Transcript Science Jeopardy

APES AP Test Review Jeopardy Stage 2
B: Evolution,
Extinction,
Biodiversity
Populations
Population
E:
Miscellaneous
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D: Human
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A-100
• ANSWER: An international
agreement to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions; the U.S. did not sign
it.
• QUESTION: What is the Kyoto
Protocol?
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A-200
• ANSWER: Also called the “Superfund,”
it is intended to clean up abandoned toxic
waste sites.
• QUESTION: What is another name for
CERCLA and what is its primary goal?
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A-300
• ANSWER: An international treaty that
prevents trade in endangered &
threatened plants & animals.
• QUESTION: What is CITES
(Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species)?
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A-400
• ANSWER: The legislation that requires
the EPA to oversee pesticide regulations.
• QUESTION: What is FIFRA?
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A-500
• ANSWER: Regulates large amounts of
hazardous waste from the time it is
generated until it is disposed.
• QUESTION: What is RCRA (Resource
Conservation & Recovery Act)?
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B-100
• ANSWER: Bioremediation
• QUESTION: What is the use of living
organisms to help clean up or destroy
toxic or hazardous substances and
wastes?
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B-200
• ANSWER: It is the single major cause of
current species’ extinctions and rate of
extinction increase.
• QUESTION: What effect does human
influence have on extinctions?
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B-300
• ANSWER: Areas especially rich in
species that are found nowhere else and
that are in great danger of extinction.
• QUESTION: What are hot spots?
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B-400
• ANSWER: Coevolution and convergent
evolution, respectively
• QUESTION: In what type of evolution do
organisms living in similar conditions
evolve together, and in what type of
evolution do unrelated species develop
similarly because they develop under
similar (but different) environmental
conditions?
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B-500
• ANSWER: 3 characteristics that promote
species extinctions
• QUESTION: What are low reproductive
rate, feeding at high trophic levels and
rare?
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C-100
• ANSWER: The Rule of 70
• QUESTION: What is the following
formula:
Doubling time =_____70______
% growth rate
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C-200
• ANSWER: The maximum number of
individuals in a species that can be
sustained indefinitely in a given area.
• QUESTION: What is carrying capacity?
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C-300
• ANSWER: A J-curve
• QUESTION: What is the shape of the
graph that results when exponential
growth is plotted?
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C-400
• ANSWER: Species whose population size
is usually stable and close to carrying
capacity; the species tends to have few
offspring, which it cares for, be large and
long-lived.
• QUESTION: What are K-strategists (or
K-selected species)?
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C-500
• ANSWER: Density-dependent factors
• QUESTION: What are factors that affect
population growth with an increasing
effect as population size increases?
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D-100
• ANSWER: The term for people leaving a
country.
• QUESTION: What is emigration?
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D-200
• ANSWER: Reduce poverty, use family
planning strategies, elevate the status of
women
• QUESTION: What seem to be the best
strategies to slow human population
growth, based on experience from several
countries?
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D-300
• ANSWER: The equation for population
growth rate.
• QUESTION: What does this equation
show?
R% = (birth rate + immigration rate) –
(death rate + emigration rate)
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D-400
• ANSWER: The ranges in the 3 horizontal
bands in population age structure
diagrams.
• QUESTION: What are 0-14, 15-44 and
45+?
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D-500
• ANSWER: The model that shows the
change in birth rate, death rate and
population growth as a developing nation
gradually improves living conditions.
• QUESTION: What is the Demographic
Transition model?
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E-100
• ANSWER: One of the most extensive set
of environmental regulations, it protects
both endangered/threatened species and
their habitats.
• QUESTION: What is the Endangered
Species Act?
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E-200
• ANSWER: Average environmental
impact of an individual in terms of the
resources needed to support that person
compared to other people in different
communities.
• QUESTION: What is an ecological
footprint?
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E-300
• ANSWER: Unsustainable
overconsumption
• QUESTION: What is affluenza?
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E-400
• ANSWER: Sustainable
• QUESTION: Living without depleting or
degrading the earth’s natural resources.
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E-500
• ANSWER: The power of the government
to force a private citizen to sell property
needed for the public good.
• QUESTION: What is eminent domain?
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FINAL JEOPARDY
• ANSWER: The current global human
population
• QUESTION: What is just over 7 billion?
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