List and define four types of ecological restoration. Why is restoration important?
What will be an ideal response?
Restoration: returning a degraded area to its original state. Rehabilitation: improving upon a degraded area to a certain degree, without entirely restoring it. Replacement: replacing a degraded area with another type of ecosystem. Artificial restoration: creation of an artificial ecosystem. Restoration is important because human damage to ecosystems is largely reversible and because ecosystems provide ecological and economic services that we depend upon.
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The Hadley Cell
A) gives an accurate description of atmospheric circulation at middle latitudes. B) gives an accurate description of atmospheric circulation at high latitudes. C) accounts for the existence of the ITCZ. D) predicts lush rainforests at 30 degrees latitude. E) was proposed in the mid-twentieth century.
How might potential climate change scenarios shape local planning initiatives in your own community?
What will be an ideal response?
Oxygen-isotope analysis is used on all of the following sources of proxy data EXCEPT:
A) sea floor sediments. B) glacial ice. C) coral reefs. D) tree rings.
What type of fog forms in valleys at night?
What will be an ideal response?