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| Calfornia US gov had a case about mono lake |
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| CITES was created (convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) |
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| surveys at whiteface mtn (1483m) in Adirondacks |
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| a restoration plan for the Florida Everglades watershed was adopted by Congress as part of the Water Resource Development Act of 2000. |
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| Darwin became the ship’s naturalist onboard the HMS Beagle |
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“The Origin of Species by
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| bacteria appear in the fossil record |
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| multicellular and shelled organisms are visible |
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| clams and other marine species |
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| gingko tree is in fossil record |
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| 90-95% of marine species and 70% of vertebrates |
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| Russian biologist Gause did experiments |
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| fishery biologist M. Graham develop a logistic growth model for setting fishing limits. |
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Peruvian anchovy
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Davidson and Andrewartha studied the
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| Gause did more experiments with Paramecium |
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| human population was 3.6 ppl and growing at 2.1% |
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| people added every year now and in 1963 respectively |
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| population was 3 bil and 3000 mil oil tons |
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| oil was 7900 mil tons of oil |
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| CDR of US and Mexico respectively |
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| infant mortality rate for US, Black Americans in US, and Native Americans in US |
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| %<15%>65 of Mexico and US and Nigeria respectively |
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| growth rates of less developed countries |
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| population pyramid structure |
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| Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Haiti |
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| Italy, France, Japan, Gemany |
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| inverted pyramid structure |
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| US lowered sulfur deposition |
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| reduction in food production due to soil degredation in africa and europe |
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| demand for roman aqueducts started and first one was constructed for 60 km |
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| more than 4000 km of aqueducts |
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| percent of total water usable by humans |
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| aqueduct water is lost due to leakage or damage of pipes |
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| Middle east and north africa desalinated this percent of freshwater |
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| the 334 mil ppl used 408 bil gallons of water per day |
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| food production benefits from irrigation, to produce one ton of grain |
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| conventional and drip irrigation |
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| flood in west bengal destroyed 800k homes |
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| 5-20 mg of BOD, 200mg of BOD |
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| natural water (leaf, twig, dead organisms), domestic sewage |
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| good dissolved oxygen level (in parts per million), and low level |
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| PCBs were used in manufacturing plastics and insulating electrical transformers |
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| EPA ruled that General Electric must remove 2.65 million cubic yards of sediment from a 40 mile stretch of upper hudson river |
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| Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico |
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| Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Water Resource Development Act |
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| researchers in mexico devised techniques for green revolution and borlaug got nobel price in 1970 |
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| 4 mil farms, wheat increased by factor of 2 |
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| agricultural lands, one third as cropland and rest for livestock |
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| lack access to adequate food according to WHO |
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| grain multiplier for beef and chicken |
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| cropland has been degraded to some degree |
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| 20% of agricultural land is irrigated which makes 40% of world food |
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| Fertilizer use increased from 20 to over 200 million metric tons |
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| 400k tons of pesticides was applied in US and Brazil was 375k tons. Includes 300 mil pounds of herbicides and 74 mil pounds of insecticide |
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| physician-treated pesticide poisoning among all agricultural workers |
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| animals annually have been raised and slaughtered for food |
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| contributes to pollution along 35k miles of river in 22 states and contaminated groundwater in 17 states |
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34% of corn planted in the U.S.
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| 34% corn, 75% soybean, and 71% cotton came from GMO and reachned over 90% in all in 2020 |
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| journal Nature published article about fish extinction |
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| salmon fishing in alaska began, steady decline in salmon population, season for fishing was 5-6 days |
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| US established a 200 mile fishery zone |
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| US implemented Sustainable Fisheries Act |
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| Fogarty and Murawski analyzed data of Georges Bank |
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| 90% of loblolly plantings in US (1.5 mil acres) were genetically selected, growth cycle lower by 15 years, and gain 12% wood volume per harvest |
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| 200 mil/15 bil acres( 85 mil/6.2 bil heactares) |
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| Willott and his colleagues studied butterflies |
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| National Forest Management Act |
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| final stocks of leaded gas used in Algeria |
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| wild fires in Pacific Northwest (specifically Canada) |
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| 1 barrel (42 gallons) of crude oil produced |
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| 1 gallon of finished motor gasoline (containing about 10 percent fuel ethanol by volume) |
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| 1 gallon of diesel fuel or heating oil (with sulfur content less than 15 parts per million) |
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| 1 gallon of heating oil (with sulfur content at 15 to 500 parts per million) |
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| 1 barrel of residual fuel oil |
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| 1 cubic foot of natural gas |
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| 1 short ton (2,000 pounds) of coal |
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| 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity |
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| US used 97 quadmillion BTU |
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| China passed US in BTU, China consumed 165.168 quad BTU rather than US with 97.907 quad BTU (rose to 100.41 quad BTU in 2022) |
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| 79% OF energy came from fossil fuels; 8% from nuclear power; 13% from renefwable energy |
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United Nations Development Program World Energy Assessment estimates that global
energy efficiency is about 37 percent. |
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| transportation accounts for ____ of total energy and also counts for ____ of oil use |
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older, conventional electricity-generating plants have an efficiency of _. Newer coal-burning plants may have efficiencies of up to _. improvement in gas-combustion technology has led to the
combined cycle natural gas-fired power plant of ___ |
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Coal-fired plants-__of all
electricity produced in 2005. Dropped to __ by 2022. |
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| Nuclear power contributes this much to energy |
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| Natural gas- __ of electric generation in 2000 and in 2022 it is ___ |
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| 1.5 tril gallons of water used in fracking and 40 mil gallons per well |
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| 1 lb of enriched uranium, 10 tons of enriched uranium oxide |
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| energy of mil gallons of gasoline; 260,000 tons of coal |
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| nuclear emissions of CO2 per kilowatt hr of electricity compared to 800-1100 grams of coal |
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| Mrch 28 1979, Aoril 26 1986, March 2011 |
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| Three Mile Island Pennsylvania, Chernobyl, Japan earthquake |
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| US department of energy examined yucca mountain nevada |
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| 1,370 watts per square meter |
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| solar constant- solar energy reaching top of earth; 200 come to surface |
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| power of photovoltaic cell- 24 of these are common on rooftops |
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| 100 meters, 40-75m, 843k kWH (940 homes) |
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| height, blades, and energy of wind turbine |
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proposal to put windmills off the coast of Cape Cod in Nantucket
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| Hydropower accounts___of the renewable electricity, and __ of the total electricity |
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| Hydro Quebec dams near James Bay, Canada |
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| 7300 MW, resettlement of james bay community (1.3 mil ppl in Three gorges dam in china) |
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biomass products accounts for _
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