Chemical Fertilizers and the Green Revolution Quiz

<p>Age of humans</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A period of rapid technological advancement</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Increased nitrogen levels</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To demonstrate how Earth systems work</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The total area of healthy land and water ecosystems needed to provide the resources you use and to absorb wastes you produce</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Water, food, and energy</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Interfering with water and sediment flow and blocking migrating fishes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ecosystem collapse</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nitrogen</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Monoculture</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Alteration of clarity, taste, and odor</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Degradation of soil and prevention of secondary succession</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Burning fossil fuels</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Measurable long-term changes in averages of temperature, clouds, winds, precipitation, and frequency of extreme weather events</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Changes patterns of precipitation and other environmental factors</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Affect growth of land plants or cause algal blooms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Causes of global change</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Human causes of change</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Raising concentrations of greenhouse gases</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Threatens biodiversity and ecosystem services</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hunting to extinction</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Logging</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Contamination of air, water, and soil resources</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Larger habitats can support more species</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The average American has an ecological footprint that is three times as large as the global average.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Multiply the size of the population by the ecological footprint of a typical citizen.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>During the Great Acceleration in the 1950s.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Water, land, and fossil fuels.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ocean acidification is caused by excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and it makes seawater more acidic, which stresses many marine organisms and ecosystems.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Acid rain makes freshwater more acidic, which kills aquatic organisms from algae to fishes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Methane contributes to global warming and climate change.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Agriculture has transformed roughly three-quarters of Earth's land surface in several ways and for several reasons.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Microbes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They inadvertently exposed them to deadly diseases.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Bacteria can help the human body.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unicellular eukaryote</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Viruses</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Viruses</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The cause of tobacco mosaic disease</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Both lytic and lysogenic infections</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The DNA of a bacteriophage that becomes embedded in the bacterial host's DNA</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>70%</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lytic infection</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Spherical</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Binary fission</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Archaea have cell walls without pep­t idoglycan</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To anchor the bacterium to a surface or other bacteria</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Their DNA is located directly in the cytoplasm</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They have different cell walls</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Peptidoglycan</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Prokaryotes have a nucleus while eukaryotes do not</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Proteins, nucleic acids, and sometimes lipids</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By infecting living cells</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lytic infections involve immediate replication while lysogenic infections involve persistence in an inactive state</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By tricking the cell into taking them in</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Through binary fission</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The exchange of genetic information between two bacterial cells through a bridge</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To convert nitrogen gas into useful forms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To supply raw materials to the environment by breaking down dead organisms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lactobacillus</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A collection of prokaryotic genomes found in the human body</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The theory that bacteria and viruses can cause disease</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By destroying living cells or by releasing chemicals that upset homeostasis</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>HIV destroys the cells that normally fight infections</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Vaccines stimulate the body's immune system to recognize and destroy viruses before they can cause disease</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Retroviruses make a DNA copy of themselves that inserts into the host's DNA, while other viruses do not</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Viruses attack and destroy certain cells in the body, causing the symptoms of the associated disease</p> Signup and view all the answers