Chapter 6 Biology 1 – Flashcards
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A way of using resources at a rate that does not deplete them:
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Sustainable use
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The disappearance of species from all or part of its geographical range
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Extinction
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A type of diversity that includes all forms of genetic information carried by all organisms
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Genetic diversity
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Precipitation that contains drops of nitric and sulfuric acid:
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Acid rain
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A type of substance foraging
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Hunting
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A method of farming in which large fields are cleared and planted with a single crop year after year
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Monoculture
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A practice that uses new intensive farming practices to increase food production:
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Green revolution
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A mixture of either smoke and fog or chemicals and sunlight
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Smog
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Fish farming:
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Aquaculture
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A harmful material that can enter the biosphere through the air, land or water
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Pollutant
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Loss of forests
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Deforestation
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The practice of farming
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Agriculture
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A variety of different habitats, communities, and ecological processes:
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Ecosystem diversity
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A type of warming that shows the trend in increasing temperature of Earth
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Global warming
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A resource that cannot be replenished by natural processes is called
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Nonrenewable
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The sum total of the variety of organisms in the biosphere is called
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Biodiversity
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Development that can split a habitat into smaller parts, in an effect known as
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Habitat fragmentation
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Populations that are introduced into a new habitat and reproduce rapidly are known as
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Invasive species
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The increasing concentration of a harmful substance in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food chain
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Biological magnification
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What term is used to describe a species whose population is rapidly shrinking and might disappear completely?
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Endandgered
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In ecology, what term is used to describe the wise management of natural resources
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Conservation
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