conditions
that would lead to secondary succession?
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A-400
• ANSWER: 3 causes of tropical
deforestation
• QUESTION: What are 3 of:
– Poverty, population growth near tropical
forests, environmentally harmful govt.
subsidies, agriculture (crops, animals), not
valuing ecological services of forests, logging,
mining, roads, fires, flooding from damming
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B-100
• ANSWER: freely available
contraceptives, preferential employment,
economic incentives
• QUESTION: What are some of the
components of China’s population
control program?
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A-500
• ANSWER: Commensalism, Mutualism, Keystone and
Indicator
• QUESTION: What are species interaction in which
1. One specie benefits and the other is neither harmed nor
benefitted;
2. Both species benefit;
3. A species that is necessary for the well-being of an
ecosystem and other species; and
4. A species that can serve as an early warning sign of
damage to the ecosystem
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B-200
• ANSWER: The most significant factor in
contributing to rapid world human
population growth in the last century
• QUESTION: What are declining death
rates?
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B-300
• ANSWER: the names/descriptions of the
3 bands in age structure diagrams, and
which band’s width that indicates the
population growth for the near future
• QUESTION: What are pre-reproductive,
reproductive and post-reproductive
stages; and the bottom (pre-reproductive)
stage?
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B-400
• ANSWER: the 2 most reliable/used
indicators of overall health in a country
• QUESTION: What are life expectancy
and infant mortality rate?
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B-500
• ANSWER: the 3 factors that best
empower women to have fewer children
• QUESTION: What are
education/literacy, a paying job outside
the home, and not having their rights
suppressed?
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C-100
• ANSWER: the population growth/change
equation
• QUESTION: What does this equation
represent?
(birth rate + immigration rate) –
(death rate + emigration rate)
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C-200
• DAILY DOUBLE!
• ANSWER: The name for the equation
and the equation that calculates how long
it takes to double a percentage rate.
• QUESTION: What is the Rule of 70 and
70/% = doubling time?
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C-300
• ANSWER: the first produces a “J” curve
and the second an “S” curve
• QUESTION: What do exponential and
logistic growth curves/graphs look like?
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C-400
• ANSWER: a graphical representation
population size and growth in a country
• QUESTION: What are age population
structure diagrams (or population
pyramids)?
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C-500
• ANSWER: The hypothesis/model that
states as countries become industrialized,
first their death rates and then their birth
rates decline in four stages as their total
populations increase
• QUESTION: What is the Demographic
Transition model?
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D-100
• ANSWER: Primarily responsible for
seasons on Earth
• QUESTION: What is the tilt of the
Earth’s axis?
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D-200
• ANSWER: upwellings
• QUESTION: What are cold, nutrientrich ocean waters brought to the surface?
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D-300
• ANSWER: The 2 most important factors
in determining climate of an area
• QUESTION: What are temperature and
precipitation?
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D-400
• ANSWER: Large convection currents of
air created by the uneven heating of the
Earth’s surface and its rotation on its
axis
• QUESTION: What are Hadley Cells?
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D-500
• ANSWER: El Niño
• QUESTION: What is the situation in
which Pacific trade winds are reversed so
they travel from west to east, causing a
drop in the thermocline and upwelling,
and a disruption of normal weather
patterns worldwide?
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E-100
• ANSWER: It forms when NOx and
VOCs react with sunlight
• QUESTION: What is smog?
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E-200
• ANSWER: Cause of a thermal inversion
• QUESTION: What is a layer (lid) of
warm air on top of (trapping) a layer of
cooler air below?
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E-300
• ANSWER: PM 2.5s
• QUESTION: What are suspended
particulates small enough to be trapped
in respiratory passages that they may
contribute to respiratory diseases?
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E-400
• ANSWER: The main provision of the
Clean Air Act
• QUESTION: What Act requires the EPA
to set national ambient air quality
standards for air pollutants?
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E-500
• ANSWER: 2 devices used to remove
particulate emissions
• QUESTION: What are electrostatic
precipitators and wet scrubbers?
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F-100
• ANSWER: The property that causes the
atmosphere to be divided into layers
• QUESTION: What is temperature
change?
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F-200
• DAILY DOUBLE!
• ANSWER: Mimicry, camouflage,
flight/running away, hiding,
chemicals/toxins
• QUESTION: What are examples of
defense mechanisms some organisms use
to avoid becoming prey?
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F-300
• ANSWER: Condition that creates flu-like
symptoms after spending time in nonventilated buildings
• QUESTION: What is sick building
syndrome?
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F-400
• ANSWER: The term for buying and
selling of air pollution rights (within
specific limits)
• QUESTION: What is cap and trade (or
emissions trading)?
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F-500
• ANSWER: debt-for-nature swap
• QUESTION: What is payoff of a
(country’s, usually) debt, not with money,
but with ownership of land in that
country by the entity (other country or
organization) to which money is owed?
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FINAL JEOPARDY
• ANSWER: 3 criticisms of the Clean Air Act
• QUESTION: What are 3 of:
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Inadequate increases in vehicle fuel efficiency standards
Inadequate measures to reduce GHG
Relying on pollution cleanup rather than prevention
Failure to regulate emissions from ships, airplanes, small
engines, & indoor air pollutants
– Poor enforcement of existing regulations
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