Ecology LEAP Review

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What are possible human solutions for limiting global warming and climate change?

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Being more energy-efficient, using renewable sources of energy, removing carbon from fossil fuel emissions, all of the above.

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What is the role of a hawk in a food web?

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Tertiary consumer.

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What is carrying capacity?

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The maximum number of individuals of a species that an environment can support sustainably.

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What is an autotroph?

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An organism that produces its own food, typically through photosynthesis; examples include plants.

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Which human activity contributes the MOST carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?

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Burning Fossil Fuels.

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What is a producer in an ecosystem?

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An organism that can make its own food, usually through photosynthesis.

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What is a consumer in an ecosystem?

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An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.

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What is a decomposer?

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An organism that breaks down dead or decaying organisms, returning nutrients to the soil.

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Define biodiversity.

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The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

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What is an ecosystem?

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A community of living organisms and their physical environment interacting as a system.