Ecosystem IV (2/25)

• What determines whether a species will occur at any given place and time?
• Understand Immigration and Introduction.
• What is a habitat? Microhabitat?
• What is a niche? Fundamental vs. Realized?
• What is a specialist vs. generalist?
• What does anthropogenic mean?
• What are feedback systems? Positive? Negative?
• What is ecosystem persistence? Ecosystem resilience?
• What is ecosystem succession?

Past Quiz Reviews:

Ecology III (2/20)

• What are biogeochemical cycles?
• What is the law of conservation of matter?
• What are the 6 major elements in living organisms?
• What are the reservoirs for these elements?
• What are the 4 basic biogeochemical cycles?
• Nitrogen cycle: how does nitrogen move from the atmosphere into organisms? From organisms back to the environment?
• Carbon cycle: how does carbon move in and out of the 4 carbon reservoirs (atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, organisms)
• 5 types of ecosystem services

Ecology II (2/18)

• What is energy?
• What is energy quality?
• What is the second law of thermodynamics?
• What is a food chain?
• What is a food web?
• What is the basic ‘energy pyramid’ for an ecosystem?

Ecology I (2/13)

• What are the four components of the earth?
• What is the Biosphere?
• What are the four levels of organization in Ecology?
• What are the five basic structural components of an ecosystem?
• What is the difference between primary and secondary consumers?
• Is energy recycled in an ecosystem?

Meterology II (2/11)

• Warm air holds (more or less) water vapor than cold air holds ?
• As air heats up, the relative humidity increases or decreases?
• As air rises, the relative humidity increases or decreases?
• Three ways that air rises and causes rain?
• Can you explain them?
• Why doesn’t it rain in Tucson?

Meteorology I (2/6)

• Why do we care about climate?
• What are the three factors that determine temperature?
• How do these factors affect temperature?
• What causes the seasons?

Plate Tectonics (2/4)

• Where does the material of the ocean floor come from?
• Where does the old ocean floor go?
• What force is strong enough to move continents and ocean floors?
• Be able to define the following:
• Divergent Plate Boundary
• Ocean-Continent Convergent Plate Boundary
• Ocean-Ocean Convergent Plate Boundary
• Continent-Continent Convergent Plate Boundary
• Transform Plate Boundary
• Explosive Volvanoes
• Non-explosive (blooping) Volcanoes

Science (1/30)

• Be able to list and apply the 8 steps in the process of science
• Be able to list and apply the 3 rules of science
• Be able to define terms discussed

Social Traps (1/28)

• Define social traps
• List and define specific social traps
• Give examples for each social trap
• Given an environmental problem, recognize applicable social traps
• Describe ways to avoid social traps and their pros and cons
• List the 4 attitudes given in class that affect the way people look at and act upon environmental problems. For each attitude, what is the problem with holding that attitude? What attitude should replace these?

Climate: Temperature

I want you to understand why biologists care about climate. I also want you to know the three factors that affect temperature on earth AND WHY. You should know that temperature decreases with altitude and why, why greenhouses gases insulate the earth, and why it is colder at the poles than it is at the equator. You should also understand why we have seasons.

Plate Tectonics

Today we talked about what creates mountains, volcanoes, rifts, trenches and earthquakes. I want you to know what the physical mechanism is for moving the continents, what the five types of plate boundries are, and what geographical features are present/ created at each.

Science

What do I want you to know about science. I want you to understand that science is a 'way of knowing', it is a technique used to learn about the natural world that anyone can learn to do. I want you to know the 8 steps of science, and the differnce between an experimental and a control variable.