Transcript Human Impact Jeopardy #2 - local.brookings.k12.sd.us

Humans in the Biosphere
JEOPARDY #1
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Food
Production
Vocabulary
Species
Government
Resources
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Food Production
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The practice of farming is called
_____________.
A: What is agriculture?
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Food Production
200
What is the improvement in modern
agriculture techniques such as breeding
more productive crop strains and using
fertilizers and pesticides to improve
food production?
A: What is the Green Revolution?
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Food Production
300
What is the wearing away of the surface
soil called ?
A: What is soil erosion ?
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Food Production
400
The agricultural method of planting
large fields with a single variety
year after year is called ________.
A: What is called monoculture?
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Food Production
500
The practice of planting corn one year and
planting soybeans the following year is called
_____________.
A: What is crop rotation?
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Vocabulary
100
The wise management of natural resources,
including the preservation of habitats and
wildlife
A: What is conservation?
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Vocabulary
200
The increase in the
average temperature of the
Earth is called ________.
A: What is global warming?
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Vocabulary
300
The sum total of the variety of organisms
in the biosphere; it is a measure of the
health of an ecosystem is called _____.
A: What is biodiversity ?
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Vocabulary
400
Harmful material that can enter
the biosphere through land,
water, or air is called _______.
A: What is pollution ?
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Vocabulary
500
Way of using natural resources without
depleting them and of providing for
human needs without causing long term
harm to the environment is called ____.
A: What is sustainable development ?
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Species
100
Term used to refer to a species that has
died out is called _______.
A: What is extinction?
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Species
200
A species whose population size is
rapidly declining and will become
extinct if the trend continues
without intervention is called ____.
A: What is endangered species?
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Species
300
A species likely to become
endangered if not protected is called
__________.
A: What is threatened species.
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Species
400
Plants or animals that have migrated or
been introduced into places where they are
not native and for which there are no
natural predators or parasites to control
their population is called _________.
A: What is invasive species?
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Species
500
Increasing concentration of a
harmful substance in organisms
at higher trophic levels in a food
chain or web is called ________.
A: What is biological
magnification?
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Government
100
The CITES Act passed to protect
endangered species, prevents
importation into the US of anything
that comes from an endangered
animal is called ____.
A: What is the Convention on International Trade
in Endangered Species?
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Government
200
The agreement aimed at reducing global
warming which has been ratified by 104
nations that asks participants to reduce
greenhouse emissions by the year 2012 is
called _________.
A: What is Kyoto Accord ?
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Government
300
Agreement signed by almost 200
countries, including the US, which
agreed to reduce the use of ozone
depleting chemicals is called _____.
A: What is the Montreal
Protocol?
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Government
400
In 1998 the Clinton Administration
signed this agreement and in 2001 the
Bush Administration withdrew the US
signature. This agreement is called
_________.
A: What is the Kyoto Accord?
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Government
500
A problem with the Kyoto Accord is
that all countries who signed it were
not required to reduce emissions
_____________.
A: What is equally ?
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Resources
100
Which of the following is NOT caused
by human interactions?
Air pollution
water pollution
Mountain building deforestation
A: What is mountain building?
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Resources
200
Resources that can be replenished over
a relatively short time span are
called_______.
A: What is renewable resources?
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Resources
300
Which of the following is an example of a
renewable resource?
Solar energy
copper
Oil
natural gas
A: What is solar energy ?
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Resources
400
The spread of urban areas has
resulted in the __________ of
habitats.
A: What is destruction?
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Resources
500
By 1884, the buffalo were close
to extinction due to ________.
A: What is overhunting?
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