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ESSAY.
1. Explain the distinction between ecology and environmentalism.
2. Explain the distinction between an ecosystem and a biome.
3. Describe a field experiment that you might use to test the hypothesis that water availability affects plant growth. Suggest one set of possible results and the implications of those results for the hypothesis.
4. Explain why human population growth, biological diversity, sustainability, and global climate change are considered crucial environmental problems facing humans.
5. Explain how or why the Earth's surface emits more energy than it receives from the Sun.
6. Discuss the relationships between atmospheric pressure, temperature, and altitude.
7. Explain why the saturation vapor pressure increases with air temperature. How does relative humidity change in response to air warming or cooling?
8. Why do the amount of rainfall and the composition of vegetation differ greatly on the opposite sides of a mountain range?
9. Describe several adaptations that have evolved in organisms in response to the minimal light environments in deep water.
10. Explain why water can dissolve more substances than any other liquid. Furthermore, explain the importance of this property to life on Earth.
11. Describe the causes of oceanic upwelling.
12. Define an estuary and describe how gradients in salinity are maintained.