APES Final

1. Control (in an experiment)

2. Independent Variable

3. Dependent Variable

4. What are habitat corridors?

5. Renewable sources of energy:

a. Solar energy: photovoltaic cells

b. Solar Passive

c. Wind energy

d. Biomass energy

e. Geothermal energy

f. Hydroelectric

6. Explain ocean acidification and its environmental impacts.

7. What fuel is used to produce nuclear energy?

8. Eutrophication – how/ why it occurs and impacts from it

9. Carbon, Nitrogen and Phosphorous Cycles

10. Explain Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

11. Explain the difference between Cultivation, biological controls,

Mechanical/Physical controls and Chemical control for IPM.

12. What was the green revolution?

13. What is monoculture?

14. What are CAFOs? What environmental impacts do they have?

15. What is a pesticide?

16. Synthetic vs organic pesticides

17. What are persistent organic pollutants?

18. Pesticide treadmill

19. What are endocrine disruptors?

20. What is a GMO?

21. What are advantages and disadvantages of GMOs?

22. Describe organic farming.

23. Know the methods of soil conservation

a. Cover crops

b. Crop rotation

c. Contour plowing

d. Intercropping

e. No till farming

24. Explain the following types of irrigation: Furrow, Flood. Spray, Drip.

25. What is soil salinization?

26. Describe the trophic levels in an ecosystem.

27. What is primary productivity, net primary productivity and gross primary

productivity?

28. What is the theory of Island Biogeography?

29. Know about the following aquatic biomes:

a. Salt Marsh

b. Estuary

c. Mangrove

d. Coral Reef

30. What are the benefits of preserving coastal wetlands?

31. Know about the following aquatic zones:

a. Littoral

b. Limnetic

c. Profundal

d. Benthic

e. Euphotic

f. Aphotic

32. Kyoto Protocol

33. Montreal Protocol

34. What are the major greenhouse gases? How do they influence the

greenhouse effect?

35. What are the main effects of ozone depletion?

36. What are CFC’s and what do they do to the environment?

37. What environmental impacts do global warming have?

38. How do you calculate birth rate, death rate, and growth rate?

39. Define/explain replacement-level fertility.

40. Know how to read and interpret a population pyramid diagram.

41. Describe the four stages of demographic transition.

42. What types of conditions indicate an El Nino event?

43. What are the effects of El Nino and La Nina?

44. What is upwelling?

45. What is a thermocline?

46.

Is air more or less dense at the poles or the equator? Why?

47. What are convection currents?

48. What causes the ocean’s surface currents?

49. Explain the Coriolis Effect and describe how it effects current patterns in the

Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

50. What is a rain shadow?

51. How are the windward and leeward sides of a mountain different?

52. Compare/ Contrast the following fishing techniques:

a. Gill Nets

b. Long line

c. Purse Seine

d. Trawling Net

e. Pots and Traps

53. What are the advantages and disadvantages of aquaculture?

54. Explain what the phrase “fishing down the food chain” means.

55. Describe the following human diseases:

a. Tuberculosis

b. Zika

c. Cholera

d. Malaria

e. West Nile Virus