AICE Environmental Management End of Year Review Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers

AICE Environmental Management End of Year Review Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers Sustainability - answerManaging resources so that they are available for future generations limiting factor - answerAny biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the existence, numbers, reproduction, or distribution of organisms. Ecosystem Productivity - answerthe conversion of solar energy into biomass in an ecosystem (per m^2 per year) Biomass - answertotal amount of living tissue within a given trophic level Bioaccumulation - answerThe accumulation of a substance, such as a toxic chemical, in various tissues of a living organism. Biomagnification - answeraccumulation of pollutants at successive levels of the food chain Ozone Layer - answerProtective layer in atmosphere that shields earth from UV radiation. Formula for NPP - answerGPP-Respiration Systematic sampling - answerselect some starting point and then select every 'k'th element in the population Population dynamics - answerstudy of the change in populations Migration - answerForm of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location. Population distribution - answerhow population is spread out in an area leaching - answerwater dissolves minerals and nutrients of a soil and reduces the growth of plant life primary industry - answerAn industry that deals with the extraction of raw materials. (ex agriculture) secondary industry - answerIndustries that deal with making products that are likely to be directly consumed by individuals. (ex manufacturing) out-migration (emigration) - answerThe act of a migrant leaving their place (country) of origin in-migration (immigration) - answerthe movement of a group of people/animals from one region to another/the movement of a person(s) into a country Specialists - answerSurvive better in stable environments Generalists - answerSurvive better in changing environment r-selected species - answera species that has a high intrinsic growth rate, which often leads to many offspring and deaths. Smaller and live shorter K-selected species - answerA species with a low intrinsic growth rate that causes the population to increase slowly until it reaches carrying capacity. Larger and live longer Graph: k selected - answerExponential--Plateau when carrying capacity is hit [S curve, logistic] Graph: r selected - answerBoom--overshoot--Bust [Exponential growth, J curve] Biotic Potential - answerUnrestricted, maximum growth Lincoln's Index - answerUsed to estimate the size of an animal population. Capture-Mark-Release-Recapture - answerA method used to estimate the population size of mobile animals. Kick Sampling - answerA method of sampling aquatic invertebrates by disturbing the substrate. Pitfall trap - answerSampling technique used to trap animals living on the soil surface or in leaf litter. Beating tray - answerA method of sampling invertebrates on the branches of bushes and small trees. Random quadrat - answera quadrat placed randomly in an area to sample an ecosystem. Where it is placed if often decided by using a random number generator to reduce bias. Transsectional quadratting - answerUse of quadratting along a line to estimate the total# of organisms in an ecosystem Dependency Ratio - answerMeasure of non-working population compared to working population total dependency ratio - answerthe combined ratio of children and older people to workers