Vocabulary, Laws, Events, Concepts, & People You Should Know by the End of the Year

Vocabulary, Laws, Events, Concepts, & People You Should Know By the End of the Year

Nuclear & Chemical Waste Basic Stuff Nuclear Waste Policy Act First Law of Thermodynamics Low Level Radiation Act pH Price Anderson Act Second Law of Thermodynamics CERCLA Determining Percent Change Photosynthesis Climate Change & Air Cellular respiration Convention of Climate Change Chemosynthesis Kyoto Protocol GIS Montreal Protocol Biophilia Clean Air Act Anthropocentrism IPCC Natural Selection & Community Ecology Species Protection Disruptive selection Lacey Act Speciation via. Climate change Endangered Species Act (ESA) Natural selection Fish and Wildlife Act Evidence of evolution Marine Mammal Protection Act Directional selection Convention of International Trade in Endangered Allopatric speciation Species Act (CITIES) Sympatric speciation Stabilizing selection Water Generalist vs. specialist Safe Drinking Water Act Genetic Diversity Ocean Dumping Ban Species Water Quality Act Phylogenic tree Ocean Dumping Ban Act Artificial selection Competition Pollution Community Pollution Prevention Act Primary succession National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Niche FIFRA Pioneer species Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 Ecotone RCRA Resource partitioning REACH Symbiotic relationships Secondary succession Energy Density-dependent factors Energy Tax Act Density-independent factors K-selected species Land Management R-selected species Ramsar Ecosystem Reform Act Expiration Conservation Reserve Program Resistance vs. resilience US General Mining Law Restoration ecology Resource partitioning UNCED/ Earth Summit People Symbiotic relationships Darwin Secondary succession Nixon Endemic Rachel Carson Population Gifford Pinchot Keystone species John Stuart Mill Trophic levels Adam Smith Carrying capacity Thomas Robert Malthus Survivorship Aldo Leopold Biocentrism Events Ecocentric Love Canal Population change Exxon Valdez Biosphere Chernobyl Habitat Bhopal Phytoremediation Dust Bowl Hierarchy of ecology 3 Mile Island Population characteristics Cycles Latitudinal gradient Phosphorus cycle Single species approaches to conservation Hydrologic Cycle Nutrients vs. energy Nitrogen Cycle 10% Rule Homeostasis Divergent Evolution Denitrifying Bacteria Biodiversity Net Primary Production Biodiversity Nutrient Pool/ Reservoir/ Source/ Sink Major Benefits of Biodiversity Flux Biodiversity Hot Spots Negative vs. Positive Feedback Invasive species Nitrification Species diversity Denitrification Red list Nitrogen Fixing Ecological Diversity Eutrophication Land Management Productivity Water Logging Dynamic equilibrium Causes of Sprawl Interspecific vs. intraspecific Why National Parks & Reserves? Dead zone Ecosystem Based Management Theory of Equilibrium of Island Biogeography National Forest Management Act Salvage Logging Population Impacts of Sprawl Rule of 72 US Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Population size vs. population density Management Total fertility vs. replacement fertility Adaptive Management Relationship of poverty to population growth Clear Cutting Demographic transition Types of minerals One child policy Pros and cons of mining Ecological footprint Depletion time IPAT model Ore Emmigration vs. Immigration Seed tree/ shelterwood system Industrial Stage of Demographic transition Selection system Mortality National park, national wildlife refuge, wilderness Post-Industrial Stage of Demographic Transition area Pollution Distribution Wise-use movement Sex Ratio World heritage sites Morbidity Corridor (habitat not hallways) Pre-Industrial Stage of Demographic Transition Mountaintop Removal Transitional Stage of Demographic Transition Facts that impact geography of urban areas Age Diagram Problems related to sprawl Fecundity Subsidence Total Fertility vs. Replacement Fertility New urbanism Impact of AIDS/ HIV on population growth Resource Management India’s Policy on Population Smart Growth Soil & Agriculture Controlled Burns Deposition Industrial Ecology Causes of Soil Degradation Weathering Types Traditional vs. Industrialized Agriculture Energy Parent Material Pros & cons of crude oil Leaching Pros & cons of natural gas Soil Strip mining Factors that impact soil formation Creation of natural gas Soil Profile Creation of oil/petroleum Topsoil ANWR Silt Primary vs. Secondary oil extraction Monoculture R/P ratio Cropland vs. Rangeland Hubbert’s Peak Desertification “peak oil” Subsistence Farming Tar sands Crop Rotation Oil shale The Aral Sea Methane hydrate Recombinant DNA OPEC Biological Control Cogeneration Types of Erosion Pros & cons of nuclear energy Reduced Tillage Nuclear fission StarLink Corn Breeder reactors Community Supported Agriculture Nuclear fusion IPM Yucca Mountain Loam Pros & cons of biomass energy Overgrazing Biopower Organic Agriculture Pros & cons of hydroelectric power Bacillus Thurgiensis Run-of-River approach Shelter Beds Passive vs. Active Solar Energy Feed lots vs. Range land PV Cell (photovoltaic cell) Contour Farming OTEC (ocean thermal energy conversion) Terracing Acid Drainage Seedbanks Golden Rice Problems with Irrigation Monsanto Chemical Erosion Homestead Act Feedlot Pollution Pollination Undernourishment, Overnutrition, Malnutrition Inorganic vs. Organic Fertilizers GMO Atmosphere & Global Climate Change Layers of Atmosphere Atmospheric Properties Causes of Seasons Weather vs. Climate Warm and cold fronts High and low pressure systems Thermal inversions Hadley Cell Coriolis Effect Types of Volcanoes Natural Sources of Air Pollution Primary vs. Secondary Air Pollution EPA’s criteria pollutants Carbon monoxide Sulfur dioxide Nitrogen dioxide Tropospheric ozone Lead Atmospheric Pressure “Little Toy Soldiers Make Tents” Mitigation vs. Adaptation Carbon Offsets Aerobic vs. Anaerobic Ice Core Earth Science Atmospheric Deposition Earths layers CFC’s Geologic clock Photochemical Smog Lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, Industrial Smog atmosphere Hole in the Ozone Subduction Effects of Acidic Deposition Plate Boundaries Types of Indoor Air pollution Greenhouse effect Biomes Greenhouse gasses Tropical rainforest Radiative forcing Boreal forest Milankovitch forcing Arctic Tundra El Nino (ENSO) Savanna La Nina Tropical Dry Forest Thermohaline circulation Temperate Forest Proxy indicator Tropical Rainforest Desert Tundra Temperate Deciduous Forest Chaparral

Polar Region Freshwater Marsh Swamp Bog Oligotrophic lake Open Ocean Hydrothermal Vents Kelp Forest Coral Reef Intertidal Zone Salt Marsh Mangrove Forest Estuaries Bay

Economics Cost-benefit analysis

Waste Management & Environmental Health Recycling Loop Industrial Ecology Incineration of Waste Source Reduction Surface Impoundment Leachate Brownfields e-waste waste to energy 4 main types of waste Physical Hazards Biological Hazards Chemical Hazards Cultural Hazards Bisphenol A PBDE Endocrine Disruptor Biomagnification DDT Carcinogens Teratogens Bioaccumulation Dose-Response Curve & LD-50 Acute vs. chronic exposure Precautionary principle (risk management) Radioactive Half Life Water Resources Aquifer Wetlands Zones of Lakes Water Table Confined vs. Unconfined Aquifer Aquifer Recharge Zone Consumptive vs. Nonconsumptive Use Debate over 3 Gorges Dam Dikes & Levees Desalinization Oligotrophic Eutrophic Types of Water Pollution Point vs. non-Point Pollution Groundwater Pollution Primary vs. Secondary Waste Water Treatment Structure of ocean’s water column Upwelling & downwelling Continental shelves Photic zone Benthic Zone Human Uses of Marine Resources Pollution of Marine resources Mercury in Seafood (ex. Of Biomagnification) Algae Blooms & red Tide Overfishing (ex. Of Tragedy of the Commons) By-catch Driftnets, long-line, and bottom trawling “Fishing Down the Food Chain” Benefits of Marine Protected Areas Levee zooplankton Primary Production Subsidence