Urban Ecology Final Exam Review

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Pesticides and Dangers

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Bedbug control and human safety

Chemicals that kill animals and insects that are considered to be pests.

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Integrated pest management

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Long term pest management/less harmful for environment

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Habitats, pests and range

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Bedbugs

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Definition of a pest

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Something that is perceived as a negative impact of something

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Definition of a weed

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A plant that competes with other plants for sunlight

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Negative effects of weeds

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Have few predators and grow rapidly

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What are Herbicides used for?

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Control of weeds

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What are Pesticides used for?

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Control of animals/insects

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What is Chemical Pest Management and what are the effects?

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Man-made chemicals to control pests

They could poison animals and humans as well as stick toxins in the soil and grow in the plants

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Mosquitos and illness

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IPM is most effective

West Nile

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What is DDT? Uses?

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A chemical made by Swiss Chemist

Chemical toxic to insects but not mammals. Used in war to fight disease, used in forests to stop the spread of many diseases. Long-lasting but over time development effected humans

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What is a Fungicide used for?

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Control Mold and Fungi

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What are some negatives of Fossil Fuels?

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Transportation, storage, and waste.

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What is the most historical source of energy?

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Human muscle power.

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Advantages of using natural gas

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Cleanest, natural, really only burns CO2

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Peak demand for electricity

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Mid-day, mid-week, summer

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When do electrical grid stresses peak?

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During summer months.

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Which type of automobile is more sustainable? Most efficient for human interests?

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Electric, Hybrid

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Why are some fossil fuels non-renewable energy?

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The process to obtain them is long and aperiodic

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Issues with fracking

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Uses high pressure fluids and could cause long term damage under house

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Issues with oil shale and sand

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They cause a lot of environmental damage and are only good when oil prices are high

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Dangers with nuclear power

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Loss of water coolant, done in coastal locations

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Advantages of nuclear power

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Does not generate CO2 or SO2

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Which form generates the most power between solar,hydroelectric, nuclear and geothermal power?

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Nuclear generates the most

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Fission vs. Fusion

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Power plants currently rely on fission to heat water for steam

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How nuclearpower functions

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Converts a tiny portion of its mass into energy

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Advantage of wind energy

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Produces no pollutants.

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Energy subsidies

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Fossil-Fuel Subsidies

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Photosynthesisprocess

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Plants collect, convert and store energy from the sun

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Passivevs. active solar

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Direct heating vs. energy conversion

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Health and viruses

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Human-to-human diseasespread

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Biodegradable levels

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Glass is the least biodegradable

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Dangers ofpoverty

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Underweight, malnourished people

Compromises immunity

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2009 Tobacco Control Act

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Regulates tobacco as a drug

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Global warming and sealevels

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Low coastal areas most affected

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Polar ice andglobal warming

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Sea ice melting resulting in soil instability

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Oceans and climate change

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Warmer oceans

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The Jet Stream

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Upper atmosphere flow

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CO2 and the atmosphere

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Greenhouse effect

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Risk assessment and theenvironment

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Detection and measurement

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Weather, global climatechange and farming

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Less predictability

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Industrialsmog versus photochemical smog

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Role of the Sun

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Sources of lead pollution

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Gasoline and paints

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Sources of acid rain

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Higher levels in industrial and agricultural regions

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Fertilizer, phytoplanktonand oxygenation

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Increasedplant growth and decreased oxygenation

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Raw sewage streams

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Cloudy water, low oxygenlevels, dead plants and animals

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Particulate organic matter

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Garbage disposal waste

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Cultural eutrophication

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Human caused nutrientenrichment

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Waste and energy production

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Biogas energy production

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Threshold levels andexposure

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Short time + short exposure= no ill effects