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Nuclear & Chemical Waste
Nuclear Waste Policy Act
Low Level Radiation Act
Price Anderson Act
CERCLA
Climate Change & Air
Convention of Climate Change
Kyoto Protocol
Montreal Protocol
Clean Air Act
IPCC
Species Protection
Lacey Act
Endangered Species Act (ESA)
Fish and Wildlife Act
Marine Mammal Protection Act
Convention of International Trade in Endangered
Species Act (CITIES)
Water
Safe Drinking Water Act
Ocean Dumping Ban
Water Quality Act
Ocean Dumping Ban Act
Pollution
Pollution Prevention Act
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
FIFRA
Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976
RCRA
REACH
Energy
Energy Tax Act
Land Management
Ramsar
Reform Act
Conservation Reserve Program
US General Mining Law
UNCED/ Earth Summit
Basic Stuff
First Law of Thermodynamics
pH
Second Law of Thermodynamics
Determining Percent Change
Photosynthesis
Cellular respiration
Chemosynthesis
GIS
Biophilia
Anthropocentrism
Natural Selection & Community Ecology
Disruptive selection
Speciation via. Climate change
Natural selection
Evidence of evolution
Directional selection
Allopatric speciation
Sympatric speciation
Stabilizing selection
Generalist vs. specialist
Genetic Diversity
Species
Phylogenic tree
Artificial selection
Competition
Community
Primary succession
Niche
Pioneer species
Ecotone
Resource partitioning
Symbiotic relationships
Secondary succession
Density-dependent factors
Density-independent factors
K-selected species
R-selected species
Ecosystem
Expiration
Resistance vs. resilience
Restoration ecology
Resource partitioning
People
Darwin
Nixon
Rachel Carson
Gifford Pinchot
John Stuart Mill
Adam Smith
Thomas Robert Malthus
Aldo Leopold
Events
Love Canal
Exxon Valdez
Chernobyl
Bhopal
Dust Bowl
3 Mile Island
Cycles
Phosphorus cycle
Hydrologic Cycle
Nitrogen Cycle
Homeostasis
Denitrifying Bacteria
Net Primary Production
Nutrient Pool/ Reservoir/ Source/ Sink
Flux
Negative vs. Positive Feedback
Nitrification
Denitrification
Nitrogen Fixing
Land Management
Water Logging
Causes of Sprawl
Why National Parks & Reserves?
Ecosystem Based Management
National Forest Management Act
Salvage Logging
Impacts of Sprawl
US Department of the Interior Bureau of Land
Management
Adaptive Management
Clear Cutting
Types of minerals
Pros and cons of mining
Depletion time
Ore
Seed tree/ shelterwood system
Selection system
National park, national wildlife refuge, wilderness
area
Wise-use movement
Symbiotic relationships
Secondary succession
Endemic
Population
Keystone species
Trophic levels
Carrying capacity
Survivorship
Biocentrism
Ecocentric
Population change
Biosphere
Habitat
Phytoremediation
Hierarchy of ecology
Population characteristics
Latitudinal gradient
Single species approaches to conservation
Nutrients vs. energy
10% Rule
Divergent Evolution
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Major Benefits of Biodiversity
Biodiversity Hot Spots
Invasive species
Species diversity
Red list
Ecological Diversity
Eutrophication
Productivity
Dynamic equilibrium
Interspecific vs. intraspecific
Dead zone
Theory of Equilibrium of Island Biogeography
Population
Rule of 72
Population size vs. population density
Total fertility vs. replacement fertility
Relationship of poverty to population growth
Demographic transition
One child policy
Ecological footprint
IPAT model
Emmigration vs. Immigration
Industrial Stage of Demographic transition
Mortality
Post-Industrial Stage of Demographic Transition
Pollution Distribution
Sex Ratio
World heritage sites
Corridor (habitat not hallways)
Mountaintop Removal
Facts that impact geography of urban areas
Problems related to sprawl
Subsidence
New urbanism
Resource Management
Smart Growth
Controlled Burns
Industrial Ecology
Energy
Pros & cons of crude oil
Pros & cons of natural gas
Strip mining
Creation of natural gas
Creation of oil/petroleum
ANWR
Primary vs. Secondary oil extraction
R/P ratio
Hubbert’s Peak
“peak oil”
Tar sands
Oil shale
Methane hydrate
OPEC
Cogeneration
Pros & cons of nuclear energy
Nuclear fission
Breeder reactors
Nuclear fusion
Yucca Mountain
Pros & cons of biomass energy
Biopower
Pros & cons of hydroelectric power
Run-of-River approach
Passive vs. Active Solar Energy
PV Cell (photovoltaic cell)
OTEC (ocean thermal energy conversion)
Acid Drainage
Morbidity
Pre-Industrial Stage of Demographic Transition
Transitional Stage of Demographic Transition
Age Diagram
Fecundity
Total Fertility vs. Replacement Fertility
Impact of AIDS/ HIV on population growth
India’s Policy on Population
Soil & Agriculture
Deposition
Causes of Soil Degradation
Weathering Types
Traditional vs. Industrialized Agriculture
Parent Material
Leaching
Soil
Factors that impact soil formation
Soil Profile
Topsoil
Silt
Monoculture
Cropland vs. Rangeland
Desertification
Subsistence Farming
Crop Rotation
The Aral Sea
Recombinant DNA
Biological Control
Types of Erosion
Reduced Tillage
StarLink Corn
Community Supported Agriculture
IPM
Loam
Overgrazing
Organic Agriculture
Bacillus Thurgiensis
Shelter Beds
Feed lots vs. Range land
Contour Farming
Terracing
Seedbanks
Golden Rice
Problems with Irrigation
Monsanto
Chemical Erosion
Homestead Act
Feedlot Pollution
Pollination
Undernourishment, Overnutrition, Malnutrition
Inorganic vs. Organic Fertilizers
GMO
Earth Science
Earths layers
Geologic clock
Lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere,
atmosphere
Subduction
Plate Boundaries
Biomes
Tropical rainforest
Boreal forest
Arctic Tundra
Savanna
Tropical Dry Forest
Temperate Forest
Tropical Rainforest
Desert
Tundra
Temperate Deciduous Forest
Chaparral
Polar Region
Freshwater Marsh
Swamp
Bog
Oligotrophic lake
Open Ocean
Atmosphere & Global Climate Change
Layers of Atmosphere
Atmospheric Properties
Causes of Seasons
Weather vs. Climate
Warm and cold fronts
High and low pressure systems
Thermal inversions
Hadley Cell
Coriolis Effect
Types of Volcanoes
Natural Sources of Air Pollution
Primary vs. Secondary Air Pollution
EPA’s criteria pollutants
Carbon monoxide
Sulfur dioxide
Nitrogen dioxide
Tropospheric ozone
Lead
Atmospheric Pressure
“Little Toy Soldiers Make Tents”
Mitigation vs. Adaptation
Carbon Offsets
Aerobic vs. Anaerobic
Ice Core
Atmospheric Deposition
CFC’s
Photochemical Smog
Industrial Smog
Hole in the Ozone
Effects of Acidic Deposition
Types of Indoor Air pollution
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gasses
Radiative forcing
Milankovitch forcing
El Nino (ENSO)
La Nina
Thermohaline circulation
Proxy indicator
Hydrothermal Vents
Kelp Forest
Coral Reef
Intertidal Zone
Salt Marsh
Mangrove Forest
Estuaries
Bay
Economics
Cost-benefit analysis
Waste Management & Environmental Health
Recycling Loop
Industrial Ecology
Incineration of Waste
Source Reduction
Surface Impoundment
Leachate
Brownfields
e-waste
waste to energy
4 main types of waste
Physical Hazards
Biological Hazards
Chemical Hazards
Cultural Hazards
Bisphenol A
PBDE
Endocrine Disruptor
Biomagnification
DDT
Carcinogens
Teratogens
Bioaccumulation
Dose-Response Curve & LD-50
Acute vs. chronic exposure
Precautionary principle (risk management)
Radioactive Half Life
Water Resources
Aquifer
Wetlands
Zones of Lakes
Water Table
Confined vs. Unconfined Aquifer
Aquifer Recharge Zone
Consumptive vs. Nonconsumptive Use
Debate over 3 Gorges Dam
Dikes & Levees
Desalinization
Oligotrophic
Eutrophic
Types of Water Pollution
Point vs. non-Point Pollution
Groundwater Pollution
Primary vs. Secondary Waste Water Treatment
Structure of ocean’s water column
Upwelling & downwelling
Continental shelves
Photic zone
Benthic Zone
Human Uses of Marine Resources
Pollution of Marine resources
Mercury in Seafood (ex. Of Biomagnification)
Algae Blooms & red Tide
Overfishing (ex. Of Tragedy of the Commons)
By-catch
Driftnets, long-line, and bottom trawling
“Fishing Down the Food Chain”
Benefits of Marine Protected Areas
Levee
zooplankton
Primary Production
Subsidence