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• How does water cycle through the biosphere?
  
• How does poverty in developing countries affect the environment?
  
• How is habitat fragmentation different than habitat destruction?
  
• When will the ozone layer disappear?
  
• What is the Great Pacific garbage patch?
  
• What is a definition of the nitrogen cycle?
  
• What are two examples of ecosystem services?
  
• What is an ecological footprint?
  
• What is a species?
  
• What are examples of a population?
  
• How can predation affect species diversity?
  
• If nearly 79% of the atmosphere is made of nitrogen how could there be a shortage of nitrogen in soil?
  
• Why is the nitrogen cycle important to life?
  
• What is the nitrogen cycle and why is it important?
  
• What is a caldera? How are they formed?
  
• What is the Mercalli scale?
  
• What is the Richter Scale?
  
• What are some types of intrusive igneous rocks?
  
• What is rhyolite?
  
• What scientist is credited with developing the continental drift theory?
  
• What is the theory of continental drift?
  
• What basic rock types make up the continental and oceanic crust?
  
• What does the term "karst" mean?
  
• How can humans impact the water found in watersheds?
  
• How can primary succession lead to soil formation?
  
• What is the ecological succession on a bare plot of land?
  
• Why does secondary succession occur faster than primary succession?
  
• What is primary succession?
  
• Would you expect a shrub or dandelion to be a more likely pioneer plant species? Why?
  
• How can individual transferable quotas help address the tragedy of the commons in global fisheries?
  
• What is species richness and what is its relation to biodiversity?
  
• What are the most endangered biomes?
  
• Which biome has the greatest species diversity? Least diversity?
  
• What are federal rangelands?
  
• What are haploid cells?
  
• How can we protect rainforests?
  
• How does El Nino affect upwelling?
  
• Are there any rainforests in in North America?
  
• What are ecosystem services?
  
• What is one reason lakes, rivers, and other water resources should be kept free of pollution?
  
• What factors influence population growth?
  
• Which country holds the world's largest oil reserves?
  
• How is deforestation related to desertification?
  
• How is land cover related to land use?
  
• What is a biotic component?
  
• What needs of humans impact the marine biome?
  
• What is the process of ecological succession from a pioneer community to a climax community?
  
• What is a pioneer organism?
  
• What impacts do humans have on ecosystems?
  
• What is habitat connectivity and why is it important for conservation?
  
• What causes global climate change?
  
• How do phylogenetic trees illustrate speciation?
  
• How are phylogenetic trees read?
  
• What is the most likely cause of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions?
  
• How does weathering affect sedimentary rocks?
  
• What are some different types of biological diversity?
  
• Describe what soil degradation is and why it's a concern for us?
  
• Is the number of trophic levels an ecological energy pyramid limited?
  
• What is ecosystem diversity?
  
• What happens to nitrogen during the process of denitrification?
  
• When is Welch's t-test used?
  
• What are confidence intervals?
  
• Why is the process of transpiration and why it is important to plants?
  
• How does the phosphorus cycle move through abiotic and biotic factors?
  
• Where is most nitrogen found?
  
• In which zone are the majority of the ocean species found? Why?
  
• What trophic level are oak trees in?
  
• What are the features of a cladogram?
  
• How are cladistics and cladograms related?
  
• How can tree planting can prevent soil erosion?
  
• What is an environmental threshold?
  
• What does sustainable yield mean in the context of environmental science?
  
• Whats animal agriculture's effect on the environment?
  
• If two species overlap in their habitat use, how can both persist?
  
• What does an F-test measure?
  
• How does ENSO affect the distribution of rainfall?
  
• How are the carbon cycle and global warming connected?
  
• What is commercial agriculture?
  
• Why are drip irrigation systems used?
  
• What is a “red tide” and how it can have a negative affect on the environment?
  
• what is the relationship between the trophic level of an organism and and the concentration of DDT in its body?
  
• What occurs after a disturbance in primary succession?
  
• What is conservation ?
  
• What does a high/low standard deviation mean in real terms?
  
• Which measure of central tendency should be used when there is an outlier?
  
• Why is the empirical rule important?
  
• Why is Patagonia considered a desert?
  
• What is a rock?
  
• How does genetic drift affect the diversity of organisms in a population?
  
• Where is a hotspot in the US?
  
• When is oxygen produced?
  
• How is a scientific theory unlike a scientific law?
  
• What is formed at divergent plate boundaries?
  
• What is the Ring of Fire and how does it relate to earthquake distribution across the globe?
  
• How do fossils help us determine the age of rock layers?
  
• What is the difference between variance and variability?
  
• What is one way the internet can help me study statistics?
  
• How does a biologist study life?
  
• What is the front, right part of the brain called?
  
• Why are homeobox genes similar in all organisms?
  
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