1. Humans in the Biosphere
JEOPARDY #1
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2. Food
Production
Vocabulary
Species
Government
Resources
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3. The practice of farming is called _____________.
Food Production 100
The practice of farming is called _____________.
A: What is agriculture?
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4. Food Production 200
What is the improvement in modern agriculture techniques such as breeding more productive crop strains and using fertilizers and pesticides to improve food production?
A: What is the Green Revolution?
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5. Food Production 300
What is the wearing away of the surface soil called ?
A: What is soil erosion ?
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6. Food Production 400
The agricultural method of planting large fields with a single variety year after year is called ________.
A: What is called monoculture?
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7. Food Production 500
The practice of planting corn one year and planting soybeans the following year is called _____________.
A: What is crop rotation?
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8. Vocabulary 100 A: What is conservation?
The wise management of natural resources,
including the preservation of habitats and
wildlife
A: What is conservation?
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9. Vocabulary 200
The increase in the average temperature of the Earth is called ________.
A: What is global warming?
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10. Vocabulary 300
The sum total of the variety of organisms in the biosphere; it is a measure of the health of an ecosystem is called _____.
A: What is biodiversity ?
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11. Vocabulary 400
Harmful material that can enter the biosphere through land, water, or air is called _______.
A: What is pollution ?
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12. Vocabulary 500 A: What is sustainable development ?
Way of using natural resources without depleting them and of providing for human needs without causing long term harm to the environment is called ____.
A: What is sustainable development ?
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13. Species 100 A: What is extinction?
Term used to refer to a species that has
died out is called _______.
A: What is extinction?
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14. Species 200
A species whose population size is rapidly declining and will become extinct if the trend continues without intervention is called ____.
A: What is endangered species?
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15. A: What is threatened species.
A species likely to become endangered if not protected is called __________.
A: What is threatened species.
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16. Species 400
Plants or animals that have migrated or been introduced into places where they are not native and for which there are no natural predators or parasites to control their population is called _________.
A: What is invasive species?
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17. A: What is biological magnification?
Species 500
Increasing concentration of a harmful substance in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food chain or web is called ________.
A: What is biological magnification?
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18. Government 100
The CITES Act passed to protect endangered species, prevents importation into the US of anything that comes from an endangered animal is called ____.
A: What is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species?
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19. Government 200
The agreement aimed at reducing global warming which has been ratified by 104 nations that asks participants to reduce greenhouse emissions by the year 2012 is called _________.
A: What is Kyoto Accord ?
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20. Government 300
Agreement signed by almost 200 countries, including the US, which agreed to reduce the use of ozone depleting chemicals is called _____.
A: What is the Montreal Protocol?
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21. Government 400
In 1998 the Clinton Administration signed this agreement and in 2001 the Bush Administration withdrew the US signature. This agreement is called _________.
A: What is the Kyoto Accord?
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22. Government 500
A problem with the Kyoto Accord is that all countries who signed it were not required to reduce emissions _____________.
A: What is equally ?
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23. Resources 100
Which of the following is NOT caused by human interactions?
Air pollution water pollution
Mountain building deforestation
A: What is mountain building?
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24. A: What is renewable resources?
Resources that can be replenished over a relatively short time span are called_______.
A: What is renewable resources?
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25. Resources 300 A: What is solar energy ?
Which of the following is an example of a
renewable resource?
Solar energy copper
Oil natural gas
A: What is solar energy ?
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26. The spread of urban areas has resulted in the __________ of habitats.
Resources 400
The spread of urban areas has resulted in the __________ of habitats.
A: What is destruction?
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27. By 1884, the buffalo were close to extinction due to ________.
Resources 500
By 1884, the buffalo were close to extinction due to ________.
A: What is overhunting?
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