ENVS 1126 Exam
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1. Pesticides and herbicides: Chemicals used on crops, forests, and lawns in the 1960s
2. Silent Spring: Rachel Carson's 1962 book describing the environmental effects of pesticides
3. DDT: Pesticide criticized by Rachel Carson for its harmful effects on the environment and wildlife
4. Sound science: Legitimate knowledge gained through the scientific method
5. Junk science: Information presented as science but not conforming to rigorous scientific methods
6. Scientific method: A way to gain knowledge through observation, manipulation, and reason
7. Objective reality: The representation of the natural world based on our senses
8. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: A global assessment of ecosystems and their services, involv-
ing 1,360 scientists from 95 countries
9. Ecosystem services: Goods and services provided by ecosystems, including provisioning, regulating,
cultural, and supporting services
10. Provisioning services: Ecosystem goods like food and fuel
11. Regulating services: Ecosystem processes like flood protection
12. Cultural services: Nonmaterial benefits like recreation provided by ecosystems
13. Habitat: The supporting service required for the provision of other ecosystem services
14. Degradation and overexploitation: Widespread issues identified by the Millennium Ecosystem
Assessment, leading to deadly consequences if not stopped
15. Food production: One set of provisioning services that has been enhanced according to the ME Assessment
16. Population growth: Change in population size due to births, deaths, immigration, and emigration
17. Equilibrium: State of balance between births and deaths in a population, resulting in zero population growth
18. Population growth rate: Amount the population has changed divided by the time it had to change
19. Population growth curves: Graphs showing how populations grow and used to determine growth
rates and future population sizes
20. Density-dependent factors: Factors that affect population growth and equilibrium, such as food
supply, disease, and predation
21. Density-independent factors: Factors that affect population growth but not maintaining population
equilibrium, such as drought, fire, and flooding
22. Community interactions: Relationships between species in an area, including positive, negative, and
neutral interactions
23. Symbiosis: A relationship in which the lives of two species are closely connected
24. Predation: A positive interaction where one member benefits and the other is harmed
25. Parasitism: A type of predation where one organism benefits and the other is harmed
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Study online at https://quizlet.com/_i2ga5x
1. Pesticides and herbicides: Chemicals used on crops, forests, and lawns in the 1960s
2. Silent Spring: Rachel Carson's 1962 book describing the environmental effects of pesticides
3. DDT: Pesticide criticized by Rachel Carson for its harmful effects on the environment and wildlife
4. Sound science: Legitimate knowledge gained through the scientific method
5. Junk science: Information presented as science but not conforming to rigorous scientific methods
6. Scientific method: A way to gain knowledge through observation, manipulation, and reason
7. Objective reality: The representation of the natural world based on our senses
8. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: A global assessment of ecosystems and their services, involv-
ing 1,360 scientists from 95 countries
9. Ecosystem services: Goods and services provided by ecosystems, including provisioning, regulating,
cultural, and supporting services
10. Provisioning services: Ecosystem goods like food and fuel
11. Regulating services: Ecosystem processes like flood protection
12. Cultural services: Nonmaterial benefits like recreation provided by ecosystems
13. Habitat: The supporting service required for the provision of other ecosystem services
14. Degradation and overexploitation: Widespread issues identified by the Millennium Ecosystem
Assessment, leading to deadly consequences if not stopped
15. Food production: One set of provisioning services that has been enhanced according to the ME Assessment
16. Population growth: Change in population size due to births, deaths, immigration, and emigration
17. Equilibrium: State of balance between births and deaths in a population, resulting in zero population growth
18. Population growth rate: Amount the population has changed divided by the time it had to change
19. Population growth curves: Graphs showing how populations grow and used to determine growth
rates and future population sizes
20. Density-dependent factors: Factors that affect population growth and equilibrium, such as food
supply, disease, and predation
21. Density-independent factors: Factors that affect population growth but not maintaining population
equilibrium, such as drought, fire, and flooding
22. Community interactions: Relationships between species in an area, including positive, negative, and
neutral interactions
23. Symbiosis: A relationship in which the lives of two species are closely connected
24. Predation: A positive interaction where one member benefits and the other is harmed
25. Parasitism: A type of predation where one organism benefits and the other is harmed
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