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Ecosystem Ecology

1. Maple production in New England is affected by what factor?

2. Early blooming of flowers is related to what factor of the environment and Maple syrup production correlates with what type of season?

3. Why change in temperature effects plants more than animals?

4. Define an ecosystem? Maple trees are found in which ecosystem?

5. Ecosystem is characterized by particular vegetation (plants) and climate (temperature and rainfall). Vegetation in an ecosystem is influenced by what factors?

6. What are greenhouse gases? How greenhouse gases such as CO2 increase temperature?

7. What are the greenhouse effects? If climate change eliminates a key stone species, like a predator, what will happen to the ecosystem?

8. What is carbon footprint? Nitrogen in the atmosphere is utilized by plants in what form? What is the name of the process called and who is responsible for it?

9. Global warming has changed temperature twice as much and is evident in which continent? What are the evidences for global temperature change?

10. What are the effects of "Loss of ice cover" in the Arctic? Why temperature increase is a threat to polar bears?

11. Which biome has the greatest species richness? How will you characterize a temperate forest ecosystem?

12. Which event spurred the growth of human population since 1950?