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19 Cards in this Set
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Environmental Science
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Biological principles to look at the relationship between humans and the earth.
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Convection Cell
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Loop used to show the rising and falling of air.
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Upwelling
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Colde water rises from deeper in the ocean and replaces warm water.
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El nino
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Warm surface water cuts off the upwelling of nutrients.
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Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC)
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Ozone-destroying chemicals.
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Correlation
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A relationship between 2 variables in which both variables change together.
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Cause-and-effect- relationship
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a relation between 2 variables in which a change in 1 variable leads to a change in the other.
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Eveness
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How many individual organisms belong to each species.
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Genetic Diversity
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Amount of genetic variation.
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Debt-for-Nature-Swap
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A conversion strategy in which a developing country takes steps to preserve its biodiversity in exchange for a reduction in its foreign debt.
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Ecotourism
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A form of tourism that helps local people make money from an intact ecosystem.
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Utilitarian Value
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Thinking of the economic benefits biodeversity provides to humans.
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NON-Utilitarian Value
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Life forms have value simply because they exist, apart from any human uses them.
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Conservation Biology
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Seeks to identify and maintain natural areas.
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Restoration Biology
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Dealing with a more extreme case.
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Migratory Birds
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Travel twice each year between North America and Latin America.
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Flyways
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The route followed by migratory birds.
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Biodiversity
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Refers to the variety of organisms in a given area.
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Urban Ecology
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Involves people who are interested in the challenge of increasing biodeversity in the most heavily developed areas.
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