Cause Of Water Pollution In The United States
How much fresh water is used by Americans daily? trillion gallons
Identify three causes of water pollution. sewage, chemical waste, pesticide runoff
Smog is composed of which chemicals? carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and sulfur dioxide
Smog, combined with precipitation, results in what harmful effect? acid rain
How is burying and burning waste harmful to the environment?
Burying waste causes toxic chemicals to leech into the ground water. Burning waste causes toxic ash, which pollutes the air and falls back to Earth as rain or snow.
List two ways individuals can help combat pollution.
Individuals can help combat pollution by recycling and reusing materials
What are two important components of population growth?
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The ultimate source of energy in an ecosystem is either light energy from the sun or chemical energy from compounds originating deep within Earth.
Autotrophs (or producers) make their own food using light energy or chemical energy while heterotrophs (or consumers) use other organisms as a source of food.
The organisms within an ecosystem are related by their energy roles, and an ecosystem can be divided into trophic levels to express these roles.
An ecological pyramid illustrates the change in energy or biomass at different trophic levels within an ecosystem.
Each organism occupies a unique niche in an ecosystem.
As a result of competition for limited resources, two different species cannot occupy the same niche, because one species will be more successful than the other and will cause the other to die off or leave the ecosystem.
When organisms of different species interact with one another in an ecosystem, they do so in three basic ways: predation, herbivory, or symbiosis.
Ecosystems tend toward stability when there are regular population cycles between predators and their prey and when the population number of the keystone species is at a healthy …show more content…
He distinguished between the working class and the capitalist class. He identified “class conflict.”
Max Weber (1864–1920) examined the reasons why people in present-day Western societies behave on the basis of intellectually thinking about issues, rather than relying on customs and traditions to resolve or confront them.
In terms of society, how is the U.S. described?
It is described as highly individualistic and interested in the internal processes of the person rather than the group.
What do individual concerns reflect?
An individual’s concerns often reflect larger social concerns.
What is the one professor’s own personal definition of sociology, which she is pleased with after 15 years of teaching and research?
Her definition of sociology is “the study of why things came to be this way and how they can change.”
How did sociology originally come about as a discipline?
Sociology became a discipline in the early twentieth century as a result of industrialization and immigration.
Rather than “just a class to take," how does one professor describe the discipline of
Identify three causes of water pollution. sewage, chemical waste, pesticide runoff
Smog is composed of which chemicals? carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and sulfur dioxide
Smog, combined with precipitation, results in what harmful effect? acid rain
How is burying and burning waste harmful to the environment?
Burying waste causes toxic chemicals to leech into the ground water. Burning waste causes toxic ash, which pollutes the air and falls back to Earth as rain or snow.
List two ways individuals can help combat pollution.
Individuals can help combat pollution by recycling and reusing materials
What are two important components of population growth?
natural …show more content…
The ultimate source of energy in an ecosystem is either light energy from the sun or chemical energy from compounds originating deep within Earth.
Autotrophs (or producers) make their own food using light energy or chemical energy while heterotrophs (or consumers) use other organisms as a source of food.
The organisms within an ecosystem are related by their energy roles, and an ecosystem can be divided into trophic levels to express these roles.
An ecological pyramid illustrates the change in energy or biomass at different trophic levels within an ecosystem.
Each organism occupies a unique niche in an ecosystem.
As a result of competition for limited resources, two different species cannot occupy the same niche, because one species will be more successful than the other and will cause the other to die off or leave the ecosystem.
When organisms of different species interact with one another in an ecosystem, they do so in three basic ways: predation, herbivory, or symbiosis.
Ecosystems tend toward stability when there are regular population cycles between predators and their prey and when the population number of the keystone species is at a healthy …show more content…
He distinguished between the working class and the capitalist class. He identified “class conflict.”
Max Weber (1864–1920) examined the reasons why people in present-day Western societies behave on the basis of intellectually thinking about issues, rather than relying on customs and traditions to resolve or confront them.
In terms of society, how is the U.S. described?
It is described as highly individualistic and interested in the internal processes of the person rather than the group.
What do individual concerns reflect?
An individual’s concerns often reflect larger social concerns.
What is the one professor’s own personal definition of sociology, which she is pleased with after 15 years of teaching and research?
Her definition of sociology is “the study of why things came to be this way and how they can change.”
How did sociology originally come about as a discipline?
Sociology became a discipline in the early twentieth century as a result of industrialization and immigration.
Rather than “just a class to take," how does one professor describe the discipline of