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Test 1 Preparation

Winter 2021

Unit 1
•  Humanity’s demands can be fundamentally
described by two factors/themes
•  What are these?
•  Why are these important to think about?

Unit 1
•  Resource Categories
–  What are they
–  How do they differ?
–  Human impacts

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Unit 1
•  Ecological Footprint Evaluation
–  Define terms
–  What are the Trends observed through these
assessments?

Unit 1
•  Sustainable Development
–  Define
–  Describe three pillars and how to achieve by
equally considering all three
–  Relate to overpopulation and overconsumption

Unit 1
•  Why do we need science?
•  Steps in method

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Unit 2
•  Define ecology and levels or organization
•  Systems theory
–  feedback

Unit 2
•  Energy
–  flow
–  potential vs. kinetic
–  1st and 2nd laws
–  Food chain/food web
–  Biomass and productivity

Unit 2
•  Biogeochemical Cycles – Carbon, Nitrogen,
Phosphorus
•  – Pathways and reservoirs
•  Unique features and differences/similarities
•  – Human Impacts

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Unit 3
•  Biodiversity
–  What is it
–  Why important
•  Species Diversity
–  spatial differences
–  measuring diversity – richness, evenness, dominance
•  Ecological Niche
•  Interactions
–  competition
–  symbiosis
–  predation

Unit 2
•  Keystone species
–  what are they
–  how do these impact the environment?
•  biodiversity
•  physical and chemical

•  If we run out of time, we’ll exclude keystone species