Luther Prep Biology Chapter 16

Front 1

acid rain

Back 1

precipitation produced when pollutants in the atmosphere cause the pH or rain to decrease

Front 2

biomagnification

Back 2

condition of toxic substances being more concentrated in tissues of organisms higher on the food chain than ones lower in the food chain

Front 3

ecological footprint

Back 3

amount of land necessary to produce and maintain enough food, water, shelter, energy, and waste removal

Front 4

global warming

Back 4

worldwide trend of increasing average temperatures

Front 5

greenhouse effect

Back 5

normal warming effect produced when gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, trap heat in Earth's atmosphere.

Front 6

habitat fragmentation

Back 6

process by which part of an organism's preferred habitat range becomes inaccessible

Front 7

indicator species

Back 7

species whose presence in an ecosystem gives clues about the condition of that ecosystem

Front 8

introduced species

Back 8

species that is not native and was brought to an area as a result of human activity

Front 9

nonrenewable resources

Back 9

natural resource used more quickly than it can be formed

Front 10

particulate

Back 10

microscopic bits of dust, meta, and unburned fuel produced by industrial processes

Front 11

pollution

Back 11

anything that is added to the environment and has a negative affect on the environment or its organisms

Front 12

renewable resource

Back 12

resource that replenishes itself quickly enough so that it will not be used faster than it can be produced

Front 13

smog

Back 13

air pollution in which gases released from burning fossil fuels form a fog when they react with sunlight

Front 14

sustainable development

Back 14

practice of not using natural resources more quickly than they can be replenished

Front 15

umbrella species

Back 15

species whose being protected under the Endangered Species Act leads to the preservation of its habitat and all of the other organisms in its community